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
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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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annabelle_bronstein
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We have been discussing on the Lorna luxe thread. This was my experiencePlease spill the tea!
She was a triumph of confidence over talent - she was much bigger back then and used to literally throw her weight around. She had this weird mantra/obsession that she would be editor of Vogue by the age of 30
My card was marked when my bf at the time sent me flowers to the office which she clocked and started huffing and puffing that PRs should be sending her bouquets of the same calibre. She basically made her way through life by shouting over people. Just the polar opposite of the type of girl I’d want to be mates with..
The lighting huh? 
She’s actually starting to look like a non-blue Na’vi chick.
Oh I know I do go on but I just can’t get over how shamelessly deceitful she is about her true physical appearance. If I FaceApp’d & beauty filtered to the extremes she did, my friends and family will tease me mercilessly and my brother would be savagely honest about it “Dude! You don’t look like that! WTF?!” and demand I quit being weird.
I don’t know how she has the audacity to show up to live beauty promotional events to be honest. I can only assume she actually believes everyone is too stupid to notice how her face has a completely different shape in person OR ‘no one can prove a damn thing!”
Think she’s hosting another live event very soon. I’m so tempted at times to go along for a gander but I just refuse to pay any money for the event tickets just to see her show up in ridiculously oversized coats and quarterback sized shoulder pads.
Oh I know I do go on but I just can’t get over how shamelessly deceitful she is about her true physical appearance. If I FaceApp’d & beauty filtered to the extremes she did, my friends and family will tease me mercilessly and my brother would be savagely honest about it “Dude! You don’t look like that! WTF?!” and demand I quit being weird.
I don’t know how she has the audacity to show up to live beauty promotional events to be honest. I can only assume she actually believes everyone is too stupid to notice how her face has a completely different shape in person OR ‘no one can prove a damn thing!”
Think she’s hosting another live event very soon. I’m so tempted at times to go along for a gander but I just refuse to pay any money for the event tickets just to see her show up in ridiculously oversized coats and quarterback sized shoulder pads.
Freddie_fanz
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She uses filters on all of her photos but doesn’t make it clear..... 
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.
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
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fakesheikh
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I don’t understand why she does that silly face. She’s not a gamine supermodel. She’s an attractive woman in her 40s AND THAT IS OKAY?!
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.
So many brands hire Alex that it’s abundantly clear to me they don’t care that she presents a CGI face.
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Her forehead & hairline just look peculiarly wig-like. I can’t believe how egg-like her face is in her Instagram content.
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Alex’s forehead would’ve been such a hit in different time period.
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