I have been editing less and less as I have started my journey to self -love.

But honestly, it’s what I am happy with doing. I know people would argue I don’t need to do that. And I can honestly say I have stuck to that since. And then adding a grainy effect and a vintage filter to my photos because I like to pretend it’s still the 1970s for aesthetic purposes. Brightening and enhancing the details of my makeup, jewellery and hair. I honestly was surprised how much people thought how pretty I was without slimming my chubby face, enlarging my eyes and smoothing the entirety of my face. I was addicted and needed to ease myself off it slowly. I wanted to be happy and be able to love myself. And I quickly realised, I cant live my life editing everyone of my pictures. I instantly felt sick and ashamed I bought into this. But the obsession had moved onto our bodies. I watched more of people I follow fall into the trap. I began to stop uploading less pictures of myself. Were they even aware it wasn’t real? Or did they just feel sorry for me? I felt like such a liar when friends would comment on the image complimenting me.

Not one of my pictures weren’t edited heavily. And Facetune soon became my quick fix of cosmetic surgery without the pain or cost.

I learned to hate every single feature of my face. And I am very real when I say, it became a full-scale addiction. Brightening and enhancing the details in makeup or my eyes. I was intrigued after seeing influencers making youtube videos on how they use it. The Facetune app gave everyday, regular people to do Photoshop-style retouching of their photos from their smartphone. It seems like the norm nowadays to just want to change every single detail of who you are.īut where do we point the fingers for blame? Would it be other serial offenders of the app like James Charles or the Kardashians? Or do we simply have to look in the mirror to realise its our own fault for allowing an app to control our perception of beauty. At some point in our lives we have felt the pressure to edit out a pimple or smooth out a dry patch of skin.

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