Usually I try to stay with substance and not superficialities, but it’s newsworthy when Marion Cotillard appears unretouched on the cover of Italian Vanity Fair.

The move for authenticity is real among Smart Sensuality women like Cotillard, who makes her own statement about natural, one reinforced by her extensive environmental comments to Nicole Kidman in the August 2010 issue of Interview.  The French actress who appeared in “Nine” with Kidman, is trying to save an ancient forest in the Congo.

It’s been a good day for ‘real’ women, although not every photographer agrees that women shouldn’t be retouched to death. The tool has reduced beautiful women to plasticized Barbie dolls, with skin no man or woman would want to touch in real life.

Some artists and their muses are saying ‘enough’.

Edita Vilkeviciute | Camilla Akrans | Numero #117

A negative comment about the real-life lines around Edita Vilkeviciute’s eyes launched aggressive dialogue about why she required retouching in the first place, with at least one young photographer asking why then bother with a stylist, makeup artists or any professionals, if the intention wasn’t to make the woman perfect.