By now you know,i’m no fan of filters. They seem to do more harm than good, giving young girls and the vulnerable even more unrealistic beauty standards to look to. It goes a lot deeper than you may realize. Have you seen the studies on what damage filters can do to young girls minds? It’s not pretty, I’ll tell you a few of the damaging impacts filters have on them. For the younger girls who are already dealing with unstable hormones, the pandemic, and online schooling to name a few, filters are having a devastating effect. I’d like to warn you, the psychological damage filters have on us is shocking!
Here is one big reason why we should ditch the filters. Unrealistic expectations, when you can change yourself, change your skin colour, whiten your teeth and fine tune your features you feel like the real version of you is ‘ugly’. This isn’t true, that modified version of you is unrealistic and fake. You’re imperfect and beautiful, I want you to know that. Using filters is so damaging, they mess with your perception of reality.
That image produced by a filter isn’t reality, your family knows what you look like, your friends and colleagues as well, they love the real you. There’s nothing wrong with you, please stop feeling like you’re less without filters. The facts are that using filters has shockingly higher increased risks of, but not limited to; anxiety, depression and body dysmorphia. This is horrible, there’s nothing wrong with you…
