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Tina Fey Covers InStyle Magazine April 2011

Mar 16th, 2011
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Tina Fey covers American InStyle April 2011. There’s so much egregious Photoshopping, of someone who doesn’t need it, on the cover (less so for the preview of the inside shoot, left). The television and movie star can be seen on the very Spring-appropriate cover, for which she’s clinging to no random wild animals proving it’s possible to sell April covers without so doing. She’s leaning up against some weird, non-descript pole thing that’s not attached to anything and seems to be melting the entire side of her body that’s coming into contact with it. While I raise the alarm, you can check out her brief interview snippets.

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Kate Winslet Looks Different In Lancome’s Ads

Mar 11th, 2011
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Kate Winslet is the face of Lancome as everyone needs to be the face and shoulderblades of some brand or another, lest they live a life unfulfilled. The 35-year-old was shot by Mario Testino for the Lancome commercial below and these print adverts for the same campaign. It’s being noted by the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper, and others, that Winslet’s been altered quite heavily for the print campaign. I’ve always thought she was pretty anyway and carried herself with a certain elegance I’ve also always liked in Keira Knightley (who’s got new Chanel ads and a commercial, incidentally). Well, anyway, because they had a side-by-side, I thought you’d like to see the before and after of Lancome’s arguably heavy-handed airbrushing of the mother-of-two. The main complaint about these ads seems to be the spokesmodel’s silence on the adjustments to her look; in 2003, she was very vocal about being made thinner by GQ and I guess she’s now obliged to write a strongly-worded letter every time a third-party with whom she’s affiliated takes the decision to alter an image out of her hands.

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Sofia Vergara Photoshopped Diet Pepsi Advert

Feb 16th, 2011
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Sofia Vergara, who covers the March 2011 issue of Shape Magazine, is sort of the new face of Diet Pepsi. Well, more specifically, she’s the ‘hat rack’, nose, and lips of Diet Pepsi. She’s also following the trend of trying to seduce you using her shoulders (Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston set the trend… it’s better than the armpit thing). The release of the brand’s skinny can was during New York Fashion Week, with the suitably air headed tagline of ‘[a] celebration of beautiful, confident women.’ And the suggestion of being thin and therefore happy hasn’t gone unnoticed. Well, the above advert’s less awful because of the horribly-designed can. More because of how lazily Photoshopped it is. The actual picture of the can has just been copied and pasted in with MS Paint or something. They just got Vergara on set, covered the s**t out of her so she would be barely recognisable, and stuck in the already-publicised picture of the can.

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Katy Perry’s Boobs Photoshopped To Look Fuller

Feb 8th, 2011
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Katy Perry was the cover girl for Rolling Stone’s August cover. The 26-year-old appeared to be topless or partially-nude in most of the photos. Which, considering she seems rather proud of her boobs is nothing shocking. She said in a new interview with Elle that she wished she’d known as an insecure kid ‘these things would come in handy someday.’ However, her 32D chest would not appear to be full enough for those at Rolling Stone. That said, these are people who had her wearing socks with nude underwear, so make of their decision-making what you will. Perry’s getting up as though rising from bed in the morning, but we know thanks to husband Russell Brand that’s not how she looks at all. Her right thigh’s trimmed a little. And both breasts seem to be fuller. They left most of the rest not massively altered. Do you think she looks better before or after?

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Audrina Patridge Photoshopped Bongo Adverts

Feb 3rd, 2011
by Amy Grindhouse.
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The title ‘Audrina Patridge’s Bongos For Bongo (I Hate Myself)’ was already taken, so I had to leave out my usual introductory titty jokes. That made me sad. As did the pictures themselves. There’s always room for titty jokes and euphemisms and now I don’t get to make jokes about funbags/ bongos because some funny a$$hole beat me to it. I guess that’s what I get for daring to nap. F**K YOU, NAP TIME. F**K YOU. Where was I? Oh, yes. Navigating around jokes about Audrina Patridge’s clavicle, let’s address the Photoshop in these pictures.

I’m not seeing things; nor am I the only person to notice. Jezebel.com makes a point in their post, ‘Audrina Photoshopped To Look Less Bony.’ Pretty much nailed it, right there. Bongo defined her abs and took away some of the sinewy/ ropey goodness that makes Patridge… Patridge. Oh, I don’t know what ‘Bongo’ is. But I glean, from not Googling it, that it has something to do with breasts.

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Emmy Rossum Discusses Shameless Sex Scenes

Jan 14th, 2011
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Emmy Rossum covers Vegas magazine. Also known as ‘Really? Okay, sure,’ magazine. Rossum’s not really on my radar, but this cover and her interview snippets did catch my eye. The 24-year-old divorcee recently covered Esquire too. In that issue she wore clothing that exposed her side boob. And she tried to tell sexual jokes (those fell a little flat). I guess I now know why. She’s promoting her television show, Shameless, and she’s trying to play up the show’s sexualised content. Rather than tell penis jokes, the actress has decided to be a grown-up. And talk about shooting topless/ nude/ sex scenes. Rossum tells Vegas, ‘It’s like, OK, time to take my top off … the whole thing is so silly that if we weren’t so comfortable with each other it would be really uncomfortable. It’s definitely an acquired experience. You look over and the camera guy is very politely averting his gaze between takes.’ How cute, the camera man is pretending not to stare at Rossum’s rack. Very gentlemanly. ‘Sex is meant to feel good, and she wants to feel good. [My character's] life is so sh**ty in so many ways. Some people use alcohol, some people use gambling-and some people use sex.’ Because she’s aspiring to be the Chloe Sevigny of Shameless, Rossum adds, ‘[We] get no hair and makeup at all; they frizz out my hair a little and rub mascara around my eyes. That’s it. [However, working on a lower-budget show is very] liberating.’

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