Body image: A serious issue within today's society. Body image is the way you perceive your own body, and for must of us, including myself, it's in a negative way.
In today's society, we have the ability to alter any picture we take with the click of a button. I mean trust me, my picture of a sunset sure looks better with a nice filter, but when does it go to far? Buying an app to reshape your body so you can feel like you fit in with the standards of society, that's where we have taken it too far.
We live in a world where we feel the need to pick apart our bodies. Where girls with curves and thick thighs are not "desirable." Where you are only skinny if you have a thigh gap. If society keeps going in this direction, the value of true beauty will become destroyed.
Facetune is a photo-editing app that is designed to make its users look perfect, but in actuality, it is incredibly deleterious. It tells us that in our natural state, we are not good enough and that we need photo retouching to appear sufficient for social media.
Sure we all have a pimple we wanna cover up, right? I mean no one wants to see that on my Instagram, but when it comes to altering our bodies we have to stop.
Whether you want thinner legs or a bigger chest, it only takes the press of a single button to get the appearance you crave. How sad is that? We think we need to erase and censor ourselves in order to be happy with how we look.
But how can we progress in self-acceptance when we think we need to be a specific body type, and if we don't look like that we need to use an app to fix ourselves.
I can't force you to stop editing your pictures, that's up to you. Be the change. Don’t feel the need to edit parts of your body in order to feel whole because you are more beautiful without it. Love your body for the way it is, because changing photos doesn't really make you any skinnier or less pimply or more beautiful.
So next time you're at the beach, take a picture in your bikini. Look at yourself and realize you are don't need the editing.
