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I am capaigning To make magazines and advertiseents label their airbrushed images "this image has been airbrushed" or just "AIRBRUSHED"...

Friday 1 April 2011

TUNE IN!

I will be talking, on Sunday 3rd April, on Glide/Jack Fm about my campaign. Please Tune In! I will be on between 9am and 11am! Thank you for all your support! xxx

Tuesday 1 February 2011

Body Image

Last week i did a talk to some Girl Guides. some of them refused to admit they were beautiful! the silly thing is that one of the girls who thinks that they aren't beautiful is STUNNING!!! i asked them to fill out a survey and one of the questions was "Do you want to change something about you...if so what?" one girl said that she didn't want to be as tall!
'm sure she isn't the only one who feels that way about themselves!!!

Thursday 27 January 2011

Monday 24 January 2011

MY CAMPAIGN: PLEASE FOLLOW!!!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE FOLLOW MY CAMPAIGN TO MAKE MAGAZINES AND ADVERTISEMENTS LABEL THEIR AIRBRUSHED IMAGES "AIRBUSHED".
TWITTER:
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FACEBOOK:
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AND SIGN THE TWITTER PETTION:
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AND ON MY BLOG ANSWER THE QUESTIONS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BLOG!!!

THANK YOU!!!

Wednesday 19 January 2011

Airbrushing!!! Should magazines and advertisements have to label their airbrushed images?

My name is Olivia Wittet,
I am Campaigning to make magazines and advertisements label their airbrushed images "this image has been airbrushed" or just "AIRBRUSHED"...it started off to just be a citizenship GCSE project but it has grown and i am now i am trying to go further! You see i called up magazines such as vogue, Elle, glamour, self...etc on almost all of them i was told to EMAIL them instead, even though i had already done that, but on one call to a certain magazine called "Elle" the receptionist said and i quote "That's something we don't discuss at Elle!" (when i tried to talk to the editor about airbrushing.) Magazines shouldn't feel that they are able to just brush a subject like "Airbrushing" under "the rug"; when 70% of girls feel depressed, guilty and shameful of themselves after reading a fashion magazine for ONLY 3 minutes! Many many many women and children are unaware that most images (if not all) in magazines are "airbrushed" in some way or another! i cant tell you how many fashion magazines i have emailed but i can tell you that NONE have replied. shouldn't we be able to get some kind of response on a subject so delicate and yet so serious as this!
Advertisers make money by projecting the image of a beautiful thin woman advertising a product that they claim it will make the shopper...skinny, non-wrinkling, tanned, BEAUTIFUL!!! in reality that woman isn't as she looks she is AIRBRUSHED!
So where should i go from her???
I have emailed magazines and advertisements about my campaign trying to get them included!  
When that didn't work i called them, only to be told to email the instead!
Will people listen to a 15 year old girl talking about a subject kept so quiet that it is hoped that people will just forget about it???
Will Anyone read this???
How many other people have campaigned for the same thing as me???
Has anyone succeeded???
I am I just talking to myself???