Lost in Laundry

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Are you on Instagram? It's a fun photo editing app that also has a social element. You can follow your friends' photo streams, leave comments, etc.

I think I've realized it's appeal: The filters are so darn forgiving. Slap a filter on a photo...it instantly evens up skin tone, fine lines and wrinkles are softened, and BAM!!!! Just like that, I look like I do in my mind instead of what I look like in real life. Well done Instagram. Well done.

Before and after.

Who else suffers from looking so much better in a dimly lit mirror and in your mind's eye than you look on camera? I was talking to a friend about this, and she admitted that in her mind she has perfect posture and never has a tummy pooch. Just how how looks when she stands up straight and sucks in her tummy in front of the mirror!

I like my mind's reality. I choose to live there, and avoid cameras and unfiltered photos that drag me back to the truth....

permalink | posted by Starr at 3:56 PM

3 Comments:

The Bossios had this to say:: I will require photos with filters from now on! You are beautiful anyway, but the filter one looks modelesk.; September 29, 2011 at 10:38 AM
valerie in TX had this to say:: I love your beautiful long hair!; October 6, 2011 at 11:11 PM
Greg or Cheri had this to say:: Thank you for being brave enough to post the before as well, I am finding that highly interesting. Maybe I can view magazine/tv pictures in a different 'light' now.; October 17, 2011 at 1:15 PM