I think she looks like a beautiful Star Trek alien here.I just don’t understand why this is a staple facial expression pose where she does that thing with one side of her mouth. Is she trying to distract from her asymmetrical jaw shape? What is she trying to do? Anyone?
Interesting to see her with all her hair pulled back though. She rarely does this.
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It is a mystery to me how she gets to go have hair cuts and treatments at all the top London salons where I’d like to try myself but why can’t any of those top salons revive the shine in Alex’s hair?
I don’t understand how they all leave her hair looking fried right after a salon treatment? My hair is dry and frizzy at the ends and I’m tit at taming my own hair but my local salon always gets it looking smooth and shiny again.
Anyway, the boiled egg look is strong in this photo. Suddenly, I’m hankering for a boiled egg with toast soldiers, butter and Marmite.
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This pisses me off.
in this TikTok, Alex clearly has beauty filters on.
It’s not me who left the comment, I promise but first we have the facialist, Marie Reynolds lying through her teeth and sucking up to Alex. Call me petty and pathetic but why did she even tag Alex into that comment? To show Alex what a loyal minion/suck-up she is?
Then Alex with her “Love you
” response just nauseates me. Translation: Love you for indulging me in my delusion that I look just like my filtered social media selfies.
I classify this as deceit, wilful dishonesty and bordering on gaslighting. It just sickens me how Alex denies what is so blatantly the truth. It’s bleeping weird and crappy of her to deny she beautifies her face with filters and FaceApp type tools at all.
She seem adamant we all buy into the belief that she
looks in real life as she does on IG. I wish high/higher profile people would call her out. I find this so creepy and crappy.
This Marie Reynolds blurs and filters her skin too it seems so they’re not to be trusted.
Mutual pants-on-fire club
in this TikTok, Alex clearly has beauty filters on.
It’s not me who left the comment, I promise but first we have the facialist, Marie Reynolds lying through her teeth and sucking up to Alex. Call me petty and pathetic but why did she even tag Alex into that comment? To show Alex what a loyal minion/suck-up she is?
Then Alex with her “Love you
” response just nauseates me. Translation: Love you for indulging me in my delusion that I look just like my filtered social media selfies. I classify this as deceit, wilful dishonesty and bordering on gaslighting. It just sickens me how Alex denies what is so blatantly the truth. It’s bleeping weird and crappy of her to deny she beautifies her face with filters and FaceApp type tools at all.
She seem adamant we all buy into the belief that she
looks in real life as she does on IG. I wish high/higher profile people would call her out. I find this so creepy and crappy. This Marie Reynolds blurs and filters her skin too it seems so they’re not to be trusted.
Mutual pants-on-fire club
Oh yes Marie is a classic filter queen. Her skin always fails to have natural tone, proper texture or even pores! Shame on her, as she claims she's a facialist. It's all about the money for her.This pisses me off.
in this TikTok, Alex clearly has beauty filters on.
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It’s not me who left the comment, I promise but first we have the facialist, Marie Reynolds lying through her teeth and sucking up to Alex. Call me petty and pathetic but why did she even tag Alex into that comment? To show Alex what a loyal minion/suck-up she is?
Then Alex with her “Love you
I classify this as deceit, wilful dishonesty and bordering on gaslighting. It just sickens me how Alex denies what is so blatantly the truth. It’s bleeping weird and crappy of her to deny she beautifies her face with filters and FaceApp type tools at all.
She seem adamant we all buy into the belief that she
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This Marie Reynolds blurs and filters her skin too it seems so they’re not to be trusted.
Mutual pants-on-fire club
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I'm as angry about Steinherr as you, this is absolute deceit. She is a horrible horrible woman in real life. Arrogant and self obsessed. And this arrogance is all over her social media presence. She doesn't care about bullshitting her followers into believing she actually has skin that resembles ceramic/plastic/porcelain.
ceramic/plastic/porcelain/EGG
I'd rather not be all riled up over some influencer - it doesn't make me feel like the calm, centred, mature person I'd like to be
- but I'm glad I'm not alone in how I feel about Ms Steinherr @FrankieBelle . The crazy thing is, I had absolutely no problem with Alex years ago when I first discovered her on Instagram. I used to have these friendly but brief exchanges with her in the comments section when she was giving what I thought was useful advice on new foundations. I have never taken a strong dislike to any of these beauty influencers on Instagram. A lot of people seem to give Caroline Hirons and Sali Hughes tit about various issues but I've never felt offended by what I've seen of their content but Alex, began to irk me so much and I'm not usually easily "irkable"
. Sometimes, I'm surprised at the intensity of my disdain for her. I'm like, why are you so bothered by her?! What's it to you if she uses filters and wants to lie about it? But here we are ... LOL.I was always 100% certain Alex used, at the very least, skin-smoothing/blurring filters before I caught sight of her one day on Westbourne Grove but when I saw her in person, my jaw did drop a little at how much more typically middle-aged, heavy-set and matronly she looks in person which is so starkly different to the much younger, slimmer, fresh-faced, *delicate* aesthetic she curates on IG. She tries to appear far more delicate and girly on Instagram but in person, she has a matronly physique and the face just isn't as model-pretty as the filters make it look on IG.
The way she will gaslight those who say "But your skin looks filtered ..." and attempt to make them feel petty and jealous. It's maddening when you can see the blurring, smoothing effects with your own two eyes and wonder why everyone else is going along with this "Emperor's New Clothes" pretence.
If Alex just decided to remain completely silent on the matter, choosing to neither confirm or deny her use of filters, I don't think I'd be bothered at all but the first time I saw her post a denial statement in 2016 saying she NEVER blurs her skin or uses filters, I was all, WHAT?! OMG, you are such a liar, Steinherr!!! I'll never not be shocked that she thinks she's fooling everyone. I mean look below at these blurred-AF selfies. And the audacity to smile so smugly while she laps up the "OMG your skin is flawless!" compliments. "Thank you, I take good care of my skin!" she replies.
Katie Jane Hughes and this chick on TikTok I recently started following have what I consider good skin and it doesn't look like they're using beauty filters; at least not strong ones!
At least you can see human, natural face shadows and skin texture. But Filter-meister Alex? "Ceramic/plastic/porcelain/EGG
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Another heavily blurred/smoothed video on TikTok and accepting compliments for a lie.
“Thank you”
Not “Thank you but please keep in mind I have ring lights and I used a smoothing filter.”
She’s despicable.
I mean just zoom in a tiny bit and that forehead and the entire chin/jaw area is completely smoothed out with filters. That’s not human skin texture at all.
And she continues to gaze at herself lovingly into the camera lens like she’s a true beauty and not a complete cat fishing fraud.
“Thank you”
Not “Thank you but please keep in mind I have ring lights and I used a smoothing filter.”
She’s despicable.
I mean just zoom in a tiny bit and that forehead and the entire chin/jaw area is completely smoothed out with filters. That’s not human skin texture at all.
And she continues to gaze at herself lovingly into the camera lens like she’s a true beauty and not a complete cat fishing fraud.
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At this point shes either not right in the head ot just plain out right lying and doesnt care what people thinkAnother heavily blurred/smoothed video on TikTok and accepting compliments for a lie.
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“Thank you”
Not “Thank you but please keep in mind I have ring lights and I used a smoothing filter.”
She’s despicable.
I mean just zoom in a tiny bit and that forehead and the entire chin/jaw area is completely smoothed out with filters. That’s not human skin texture at all.
And she continues to gaze at herself lovingly into the camera lens like she’s a true beauty and not a complete cat fishing fraud.
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So now she’s getting her boyfriend Joseph to ask skincare questions on TikTok? I suspect she was paid to recommend a particular face mask so along comes her very own boyfriend asking his own girlfriend via TikTok for an instant glow face mask recommendation? 
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I’ve always suspected the vast majority of her IG “Ask Alex” questions are just questions she’s invented herself to shoehorn her paid brand endorsements into her IG content.
🫤I’ve always suspected the vast majority of her IG “Ask Alex” questions are just questions she’s invented herself to shoehorn her paid brand endorsements into her IG content.
I dislike commenting on peoples looks, but seriously, she looks like a mannequin! She looks lovely and fine IRL. She’s a similar age to me and I’d love to see her using products in 40 plus skin.
How has she not been called out? She has to be the worse one for this, surely the ASA could get involved as clearly the products used are filtered so not a true effect??
How has she not been called out? She has to be the worse one for this, surely the ASA could get involved as clearly the products used are filtered so not a true effect??
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It started off with just over lit pics. Then came the smoothing filters but now it’s blinding ring lights, smoothing filters AND face shape distortion.
She totally looks like a waxy mannequin in her IG selfies and videos. She doesn’t look quite human but she seems to think nobody’s noticed and that she’s totally pulling this off. Mind you, enough people seem to act like they believe she looks like that for real.
The absolute, staunch denials that she uses beauty filters at all is SO weird.
I swear, if she just owned it and joked, “I bloody love a good beauty filter!” I’d have left her alone.
But these, “I never use filters! Just ask anyone! My skin really looks like this!” statements are
Even more annoying when she once said, “I guess it’s actually very flattering that people think I use filters when I don’t!”
There’s a TikTok account called that exposes people who use filters and software to alter the shape of her faces and bodies and I’m so tempted to request they do a TikTok on Alex but I have a feeling she’d sue them.
The whole thing is actually sad. Imagine not thinking your face can ever be presented as it naturally is. If I had to use face shape altering apps to post a selfie, I know I’ve got body dysmorphia issues. The length and shape of her jaw and chin are different from post to post. Her Sunday facial videos and Ask Alex IG stories are the most unnatural looking images of her. She looks almost animated.
Anyway I just keep spewing the same crap every week. I just can’t get over her devotion to the deception.
It’s so interesting seeing how her boyfriend leaves
and
emojis under her photos. Alex is genuinely an attractive woman in real life but I wonder if he’s noticed how much she distorts her face and whether he secretly thinks it’s weird or if he somehow thinks it’s no big deal. Can you imagine being a woman dating a man who filters and distorts his face in IG as much as Alex does? I just couldn’t date someone who does that! It’s too weird!
Alex is definitely the most extreme abuser of beauty filters that I know of amongst the UK’s prominent beauty influencers.
It started off with just over lit pics. Then came the smoothing filters but now it’s blinding ring lights, smoothing filters AND face shape distortion.
She totally looks like a waxy mannequin in her IG selfies and videos. She doesn’t look quite human but she seems to think nobody’s noticed and that she’s totally pulling this off. Mind you, enough people seem to act like they believe she looks like that for real.
The absolute, staunch denials that she uses beauty filters at all is SO weird.
I swear, if she just owned it and joked, “I bloody love a good beauty filter!” I’d have left her alone.
But these, “I never use filters! Just ask anyone! My skin really looks like this!” statements are
Even more annoying when she once said, “I guess it’s actually very flattering that people think I use filters when I don’t!”
There’s a TikTok account called that exposes people who use filters and software to alter the shape of her faces and bodies and I’m so tempted to request they do a TikTok on Alex but I have a feeling she’d sue them.
The whole thing is actually sad. Imagine not thinking your face can ever be presented as it naturally is. If I had to use face shape altering apps to post a selfie, I know I’ve got body dysmorphia issues. The length and shape of her jaw and chin are different from post to post. Her Sunday facial videos and Ask Alex IG stories are the most unnatural looking images of her. She looks almost animated.
Anyway I just keep spewing the same crap every week. I just can’t get over her devotion to the deception.
It’s so interesting seeing how her boyfriend leaves
and
emojis under her photos. Alex is genuinely an attractive woman in real life but I wonder if he’s noticed how much she distorts her face and whether he secretly thinks it’s weird or if he somehow thinks it’s no big deal. Can you imagine being a woman dating a man who filters and distorts his face in IG as much as Alex does? I just couldn’t date someone who does that! It’s too weird!
She needs an intervention. Imagine there is nobody in her life able or willing to be honest with her. Maybe that TikTok account @FiltersGoneWild wouldn’t be a bad thing.
Honestly I'm amazed this thread isn't filled with more people given how deceiving she is. I feel for people who genuinely think her skin naturally looks like that and then wonder why theirs doesn't.
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Yep, that's her 2016 statement about not blurring her skin by posting two side-by-side *blurred* complexion selfies. They're certainly not HD clear photos of her skin. She overexposes her selfies so you don't see any shadows or natural expression lines.
She went from "I use filters sometimes" in that 2016 IG statement to saying "I don't even use filters" earlier this year.
"But the skin is not retouched." Hmmm. In my book, using beauty filters that smooth, blur and even out the entire complexion is what I consider retouching but I can only guess that she thinks because she doesn't get blemishes/acne, her smoothing/blurring out of wrinkles and skin laxity doesn't count as retouching. duck knows what her thought process is.
Lmao using a filter blurs and smoothes your complexion
shes so delusionalMe too. I am amazed this is the ONLY thread about Alex on this site. I am amazed that there isn't a prominent social media account that talks about her blatant beauty filter use.
I really love skincare and makeup but I only check in on Alex's account to marvel at her face editing. There's just something about ALL of her content; the IG stories, the Sunday facials and her 'Ask Alex' segments that just feels like a vanity project. It's like she's only driven to create content merely as an excuse for flaunting this much hotter version of herself. I feel like she's more interested in flaunting her much hotter avatar than actually discussing the best products on the market.
There's something so extremely posey and comically Zoolander-ish about her style of filming her IG videos. Alex doesn't post especially helpful and informative step-by-step make up or skincare tutorials. Every IG post is designed to be a fancy, over-stylised, posey montage of this enhanced fake face she's created and loves to showcase. I think she's just in love with the avatar she's created. Look at how smug and pleased with herself she looks in all those repetitively formulaic vanity videos where she can't stop winking, wrinkling her nose playfully and blowing air kisses. The Sunday Facials have got to go. Every damn week, they're identical.
I don't feel like I'm watching someone who is genuinely passionate about beauty journalism. I do not feel like I am watching a high integrity beauty editor who really cares about educating her audience on the most effective skincare products currently on the market. She just churns out so many posey videos in which she just throws in a few brief close ups of each product she's featuring and the rest is her just posing dreamily whilst pouting and sucking in her cheeks. And I'm like, um ... okay, but was it a good serum or not? What retinols are worth my money?
It's just vanity driven content. Style over substance.
Anyone ever tried applying their face creams more creatively by criss-crossing your hands like this?
You’d think someone at Babyliss would have told Alex, yeah, this is too much filter. You look a bit weird being that blurry. Can you re-film our brand partnership video looking more normal and in focus please?
Again, SO blurred out! The blurring is always so obvious where the chin and jawline meets the neck.
Make it make sense. The chin/jaw is suddenly looks at least 2 inches shorter.
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You’d think someone at Babyliss would have told Alex, yeah, this is too much filter. You look a bit weird being that blurry. Can you re-film our brand partnership video looking more normal and in focus please?
Again, SO blurred out! The blurring is always so obvious where the chin and jawline meets the neck.
Make it make sense. The chin/jaw is suddenly looks at least 2 inches shorter.
Alex 3 years ago Vs 2021 apparently
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I've said it before, but she's a good-looking woman; handsome rather than dainty, which is probably what irks her, and she looks her age rather than fresh out of uni which I wish all beauty editors and instagrammers would realise is not a bad thing. She looks perfectly fine irl. But online she looks like a discarded initial sketch for an Avatar character. I just do not understand why she thinks that's the better option.
She needs help
I met her a few years ago in person, and she does have really good skin.
If you've known her from her Glamour days you might remember that she did a diet feature with the magazine (see this summary by the daily mail: https://www.archive.is/oldest/https...Faddy-diets-fatter--did-woman-lose-stone.html ) and she's talked loads about being uncomfortable with her weight.
By her own admission, she gains weight on her face. I'm guessing she gained weight over lock down and feels really uncomfortable, and she'd rather have people say 'oh you filter' because the argument is that everyone does vs people saying 'wow, you gained weight' which would be much harder to deal with. I am not saying it's okay, but my guess is that's why.
If you've known her from her Glamour days you might remember that she did a diet feature with the magazine (see this summary by the daily mail: https://www.archive.is/oldest/https...Faddy-diets-fatter--did-woman-lose-stone.html ) and she's talked loads about being uncomfortable with her weight.
By her own admission, she gains weight on her face. I'm guessing she gained weight over lock down and feels really uncomfortable, and she'd rather have people say 'oh you filter' because the argument is that everyone does vs people saying 'wow, you gained weight' which would be much harder to deal with. I am not saying it's okay, but my guess is that's why.
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