I stumbled across this video today and I think it's fantastic! The Hungarian singer Boggie produced this music video in which she is sitting still singing her song "Parfüm." As the video progresses, we see the process of her video editor retouching, tweaking, and adjusting the appearance of the video in everything from the color of her eyes, her makeup, and her hair, to the clothes she's wearing and the lighting of the room.
It's amazing to watch and the difference between the beginning and end are incredible. Huge props to this artist for putting something out like this! We're all perfectly aware of how much people in magazines or promotional photoshoots are altered so that they look more conventionally attractive, but I think we often assume the the way people look in video format is the way these people actually look. This video demonstrates just how much even people in music videos are digitally altered.
Take a look! (The music's in Hungarian, but the words aren't the point anyway.) One thing that struck me in particular while watching was how much whiter they made her skin during the process- it was an almost literal instance of "whitewashing."