I read an article recently which disturbed me about the mental health of my 15-year-old daughter. It talked about the fad of using the app Facetune to alter images of yourself to share on social media.
I knew about Photoshop, but this app is accessible to anyone and it is taking body-altering to a new level. The alterations include changing breast size, waist, length of legs, eyes, nose, cheeks, forehead, smoothing skin — just a total redo.
Supposedly, just fixing up some of your God-given flaws. The entire time I read the article, all I could think of is how this could impact my child’s mental health if she participated in it and how I needed to do something to stop this app from being used.
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