Beverly Johnson, Portrait by (c)Timothy Greenfield-SandersThere’s no doubt in my mind that looking at always retouched faces distorts our vision of what even truly beautiful women look like.

Forget the challenges of aging faces. When 50-year-old women have not one wrinkle in a L’Oreal photo — or any other beauty product for agins skin — it begins to affect feelings about the face that almost every woman sees in her own mirror.