The way she sticks her chin out and appears to film from her chin upwards just makes me think of Bruce Forsyth, and now I think that I just can’t unsee it. Even though she constantly denies using filters do people really believe her skin is that smooth glowy and perfect? She looks like a dolphin.
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The dolphin comparison. Why didn't I think of this?! Yes. No human woman - especially a 47, soon-to-be 48-year-old woman - has smooth and waxy skin like dolphin skin. I have two good friends in my life who have always had incredibly beautiful, flawless skin. It's sickening and I envy the
tit out of them. It's the one thing people always point it when they meet these two friends of mine. They are genetically blessed with amazing skin - they never suffered from any acne or hyperpigmentation and even in their 40s now, they have such beautiful skin but even I know their skin which is so flawless in "real life" does not look like Alex's selfies where she just has that plastic/dolphin-like skin.
Especially after seeing her in person, I knew she was hyper-perfecting the appearance of her skin.
Annoyingly, it sure seems like many people on Instagram and TikTok think her skin is really that remarkably flawless and youthful. I can see women complimenting her with such envy. "OMG your skin is perfect!" to which Alex always replies, "Thanks! Want me to film a tutorial?!"
Alex has great skin in person but I think she's receiving more compliments than other people of similar age with equally good skin because she retouches her face to conceal the skin laxity and fine lines that come with entering middle age and in real life, she is quite noticeably wrinkled around the eyes and on the sides of her mouth. All of this is blurred and smoothed out with apps and filters.
Everyone is so youth-obsessed, they're not complimenting women for having healthy skin at any age. What attracts the most compliments on social media is having a tight, poreless, wrinkle-free, snatched face i.e. a remarkably youthful-looking complexion.
Reposted from a (seemingly candid and unfiltered) selfie by a friend, in the wild. As we have all been saying: she is a great looking woman. Amazing skin. But why does she pretend to be 3 stone lighter, have a model like chiselled jaw and be twenty years younger than she is with her disingenuous filtering?! I'm 35 with good skin (I'm told) and I don't bloody look like her Sunday Facial pics
(and I have weight to lose so I would never have a defined jawline in an unedited picture currently, but the point stands....I don't pretend that I do!!!)
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I saw that photo that Alex shared from Emma Guns' IG stories and thought it was a great pic of Alex but Alex is definitely fighting for her life every day to appear twenty years younger than her 47 years. I'd love to be twenty years younger myself but it's so cringy when you filter the crap out of your face and start to look like an avatar.
I have this gay friend who filters the crap out of his face AND body for his social media to the point where it looks freaky and just downright ridiculous. It's slightly more extreme than Alex's filter use and I wish he'd cut it out because it's bloody embarrassing. I mention he's gay because I know there's extra pressure in the gay community to stay young. He's always telling me "30 is 70 in gay years!" He's in his 50s and yet he's trying to pass himself off as 25. I really do regard this to be a symptom of body dysmorphia. His selfies on social media make me cringe so hard. He has cranked up those beauty filters so excessively and it looks CRAZY. I just think that's where Alex is headed.
But yes, an excellent point. You don't pretend to have an ultra-defined jawline and Alex is hell-bent on convincing her followers she's a size 12 who just turned 31.