Adorations

Airbrushing is harmless until the image itself is distorted by stretching or shrinking parts of a person. It's really unattractive to see photos of women all broken out or caught with ghost foundation face, so tweaking things a little doesn't hurt. It's still you, but without an eruption on your forehead. What's wrong with that?

Use of the software depends on one's attitude towards airbrushing. Some won't, but I know that there will be girls who will go nuts giving themselves plastic surgery with that program. It's not a generalized teen problem, it's one specific to girls with distorted images of themselves.

I think it just reinforces how fake everything is, and that this perfection we see in magazines is due to skilled photoshoppers and does not exist in the real world. It's empowering to see how you too can look like those "photos" in magazines, and those before and after shots show that those stars have imperfections too.

Of course, the this technology can be used in a positive way or negative way like everything else.