'It doesn't look like you!' YouTube star Tana Mongeau is blasted on Instagram for over-editing a red carpet photo and leaving herself unrecognizable thanks to her altered lips, jawline and nose

  • The YouTuber, 21, shared pictures from attending the People's Choice Awards
  • One image from the event taken by photo agency Getty appears to have been altered by Mongeau to show a slimmer nose, jawline, and fuller lips 
  • Fans called out Mongeau for Photoshopping the snap excessively before posting
  • Mongeau has previously commented on her love for Facetune 
  • In a later post, the YouTuber her pictures now had 'less Facetune' in them  

Fans have called out YouTuber Tana Mongeau for her extreme Photoshopping on a professional image from when she attended the People's Choice Awards

The 21-year-old saturated her Instagram feed with content after she attended the People's Choice Awards as the nominee for Social Star of 2019, which she lost out to fellow YouTuber David Dobrik. 

Mongeau didn't make headlines for her loss, though, but instead for a Getty image she shared of herself looking unlike what she looks like in real life, her fans claimed. 

Not quite right: Fans have called out YouTuber Tana Mongeau for her extreme Photoshopping on a professional image from when she attended the People's Choice Awards

Not quite right: Fans have called out YouTuber Tana Mongeau for her extreme Photoshopping on a professional image from when she attended the People's Choice Awards

Real version: The 21-year-old appears to have taken an image from photo agency Getty and altered it before sharing on her own Instagram account. Pictured is the original

Real version: The 21-year-old appears to have taken an image from photo agency Getty and altered it before sharing on her own Instagram account. Pictured is the original 

Confused: Commenters responded to the image and said Mongeau didn't look like herself

Confused: Commenters responded to the image and said Mongeau didn't look like herself 

The controversial image showed Mongeau looking at the camera head on while on the red carpet for the awards show when it took place last Sunday in Santa Monica, California. 

She modeled a pouty red lip to match her sparkly red gown for the event. 

But followers claimed the YouTuber used so much Facetune to alter her face that she wasn't even recognizable anymore. 

In the picture, Mongeau edited her nose to look similar and added a plumpness to her lips. She also altered her jawline to look smaller in the pictures while tanning her skin tone. All these alterations were noticed by fans who commented on the image referencing how the star was no longer recognizable. 

Interestingly however, the YouTuber kept the Getty copyright banner in the photo she posted on Instagram, perhaps to create the impression that she had simply taken the photo directly from the photo agency and shared it with her followers - none of whom seem to have fallen for it. 

'Why does Tana not look like Tana,' one confused commenter wrote, while another person commented: 'That don't even look like you wtf.' 

A majority of the comments referenced how Mongeau looked unlike herself in the head-on shot after the alterations were made. The original image shows Mongeau without the slimmer nose, altered jawline, and fuller lips. 

'That doesn't even look like you. People should be worried about your self esteem, and what it means when the only pictures you like of yourself are the ones where you don't even look like yourself,' one fan wrote. 

Mongeau previously admitted to loving Facetune in Instagram captions and videos. 

Slide me

Before and after: In the version of the photo that Mongeau put on her Instagram (right), her lips look bigger and her chin and jawline seem more angular than in the original (left) 

Change: It appears Mongeau altered the nose, jawline, and lips in the image. She also tanned her skin before sharing it online

Change: It appears Mongeau altered the nose, jawline, and lips in the image. She also tanned her skin before sharing it online 

Frustrated: Commenters were annoyed by Mongeau's editing skills from the awards show

Frustrated: Commenters were annoyed by Mongeau's editing skills from the awards show 

Admitting it: Mongeau later shared more images from the event and said she used 'less Facetune' on the pictures compared to the head shot
Admitting it: Mongeau later shared more images from the event and said she used 'less Facetune' on the pictures compared to the head shot

Admitting it: Mongeau later shared more images from the event and said she used 'less Facetune' on the pictures compared to the head shot 

Big fan: Mongeau has openly confessed to followers she uses Facetune for some of her images

Big fan: Mongeau has openly confessed to followers she uses Facetune for some of her images

The popular photo editing app allows for users to alter areas of their face and body to make them look slimmer or fuller. It can also smooth the skin, change colors in an image, and remove unwanted blemishes.  

Accusations of the YouTuber using Facetune to alter her images were addressed when Mongeau posted another series of images from the People's Choice Awards. 

In the caption, she wrote: 'Swipe for a pic of me (with less facetune than last time) cause i’m narcissistic.'

Recently Mongeau also confessed to using a lot of Facetune on each of her photos while she was in Hawaii. In one post she shared a video instead of a picture because she claimed to have no time to edit an image to her liking.

'I have lots of pics from hawaii but i’m too lazy to facetune them so here’s this for the day i’m so f**king beachy and natural,' she captioned the video at the time. 

Mongeau rose into the spotlight in the last couple of years with her candid and outrageous YouTube videos. She is also known for her shotgun Las Vegas wedding to fellow YouTuber Jake Paul. 

The couple reportedly is in an open marriage with each other. 

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