I normally just use instagram.
This month I have been determined to complete another month of Fat Mum Slim's photo a day prompts. I am hit and miss with them at times.
So when the prompt of red was up, I decided to use a simple photograph of myself with red lips. Brilliant I thought.
So I snapped the picture, using my iPhone 5.
Then I uploaded it to instagram. Eight people liked the post. My boyfriend gave me the best comment in the world.
So last night when I decided to edit the image with my morebeaute2 app, an application which smooths and brightens everything, I wondered what you all would think.
I posed the question, 'Thoughts?' as I posted it to instagram. Twenty people liked the post. Seven people commented, telling me that I was pretty, beautiful and stunning.
I wasn't shocked though, because this is the norm is it not? This is what we are presented with on a daily basis, the edited image to the point where the person becomes unrecognisable. My freckles were gone in the edit and my lines and darkened eyes were diminished and replaced by smooth skin.
I asked the boyfriend, showing him my little experiment and he said that he preferred the original image that I took, even before instagram which I applied a filter to that would make my lips more prominent, but also made my freckles stand out.
I am thankful that my boyfriend loves me as I am; but I am thankful to those eight original people. Thank you for loving me, just as I am.
In October, body image is something that I talk a lot about, especially with the I Heart My Body 2012 campaign getting ready for its launch and these pictures highlight just how much I love my body. I don't like the edit and after seeing this reaction, it is an app that I will delete as it is not me. I love my body, do you?
I am so thankful that I am linking up with kate says stuff!
I am so thankful that I am linking up with kate says stuff!
I have a real love/hate relationship with my body. On the one hand, it is so hard to look in the mirror and not point out all the things I hate about it to myself, the things I'm not happy about. But on the other hand, since having Mia, I do have a new-found respect for what my body is capable of. It may not look the best, but it grew a perfect little human being and that is something to be thankful for.
ReplyDeleteYou are a young gorgeous thing who doesn't need a photo editing app. I am so glad you deleted it. Why cover up freckles. Both my girls have them over the bridge of the nose and it makes them even more cheeky and adorable.
ReplyDeleteI've struggled with body image issues for most of my adult life (and blogged about them too. Its just an energy draining waste of time. Your positive attitude is a breath of fresh air.
I said it was beautiful on instagram Carly, but after seeing both here I prefer the first picture. I could see your second pic (the first I saw) had been though a filter, but loads of pics have been on instagram. I didn't see the original pic and I didn't even realise you had so many gorgeous freckles!
ReplyDeleteThe first image does look better because it looks real. I never saw the original on Instagram, hence why I didn't comment but if I had, I would have said the same as I said of the last image. You ARE beautiful, filter or no filter. When I saw the last image, the one I commented on, I took a quick glance and just thought a flash had been used to brighten the image but now I look at it, yup no freckles [though with a bright flash freckles disappear as well].
ReplyDeleteAnd you know what I think just pops from your face? Your eyes!! And while they ARE brighter in the last photo, they look very similar in all three and are just GORGEOUS.
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That's freaky that an app can change things so much! I still like the originals though...you look like a real person! In the app-ed up one you look like a wax figurine. It's horrible what the mags are doing to people, huh? No freckles, no laugh lines, no worry lines...basically, no signs of having lived! I still prefer the real look any way. But I'm curious and might test this app on my photo to see what it does to someone with dark skin!
ReplyDeleteVery manipulative of you.
ReplyDeleteLooks very beautiful!
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