It's been a really good year for "Photoshop vs. real women" awareness, between Glamour's plus-sized pooch shot and French Elle's no makeup issue. But there's still a lot of liberal airbrushing going on out there. (We're watching you, Ralph Lauren.) What we don't get is when a magazine airbrushes a celebrity to the point where they look almost unrecognizable. Take for example this new Allure cover, which makes Beyonce look like a cat person, ready to pounce. It's not her least real-looking photo—remember those L'Oreal ads where her skin looked whitewashed?—but still, her face just looks ... not like hers.
Here are nine other magazine covers that thoroughly confused us.
Here are nine other magazine covers that thoroughly confused us.
