I just saw the cover of Vogue (India) with Mrs. Shah Rukh Khan (ok fine, with Gauri Khan) - and I must admit, the first thought that came to my mind was, wow, she’s really looking fabulous.
Then I read some of the comments online at Rediff, like this one:
This photo seems liked a computer generated image of Gauri khan. Lots of touch up. I have seen her in real life..she is nowhere close to what is displayed here.
& this one:
Someone said right..Gauri looked wasted in most of the pics one has seen of her in the past. Brilliant photo-editing work..
Then I looked at some older pics of Gauri online (yeah, so I had a slow work day, sue me 
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And I thought, hmmmm!! It does look pretty photoshopped doesn’t it?
I started thinking - if even I photoshop all my pictures before I put them online (for those of you who haven’t seen me offline, trust me, I’m perfectly hideous), why wouldn’t Vogue do the same with their covergirls, whoever they are?
It reminded me of a line, in a song, which I really love (commonly referred to as ‘The Sunscreen Song‘)
“Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.”
and also of this video, which I had originally seen on the Oprah show & which embedded itself in my head ever since:
I believe that beauty is in fact skin deep - but still I know I’m quite a slave to it.
I hope in the coming year, I mature enough to get beyond it all. Or at least, to rise a little from my present narcissistic state.
Quite a nice conclusion to seeing Gauri on the cover of Vogue, doncha think?!
Tags: Beauty, Beauty-Magazines, Covergirl, Dove-Files, Gauri-Khan, India, Narcissism, Oprah, Photoshop, Resolutions, Shah-Rukh-Khan, SRK, The-Sunscreen-Song, Vogue
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December 20th, 2007 at 3:25 am
hmmm , i dont think gauri’s pics were photoshopped ,
it must have been corel drawn! =).
ok .. ok .. ok , lame jokes aside
You have “presence” tho , elusive quality and is much more powerful than physical beauty.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Heh! Something we all knew, I guess. Anyone who’s on a cover page always gets photoshopped. The only point of debate is how much work went into making someone look attractive enough.
BTW, I thought Gauri looked quite good during the end credits of OSO.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
It’s easy to make us all look like Tom Cruise or Catherine Zeta-Jones. Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Lightroom (Photo Editing tool) is all that one needs.
That Vogue photo does not even resembles like Gauri, leave alone the skin colour.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
I saw this piece of ‘news’ yday on TV & could not stop laughing….good use of photo editing tools there….& ppl were all ga-ga over the cover…ohhh la laas n stuff…she is soo this & that….
I remember seeing the Dove Beauty Campaign on the Oprah Show & recently on the Ellen Degeneres Show too….makes soo much sense….even I can be on the cover of Vogue….just need to get my contacts right
Loved the title of this post….& you know what Melody you don’t need to rise above your narcissistic state cuz your head is ’still’ *n hope it stays
* in the right place….you are a very grounded girl Melody.
btw, the above lines were just to make to happy..cuz tis the season to be jolly!!!!
We want Christmas pics now.
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Yikes! I haven’t seen many photos of Gauri, but of the three you post I think she looks the least processed (the least lip-injected, hair-extensions-ed, etc.) in the Vogue cover. Then again, Vogue probably has the best possible crew to make any amount of processing look natural. The skin color question is a doozy.
January 6th, 2008 at 1:47 am
the video is nicely done, but then, isn’t it all… duh! we have come a long way from “its all in the make-up, honey!” to “its all in the photoshop-ing!”