I think more artist should be like Colbie Caillat!!!! Photoshopped celebs create horrible self esteem problems for sooooo many out there.. I think it's cool to wear make up because you think it's fun and because you like getting dolled up. I don't think it's okay to wear make up because you think no one will like you without it. and I certainly don't think it is ever okay to be photoshopped or filtered to deceive others to thinking you look "perfect"!!
This video is very beautiful!!! Thank You Miss Caillat for your beautiful message!
This video is very beautiful!!! Thank You Miss Caillat for your beautiful message!
Here are a few excerpts from an article that Sergio Kletnoy wrote for Elle.com about the video..
When asked "What is the hardest part about being a female in today’s society?"
Colbie Caillat replied ~ "Trying to live up to other people’s expectations. When we do get dolled up, we get more compliments. It’s just what happens. When you have a cute outfit on and your makeup looks amazing, the first thing people comment on is your image. When you don’t wear makeup, you hear things like, “Oh wow, you look tired or you’re so brave for not wearing makeup!""
When asked "Do you feel responsible as an artist? Do think about the message the music videos, album covers, and magazine spreads send to fans?"
Colbie Caillat replied ~ "There’s major responsibility. When I see gorgeous models and singers and they look perfect on their album covers, it makes me want to look like that, too, and it makes me feel like if I don’t Photoshop my skin on my album cover, I’m the one who’s going to look a little off and everyone else is going to look perfect. And that’s what everyone is used to seeing. They’re used to seeing people on the album covers completely Photoshopped. On one of my album covers, my arm was shaved down and it made me look very skinny. I think that gives a false reality. When I did the lyric video for “Try,” and I asked some of my celebrity friends if they would send a picture of themselves, you have no idea how difficult it was. Some of them said no, some of them said they’ll send me a picture in a couple of days because they have a pimple on their chin, and they didn’t want it showing in the picture. And I was like, no, no, no! That’s good! Let’s let all of our fans know that we get them too, because otherwise they’re just think that they’re the only ones who get acne. We all get it, so let’s just kind of laugh about it together. And then some of the girls still wore makeup in the pictures because they felt like they needed to at least look–I don’t know, in their eyes, decent or something when they still look beautiful. It was so hard for them to show any degree of realness."
(Original article can be found here:
http://www.elle.com/news/beauty-makeup/colbie-caillat-try-video-makeup-transformation?src=spr_FBPAGE&spr_id=1448_70498785&linkId=8787330)
When asked "What is the hardest part about being a female in today’s society?"
Colbie Caillat replied ~ "Trying to live up to other people’s expectations. When we do get dolled up, we get more compliments. It’s just what happens. When you have a cute outfit on and your makeup looks amazing, the first thing people comment on is your image. When you don’t wear makeup, you hear things like, “Oh wow, you look tired or you’re so brave for not wearing makeup!""
When asked "Do you feel responsible as an artist? Do think about the message the music videos, album covers, and magazine spreads send to fans?"
Colbie Caillat replied ~ "There’s major responsibility. When I see gorgeous models and singers and they look perfect on their album covers, it makes me want to look like that, too, and it makes me feel like if I don’t Photoshop my skin on my album cover, I’m the one who’s going to look a little off and everyone else is going to look perfect. And that’s what everyone is used to seeing. They’re used to seeing people on the album covers completely Photoshopped. On one of my album covers, my arm was shaved down and it made me look very skinny. I think that gives a false reality. When I did the lyric video for “Try,” and I asked some of my celebrity friends if they would send a picture of themselves, you have no idea how difficult it was. Some of them said no, some of them said they’ll send me a picture in a couple of days because they have a pimple on their chin, and they didn’t want it showing in the picture. And I was like, no, no, no! That’s good! Let’s let all of our fans know that we get them too, because otherwise they’re just think that they’re the only ones who get acne. We all get it, so let’s just kind of laugh about it together. And then some of the girls still wore makeup in the pictures because they felt like they needed to at least look–I don’t know, in their eyes, decent or something when they still look beautiful. It was so hard for them to show any degree of realness."
(Original article can be found here:
http://www.elle.com/news/beauty-makeup/colbie-caillat-try-video-makeup-transformation?src=spr_FBPAGE&spr_id=1448_70498785&linkId=8787330)
If more artists would step up and follow this woman's footsteps, maybe they would be able to help ease the bullying, the suicides and the horrible self esteem issues that were created by society in the first place. Hopefully putting a stop to the world thinking they have to look a certain way in order to even be "normal"! I think this is a step in the right direction for so many suffering from so much!!
Thanks for reading,
YouniquebyBarb
Thanks for reading,
YouniquebyBarb