not to #resist fun but an app like snapchat which digitally “enhances” the photos you take of yourself inevitably leads to greater dissatisfaction w your actual face in the same way that photoshopped images in media increase body dissatisfaction, but actually worse than that bc it’s an unrealistically enhanced version of you and therefore harder to dismiss or ignore
A lot of plastic surgeons are saying that more and more people are walking in with Snapchat filter photos of themselves as reference to how they want to look. We really need to be aware of how much harm these filters do to our self image.
AND LETS TALK ABOUT THE WHITEWASHING TOO: lightening of the skin, changing the eye color to blue, contouring the face/nose. it’s not just wrong because of beauty standards, it’s also really fucking racist 🙃
on Monday you’re still living off the high of the weekend but have accepted that it is about time you actually did some work. by tuesday you have grown to resent it again but the week is still far from over
