In which Elle Magazine fails at making me feel better

The French version of the fashion mag Elle does this thing every year where they show actresses without makeup or air brushing. I guess the point of this is to show what a "real woman" looks like, or something.

This article here goes on and on about how great it is, and how American magazines should do it too, because we need to see more "real people" on the cover of magazines, and deep down inside we're all the same, etc., etc., etc. Trouble is, all these pictures did for me is confirm my long-held suspicions that it would take an army of Clinique counter technicians to make me look half as good as these chicks look without their makeup.


As they say in France, merde.