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
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yessenia_d
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The filters have made her look like a Pre-Raphaelite painting of a milk-fed maiden. All she needs is a meadow to frolic in or a garden to waft around.
Latest Getty Images. She looks good. I doubt she’d want us to see the true dimensions of her real chin/jaw and her ageing neck but I sincerely think looks good. Especially for 49. She’s pretty.
But yeah, once again we see how much she reshapes her lower face with apps and filters and she smooths the fuck out of her skin.
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I actually hate it when hair salons style her hair like this with the curtain effect trying to conceal her forehead and the facial expression where she’s blatantly sucking in her cheeks is soooo ridiculous
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Alex tries so hard to present herself as an exceptionally beautiful, sexy, glamour puss but she’s just not. I’ve seen her in real life, I’ve seen videos of her at public functions and in real life, she comes off so awkward, dowdy, frumpy and self-conscious.
Her social media persona is a big fat lie.
But yeah, once again we see how much she reshapes her lower face with apps and filters and she smooths the fuck out of her skin.
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I actually hate it when hair salons style her hair like this with the curtain effect trying to conceal her forehead and the facial expression where she’s blatantly sucking in her cheeks is soooo ridiculous
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Alex tries so hard to present herself as an exceptionally beautiful, sexy, glamour puss but she’s just not. I’ve seen her in real life, I’ve seen videos of her at public functions and in real life, she comes off so awkward, dowdy, frumpy and self-conscious.
Her social media persona is a big fat lie.
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it’s not been changed?!
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That’s not what you look like, Alex
“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.
Wifo1976
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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??
SqualorVictoria
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What's baffling is that she thinks she looks good in these photos. She would be so much better without the ridiculous filtering and facetuning and smug smize. She looks like a Guy Fawkes mask in the first photo
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SqualorVictoria
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What a ridiculous woman. A faker and a fraud
annabelle_bronstein
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I had the pleasure of working alongside her many years ago - when she was a ‘plus size model’ Truly one of the most unpleasant people I’ve ever encountered
AllAboutTheMayhem
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Thing is, even if a woman of her age has the most amazing skin in the world, it still has texture. Funnily enough just like it does when we see a picture of her in the wild.
Influencers seem to have positioned themselves so that anyone who questions them is a bully or a troll and they cannot be expected to be accountable for their relentless lies particularly when using extreme filtering when advertising beauty / skincare products!
I have no idea why it’s okay. Probably because they’re all at it. And the beauty / skincare companies are fundamentally about making money so do they care if an influencer lies?
What happen to that Sasha woman who did “filter drop” or whatever it was?
Influencers seem to have positioned themselves so that anyone who questions them is a bully or a troll and they cannot be expected to be accountable for their relentless lies particularly when using extreme filtering when advertising beauty / skincare products!
I have no idea why it’s okay. Probably because they’re all at it. And the beauty / skincare companies are fundamentally about making money so do they care if an influencer lies?
What happen to that Sasha woman who did “filter drop” or whatever it was?
Hasanah123
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Why are ppl in the industry so scared to call her out when they would have been calling others out already?!?!
FiltersGoneWild
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I don’t know why she uses filters. This pic is from someone else’s account at today’s NipFab PR lunch and it seems the lady who took this pic didn’t apply a strong beauty filter and we can see Alex’s skin looks good without strong blurring/smoothing filters. She genuinely has good skin and I prefer photos of this quality.
Alex’s selfie on the way to the event is of course more filtered.
How did this gentleman eat the free PR lunch with those nails?
Alex’s selfie on the way to the event is of course more filtered.
How did this gentleman eat the free PR lunch with those nails?
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MakkaPakka
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The woman on the left looks more like her insta version than she does irl.
Alex is a shameless liar.
The ridiculously filtered/edited images on her IG continue today
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The truly remarkable facial shape shifting powers of Alex’s lower face.
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Callan
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She's hunching to be smaller, I used to do that wen I was 12 and was a head taller than all my classmates, I wanted to disappear as I felt like a weirdo (plus I just came to America from Poland and I have a long ass weird name lol, wasn't easy)... she's so confident when she's faking her videos looking like a conehead but in person she like bites her lip, hunches and tries to vanish into her way oversized clothes.