Her chin looks huge in the bronzer video.
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The industry people must laugh at her as they know how she looks in real life
She is very pretty without the filters. The candid double chin shot is unfortunate, but we all have unflattering photos/angles. She's 47. Why does she have to use the bolied egg filter? On Trinny's haircutting video a couple of years ago, she looks great without the filters.
I guess I have to take it all back, folks. It’s not filters that makes Alex look dramatically different - it’s merely a lymphatic drainage issue causing puffiness in Alex’s face that makes her look so different in various pics. Yup. Uh huh. That’s it. 
It just has to be "the elephant in the room" when the likes of Caroline Hirons, Lisa Eldridge, Estee Lalonde, Sam Chapman etc see her at various events. It's because of how she looks in person compared to her own IG pics being so astonishingly different that raises eyebrows constantly. I am constantly amazed at how she thinks she can get away with the deception and convince us all it's down to other silly reasons other than blatantly using face editing software.
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Hahaha I took the same same screenshot @FiltersGoneWild
I thought she looked good in the Trinny video. Alex has an attractive face and very pretty eyes. Great eyebrows but she seems to need us all to believe she looks 30 years old with a skinny, gaunt face and zero fine lines. Alex is attractive but I feel like she's desperate to pass herself off as waaay hotter than she actually is in real life. When I first saw her in person in West London, I really was
- my inner monologue was screaming, "OMG! She is such a catfish!!!" I felt like it was a different person, even though I recognised who she was. It's a very strange feeling seeing what Alex *really* looks like for the first time. It's a bit disconcerting.Her utter arrogance in insisting she doesn't filter is such a turn off for her followers, especially because her bread and butter is make up and beauty products. if she was pimping furniture to the masses, I doubt anyone would notice her weird cheek sucking in thing. She must think we're all idiots to buy this tit she's giving off daily.
She's a fraud, and haughtily aggressive when challenged (from my experience). Don't ask her about declaring gifts/ads etc. She'll take your face off.
She's a fraud, and haughtily aggressive when challenged (from my experience). Don't ask her about declaring gifts/ads etc. She'll take your face off.
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.
And it continues. The daily deceit will never stop <sigh>
And the way she looks at herself oh-so dreamily in the camera when it’s all just a product of Facetuning, smoothing filters and extremely bright lighting.
And the way she looks at herself oh-so dreamily in the camera when it’s all just a product of Facetuning, smoothing filters and extremely bright lighting.
Using such extreme filters is not only dishonest and desperate but makes her perfectly lovely face look unnecessarily big and bloated, in comparison. Doing herself no favours in any way.And it continues. The daily deceit will never stop <sigh>
And the way she looks at herself oh-so dreamily in the camera when it’s all just a product of Facetuning, smoothing filters and extremely bright lighting.
Excellent point. She has shot herself in the foot. Genuinely, I think Alex has always had an attractive face with pretty brows and eyes BUT because I've seen her face so heavily digitally altered and perfected so many times to look significantly younger, skinnier and kinda feline, delicate and doe-eyed, when you do find true-to-life images of her in tagged photos and YouTube videos, you do find yourself thinking, oh,
she looks kinda bloated/rough/a bit haggard and surprisingly heavyset and stout because you're comparing her real appearance to that hyper-perfected aesthetic she has so carefully crafted on her own Instagram account.But the reason I have become pathetically fixated on berating her on here is her barefaced denials on Instagram. And she'll drop these denials in passing a fair bit which I find f*cking weird,
"I don't even use filters!"
"I am not using any filters right now, in case anyone is thinking that .." during her 'Ask Alex' IG stories in which she blurs her skin the most!
"It's such a shame that people accuse me of faking it just because so many other people are ..."
... when she is blatantly faking it all the time. Several people on line have called her 'the queen of the IG filter' and I've seen comments about how people think she makes herself look like an alien with all the Facetuning and I've seen commenters calling her a "catfish" and yet she will look into the camera with a straight face and protest that it's all false, unfair accusations and that she NEVER edits her face. And she's deluded and arrogant enough to add, "Just ask anyone who has met me. They'll tell you I really do look like this. I'm just genetically very lucky!" Bish, please. Come on, now.
No evidence of Alex's catfishing is more damning than going to YouTube and searching 'Alex/Alessandra Steinherr'. It's just not the same woman we see on Instagram. IG Alex is 28-30 years old, a size 10/12 and has a snatched, elongated face with NO pores and sharp cheekbones. YouTube Alex is a beefy, frumpily-dressed gal with good skin, good make up but a very round, full face and usually, a double chin. The evidence is right at our fingertips.
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I remember years ago when Alex was the beauty director of Cosmopolitan and was interviewed on tv, she was around a size 18 with a stunning face. She moved to Glamour and did a monthly column where she lost weight.
Alex documenting her weight loss journey in either Cosmo or Glamour magazine was how I first discovered her more than 10 years ago - around 12 years, I think and I recall thinking she had a very pretty face and I was impressed with her 'before and after' photo because she dropped over 2 stone in weight, I think and she looked great showing off her post-weight loss body. She was very attractive but with age, as she entered her 40s (still no idea how old she is exactly because she never seems to mention her age the way Samantha Chapman and Caroline Hirons mention their ages openly) she has grown more matronly and stopped wearing dresses and skirts and started wearing oversized masculine suits, and oversized cardigans - her clothes definitely got way more frumpy - and then the weird FaceTuning and filtering begun and I wonder if she was trying to over-compensate for her weight gain.
Remember when she got quite skinny a few years ago? Surprisingly skinny for Alex but sadly, I think she mentioned she'd had some health issues which caused the weight loss so I do hope she's back in good health. As annoying as her facetuning and lying about it is, I don't wish the woman any harm. Anyway, I noticed that even when she was the slimmest I've ever seen her, her face is still quite round. Her chin/jawline area is just naturally heavy and she does not have the heart-shaped face she presents on IG. That super narrow, sharp, pointy chin we see in her close-up, "sensually applying skin cream in a shaft of bright sunlight" videos is not what she has in "real life".
When she first got on Instagram, I was genuinely fond of her influencer persona but I am really turned off by wilfully dishonest people. If she just refused to talk about whether she uses filters, that is far more acceptable to me - because, really, it's none of my business. But when she takes to Instagram, expressing her frustration with what she impertinently called "blame culture", I was annoyed. She talks about people who accuse her of using beauty filters as if they're assholes who are merely jealous of her beautiful skin and refuse to believe such perfection exists.
Alex seemed cool once upon a time but over the past decade, her insecurities and vanity have made her either an intentional liar or someone who has cognitive dissonance.
I'd love to see her just come clean one day about her use of filters and why she chose to deny it for so long as she promoted hundreds of luxury skincare products to her followers; few of which cost under £100 per product.
Shes closwr to 50 than 40 I think. Its like she wants to show people shes 26. Her filters are too much
She's 47. In the Daily Mail article I linked above from 2010 she said she was 35.
On a podcast a couple of years ago she said that when she moved to Glamour magazine, Jo Elvin, the editor, asked her to do the weight loss series. She wasn't happy about it and felt very self conscious, but lost over 3 stone.
I don’t know why, but I’ve never taken to Jo Elvin. I get the impression that she’s ruthless/ success at any cost
47. Poses like a teenage twit. Blurred and filtered to duck.
Like, seriously … why? What part of her narcissistic brain told her “You should caress your face sensually in every Sunday Facial video and look like you’re being pleasured! People definitely want to see this!”
Shameless.
What about, “and I beauty filters in every IG post …”
Like, seriously … why? What part of her narcissistic brain told her “You should caress your face sensually in every Sunday Facial video and look like you’re being pleasured! People definitely want to see this!”
Shameless.
What about, “and I beauty filters in every IG post …”
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It's time for a content creation consultation with real experts because WTF is this?
These pics are far more accurate representations of what Alex looks like in person, although the second pic down has smoothed out and blurred her skin. Alex is genuinely attractive in all these photos. That's the sad and maddening thing. She looks fine! As much as I love beauty and skincare, social media/influencer culture has created mass-body dysmorphia. We thought the introduction of beauty filters were so fun but it has really messed up how we look at ourselves. Alex clearly just can't bear to see herself as she really is. She feels compelled to alter her face shape and blur her skin at every given opportunity. Her chin and jaw line are a different length and shape in every IG post depending on how she's chosen to use her face editing apps that day. I really do wonder if she's gone into complete self-denial mode about her dishonest use of beauty filters or if she knows full well she's being sneaky and deceitful but just thinks, my haters can't prove a bleeping thing so Imma just continue altering my face as I please and telling everyone it's just good genetics.
This professional headshot for a Glossary magazine feature that was posted late 2021 looks professionally retouched to beautify and youthen Alex's face. This just isn't how she looked in late 2021. I cannot think of anyone else aside from Khloe Kardashian and Kylie Jenner that I know of who goes to these remarkable lengths to present a hugely enhanced version of themselves. I know magazines and advertising campaigns airbrush and retouch everyone but I feel Alex takes it so much further than just removing blemishes and blurring out a few wrinkles.
I've said it before but my gosh, I'd be so embarrassed of what people would say when they see me up close in person. I don't understand the mentality of people who drastically use apps to alter their physical appearance knowing it's bound to raise eyebrows amongst everyone who gets to see you in person. I just think, OMG do you really think you're fooling everyone? How dumb and blind do you think your followers are?
If I'm not authentically as physically attractive as I wish I was, I just have to accept that I'm not and never will be 1990s Christy Turlington and just choose to be the very best version of myself. NOT choose this creepy-ass practice of creating a much sexier, younger-looking avatar of myself online and trying to pass it off as genuine and making snide comments about anyone who dares to notice and call out my intentional deceit.
These pics are far more accurate representations of what Alex looks like in person, although the second pic down has smoothed out and blurred her skin. Alex is genuinely attractive in all these photos. That's the sad and maddening thing. She looks fine! As much as I love beauty and skincare, social media/influencer culture has created mass-body dysmorphia. We thought the introduction of beauty filters were so fun but it has really messed up how we look at ourselves. Alex clearly just can't bear to see herself as she really is. She feels compelled to alter her face shape and blur her skin at every given opportunity. Her chin and jaw line are a different length and shape in every IG post depending on how she's chosen to use her face editing apps that day. I really do wonder if she's gone into complete self-denial mode about her dishonest use of beauty filters or if she knows full well she's being sneaky and deceitful but just thinks, my haters can't prove a bleeping thing so Imma just continue altering my face as I please and telling everyone it's just good genetics.
This professional headshot for a Glossary magazine feature that was posted late 2021 looks professionally retouched to beautify and youthen Alex's face. This just isn't how she looked in late 2021. I cannot think of anyone else aside from Khloe Kardashian and Kylie Jenner that I know of who goes to these remarkable lengths to present a hugely enhanced version of themselves. I know magazines and advertising campaigns airbrush and retouch everyone but I feel Alex takes it so much further than just removing blemishes and blurring out a few wrinkles.
I've said it before but my gosh, I'd be so embarrassed of what people would say when they see me up close in person. I don't understand the mentality of people who drastically use apps to alter their physical appearance knowing it's bound to raise eyebrows amongst everyone who gets to see you in person. I just think, OMG do you really think you're fooling everyone? How dumb and blind do you think your followers are?
If I'm not authentically as physically attractive as I wish I was, I just have to accept that I'm not and never will be 1990s Christy Turlington and just choose to be the very best version of myself. NOT choose this creepy-ass practice of creating a much sexier, younger-looking avatar of myself online and trying to pass it off as genuine and making snide comments about anyone who dares to notice and call out my intentional deceit.
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I know people who have worked with her who said she is awful.
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