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Fotoshop by Adobé: The miracle beauty treatment

'My skin feels like plastic!' gasps blemish-free babe

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Our piece yesterday on L'Oreal giving Rachel Weisz a intensive age-defying makeover prompted several readers to point us in the direction of this remarkable product:

Superb. We contacted Jesse Rosten to see if he'd be marketing his miracle lotion on this side of the Pond, where pockets aren't as deep as James Bond's missus and don't stretch to Revitalist Repair 10, professional photoshoots and the deft hands of retouching experts.

The answer is no, although Jesse did have some advice on how we Brits might make ourselves appear more attractive. He said: "Try alcohol. It's liquid Photoshop (for internal use only)."

It works for us, but for those of you looking for a more permanent solution and without the hangover, alternative help is at hand in the form of a Google ad which just happened to pop up beside our article. You've just gotta love the Great Satan of Mountain View's contextual algorithm:

Screen grab of our Rachel Weisz story, showing Google ad for portrait retouching software

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Prettier before

In that ad, I think the flushed, freckled girl on the left is prettier than the plasticised one on the right. Anyone else?

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pro-pixel intensifying fauxtanical hydro-jargon microbead extract

(featuring nutritive volumizing technology)

Superb.

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What about the 11th sign of aging?

If you take a look at the actual copy in those ads, it's remarkable how little they say - and how demonstrably and obviously false what they *do* say is. I'm really not sure how they get away with it, given that, say, ISPs get bonked on the head for showing misleading speed ratings. If they were as blatant as cosmetics companies, they'd be saying you could travel through the line yourself and meet your friends on the other side.

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