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16 July 2007

Jezebel offered $10,000 to anyone from a women's magazine who would cough up an unretouched cover-image. Behold, the winner.

post by: ThePinkSuperhero at: 15:01 | 14 comments

Yeeeowtch!

posted by Hugh Janus 16 July | 15:03

OK, that Katie Holmes comment cracked me up.

posted by occhiblu 16 July | 15:10

Yeah, me too. Thanks TPS, I love this. I like Faith well enough, and I think she looks beautiful in both photos. But, it's nice to be reminded that these cover shots are not real.

posted by LoriFLA 16 July | 15:12

I would looove to know if the person who leaked the photo still has a job. Of course, with $10k in the bank, they might not need one ;-)

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 16 July | 15:13

The retouched photo of Faith's arm looks like one very long bone. Albeit, that is the first thing I noticed and admired.

posted by LoriFLA 16 July | 15:17

To stop the jumping between unretouched and retouched shots, hit Escape.

posted by matthewr 16 July | 15:18

She looks friendlier with the lines around her eyes.

I admire that she and Tim are outspoken Dems in a field where that's pretty unpopular, but I'll never forgive her for butchering Janis Joplin. NEVER!!!

posted by jrossi4r 16 July | 15:26

I like the unretouched version because she doesn't look starved to death.

posted by CitrusFreak12 16 July | 15:59

*sigh* Look, I come here to get away from work you guys!

Oh god that retouch job is absolutley shite, her arm is like a toothpick!

posted by dabitch 16 July | 16:38

A graphic designer friend of mine reminds me to think of these "photographs" as "illustrations". They're no more real than a painting.

posted by jokeefe 16 July | 16:45

She looks so much better un-retouched. Sexier. Accessible, really. A hard working musician who's probably stayed up too late the night before.

posted by By the Grace of God 16 July | 17:04

What's so bad about crow's feet, anyway?

posted by Joe Invisible 16 July | 21:38

How are they sure that the "unretouched" photo is not reverse-engineered from the cover shot? Couldn't someone have faked an "original" photo?

Not that I'm cynical or anything...

posted by dg 17 July | 02:03

dg, I thought the same thing.

On the annotated link they forgot to mention that her nose has been altered. It looks like the narrowed the bridge.

I wonder what celebrities think of their altered images. Sometimes I can't tell who is on the cover. I've seen them so incredibly altered that I can't recognize the very famous celebrity.

posted by LoriFLA 17 July | 09:23

← **I move away from the mic to breath in || They get jealous and bang their noses against the window. →

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