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Part of the Problem

I feel like for a long time now, we've tried to fight against the idea of "industry standard" appearance.

Various body shapes, without some cookie cutter size and expectation of beauty.

We encourage instances of magazine and marketing spreads that aren't touched up and altered digitally.

And yet, when it comes to our personal social medias, and building an audience on them, we are making it easier and easier to alter our appearance.  There are tons of apps which can change the shapes of our faces, or our bodies, or completely change the appearance of a photo.  It's become a tool that everyone uses, and it's become the new normal.

Hell, I've seen beauty youtubers make tutorials about how they use facetune.  Most new phones actually come with a "beauty filter" as the default setting to the front facing camera.

The average person now has simply accepted the tools to change appearance, and still claims that mass media photoshopping is wrong.

Let me repeat that.

Fashion articles are frowned upon to touch up high budget shoots, but it's the standard to alter yourself on fucking instagram until you are barely recognizable as a comparison with real life.

It's ok when we have it, but not for them, even though it makes it an even playing field.

And this is from someone with body dysmorphia.

We need to encourage truly untouched things.  Even if we wear makeup to feel put together, we need to find ways to make ourselves be happy with our appearance without the help of filters, or edits.

Somehow, we need to truly encourage that self love and having that confidence in how we look in the real world to also carry over into the internet, and have other people see that as well.

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