
By The Bold Italic
We woke up this morning to find our Facebook feeds clogged with shares of this story from Elle.com about Missouri photographer Esther Honig’s experiment to see how graphic designers around the globe imagine “female beauty” to look. She sent a self-portrait to Photoshop experts around the world and 27 of them sent back their revisions of her look.
And while the results were impressive, we were sad that San Francisco wasn’t invited to challenge. After all, we love making beautiful people that much more beautiful. So we’re adding seven more Esther faces to the list.







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