Garnier: On The Shoulders Of Midgets

Garnier PSD
I understood Davina McCall to be a British micro-celebrity of the C-list variety. Imagine my surprise when I found that she is too important to actually pose for ads and instead has her head pasted atop abstract collages of body parts. Well done Davina!

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41 comments:

Judge Jordan said...

lmao... i hate her

robgs said...

Not so much C-list as C-lit

Manny said...

Move along people, no disaster here. And can we rename this blog to "Photoshop Mistake Subtleties" please. The "Disasters" in the title seems to be confusing everyone.

Sorry had to vent. Keep up the good work!!!

curvature said...

Quite apart from her weirdly narrow shoulder width and mirrored clothing, you'd think they'd have done something with the colour of her hair so it looks rich and freshly coloured rather than dull and faded

tim maguire said...

Are you sure those are real body parts? I don't think those are forearms and hands, I think those are an artist's rendition of forearms and hands.

Manny, I assume you're joking.

Steve said...

Now now, let's be fair-that is a disaster. There just isn't much to say about it.

Steve said...

Oops! Scratch that. I just noticed that putting your hands together like that would bring your shoulders very close together. It still doesn't look quite right but we're hardly talking disaster.

Lauren said...

This blog is worth it for the post titles alone! The captions are icing on the cake.

The only thing better is the occasional tongue-in-cheek "no disaster this blog sucks" reference. My god the things that go to print, its truly amazing.

DanH said...

If you think that image looks even close to being right, then you have no concept of the human form - and therefore you're probably the same sort of person as the one that is responsible for this monstrosity.

Doug Champigny said...

This is no surprise in the fashion category - a few years back Mirabella magazine stunned the industry with a gorgeous new cover model no one had seen before - only to reveal in the following issue that the image was indeed a compostie, taking the best features from each of 5 or 6 supermodels.

Soon the line between existing and created will blur completely - at which point it will fail to matter anymore.

Evergrey said...

That is some shitty airbrushing right there.

Bonnie said...

Evergrey...I salute you and your frankness. *tear wells up in eye*

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S t e p hanie! said...

Well yeah your shoulders go close. But like... she is a woman, she has boobs. Her wrists wouldn't be so perfectly together like that. This whole ad just looks awkward.

Waldobaby said...

So, she looks exactly like a cleaned up Hugh Jackman and she's a model?

Alex said...

Her skull is taller than her shoulders are wide, and yet a few commenters think this looks ok?

Waldobaby said...

It isn't?

Watch Free Online TV Unlimited said...

Is she wearing a wig? Photoshop disaster is the right term for this ad.

Steve said...

No, I take it back, it does look terrible. She has a big honking head and the shoulders look absurd. Sorry and thank you.

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Karsten said...

This isn't a disaster, she genuinely looks that horrible in real life.

Kafine said...

I'm ashamed that this is an advert for something I actually bought (both because of the annoying D-lister present, and the crappy job on the ad).

Wapzter said...

Wow nice editing. She looks gorgeous .

pootpoot said...

"she looks exactly like a cleaned up Hugh Jackman"

Hey, now that you say it!

Admin said...

Noone notice that the hair is cut short just before the boxes to the right? WTF is up with that. O' yeah, copy 'n paste.

boelwerkr said...

The cherries are glowing ... or they mold-infested?
They have an white outline.

Paul said...

For our American chums, this vile woman presents Big Brother in the UK which is a good enough reason to dislike her thoroughly. However, I am fairly sure that in real life, she does have ears, and not just some weirdly fuzzy temple that blends straight into her hair.

Kirsty said...

I think they usually use hand models for this sort of thing, so I'm not surprised she has someone else's hands, just that they made it so obvious.

Rommel said...

Look at the shading around her nose. Too dark, poor cloning/healing. Looks bad!!!

And her left (your right) hand is a bit elongated, compared to her right (your left) hand.

Melinda said...

Among the many things wrong with this image...the cherries all appear to have their own unique light source.

Rommel said...

I just noticed... look at how straight the side of her face is. another poor job of cloning.

Thomas Joseph said...

Steve,

It took you twenty minutes to look at yourself in the mirror to determine whether or not the shoulder positioning was appropriate? Jimminy. Talk about a disaster!

Anna said...

What they did to this poor lady is really cruel. And the super-glowing cherries? yummy ;)

demxod8 said...

"And her left (your right) hand is a bit elongated, compared to her right (your left) hand."


I would even take it further and say they are mirrors of each other, just with slight variations to make them look different. I mean, why not? The cherries clearly aren't really in her hands.

Howard said...

I believe the cherries are defying gravity... nothing is holding in the cherries from falling forward!

mobywahn said...

PLUS...The cherries are TOTALLY Photoshopped in!
The "victim" model is lit from the upper left, right & below ...but the cherries have forward lighting.

Alejo said...

Lauren --

Ah, if only the "this blog sucks" comments were tongue in cheek ... unfortunately there are folks who post regularly about how cheated they feel about the quality of the disasters, sometimes before even examining the photo. (Yes, looking at you, Steve....)

Even when the disasters aren't so disastrous, the captions are always funny. Thanks for the good work, Cosmo!

loopyloo said...

Oh come on people, those aren't really her hands they're obviously a kitsch fruit bowl. I mean they wouldn't really expect us to think they were hands would they?

FelixAndAva said...

@S t e p hanie!, you are so right. She'd have to be really flat-chested or have unusually long upper arms (to get past breasts) to really do that pose. I just tried it, and the results were, to put it mildly, uncomfortable (I'm a B cup with normal-size arms. Can we say "squashage"?)

James said...

I would not consider this a disaster either... given the other ones as a comparison.

CatieAtkinson said...

Not to mention the fact that her hair isn't and hasn't ever been that colour...