Someone needs to start a tiktok exposing her bullshit
I've fantasised about creating a TikTok account exposing her dishonest use of filters but
a) I don't have the technical skills or patience to do it well or at least, it would take me bloody ages to figure out editing, sound etc
b) I pathetically wonder if she will use her connections to uncover my true identity and sue me for slander.
I don't know what the possible legal implications are or what the potential backlash could be. Seriously, you just never know the consequences or how people will react. They may be all "Leave her alone! Why do you even care? Just scroll on if you don't like her videos!" which is a valid point, I suppose.
c) I feel I have created enough bad karma as it is for myself from posting about Alex the way I do on Tattle and starting a TikTok account devoted to "bringing her down" will just make me uneasy that I may attract excessive levels of bad, negative energy into my life. It's bad enough I'm here, shaming her but it's such a strong compulsion because I just find her persistent denial of using beauty filters so outrageously cheeky and unethical and just not cool.
When I see her getting paid to promote skincare and lapping up praise for her "amazing skin" and how young she looks, it just feels annoying AF and I come to Tattle as an emotional outlet for how Alex's extreme catfishing irks me. It's like Tattle is a support group for people who find her dishonest practices maddening but have no one else to talk to about it.
d) She appears to have very loyal followers and industry colleagues who are determined to praise her/her "perfect skin" no matter what and they'll probably trash me and accuse me of being jealous. Alex is very friendly with Nikki Wolff, Hung Vanggo, Patrick Ta, Lisa Eldridge and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and I think they'd defend her rather fiercely.
Fun fact. I actually love Hung Vanggo's make-up skills but I notice he's just as bad as Alex, using extreme retouching on his celebrity clients' images. He has filtered, retouched and altered facial features so heavily, the likes of Selena Gomez or Rose Byrne don't even look like themselves so one day, more than five years ago, I left a comment saying, "Hung, I think you're very talented and I love the makeup you do but I think you use beauty filters too heavily sometimes and I can't see any natural human skin texture at all." He BLOCKED ME! He and Alex are very friendly and I guess they are all about beauty filters. I guess the beauty industry is just based on presenting unrealistic beauty standards no matter what. It feels like everyone has body dysmorphia to some degree.
But yeah, can't deny I'd gain some satisfaction from Alex being publicly called out for her catfishing.
I'd love to see someone confront her in front of a crowd at one of her public appearances for brand promotions at Harrods or Selfridges. Just for someone with the balls I don't have, to stand up and say,
"I need to address the elephant in the room ...." hold up an iPad showing her heavily beauty-filtered images and videos and continue
, "What I see standing before me right now just isn't the same woman shown in these images taken from your Instagram account. It is clear to me you have edited your face so drastically to appear slimmer and younger - you've even changed your face shape drastically and yet you have taken to Instagram a few times to deny that you retouch your images. Once and for all, will you admit, Ms Steinherr, that you retouch your images quite heavily?" Man, wouldn't you just LOVE to see how Alex would react and attempt to defend herself when cornered like that? To walk up to her and hold up one of her heavily retouched Instagram photos on an iPad and hold it right next to her face for the live audience to see and say
"See, everyone?! How is this the same woman?!"
Mind you, if Alex suddenly burst into tears and ran off crying, I'd probably feel awful about it.
Alex has doubled down on this issue so often on social media even when there is overwhelming evidence against her so I wonder if she'd still continue to double down in a public discussion? I seriously think she might still stick to her guns and cry out, "I NEVER use filters or edit my face! I'm just retaining a lot of water in my lower face today and the lighting in here is very harsh!"
Anyway, that's enough WattPad / fan fiction writing from me for now.
My face was holding up quite nicely until last year. Last year at 44-going on-45 is when I started to notice laxity in my skin and my eyelids are beginning to sag a little although, if I get a really good night's sleep, it's not so bad. I'm still comfortable with my physical appearance right now. Let's see what I say at 50! 
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