on instagram beauty culture: if you’re a teenager or even just in your early-mid twenties and all you see on instagram is an exaggerated hourglass figure, an assortment of waist trainers, supplements and skinny teas- I’m pleading with you- don’t buy into it. There is so much that goes into these pictures, from 3-5 different editing apps on par with photoshop, actual photoshop!! by professionals!!, and a most of the time- cosmetic surgery. Most of the girls do not just naturally have the body they are using to sell products, girls selling skinny teas are usually naturally skinny, girls who have the absolute perfect proportions usually spend a decent amount of time editing and modifying them on multiple apps, you are not an anomaly! Your body is not disproportionate or ugly or anything remotely close just because it doesn’t look like theirs! Your body isn’t wrong or too thin or too fat or too wobbly or bony, you are fine I promise you, there are things to worry about and your body should not be the main thing that is stressing you out. Trust me, you’re okay. If you’re healthy, if your body is doing what it needs to do- working and working for you, you’re doing fine. Don’t punish yourself or your body by starving yourself or overeating, or believing that the products being sold on these scam sites are worth spending your money on. Skinny teas are essentially laxatives, and can ruin your digestive system and give you diarrhea, dehydration and cause permanent damage. Waist trainers will make you uncomfortable and suffocate your organs, while making no actual changes in the long run except for the worst. They are modern day corsets, and not in a romantic way- in a painful, choking, organ-damage way. Please be careful.