Sometimes it works out well, but sometimes fans are confused or even concerned.
Read on for a look at magazine covers that sported photos of unrecognizable stars.
Where better to do so than on thecover of Vogue Italia?
On the cover of the magazine’sMarch 2023 issue, Bundchen was a vision in red.
A smoky blue eyeshadow offset the look, the colors perfectly complementing one another.
It seems that Vogue Italia was well aware of how different their cover model looked.
Fans confirmed that, yes, Bundchen was fully unrecognizable.
One fantweeted: “To me, these pictures just cover her up.”
Taylor Swift - Vogue (2016)
2016 was a pivotal year inTaylor Swift’s career.
“I didn’t know that was her at first lol,” one fan wrote onTwitter.
In particular, she once more credited her pixie cut as a real landmark in her ongoing style evolution.
“Everything is exposed.”
In Baby V’s case, the magazine in question wasFlaunt.
She posed for the cover in a cropped white shirt, baring her midriff and belly button piercing.
“I thought it was Rihanna,” one fan wrote onTwitter.
Despite the surprised reaction from some fans, Hudgens herself was happy with how the photo shoot turned out.
She shared the cover onInstagram, writing: “Good times chillin with motorcycles and bleached eyebrows hahaha.”
One follower commented in reply: “You look like Taylor Swift here!”
“We hardly recognize her in bushy brows,” one user wrote onTwitter.
Swift even appeared to have visible freckles, which are usually lost under her foundation.
“Does this look like me?”
Olsen asked her Instagram followers in a since-deleted post (viaNewsweek).
In other words, the Mouse House itself was the one to photoshop Olsen’s face.
What was a surprise, however, was the tennis pro’s appearance.
No one was quicker to point out the cover photo’s distorted body image than Roddick himself.
It was pretty funny.
Maybe Rafael Nadal wants his arms back?"
I don’t see what the big issue is here."
In the corresponding interview for Interview, Kardashian credited her “glowing” appearance to all that self-care.
“I really take care of myself,” she insisted.
“I work out, and I eat as plant-based as possible.
I’m not perfect, but it’s a lifestyle.
I feel really good in my own skin these days, so maybe that comes through.”
However, she pointed out that disappearing into her roles can be a double-edged sword as a woman.
“I would hear, ‘Who is the real Jessica?’
Even her skin, unfortunately, seemed to have been lightened.
How could it all have gone so wrong?
Well, to hear Chen tell it, it was Washington’s fault!
In fact, this cover wassounrecognizable that fans still use it online as the benchmark for subsequent cover-image scandals.
“I don’t understand the question,” Gaga/Jo replied.
The #1 song debuted the following year.
Interestingly, Gaga’s Vogue Hommes Japan appearance foreshadowed another iconic moment.
Gaga, ooh la la, indeed!
Featuring a shock of white-blonde hair and dyed eyebrows, Cyrus posed seductively, wrapped up in a sheet.
“I’m trying to tell girls, like, ‘F*** that.
You don’t have to wear makeup,'” she explained.
“You don’t have to have long blonde hair and big t******.
That’s not what it’s about.
It’s, like, personal style.'”
However, the profile wasn’t what caught people’s attention.
Instead, it was the fact that Washington didn’t really look like herself on the cover.
In fact, she looked more like Scarlett Johansson.
Still, though, she admitted being upset by her appearance.
“I just felt weary,” she wrote.
It’s an unfortunate feeling.”
On the cover of British Vogue in 2018, however, Grande switched it up.
She wore her hair down and blonde, immediately erasing the one iconic image people had of her.
In addition, her makeup style on the cover was completely different.
“Omg I barely recognized her,” one fanTweeted, clarifying: “She looks stunning.”
Anothersuggestedthat she should have ditched the ponytail long ago.
Speaking withBritish Vogue, Grande discussed her lingering sorrow about the then-recent bombing of her concert in Manchester.
Grande concluded: “Sometimes, it’s kind of just about being the light in a situation.”
