Photoshop is an editing technique that is commonly used in the celebrity world. Magazine covers are plastered with modified versions of men and women who are thinner and free of “imperfection." Every trace of acne, scar, wrinkle, mole and dimple of cellulite are erased, leaving people to believe that that's the way they're supposed to look.

But the edited versions of our favorite celebrities or role models are the least of our worries. Technology has provided ordinary people with the tools to retouch themselves. Those who once stood for realistic standards of beauty have succumbed to the pressure of portraying themselves as flawless on social media sites like Facebook and Instagram.

These days, when you're creeping on someone's social media profile, you can’t really be sure if what you’re looking at is real. We are seeing people we know with nothing but absolute perfection.

Not only does this reinforce the impasse we've worked so hard to destroy in the media regarding body image, but it's depicting, "Hey, if these girls I go to school with look like this and they're not even famous, that's how I should look." If us normal, everyday people of society are defining the beauty standards -- what kind of message are we sending when we participate in the distortion of ourselves?

I thought I would experiment with a few of the photo editing applications available on my iPhone with some pictures of myself. Here are the results.

PhotoWonder: Body Distortion

I was able to make my legs longer and thin every inch of my body: legs, arms, waist and face. This application also provides the tools to "fix" your breasts, eyes and skin.

InstaVogue and PhotoWonder: Face Distortion

I used InstaVogue to enhance my skin color and blur out all the freckles or slight wrinkles on my face and chest. Then, I used PhotoWonder to brighten my skin and thin my face. I was even able to apply lip gloss and blush to the picture on the right.

It's frightening how easy the process is to Photoshop these pictures right on my phone. I have no experience as a photographer or photo editor; I'm just a 20-something girl who clicked a few buttons and ended up with a complete misrepresentation of myself.

What makes the edited versions of my photos better than the originals? It's the freckles, moles, dimples, curves and marks that tell our story. That's beauty. Not these airbrushed, distorted versions of ourselves that leave us all to look the same. That's boring.