May 22, 2021
Instagram/acne. positivity and Instagram/keke
It used to be that only models and famous actors had perfect, airbrushed skin on the covers of magazines.
But now with editing apps such as FaceTune, Snow Camera and MeiTu Pic being so easily accessible to anyone with a smartphone, it’s starting to seem like everyone on social media seems to have perfect, poreless skin and expert-level makeup skills.
The pressure to portray a perfect life on social media can be unbearable at times, even for the most mentally sound.
But if there’s one good thing to have come out of this, it’s the slew of skin positive and acne awareness warriors who have taken it upon themselves to showcase their honest struggles with acne and messages of self-love.
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Influencer Trend We Are Here For: Real. Effing. Skin.
This generation doesn’t want your filters, tyvm. Feb 22, 2021
Take a quick scroll through your socials right now and I guarantee you’ll see what I’m seeing ultra-curated poreless selfies and Facetuned jawlines being quietly replaced by something much cooler: honest, unretouched pics that put acne on display in all its unpredictable glory. I m talking about content that s
genuinely relatable; like, just-crawled-out-of-bed, still-wearing-zit-cream, this-is-what-skin-looks-like relatable. And it s powerful.
It’s true that skin positivity has been around for a minute, but in a time when most of us don’t have the energy to care about getting “perfect” filtered-beyond-recognition skin (we’ve sort of had other priorities, you know?), the movement is blowing TF up. Hashtags like #FreethePimple and #AcnePosit