![]() All I was telling myself by looking at that version of myself was that the real me isn’t good enough. ©Georgia Aspinallīecause ultimately, that’s not me. These subtle differences included making my jaw and waist smaller, my hips, boobs and lips bigger and smoothing my skin. Sliding a scale up and down, even the most extreme changes are realistic, that’s why the app is so technically good, and so emotionally awful. The first option on the app is ‘Face’, where you can increase or decrease the size of your jaw, smile, eyes, lips, nose and eyebrows. Facetune isn’t the app you use to brighten a background or give your complexion a glow with a good filter, it’s the app you use to alter you. But the easiness of it, despite registering as acutely concerning, was addictive.įor those of you who haven’t downloaded it yet – and I wouldn’t recommend – let me explain. It was meant to be fun, an experiment of sorts to teach myself how easy it is for people to change their bodies, faces or backgrounds and post it to Instagram as if that’s just how they look every day. References to celebrities and influencers using the app had exploded in the year I’d let the tool sit idly in my background apps, and now I was curious how far you could take it before the pixilation, blurring or background lines would give away the edits. It would be a year before I re-opened Facetune out of boredom, editing a picture of me in a bikini, testing how much I could reshape my body before the alterations were noticeable. ‘Why do I care this much about the wall being white?’ I asked myself, before closing the app and posting the picture as it was with a slight crop. It was more effort than I’d ever put into editing a picture for Instagram, I was previously only accustomed to the odd filter. ![]() I began editing, and almost as if my brain could see the future, I instantly felt I should stop. I had messaged a friend asking her how do it, and she suggested the app, explaining how I could cover the grubbiness on the wall by colouring it in. I wanted to whiten the wall I was sitting on in an otherwise incredibly beautiful – or should I say, Instagrammable – picture of the Santorini sunset. I remember the first time I downloaded Facetune. While most stick to Instagram’s editing tools, 71% of people use Facetune, the editing app that makes reshaping your body terrifyingly easy. The study, commissioned by phone case retailer Case24, also found that London in particular is the capital of photoshop, with 81% of people refusing to post a picture without touching it up. This bleak research showed that people mostly edit their skin, face shape and arms, with lips, bums and legs surprisingly low on the list. A new study has revealed that only 29% of people would post a picture of themselves on social media without editing it first.
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