The Gossip Girls Venture Over to the Dark Side (of Makeup)

Tue., Apr. 14, 2009 5:00 PM PDT by Sydne Summer

OK, we get it. Blake Lively and Leighton Meester are nothing like their characters on TV. Allure makes that very clear with its May cover caption, The Anti-Gossip Girl, while The New York Times Magazine makes sure to include this quote from Leighton: "I was definitely never like that [meaning her character, Blair Waldorf]." Still, you don't need a gallon of makeup to prove you're not an Upper East Side princess. Both actresses have been referred to as the "fresh faces of television" and certainly live up to it on the red carpet. So why on earth are magazines trying to make them look like worn-out party girls? Are editors confusing them with the stars of 90210?

Head over to E! Online to read bits from Blake's juicy interview, then watch more celebrities morph their image in mystyle's Cover Girls: Is That Really You? gallery.