Scrolling through the gram, totally candid, just me scrolling through the gram.
Aw look at that hedgehog’s teefs. Aw and a cow biting someone’s arm! Omnomnom.
Oh god! Why am I being recommended feet?
Oh my god. Are those? NO. No, they can't be! Are those...s*x doll feet?
No! I hate it. Stop! Please, stop! Lord have mercy. I wish I could unsee things.
🎶 hello darkness my old friend🎶
Instagram.
It’s in my experience actually one of the less toxic social media platforms.
I’ve made friends through it - ok fine I admit is: SIGGY has.
It’s a great place to find talented artists and creatives,
cute animals and beauty and fashion inspiration. There are some phenomenally talented makeup
artists that create looks I could never even dream of making. But rather than the
inspiring, or informative or aesthetically pleasing side of beauty instagram - I
want to talk about the more...weird side. Dare I say...a little creepy?
Most of my explore page suggests goat & pig accounts but also some beauty pages.
Some that look really cool. And some that make me go “thanks, I hate it”. Like *** doll feet.
You know, I could have gone through my whole life without ever seeing *** doll feet, and I
would have been perfectly fine with that. Not to kink-shame, if you’re into feet, or *** dolls-
but both feet & *** dolls creep me out - so the two combined - make me feel some kind of way.
Very creeped out. A bit violated. I wanted to wipe my memories after I saw that.
As I mentioned earlier: you do come across some helpful beauty tips on the gram.
And some. That. aren’t. At all helpful.
Vanish open pores in 3 days. Mix 2 tablespoon of yogurt with half tablespoon of chickpea flour
and 1/4th tablespoon of rose water . Apply It on face let it sit for 20 minutes then wash it off.
And the top comment is: “nothing happens”.
I think you set yourself up to fail beauty expert. “3 days” might have been a stretch. You
should have said 6 months. By the time that comes round, people would have forgetten about the post.
Oh and this page is very sweet. They recently made this post.
That’s nice. I actually lost someone to covid, so I really appreciate that.
Don't skip this post without leaving a heart!
Oh! Weird request when you’re referring to a global tragedy but ok.
Follow 👉🏽 @beauty.expertt 👈🏽 for more amazing beauty, health and fitness tips.
Uhhhhhhhh. You know. Here’s a beauty tip from aunt Tara Mooknee: maybe don’t use a global
pandemic to drive engagement to your instagram posts? Maybe that’s an ugly thing to do?
Oh and this page also recommends skin whitening
cream. I don’t need to tell you why that’s fucked up.
Moving on, this is the post that inspired me to make this video.
You might be thinking: “that seems rather innocuous”.
And...exactly! What was the point in this?
Also, are these “glow ups” or just people with and without makeup?
And that leads me into the bizarre genre of beauty pages on instagram:
where they obsessively speculate about what procedures celebrities have had done.
And I would like to add that it would be nice to have more transparency from
celebrities about what work they've had done, they don’t necessarily owe it to us,
but it would help with making young people, feel less inadequate. Especially young women.
Your body, your choice - but I do think it’s important to remind people that celebrities are
people, just like us, and have flaws, but they just happen to have the money to “fix” them or
have their hair & makeup done professionally and personal trainers and yaddy yaddy ya da.
What I don’t like are “call out” pages. There are posts that “call out” people like Kylie Jenner,
thinking they’re helping the situation, but are actually just
further exacerbating harsh beauty standards. So for instance, this post:
You hear that, Riverdale?
Those comments said it better than I could. The person who made this might think they are helping
but actually they’re just reinforcing the status quo
and shaming teenage girls. Or shaming puberty in general.
This page _celebrities_before_after_ describes itself as: Celebrity plastic surgeries and
other procedures. I'm not hating on anyone, everyone is beautiful in their own way.❤️
Let’s see some of their stuff.
Anna Kendrick as a child vs Anna Kendrick as an adult.
The comments are…
I don’t know for a fact, but to me it just looks like she’s aged.
It’s extremely common to lose weight in your face as you age, especially in your twenties,
but on the flipside, if you gain weight on your face - that’s also normal and fine and oh my god
can we just accept that people’s faces just change when they age??!! Stop speculating and
judging what ages they looked best. It’s so weird. Find a hobby. Take piano lessons or something.
And they responded to the criticism with this post:
Ok, so if people look at someone like Kylie Jenner and say “it’s just puberty” - then
fine - I see your point. But you’re also posting shit like this where:
They're the same picture.
Has it ever occurred to you that in order to make it in Hollywood you need to be
considered beautiful in the first place? I mean, that’s literally pretty privilege in action.
Ooh! This shit just rubs me the wrong way.
I honestly think that policing how women have augmented themselves
contributes to them being less transparent about it. Just don’t think it’s helping things.
I'd also like to add that yes, I acknowledge that these people are very well-off and they're
very privileged so I think that the people making these posts might feel like they're punching up
and I guess in a way they are. However, I'd like to add that that the ubiquitousness of cosmetic
procedures and surgery in the entertainment industry aren't coming from nowhere. If you're
a woman working in Hollywood you know full well that there's an expiration date on your career.
So one example that springs to mind is when Maggie Gyllenhaal aged 37 was considered "too
old" to play a love interest opposite a 55 year old man. And that's just one example.
This industry demands women not to age. And it's all well and good to be like "well just
age gracefully" but not everyone has those genetics. And not everyone's had an easy life.
If you're someone who's been through a lot of stress, illness or just lived in a very deprived,
polluted area you might not age as well as your counterparts.
So to be critical of women in the entertainment industry whether that be film, tv, music for
getting cosmetic procedures and not wanting to reveal it because of the stigma around it;
I think we're misplacing our anger. I think it's a symptom of a much bigger issue.
And even if I think that this is something that exists in general society - it is SO much more
severe in this industry specifically. People don't just get plastic surgery because they're rich,
if that was the case, you'd see women like Melinda Gates getting plastic surgery.
But she's not in that industry so she doesn't have that same amount of pressure.
So I think that when we talk about stuff like this we should just take those things
into account and maybe just not be such dicks about it. That's just me though.
And then we have this:
I love it when commenters tell them wussup. They were not playing.
Now this page creeps me out because for some reason the photos are so
zoomed in and it’s rather uncanny.
And I love seeing the transformation of Liam Hemsworth,
where he looks this way, then he looks that way. Damn, money really buys you everything.
And not only do they compare people to themselves, but sometimes they compare people to other people.
Aww, man. Leave him out. Not everyone is going to grow into a dilf.
So on one end of the spectrum, we’ve got pages that are very anti airbrushing,
surgery and filtering etc - but then on the other end - we’ve got pages that take photos
of people who are already exceptionally good looking and airbrush the shit
out of them. To the extent that it just looks silly.
So these look nothing like who they're supposed to be.
This one's my favourite.
They’re praising Julia Roberts for showing her armpit hair, which at the time, was a brave thing
to do, and still is I would argue because female body hair for some reason is still such a taboo.
But the irony in praising her for that, whilst airbrushing her is just chef's kiss.
I'm here live. I'm not a cat.
I can, I can see that.
And I wanted to add a serious piece of advice. As useful as social media can be
for getting beauty tips and advice, make sure to do your research.
I found this post where someone
waxed the inside of their nostrils. And it was shared by a big page.
Damn. The beauty standards are so harsh that even body hair that can’t be seen must still be purged.
But yeah, for the love of dog, please don’t do this. The hairs in the nose protect you from
infection and they are there for a reason. If I saw this when I was a tween, I probably would
have done this. It’s actually really bad. And potentially dangerous, and definitely stupid.
To end on a positive note, lemme show you some beauty-related instagrams that I do
enjoy. I stumbled across this lovely account:
theblemishqueen run by Nicole who talks about her journey with acne and mental illness.
Another page I like that has some
incredible makeup looks is beautybybb_. Look at these pepper eyebrows! Hot stuff, baby! J’adore.
That’ll be all for today. Remember to take regular breaks from social media because
it’s really easy to let this stuff get to your head, no matter how confident you are.
Look in the mirror every morning and say “damn, I’m a dilf.” Works for me anyway.
Have a good day. Dog bless. And I will see you
in the next one. Buh bye! Buh bye now! Buh bye! Buh bye now! Buh bye!
Hello. You might have noticed that for this video I didn't do a subscription pet shoutout.
And the reason for this is that I wanted to focus on something else this week and that is
what's been going on in India. As I'm sure you've seen the situation there is incredibly severe.
And yeah it's absolutely heartbreaking to see.
In light of that I wanted to just share some resources and share some charities. If you happen
to have any change to spare please donate. That being said, I really don't want this to be taken
as a guilt trip because I understand that a lot of you aren't in a position to do that. If you can't
just make sure to read the resources, share them, make sure you stay informed and,
and make sure that you are staying sensible during the covid situation. Even if in your country
restrictions have lifted just bear in mind that the situation is still going on for
you know many parts of the world so you know and how we behave in our own home countries
does have a knock-on effect to the rest of the world. So you know just be sensible,
keep being hygienic, you know, just don't be silly basically is what I'm saying.
But yeah I just wanted to use this as an opportunity to mention that and and
of course if you yourself are from India, you live there, you've got loved ones there - I am
sending you my love, I know that means absolutely nothing but um, yeah, I just
want to send you the biggest hug I'm so sorry that this is happening to you.
And of course I want to send my love to everyone in Colombia. It just seems as if
bad stuff keeps happening. It's constantly happening so
if you are there I hope you and your loved ones are safe and I am also sending you my love.
But the Subscription pet shoutouts will be back in the next video
and yeah that's everything. Thank you so much for watching,
lots of love, I hope you and your loved ones are all safe. And have a good day or night.
Say "bye bye!" Say "byeee!" Say "bye bye" Siggy! Say "buh bye!"