Journalist Esther Honig wanted to examine how the standards of beauty vary across cultures. She sent a picture of herself—makeup free and hair pulled back– to 40 different graphic designers across the globe with only one request: “Make me beautiful.” What she received back blew her mind. (And mine.) Some of the pictures came back with minimal changes, what I think of as studio photo retouching. Like this image from Romania: Others were radically altered. This one is from the Philippines: What struck me is that some designers changed Honig’s features in ways I wouldn’t even think of, going to extremes like changing her eye color, removing collar bones, and…