I have been thinking a lot about this lately. The past few weeks I have seen this filter on Instagram called reality vs filter. The voice over says “how you would look if your face were perfect”. I tried it out and my first thought was WTF. I’m 51 yrs old and my face has scars, I have wrinkles and my complexion is not that great.

Suddenly with this filter, I have great complexion, I have pretty rosy cheeks and these eyelashes that look amazing. I don’t even think girls in their 20’s have the complexion you see in this filter.

So scrolling through more filters I find one that makes you look like Kylie Jenner. Seriously, what are we doing to girls and women and their self image? Why are we doing this to ourselves? I know how I feel when I see myself with these filters. I look at others and I think to myself “why do I not look like that”, “I have all these wrinkles and they have none”. What is wrong that we want perfectly flawless skin? How have we gotten to the point where women in their 50’s are not proud of the lines and wrinkles?

Honestly, I am totally appalled by all of this. There are so many ads and billboards for plastic surgery that it is constantly in your face. What are we teaching our children?

This really has wound me up quite a bit. So many people are being injected, nipped and tucked to look a certain way. I feel like we have lost the plot. Below is a still of the filter vs reality.