Some very admirable female stars grace the cover of Elle France's April cover(s). The naturally beautiful women are sans makeup and retouching and they look gorgeous...
Elle France
French ELLE editor Valerie Toranian persuaded the actresses to appear on the magazine's cover sans make-up for photographer Peter Lindbergh's lens. Pictured here is Monica Bellucci.
Elle France
Eva Herigova graced the cover of Elle looking barefaced for probably the first time in her modelling career.
Elle France
Sophie Marceau poses on the cover of French ELLE without any make-up.
Elle France
It's no secret that magazines use Photoshop to make their cover models look "just so," but is lightening or colour correcting a photograph the same as completely changing the way a person looks? We take a look at the evidence...
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Megan Fox looks different on both these covers and they were clearly shot by the same photographer during the same shoot. We're guessing that the DT cover is the least Photoshopped of the two. It looks slightly more natural than your hunched-over-black-leather-mermaid pose and unrecognisable face on Empire.
Empire / DT
Lindsay Lohan is comically overly-Photoshopped on the Chinese edition of Harper's Bazaar magazine. This cover just has to be joke.
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Jenny McCarthy admitted to the Daily Express that her hot Shape cover shot was not real. "I keep myself in very good shape... but it is definitely a little touched up. I have freckles and stretch marks that you do not see here, and they add a little shadowing to make these muscle things happen that don't exist on my body."
Shape / Bauer-Griffin
We hope Halle Barry didn't let Harper's Bazaar cut her fringe like that. It's not the best look for her. What is this cover about anyway? It's not fashion-forward by any means. What is the editorial slant here, other than, "we are jealous of Halle Berry's hot boyfriend and want to make her look less attractive."
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May '09 Glamour features teen Miley Cyrus trying to be a grownup woman. Her eyes are very over-Photoshopped. It looks as if they made them bigger and then had to make her head bigger at the top, too. Her chin is normal and then the top of her head ends up really, really big!
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