From an eye-opening Dove soap commercial. Kudos to them!
![Dove03](http://www.thepaepae.com/wp-uploads/2010/06/Dove03.jpg)
Now the DECEIT starts. Photoshop to 'lengthen' the neck, reposition and enlarge the eye sockets, changing the jawline and forehead (!), shaping the lips, 'carving' off the shoulders, neck ... over all, setting an impossible, unachievable target for young women. 'No wonder our idea of beauty is distorted.' There isn't a real person who looks like this.
Watch it happen in high speed stop-motion below the fold.
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