Amber Jane Butchart, a professional fashion and beauty analyst, and Raphael Babalola, who runs a healthy lifestyle company, investigate why companies usually use super skinny, super tall, super young white girls in their marketing campaigns.
This episode celebrates human global diversity and illustrates the vastly different concepts of fashion and beauty that have traditionally existed throughout the world.
This episode offers a historical perspective on body image ideals. By exploring the humorous and extreme examples of the past, the film aims to put body image ideals into context, thereby questioning contemporary fads and trends.
DJ Goldierocks lifts the lid on exactly what goes into creating a single fashion photo. Goldierocks becomes a model for a day and discovers just how many people and how much patience she needs to transform from girl next door to glamour girl. Make-up, hair, photographic tricks and image manipulation - Goldierocks exposes the techniques used in fashion and beauty photography, showing in painstaking detail exactly what it takes to create a perfect magazine image.
Presenter Radzi Chinyanganya and actress Melissa Suffield go to a co-ed school in Bristol to show a group of teenage students how they can start taking back control of their body image. In a two-day experiment the duo ban 'body bullying' and encourage individuals and groups to take part in positive body image reinforcement.