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disgusting!

ditto!

What would this teach our girls? you aren't perfect enough....your hair isn't perfect, your skin isn't perfect, your teeth aren't perfect, your eyes aren't perfect, your nose isn't perfect.....so we must change you!!! Next up, cosmetic surgery for children. This absolutely appalls me. Especially the examples with the substituted eyes and mouths. Why not just get a barbie doll instead of having a child?

Yikes, I don't even know where to begin with this one. Retouching? That's re-do'ing. Or rather, re-diculous. ;)

it's one thing to photoshop-out a little drool on a baby picture, but this?! this is just strange. that touched up photo looks plastic.

This is just scary.

The first pic is adorable but the second pic looks scary. It looks like a pic of one of those eerie looking dolls. Yuck yuck yuck.

I think this is just scary too.

First of all, if you feel the need to photoshop your child's picture you need to seriously reconsider what type of parent you are & the message you are sending to your child. Second, if you HAVE to photoshop, find someone who knows what they are doing. This poor girl looks like a Marie Osmond doll, not a little girl.

I have seen the eye sparkle trick used often by photographers, as well as removing stray hairs, drool, blemishes, etc. I think the only thing that makes this look so creepy is that they pushed it to this extent.

Two words for this sort of thing: JonBenet Ramsey.

truly frightening...

Okay, that's repellent. The best thing I can say about picture #2 is that you couldn't identify the actual child by looking at it. And the plastic wig is sort of camp, like something you'd snap onto Mr. Potato Head for his tour as a drag queen (at which point the missing eyebrows totally make sense).

Just....47 shades of wrong.

Horrid!

Not hot. Ka-reeeeeeeepy.

On a community bulletin board I frequent, we refer to this company's pictures as "THE FEAR." As in, "okay, so-and-so, I'll give YOU the FEAR" and then linking to the one we find the most offensively wrong, wrong, wrong: like the baby with the digital drool removal, de-chubb of the cheeks (baby weight maintenance thru photoshop? No thanks), and superimposed pink bow to make sure the girl-ness of the dressy baby is recognized.

Disgusting.

It's disgusting. Just gross. Why would anyone do this?

HA! This is hysterical - because the woman who does this does for a LIVING! After the SomethingAwful forum people found it and started making fun of the pictures, Crazy Doll Lady herself surfaced and started sending cease-and-desists.

The whole story is pretty amusing, and features even more of these disgusting "touch-ups."
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/email-pranks/crazy-doll-lady.php

Who would be interested in this? Pedophiles? Besides, the person who did this does not even know how to use Photoshop well. The shadow in the neck is gone (you can actually SEE the triangle where the skin was colored in), and the bangs reflect an over-zealous use of the clone stamp tool.

OMG, melanie! Thanks for sharing that site. That correspondance is hilaious!

melanie, those emails were awesome!! good stuff, good stuff.

Totally creepy.

This is creepy. The child, as shown in the original, is darling. She doesn't need photoshopping: she's a cutie.

Thankfully, NO ONE has clicked "HOT" yet. That would be even creepier than the retouched photo itself.

sick. sick. sick.

oh, i'd also like to point out that she now has no neck.

I think people would have selected 'hot' had you chosen a more reasonable use of photoshop (or in this case, lightroom) to improve child photographs.

http://flickr.com/photos/learningtosee/622378005/

i really can't believe this is real. this isn't a joke?

also please note that the url is "naturalbeautiescontest"
oh my god.

Sickening.

This is horrible and gross. I would never subject a child to this. Nor should anyone else.