Beauty standards

A thought-provoking photograph that explores the concept of societal beauty standards and the lengths people go to achieve them. The central image features a woman's face with surgical markings, surrounded by hands holding medical tools, poised to alter her features. Her eyes convey a sense of apprehension or resignation. The barcode on her forehead symbolizes the commodification of beauty and the reduction of individuals to products. The overlaid text, "Am I pretty now?", adds a poignant…

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The idea I had for this was to use a strong icon of ideal beauty and society's achievement of true beauty, plastic surgery lines to contradict each other. I wanted to convey the idea that "Why should beauty standards matter?"

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