{"id":26538,"date":"2018-11-19T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=26538"},"modified":"2018-11-19T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T13:00:18","slug":"face-to-face-the-rise-of-editing-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/face-to-face-the-rise-of-editing-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Face to face: the rise of editing apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrissyteigen\/status\/962933447902842880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E962933447902842880&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fmedia%2F2018%2Fmar%2F09%2Ffacetune-photoshopping-app-instagram-body-image-debate\">\u201cI don\u2019t know what real skin looks like anymore\u201d<\/a> Chrissy Teigen spoke for a nation when she tweeted in response to the rise of face editing app Facetune. \u201cPeople of social media: IT\u2019S FACETUNE, you\u2019re beautiful don\u2019t compare yourself to others ok\u201d she continued. <\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Face to Face: The rise of editing apps\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5pkM1GPqty4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/baaps.org.uk\/about\/news\/1535\/cosmetic_surgery_stats_dad_bods_and_filter_jobs\">The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons<\/a> (BAAPS) revealed the results of their 2017 audit, they made the claim that facial surgeries are falling in response to editing apps.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not wrong, editing app giant Facetune has been downloaded over 20 million times according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2018\/mar\/09\/facetune-photoshopping-app-instagram-body-image-debate\">The Guardian<\/a>. Since social media has become the norm, people are wanting to look the best that they possibly can online, and apps such as Facetune and Perfect 365 allow this to happen. With the chance to shrink your face, edit your jawline, shrink your nose and grow your lips these apps can have you looking like a Kardashian sister in a matter of seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Almost everyone is editing their pictures whether they&#8217;re admitting it or not, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/uk\/entertainment\/a25127092\/kim-kardashian-photoshopped-north-west-instagram\/\">Cosmopolitan reported t<\/a>hat Kim Kardashian has even been accused of facetuning her 5-year-old daughter, North (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-6390099\/Kim-Kardashian-accused-Photoshopping-five-year-old-DAUGHTER.html\">something sources close to Kim strongly deny<\/a>). When girls are exposed to the &#8216;perfect&#8217; image from such a young age, is it really a surprise that they turn to these apps to help them achieve the unachievable levels of perfection craved by society?<\/p>\n<p>We spoke to a student, who wishes to stay anonymous, and she had this to say about feeling pressured by society into editing her pictures: \u201cIt\u2019s not something I like to admit, but I always use Facetune to make my skin clearer in pictures. I always try to put pictures up without using it but I literally just don\u2019t have the confidence to do so! It\u2019s such a shame because so many people do this and don\u2019t need to at all, just all trying to keep up with a certain image and I\u2019m so guilty of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We also spoke to another woman who wished to stay anonymous and she said this: \u201cI\u2019d never used Facetune before and thought it would be funny to mess around with my face and see how different I would look with a smaller nose (I hate my nose). I ended up spending about an hour editing different photos &#8211; making my nose smaller, my body thinner and generally just giving my whole face a more structured look. I looked in the mirror afterward and was really disappointed in the way I looked. I deleted the app and have never edited a picture like that again. It was shit for my self-esteem and made me hate my nose even more! It\u2019s hard to love yourself in a society where everyone edits to the point of \u2018perfection\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26539\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-18-at-17.12.36.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2496\" height=\"1432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo edited using Facetune 2<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just women who are obsessing over the way that they look either. The increase in men facetuning their pictures is becoming a serious problem, especially through online dating which can result in the dangerous practice of \u2018catfishing\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Voice of London spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olliepearce.com\/\">Ollie Pearce<\/a>, a male fashion model who runs his own male lifestyle company, who said this: \u201cI&#8217;m a high fashion male model I run my own company which specialises\u00a0\u00a0in helping men with their fashion and dating lives and, in particular,\u00a0their online dating profiles. Because my modelling line of work I&#8217;ve learned how to take good quality\u00a0pictures which attract attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ollie admits that many of the men he works with use face editing apps to enhance their pictures: \u201cMany of my clients have relied on apps like\u00a0Facetune\u00a0in the past which\u00a0\u00a0can help initially to get matches but when they meet their date they\u00a0\u00a0look completely different! It&#8217;s misleading and unethical in my\u00a0opinion. It&#8217;s much better to hire a professional photographer who\u00a0knows how to position you, make good use of light and teach you how to\u00a0pose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacetune\u00a0is encouraging people to portray themselves as someone who\u00a0they aren&#8217;t. Faking it essentially. My philosophy is to present the\u00a0best version of your true self.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Words &amp; Video: Ruby Naldrett | Subbing: Katherine Cenaj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"vne0qyg5hq\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/does-size-matter\/\">Does size matter?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Does size matter?&#8221; &#8212; Voice of London\" src=\"https:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/does-size-matter\/embed\/#?secret=ilV7CvppOc#?secret=vne0qyg5hq\" data-secret=\"vne0qyg5hq\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what real skin looks like anymore\u201d Chrissy Teigen spoke for a nation when she tweeted in response to the rise of face editing app Facetune. \u201cPeople of social media: IT\u2019S FACETUNE, you\u2019re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":26541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,52,82],"tags":[744,2032,2249,2256,4811],"class_list":["post-26538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty","category-featured","category-lifestyle","tag-beauty","tag-editing-apps","tag-face-editing","tag-facetune","tag-perfect-365"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}