Perfect Person

Who determines who a "perfect person" is? Fashion Maganizes?

Maganizes airbrush the models to make them look tanner, skinner, no zits, and on and on and on. So the model doesn't even look the same when you see them in person.

I love this quote from 13 Going on 30.

"Who are these women? Does anyone know? I don't recognize any of them. I want to see my best friend's big sister, the girls from the soccer team, my next door neighbor, real women who are smart and pretty and happy to be who they are. These are the women to look up to. Let's put life back into the magazine. And fun and laughter and silliness. I think we all - I think all of us - want to feel something that we've forgotten or turned our backs on because maybe we didn't realize how much we were leaving behind. We need to remember what used to be good. If we don't, we won't recognize it even if it hits us between the eyes. "

I just wish that magazines would leave the airbrushing out and let the natural beauty of the person shine through. We have all these young girls wanting to be like the models so they are starving themselves, have low self-esteem because they are not the perfect size zero.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I say take out the airbrushing and let the models be all natural.

Here is a little tidbit about "Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder"

(The below text came from http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/59100.html)

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Meaning - Literal meaning

Origin

This saying first appeared in the 3rd century BC in Greek. It didn't appear in its current form in print until the 19th century, but in the meantime there were various written forms that expressed much the same thought. In 1588, the English dramatist John Lyly, in his Euphues and his England, wrote:

"...as neere is Fancie to Beautie, as the pricke to the Rose, as the stalke to the rynde, as the earth to the roote."

Shakespeare expressed a similar sentiment in Love's Labours Lost, 1588:

Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,
Needs not the painted flourish of your praise:
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues

Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richard's Almanack, 1741, wrote:

Beauty, like supreme dominion
Is but supported by opinion

David Hume's Essays, Moral and Political, 1742, include:

"Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."

The person who is widely credited with coining the saying in its current form is Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (née Hamilton), who wrote many books, often under the pseudonym of 'The Duchess'. In Molly Bawn, 1878, there's the line "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which is the earliest citation of it that I can find in print.