In March, Lorde, a Grammy Award-winning artist, found a purchased image of herself online and decided to post an unedited photo alongside it on Twitter to it, standing against the use of Photoshop, a program capable of “enhancing” and “cleaning up” images to perfection. His tweet was simple; “I find it curious: two photos from today, one edited so that my skin is perfect and the other real. Remember that flaws are okay. The tweet contained two photos, with an altered photo where he appeared to have no pores and an untouched photo where his skin looked just like the average Joe's. A tweet may seem like a small gesture, but it shows that popular celebrities are comfortable in their own skin and their fans should be too, flaws and all. Seventeen-year-old Lorde isn't the only celebrity who opposes Photoshop. Stars such as Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Kate Winslet and Brad Pitt are among the many who disagree with the use of Photoshop and have been victims of photo manipulation. To understand the issue of Photoshop and body image, we need to understand what body image means and what it means for those growing up. Body image is defined as the idea of ​​the beauty and sexual attractiveness of one's body. This term was used for the first time in the book The Image and Appearance of the Human Body by the Austrian neurologist Paul Schilder in 1935. Society has always paid a lot of attention to the beauty and perfection of the body, but the perception that the person has of one's body image may not be in line with society's standards, which continually change from decade to decade. Someone's body image is often the product of personal experience, personality, culture and the society in which they live. That being said, using Photoshop and editing photos… middle of the paper… about body image and beauty. It's no secret that images in magazines are regularly manipulated to present a certain idea to sell their products. Healthy legs are often reduced to toothpicks, and wrinkles are often erased to restore youth. Growing up in the media age, every magazine you can find in stores seems to feature flawless photos of various celebrities and models posing with the latest handbag or holding the newest mascara. These advertisements and magazines with flawless images may help sell products in the beauty and fashion industries, but they are harmful to those who constantly see these altered images. The edited images not only give others a false reality of beauty, but also push what a perfect body should look like, pushing women to achieve something unrealistic and unattainable: we cannot compare ourselves to something that does not exist.