If you’ve ever found yourself comparing your skin/hair/body to a celebrity or model and felt that you came up short, there is a very good reason for that: Photoshop.

Take a look at the celebrity before and after shots below, and see just how Photoshop is used to shave down waists, even out skin tone, make freckles disappear and smooth over minor imperfections.

Gwen Stefani

Lindsay Lohan

Kim Cattrell

Scarlett Johannson 

Jessica Alba

Avril Lavigne 

In our vast internet travels here at Mamamia, we’ve seen plenty of 

airbrushed and retouched digital images

 of models and celebrities (and some of these in non GIF form before) but there is definitely a mesmerising quality about these we found via 

Buzzfeed

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Madonna

Angelina Jolie

Katherine Heigl

Britney Spears

Kim Kardashian

For more photoshop fails, have a click through our gallery:

Katy Perry with two left hands

American Apparel photoshop original

American Apparel photoshop fail

Anne Hathaway suspiciously smooth armpit on the cover GQ magazine

Ashley Simpson looking crystal clear on the cover of Cosmo

Avril Lavigne missing part of her arm on Maxim magazine

Bikini legs photoshop fail

Carrie Underwood having some hand issues on the cover of InStyle magazine

Chinese online fashion store extra long legs

Chinese online fashion store extra long legs

Demi Moore looking a little airbrushed

Demi Moore missing a hip

The cover of Elle magazine looking a little touched up

The cover of Elle magazine looking a little touched up

Eminem enhances on the cover of XXI

Eva Mendes well brushed for Marie Claire

Hot dog fingers

This hair removal ad has also removed the woman's body

Hilary Rhoda photoshopped on the cover of Numero

Jennifer Anniston before and after

Jessica Alba before and after photoshopping

Justin Beiber looking clean and clear on magazine cover

The Kardashian collection photoshop/shoot

The Kardashian collection photoshop/shoot

Karlie adding weight to a model

Another Karlie photoshop fail

Kate Moss

Katrina Halili and her freaky fingers

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