- Is this allowed?
Am I allowed to wear this?
I'm 27.
Is this okay?
Hey guys (laughs).
I mean, I like it.
I like it.
That's all that matters.
Is it?
I also like jello shots and I left those in my younger years
is 27, talks about younger years
Alright, let's get started.
I hope you can't hear the racket outside.
It's the only day that I can film
and today's also the day they've decided to
garden with power tools?
(cat meows) Yeah.
It is very rude.
I agree.
Tell them to stop it.
Mom's making a video.
Mom has to feed us.
Oh, look at how cute, my little bubba-duck.
(kissing sound) love you.
So, I'm excited for today's video (laughs)
which is a nice change.
I have never used Facetune before.
Never.
I've never edited my body,
I've never changed the shape or the size or the color
of my body.
What do people do on Facetune?
I have, I'll put my hands up and admit,
I have edited out the odd pimple here or there,
or like imperfection on my face
but that's about it.
The Lightroom like healing brush, the stamp tool,
the clone stamp.
That's as far as my retouching experience goes,
but I hear everywhere all the youngins
talking about Facetune.
Why is the theme of this video that I'm old?
Or I'm acting like I'm old?
I don't actually think I'm old.
I think I'm just excited.
What is this energy?
I think I'm just excited to be filming a video
that nobody's gonna be mad at, for once.
Oh, there is a sponsor though (laughs).
But we'll get to that in a minute.
I hear about Facetune, whoa
I hear about Facetune everywhere.
I think everybody hears about Facetune everywhere
but for anybody who doesn't live on social media,
unlike myself, Facetune is essentially a retouching app.
It's like Photoshop but the Instagram version.
Photoshop is for magazines.
Facetune for influencers.
Speaking of, hey follow me on Instagram.
Like I said, you'll never see me changing my body
in any way, in any of those pictures.
So if you want to follow someone on Instagram
who just looks like a regular person
and has a real human body, check it out @missfenderr.
So I thought that it would be interesting to make a video
trying Facetune.
'Cause I wanna see what she can do.
What can she do with all of this (laughs)?
Can she give me a lil' lip filler?
Can she give me a little more chest,
like any more chest would be great.
Can she remove a finger of my five-head (laughs)?
We're about to find out.
But before we jump into all that fun.
I do want to thank the sponsor of this video,
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I have worked with BetterHelp many times in the past.
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I thought that this would be a good sponsor
for today's video because as you guys know,
I've struggled with my own body image stuff.
I want to say in the past but does it ever really go away?
Not sure.
And I believe that social media and the images
that we see online have played a big role in that.
Facetune.
Facetune 2?
You have to pay for Facetune?!
I'll spend the five bucks for you guys.
Oh, excuse me $5.49.
You can thank me by subscribing
and following me on Instagram (laughs),
where I will not be posting these Facetuned images.
While that's downloading, let's take a couple selfies
because in order to Facetune an image, we need an image.
I just like do a selfie.
I never take selfies.
Michael, stop it, filming a video.
Let's do a serious one, serious and sexy.
(laughs) Do I look serious and sexy
or do I look constipated?
Mm, little of both.
Let's do this.
Let's ruin my self-esteem.
What could Facetune possibly
want to send me notifications about?
Congratulations, we found more imperfections for you to fix.
Oh, that's for cropping.
No thanks.
We don't want to change the aspect ratio.
We want to change my body.
Smooth.
Oh, whoa.
No, that looks weird, that looks weird, erase, erase.
Okay.
I'm overwhelmed.
Let's remove all pores
and signs of life from my face.
So I'm actually gonna try and do a good job.
I don't know, that looks kind of believable.
You know what?
Let's smooth my arms and my chest out too.
Am I losing my mind or does that look believable?
Oh, reshape.
Okay, here we go.
Do I click it?
No, pinch it.
(gasps) Whoa.
No I wanna zoom (screams and laughs).
No I just wanna zoom out.
This eye needs to be a little bit bigger to match th--
Oh, too big, too big.
My eyes are too big now.
Right?
Those eyes are too big.
What about my lips?
This is looking wonky though.
I'm really trying here guys.
I've never done this before.
Oh yeah, that looks good, right?
Does it?
Am I losing my mind?
Can I resize something to make it smaller,
like the entire top half of my face.
Oh, yes.
Perfect.
Done and done.
No aghh, really though, I gotta tackle this forehead.
Okay, that's smaller right?
(laughter)
Look at the bookshelf.
Just pretend that the bookshelf's not happening.
The bottom half of my face now looks way too large.
(sighs) I can see how this is a slippery slope.
Like you fix one thing and then it makes something else
look out of balance, so you fix that,
and then something else looks weird
so you change that and before you know it,
you look like a completely different person.
Oh, I don't like this.
This is like making me uncomfortable
to look at whoever this person is
because it's already not me.
Like now I'm just finding more stuff
'cause once you start, it's kinda hard to stop.
Now I feel like my nose is too big.
There.
That kinda looks like a real person.
Let's see the before and after.
This is the after.
(dismayed shriek)
After.
Before.
After.
Before.
After.
Before.
Euwww, the forehead is like, oh yeah
it would be great if my forehead looked like that,
instead of like this.
I don' like it.
I don't like that it's making me feel weird.
Do I have any like bikini pics?
Probably not. I'm trying to find a photo that I could like
edit my body in.
'Cause that's gonna be good for my mental health.
I'm gonna need more therapy after this.
Here, let's go with this one.
And I guess let's start changing my body.
Let's pull in my waist.
Let's give me some bootay.
That looks all right.
Right?
That looks like a human body that could exist.
Just pulling the waist in, the tummy in,
not because I think that this is what my body
should look like or what bodies in general should look like,
because this is what I see on social media.
How do I get rid of this wrinkle?
In the past, my brain would have said, "Oh, fat roll."
No, that's called skin Alayna, humans have it.
That could be real.
It couldn't be real
but I could see that on social media
and not think it was edited.
Should we just go all out?
Let's make my legs smaller, oh not that small.
Even though I really like my legs.
I'm scared to click the before on this one
because now I've been looking at it for so long,
that it just looks like, this is the picture.
And I feel like clicking before is
gonna be another one of those moments of like,
oh whoa, like that's what my body actually looks like.
Let's do it.
Euww.
Wow.
(tsking) Yeah that doesn't feel great.
That doesn't feel great at all.
See, and I can just imagine how addictive this would be.
If you start Facetuning one of your photos,
where you've Facetuned something on your body,
and then you post that,
it's like not only are you making yourself think that
that's how you look, you're making other people
think that that's how you look.
So then, the next photo that you post
that shows that part of your body,
you have to Facetune it.
And the next one, and the next one.
Before you know it, you don't look anything like you.
Alright, this is Dallas.
You guys know him.
He's my boyfriend.
Boyfriend (bleh)
Not anymore.
I wanna show you a photo of me
and I wanna see what you think.
- Kay. What?
- What do you think about that photo?
- Looks great.
- Okay.
- I just cracked the screen on my camera.
It's fine, it's fine. Everything's fine.
What about that photo?
- Well, they're both Photoshopped, right?
- Yeah.
- Well, I mean (laughter)
It looks (bleep) up.
- Well, this one does but the other one..
- I noticed it.
- What did you notice?
- Well, like it just doesn't look like the right proportions
and you're like, literally your whole upper body
looks smaller compared to your like jeans and everything.
- Oh, that's weird, you think my upper body looks smaller?
- Yeah.
- Like what part?
- Maybe your stomach a little bit--
- Yeah.
- But the whole thing, honestly looks shrunken.
- Well, I just wanted to see if you'd notice.
- Oh yeah, I literally didn't say anything
'cause I was like if it's not, maybe that's offensive.
(laughter)
Like it doesn't look like a normal person.
- You don't think?
- No.
- I guess maybe because I've been looking at it
for so long already.
- No like it has that very clear like (gesticulating)
- Yeah.
- That people don't really have.
You only see the people like that on Instagram,
you don't see people like that in real life.
- Right.
- There's like girls jogging in like sports bras
and stuff all the time.
Even the most-- - You looking at other girls?
- (beep) yeah (laughter).
- No but even like the most fittest..
Like literally today, there's like
this group of ladies jogging by.
- Yeah.
One of lady is like six pack chiseled.
Nobody's waist is that small.
- Yeah.
- It just doesn't..
- Yeah, unrealistic standards and expectations.
- But try to be like that please (laughter).
It's really what we want.
- You as all men?
- Me as all men.
- Love you.
- [Dallas] Love you too.
- I don't know.
I don't know I feel right now.
I feel kinda weird.
I think going into this I kind of was like
you know obviously it's your choice,
if you want to Facetune your body,
if you want to Facetune your pictures, go for it, do you.
But at the same time, the argument could be made
that you're doing damage.
You could be harming your own mental health,
your own self-image, and inadvertently harming
the self-image of the people who are consuming your content.
Where's the line?
I wanna say it's one thing to like smooth your skin
a little bit or take out a blemish here or there,
and it's another thing to like cinch your waist
and pull out your butt.
But where's the line?
Even by smoothing your skin or editing out acne,
you are telling folks who have acne
or who don't have smooth skin,
you're telling them that that's not okay.
And that that's not how a person can be beautiful.
But at the same time, I know I want the images
that I'm putting on social media to be like
my best foot forward.
I want my Instagram page to be pleasing to look at
but I also want people to come to my page
and feel good about themselves.
Even with all that being said,
don't we as consumers also have a responsibility
to manage the content that we take in?
Like we do also have the power to follow or un-follow.
To a point, we do have control over the content
that we're consuming, especially, when it comes to
something like Instagram or social media versus
more mainstream media like magazines,
or commercials, or whatever.
Even now, I'm sitting here thinking to myself,
oh maybe I should just keep Facetune on my phone,
for if I wanna smooth something out
or if I wanna fix a wrinkle here or there.
But that's a slippery slope
and after using the app twice,
half as a joke, I can already feel myself
being pulling into it.
I'm deleting it right now.
I'm deleting the app right now.
Share Facetune (laughs)
No, that's the opposite of what I'm trying to do.
Goodbye.
Social media is an interesting place.
It is a place where you can go and feel uplifted,
and inspired, and validated,
but it's also a place where you can go and feel
not good enough, and feel like you don't compare,
or you don't measure up.
And I personally, wanna be one of those places
where you can go and feel lifted up.
And so I won't be Facetuning my body any time soon
or ever, I should say ever.
But does that mean that nobody should do it?
Like who am I to sit here and say what other people
should or shouldn't do.
I think it's just important to be reminded
that a lot, like more than we think, on social media,
is manipulated in this way.
And is it possible, is it even possible,
to go on social media and consume images like this,
consume content like this, and recognize it as art,
rather than as reality.
Is that even possible?
I don't know.
What do you guys think?
That's it.
That's it for this video.
This was more of a downer than I was expecting it to be.
Thank you again to BetterHelp for sponsoring this video.
Counseling has been a huge, huge part in me improving
in terms of my relationship with my own body,
with myself in general, and I would highly recommend
everybody try it.
And if online therapy is something that interests you,
go to BetterHelp.com/Alayna, and you can sign up today.
That's it for this video.
I love you guys very much
and I will see you in the next one.
Bye.
(kissing noises)
Good girl.
You got all sorts of body girl
and you rockin' it.