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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 StefaniLindsay LohanKim CattrellScarlett 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.
For more photoshop fails, have a click through our gallery:
Top Comments
Maybe what's happening in the Middle East is more important. However it is still important for the media to point out the Photoshopping to the younger generation, to our daughters and grand daughters. We need to always show our girls that generally the stars do not really look like their photos, that the photos are unrealistic images and are not generally attainable by women, whether they are stars or not.
I think every person under the age of 18 knows exactly what Photoshop is and could probably do a better job editing pictures than the examples above.
Give them some credit, they are not ignorant and know what's going on.
I sort of agree with you. The howling down of photoshop and the fawning people who come out and say thank you and that showing photoshop before and afters does not really help us in our plight for gender equality as it is pretty much treating us as moronic idiots who are not that bright. This is at least the case in 2014!
Most of the shots are just improving the skin tone, I don't object to that. Not mad about making waists thinner, though.