Ads In Britain Banned For Too Much Retouching Advertisers routinely touch up models' faces for magazine ads, but L'Oreal may have gone too far. Britain's Advertising Standards Authority banned two of the company's ads — featuring Christy Turlington and Julia Roberts — calling them "misleading" and an "exaggeration."

Ads In Britain Banned For Too Much Retouching

Ads In Britain Banned For Too Much Retouching

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Advertisers routinely touch up models' faces for magazine ads, but L'Oreal may have gone too far. Britain's Advertising Standards Authority banned two of the company's ads — featuring Christy Turlington and Julia Roberts — calling them "misleading" and an "exaggeration."

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