For far too long I have kept my silence.

I have swallowed big lumps of, “there's no way she looks anything close to that in person" and liked far too many Instagrams.

It is time that I speak out and warn people of the dangers of face tuning.

First, let's start with the 100 airbrushed complexions. Listen, there is no way your face looks like the inside of a peanut butter jar before anyone sticks a knife in it. You are 18 years old and you have not gotten Botox. You have pores, you have bumps, and you have a nose! Some girls go so hard with this face smoothing that they turn into Lord Voldemort. The only person who thought it was cute to not have a nose was Michael Jackson. Is that honestly who you are striving to look like?

Let's think of people who found the dark lord sexy... Yeah, I am coming up empty, too.

To be honest it's scary and concerning. I have had to contact a friend before to make sure her nose didn't fall off. Don't send your friends into a panic, keep your nose where it belongs. And I understand sometimes you got a few pimples, but focus on the problem areas and make it look natural, not like you slaved over your phone for two hours airbrushing your chin.

Also, while we are on the subject of skin, never put the fake blush on. I actually have yet to find a single picture where the fake blush effect doesn't look like you scraped both sides of your face simultaneously. However, if you did scrape your face on both sides simultaneously, you can just face tune the scabs right off!

Next, let's travel to the eyeballs.

Now, unless you are a walking animated Pokémon character, your eyes aren't glowing and shining in my face, so why make it seem like that in the picture? It's not even cute, you look crazy. It's like your eyeballs and about to explode from the embarrassment of being so over-edited.

Don't even get me started on the added mascara.

First of all, if you had that much mascara on in the real world you wouldn't be able to open your eyes. Not to mention most of the photoshopping apps girls' use these days are so cheap that if you zoom in on the pictures they don't even have the mascara-lined up correctly with the eye. Like do you have a caterpillar on your eyeball or do you just edit your pictures for twelve hours? I'm not sure…

Then there's the blinding teeth whitening.

Whose smile is that white in real life? Like, honest to God, if your teeth were that mind-numbingly white people wouldn't hang out with you because it would give them headaches. If you have had a sip of coffee ever in your life then your teeth are not that white. No one looks like that in real life. Period.

And finally, there are the girls that really go hard in the paint — get it, cause you're painting on the picture, cause you're editing the… never mind, it was a stretch I know.

The body edits. I have seen every shape of butt, front, and belly imaginable. I once saw a photo and was generally concerned for the female's health because she didn't seem to have enough room in her ribcage for lungs. Another girl had a triangle bottom and I was curious how she had been able to sit all these years. (I decided it was a balancing thing, although a great core workout I'm sure.)

At the end of the day, about 96% of your followers know that you spent hours editing your photo and they like it anyways as a congrats for wasting that much of your time. The other 4% are just creepy dudes who haven't showered in a while and are waiting for their mom to bring them another hot pocket.

So just please, stop the over editing. It's not helping anyone. It confuses people when they meet you in public.