Freddie_fanz
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She uses filters on all of her photos but doesn’t make it clear..... 
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AllAboutTheMayhem
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I can see a few comments remaining ! If they are being deleted it’s absolutely appalling. They are entirely complicit.
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I believe we are in an era where expressing a different opinion is perceived as bullying. Regardless of the validity. We are expected to just “ scroll by” and not express any reaction other than positivity.
However, as a mother of a teenage daughter (and in my day job as a psychologist) I see the damage that is caused by images such as this, and social media as a whole.
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I believe we are in an era where expressing a different opinion is perceived as bullying. Regardless of the validity. We are expected to just “ scroll by” and not express any reaction other than positivity.
However, as a mother of a teenage daughter (and in my day job as a psychologist) I see the damage that is caused by images such as this, and social media as a whole.
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I just find her so unlikeable. Such outrageous levels of deceit.
Are we all seriously expected to believe her face is as snatched as her Instagram presents?
Look at this ridiculousness. When you look at the last pic in the sets of 4, it’s just remarkable to behold how extremely she edits her face. It’s lame. It’s despicable. It’s pathetic.
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The Sunday Facial face! Geez. This doesn’t even look human! Yet people lavish her with compliments.
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Are we all seriously expected to believe her face is as snatched as her Instagram presents?
Look at this ridiculousness. When you look at the last pic in the sets of 4, it’s just remarkable to behold how extremely she edits her face. It’s lame. It’s despicable. It’s pathetic.
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The Sunday Facial face! Geez. This doesn’t even look human! Yet people lavish her with compliments.
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She’s a rotten egg.
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Alex’s usual needlessly “sensual & tantalising” lipstick application content posted today VERSUS how she looked in the NipFab Instagram live she did with Lisa Snowdon yesterday
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The blurring filters were turned up HIGH on the live yesterday. She appeared SO blurry on the live, she almost looked like a watercolour portrait.
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The blurring filters were turned up HIGH on the live yesterday. She appeared SO blurry on the live, she almost looked like a watercolour portrait.
Her forehead skin is flawless. It's like a McDonalds filet o'fish bun.Bright bright lights don’t change the shape of your facedo people actually believe her when she says she doesn’t use a filter
Theirs is absolutely nothing wrong with the way she looks filter free so I don’t know why she does it ! Even on her filter free pics she still has a forehead smoother than my 5yr old
Eat My Shorts
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How can she think this looks ok. Her face is like a crescent moon or banana!
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expatfancy
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It’s Alex 
FiltersGoneWild
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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 shit 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
" indeed
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FiltersGoneWild
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who has noticed how unnecessarily snarky Alex can be when challenged. I can understand getting tough on outrageously rude trolls but I've seen people leave what I considered to be quite reasonably civil and polite questions about her use of filters or whether her product endorsements are trustworthy and those questions or remarks always appear to be deleted a short while later after she's replied quite aggressively to the commenter. I don't think she can handle any criticism whatsoever even when it's wholly deserved. The fact she refuses to admit she uses beauty filters whilst asserting she's a high integrity beauty journalist is what turned me from being rather fond of her 10 years ago when she worked for Glamour to losing all respect for her. I am just appalled by her wilful dishonesty. I hope we follow Norway's suit and pass laws that require content creators to declare their use of beauty filters but she'd probably just continue to lie and deny anyway. As you said, she thinks her followers won't know any better and I just think she's constantly insulting our intelligence. Mind you, so many women leave "your skin is goals!" or "OMG your skin!" comments on her IG that I realise, depressingly few people can detect the use of beauty filters anymore.
I've said it before. When I saw Alex in person, I could see she does have good, healthy looking skin and what's really exceptional about her skin is the fact she barely has any hyperpigmentation. She has very even toned skin with no brown spots which is very rare in women over 40 so she deserves envy and praise for that but when everyone says "OMG your skin!", it's because they think she has the tightest, smoothest, line-free, glowy face when in reality, she's actually quite noticeably wrinkled around the eyes, mouth and neck. Her face isn't so taut and firm in real life. That is her use of flattering angles, ring lights and filters.
Anyway, below is Alex on 3rd August with the skinniest, snatched, suddenly-elongated face and then mysteriously, a round, full, much shorter looking face on 10th August. But I guess she just didn't have time to drain her lymph nodes in her face through facial massage and an Iraye cream costing £105. And look how much she blurred herself doing that interview yesterday! She never films herself with the clear, crisp video quality that Katie Jane Hughes does. It's always the strongest, squint-inducing ring light and a soft focus camera because she's so remarkably vain.
SqualorVictoria
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The 1000s of high tech facials haven't really much done her any good though. In the sense that she still filters and doctors all her photos
“Smug smize” is the perfect description for her signature poses. It’s how smug she looks that irks me because she’s smug over fake “perfection”.
The difference between her IRL Versus Instagram is ridiculous
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Alex is 44. Apparently in this photo she is ONLY wearing primer! Her lashes are tinted and her lips are naturally pink. Does she have a portrait in the attic or can we all get the same result by visiting Primark and spending an extra half hour tomorrow doing a " Sunday Facial"?
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SqualorVictoria
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I really don't get it, she's attractive in the normal photos. A slightly heavy set, tall, attractive 40 something woman. She has very good and well cared for skin. Why does she want to look like an egg with plastic skin when she looks good as she is!
FiltersGoneWild
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I used to be fond of Alex and her Instagram content but I became far less enamoured with her once I noticed her using beauty filters quite excessively; not solely because she chooses to distort the appearance of her face to appear younger and slender than she really is, but because she audaciously *denies* doing so. I attach a statement and a side-by-side, before-and-after-makeup photo Alex posted on Instagram back in 2016 that I found rather dishonest and a little insulting to my intelligence. "...because I don't blur my skin" she wrote. I can't imagine being so blatantly dishonest when the evidence is right there for everyone to see.
In my opinion - which I know nobody has asked for - it felt disingenuous that Alex would attempt to deny the habit of blurring/filtering her selfies by posting two side-by-side selfies in which her complexion has *visibly* been softly blurred. Anyone with the power of sight and reasonable intelligence is able to recognise a blurred, beauty-filtered selfie when we see one.
Content Creators Caroline Hirons, Samantha Chapman, Charlotte Palermino AND Katie Jane Hughes allow us to see their real skin texture - at least, occasionally. They'll show you their dark circles, their fine lines and hyper-pigmentation. However, the appearance of Alex's complexion and face shape are so unnaturally perfected and distorted in every single Instagram post.
Alex has every right to post digitally beautified images of herself if that's what her heart desires but what I take issue with is how she flat-out denies in absolute terms that she has done so when confronted. I can't help but marvel at the audacity of denying what is so painfully obvious. Instead, Alex insists she is just naturally blessed with great skin and that she simply takes excellent care of her complexion. Yes, Alex has exceptionally good skin. I have seen her in person on Westbourne Grove and yes, she has a blemish-free, healthy, well-hydrated complexion but she is in her 40s and her face shape is quite different to the snatched, elongated face shape we see presented in her Sunday Facial Instagram videos. (see photo attached)
Alex seems like a good-natured person on the whole and I don't think she intended to exhibit toxic practices but it seems somewhat unethical for beauty journalists; especially those who champion themselves as "being honest" to use beauty filters/retouching apps as excessively as Alex clearly does AND deny it!
You only have to search YouTube videos of Alex on other people's channels or go to Getty Images to see how drastically different she actually looks compared to the carefully curated aesthetic she presents on her own social media accounts. It is fraudulent and it's such a shame because Alex is an attractive woman without the filters. Like the rest of us, she's just not a 25 year old supermodel. Alas, this is the kind of practice social media has driven most of its users to.
I strongly suspect Alex has developed some degree of body dysmorphia which is understandable because of social media and its powerful, toxic culture of impossibly high and unrealistic beauty standards. I just wish that as a woman in her 40s who is so accomplished, and especially as a Beauty Journalist, Alex would demonstrate some transparency and recognise how it's unethical to tell your followers you have never use smoothing beauty filters when you blatantly have.
Every time a follower praises Alex's skin on a heavily filtered IG post, Alex simply accepts the compliment and alludes to the claim that she's just blessed with naturally flawless skin. And every time I've seen another follower politely confront Alex about her use of filters, moments later, the comment has been deleted no matter how respectfully it was expressed.
I'm just astonished at how wilfully dishonest Alex has been about her use of filters or retouching apps. It's akin to Kylie Jenner denying she had lip fillers.
I just wonder if the UK will follow in Norway's footsteps and impose a law which requires influencers to declare any use of beauty filters or retouching apps on social media. I imagine that will be something Alex would be quite reluctant to do.
In my opinion - which I know nobody has asked for - it felt disingenuous that Alex would attempt to deny the habit of blurring/filtering her selfies by posting two side-by-side selfies in which her complexion has *visibly* been softly blurred. Anyone with the power of sight and reasonable intelligence is able to recognise a blurred, beauty-filtered selfie when we see one.
Content Creators Caroline Hirons, Samantha Chapman, Charlotte Palermino AND Katie Jane Hughes allow us to see their real skin texture - at least, occasionally. They'll show you their dark circles, their fine lines and hyper-pigmentation. However, the appearance of Alex's complexion and face shape are so unnaturally perfected and distorted in every single Instagram post.
Alex has every right to post digitally beautified images of herself if that's what her heart desires but what I take issue with is how she flat-out denies in absolute terms that she has done so when confronted. I can't help but marvel at the audacity of denying what is so painfully obvious. Instead, Alex insists she is just naturally blessed with great skin and that she simply takes excellent care of her complexion. Yes, Alex has exceptionally good skin. I have seen her in person on Westbourne Grove and yes, she has a blemish-free, healthy, well-hydrated complexion but she is in her 40s and her face shape is quite different to the snatched, elongated face shape we see presented in her Sunday Facial Instagram videos. (see photo attached)
Alex seems like a good-natured person on the whole and I don't think she intended to exhibit toxic practices but it seems somewhat unethical for beauty journalists; especially those who champion themselves as "being honest" to use beauty filters/retouching apps as excessively as Alex clearly does AND deny it!
You only have to search YouTube videos of Alex on other people's channels or go to Getty Images to see how drastically different she actually looks compared to the carefully curated aesthetic she presents on her own social media accounts. It is fraudulent and it's such a shame because Alex is an attractive woman without the filters. Like the rest of us, she's just not a 25 year old supermodel. Alas, this is the kind of practice social media has driven most of its users to.
I strongly suspect Alex has developed some degree of body dysmorphia which is understandable because of social media and its powerful, toxic culture of impossibly high and unrealistic beauty standards. I just wish that as a woman in her 40s who is so accomplished, and especially as a Beauty Journalist, Alex would demonstrate some transparency and recognise how it's unethical to tell your followers you have never use smoothing beauty filters when you blatantly have.
Every time a follower praises Alex's skin on a heavily filtered IG post, Alex simply accepts the compliment and alludes to the claim that she's just blessed with naturally flawless skin. And every time I've seen another follower politely confront Alex about her use of filters, moments later, the comment has been deleted no matter how respectfully it was expressed.
I'm just astonished at how wilfully dishonest Alex has been about her use of filters or retouching apps. It's akin to Kylie Jenner denying she had lip fillers.
I just wonder if the UK will follow in Norway's footsteps and impose a law which requires influencers to declare any use of beauty filters or retouching apps on social media. I imagine that will be something Alex would be quite reluctant to do.
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queenamber
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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.