Photoshop or Photostop?

If you look through any type of magazine, seeing models from a Victoria's Secret ad to an add for body oil is a kick to ones self-esteem. The models on glossy pages, tv commercials, billboards all appear to be almost eerily flawless, like they've never sweated, grimaced, bled, or experienced any type of negative emotion (unless that's what the ad intended them to do). The public look up to these beautiful people strive to look just like them. We buy the same product, eat the same food, do the same work out but it is an impossible goal. Even the models themselves don't look like their magazine counterparts. Pascal Dangin, a renown photo-editing magician, gets thousands of dollars just to retouch a magazine cover and $500 for one photo inside. Why is he in such high demand? Because society imposed an idealistic standard of beauty where even the models can't keep up. Faces are defined, legs are elongated, waists are shrunk, and muscles are more protruding, all for the sake of a product. Personally, I can't say that those images don't effect my self-esteem but to me, they are a completely different breed so I regard them as I would regard a painting. If people shared a similar mind-set as me, I don't think photoshop has to be regulated. But if girls are going to stop eating and little boys start to take steriods to look like those glossy pictures, maybe the people should question if selling those products are really worth the hooha.