With the sudden surge of internet bloggers peppering the world-wide-web with a vast array of fashion, lifestyle and beauty musings, it is somewhat hard for the modern reader to retain perspective.
Ten years ago, as a teenage girl, fashion magazines showed me a glossy, glamorous and seemingly unattainable life, experienced only by those select few beautiful women who graced the pages. Today we see millions of personal fashion blogs online, allowing any woman to showcase this lifestyle to all and sundry should she choose to.
Whilst I retain that blogging is a fantastic form of communication, expression, and, lets face it, advertising...My concerns lie in the warped perspective that impressionable young women and children are taking from the vastly 'photo-shopped' and two dimensional world of the online style blog.
Behind the circus of social media lies an under-documented normality. Despite the common personal blog advertising a 'behind the scenes' pass into the authors life, very few document more than the glossy exterior. Of course, I do not tar all blogs with this brush in the slightest, there are those who give no holds barred access and for this, I salute them.
It is all to easy to feel inadequate whilst trawling through blogs and Instagram accounts littered with near-constant travel photos, airbrushed makeup shots, designer outfit posts and event attendances aplenty. Ultimately what I hope you can take from this is to keep in mind that chances are, despite the forced perspective of this persons life available online, it is, essentially, an airbrushed view of simply the highlights.
The girl sat in sweatpants, nursing a cold and devoid of all makeup - Emma-Louise
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