Sadly, I have been brought in a time where photoshopping and Facetune is the norm and therefore creating an unattainable beauty standard for me and millions of other to look up to. Facetune has become so mainstream, so many influencers, celebrities and everyday people face tune their pictures on the regular. Though some people like to be open about Facetune and admit that they love to edit their pictures, from a little tweak to even complete transformation of their body, it doesn’t change the fact that they are adding the problems created around the idea of unrealistic or unattainable beauty standards.
The most common way in which Facetune is used is for small and subtle changes. I feel like this what Facetune wants to pretend its main purpose is, even though there are endless options to morph your face and body. The tools are commonly used to hide things such as blurring out temporary ‘imperfections’ to make your skin appear smoother or removing that annoying red eye you get from pictures taken on a night out. Personally, though I do believe that photo editing apps like Facetune are damaging to people’s mental health and outlook about themselves as they are looking up at some who is at an unattainable standard of beauty that they can never achieve cause it’s not real. However, though I believe this I am partial to smoothing some nasty blemishes in my photos, I do this for myself. I don’t do it because I want to achieve a beauty standard, I do it because I want to show the best of me, without my temporary blemish.
The second most commonly used feature of the app is the body warp shape tool, (which I personally think is the most problematic and damaging). It’s a very controversial topic of discussion as everyone has a different opinion of where the line in dawn between what is acceptable and what is not. Some people think that what they do or what other people do to their own photos is none of anybody’s business. But when it comes to body distortion via Facetune people have become really good at it, it is very common when it comes to people like influencers on Instagram to see pictures of them looking impossibly perfect and portraying the idealistic body and beauty standard.
I think the biggest problem which is created due to editing apps like Facetune is when the gap between yourself in real life and the digital version of yourself that you post and portray online grows to wide. It is undeniable that it is becoming a bigger and bigger issue, the more that you use and app like Facetune, the more you tweak your face and warp your body the worse its going to get. It’s like going down a dark rabbit hole of photo editing that you have to keep up with, once you start doing you have to keep on doing it to keep up the consistency of what ‘you look like’ on social media.
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