Let's Talk About Those Photo Filters
Recently I've been taking issue with photo filters, there's tons of them on phones and photo apps designed to take any trace of uniqueness personality out of your face and leave you looking like a mannequin with perfect skin, contoured cheeks and eyeliner. And occasionally bunny ears. We're setting up people with unrealistic expectations and the idea that beauty is everything. In an act of defiance I've turned off the photo filters and only post pictures of my actual face. Bags and all! Add this to the fact I don't wear make up and I often wonder how I don't end up terrifying small children. But it turns out children aren't superficial arsehole. And neither, it turns out, are my lovely friends. Here's a poem that's stemmed from my loathing of the instagram age of fake beauty. Broken Filters My Snapchat filters broke today I had to show my face No soft focus or colour balance Just my actual genuine face No fake eyeliner, or