French Marie Claire's NON-AIRBRUSHED Issue: Louise Bourgoin Looks Good! (PHOTOS, POLL)

French actress Louise Bourgoin is on the cover and in the pages of French Marie Claire's totally non-airbrushed April issue--and boy, does she look good! It's so nice to the little wrinkles around her eyes when she smiles, her shiny skin and all of the leg bones connected to the hipbones. Take a look (at these kind of grainy scans) and tell us which pic is your favorite.

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[bentax645]

09:12 AM on 04/11/2010

The complete story is here:

http://www.benjaminkanarekblog.com/2010/04/04/retouching-much-ado-about-nothing/

[AZ4thatone]

12:55 PM on 04/08/2010

Gorgeous pictures, so full of life!

[jadorefrancais]

08:08 PM on 04/07/2010

I love it...and I love the French...now I just want them to use size 6, 7, 8, or 10 models...not fat...but curvy and still healthy:)

for more about me and my "French" lifestyle experiment (an american girl living french in the us for a year)
go here:

http://livefrench.blogspot.com

[UnePetiteParisienne]

05:47 AM on 04/08/2010

The French ELLE issue of March 26, 2010 "spécial rondes" used a (beautiful) size 14 model on their cover and inside fashion pages.... (this beautiful model is american, incidently).

[Yank in France]

07:23 AM on 04/08/2010

Ah, je n'ai même pas pensé ! -:)

Non, c'est juste qu'avec le passage des années, je me rends compte que la vraie beauté se trouve dans toutes ces petites imperfections d'une personne qui fait tout l'art de la vie.

Par ailleurs, je crois qu'il est bon temps que les femmes (et les hommes) arrêtent de se préoccuper excessivement de tous ces petits défauts afin de se concentrer sur l'essentiel.

Après tout, les gens arrivaient de par le passé de trouver la beauté et l'attraction (mutuelle) sans interventions chirurgicales. Ceci dit, je me soigne car je veux toujours être beau mais je ne tenterai jamais de me faire passer pour un homme parfait non plus.

Mon attitude se résume par les lyriques de la chanson américain "you may not be perfect, but you're perfect for me!"

Bises,

[LaurieLee]

09:59 AM on 04/07/2010

I have seen photos that are so retouched that the tear ducts are removed from the inner eye. I like seeing the unretouched photos.

[Yank in France]

09:47 AM on 04/07/2010

I don't have the technical knowledge of photography some posters have, but I say step, however small, toward a more sane approach to beauty is very POSITIVE.

The over-emphasis on beauty, to the point of seek absolute perfect, has deformed all our values and messed with many people's sex lives.

Bravo to Marie-Claire!!

[UnePetiteParisienne]

05:50 AM on 04/08/2010

Hey Yank, Funny to see you here !
I am so much more accustomed to reading your comments in the "Politics" or "World" sections of the HuffPo .... Can it be that Louise's Frenchness is the reason why you found your inner Style-blogger ?

[gx5000]

08:55 AM on 04/07/2010

If you use Photoshop and know anyone in the industry you know how much goes into these shoots.
She's gorgeous and she's real...most women that pose look nothing like the shot that's printed...

Bravo !

[Papa Swamp]

07:38 AM on 04/07/2010

That doesn't have anything to do with airbrushing but rather lighting by the photographer. Use a light diffuser and the shiny goes away. Shot outside maybe in mid-day sun...the assistant holds up a diffuser...unless you want the shiny look....which is fine also.

Regardless, I don't see what the big deal is..she looks great.

[yosoyeldecider]

04:17 AM on 04/07/2010

I am glad that all one needs to be considered acceptable now in a photo is to conform to a particular set of physical characteristics, have professional hair, makeup, and lighting people, have a terrific photographer who takes thousands of shots, and to pick the best few of all the pictures taken.

It's just good to have the pressure off. I will sleep better now.

PS She does look teh hawt and I'll take this over the ridiculously overprocessed images folks are used to seeing.

[Freenation]

01:58 AM on 04/07/2010

Nice

[toxicbrainpoison]

12:35 AM on 04/07/2010

i havent seen a magazine cover look like that since the early 90s. it looks better.

[CorcaighPol]

11:45 PM on 04/06/2010

Awesome

[Acleacius]

11:26 PM on 04/06/2010

Great pictures Louise, thanks. :)

[LogicCircuit]

11:11 PM on 04/06/2010

oh no! But how will women complain now that the magazines set unrealistic standards

[BJ DeLorenzo]

10:34 PM on 04/06/2010

there is no such thing as an Unretouched photograph, dont believe any of it unless someone hands you a raw images directly from their digital camera.

[Nick Mroz]

11:07 PM on 04/06/2010

Agree though I think they are talking about switching the smile, shaving the ankles, smoothing the coloration of skin. Honestly I hope this 'untouched' spread will start a trend. I prefer the 'untouched' photos versus the caked on air brush look. It's like my vision blurred on some of these photos especially on the rush jobs. Plus it'll hopefully stop the constant 'These ain't real women, this is a REAL woman. [shows off 280 lbs. body]' comments.

[larry278]

10:25 PM on 04/06/2010

I'm an old goat. I've learned to appreciate the wrinkles, cellulite, sagging flesh & strech marks of post menopausal women. Life is being good to me.

[ThuddyWinchester]

01:39 AM on 04/07/2010

:) What a great comment.

[seehowtheyrun]

03:08 AM on 04/07/2010

Good on you Larry278 !