Imperfect Me

We photographers and photo retoucher don't really know how much people appreciate what we do until they tell us how amazing we are with a smile. I am writing this short blog as a response I received from a makeup artiste I met on BBM via my sister in another State. She was in Lagos (where I stay) for a short visit and we decided to see for a photo shoot which was cool. I had high expectations as I fell in love with her face right from the day I saw her picture. She came by, we had a shoot which to me is a normal process and when the picture retouch was done I sent it to her. She was funny with her response but to my surprise she did a picture mix of herself un-retouched without makeup and the retouched picture. She titled it 'Imperfect Me'.

I looked at the picture once again and I realized I had worked hard on the picture to make a statement about myself to her which turned out great. We just don't understand the role we play when people are happy to see a transformation of themselves.