Photoshop is Sharon Stone's best friend

I prefer natural. I can turn a blind eye to photoshop artists removing things like blemishes and maybe the occasional spot but when they completely smooth out the skin making to make it look like it's 'perfect' (when really, I think it looks horribly unnatural) I have problems. I have even bigger problems when they make models look skinnier as well.

Sharon Stone is gorgeous at 50 and I hate to see her face being practically disfigured digitally. I wish the media would quit this stupid idea that youthfullness is best making so many older women who are already beautiful turn to surgery and so many photoshop artists having to feel that every model's photo they are hired to digitally enhance needs to be manipulated in order to make them look decades younger.

Natural is best, all the way. It's just so much more beautiful than these unnatural, artificial works.

 i don't agree. they didn't try to make her look different, they just smoothed it out. she looks like herself. its not about making her look younger really, its about making her look her best. looks damn good for 50.

I wouldnt expect anything else (sadly), regardless of the airbrushing she also has about 3 inches of makeup on her face and body to hide any inperfections and probably took a few hours having her hair done. Smoke and mirrors is what its all about these days and as Lauren says above, even the young modles /actors are air brushed to perfection these days.

I´m not a big fan of Sharon Stone anyway, I´ve always found her to be very self important considering her career but I do admire that she has (so far ) chose to age naturaly. I suppose the advertisers dont feel the same, no big shock there.

about Sharon...whether she's airbrushed or not...she's so beautiful.

i, too, feel that oftentimes the industry way overdoes the photo crimping & tweaking of celebrities and models...it's definitely not a healthy portrayal towards our young women...it was a tough battle with my own teenage daughter back then but happy to say i got through to her lacking self-esteem and now she's got a healthy, well-adjusted self-image turning 19 next month.  unfortunately, the low self-image problem still lies with......me.  having turned 48 this year has been tough (it's been getting tougher each year since 46)...accolades to everyone who are toughing it out with me.  over the years, the continual compliments of how i always look at least 10 yrs younger than i actually am from strangers, friends, family, lovers (always younger than i) has not penetrated this tough, stubborn mind because i don't see what they see.....and that's difficult on everyone involved with me.  yet, the fakeness of the industry has had no effect on me negatively....it's my own personal demons i'm battling.

huge accolades to Jenny McCarthy who was one of the first celebrity beauties to go public on how they made her look perfect in photos...further accolades to Dove, Tyra, Oprah, and like-minded industries/people who are forging a wide and strong road through all this fake b.s. and to encourage anyone to be yourself at any age and grow older naturally and beautifully....

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These are the women a lot of people idolise and admire and so if they're airbrushed and they're not "good enough" to be put on the cover of a magazine or in an ad just as they are, then who is?

Personally, I think that Sharon Stone is absolutely stunning and that there is no need for airbrushing in anyway, on anyone, regardless of age.

We're people, not manakins.

If this helps with your dilemma, I don't think she has been airbrushed nearly as much as the recent photos you provided suggest. In both of the candids she is smiling while in the ads her face is slack. I'm not saying she hasn't been airbrushed at all, but I doubt she required very much after make-up and lighting.

With that said, I love it when we are allowed to see Diane Lane's laugh lines in ads (for instance).

With or without airbrush, Sharon Stone still looks stunning. Look at her,she's 50 for real.Airbrush-ing the ads she's in, i guess to really strongly make it more what they really want it to look. Maybe, who knows!

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I think Hollywood does want manikins

reminds me of the movie S1m0ne. When Al Pacino digitally created an actress that became famous overnight.  I'm sure hollywood wished they could get away with that.  Cuts down on wages.

smoke and mirrors...

As far as Hollywood is concerned, the women we idolize aren't good enough.  So, the images we see aren't real.  You have to ask yourself if you really know who you're  idolizing

I keep saying, don't believe everything you see.