Rosie Connolly has apologised to her followers for over-editing photos of herself.
The apology comes after a number of Irish influencers recently came under fire for photoshopping the images they share on social media.
The controversy came to a head when an Instagram account called out some well-known social media personalities for overusing photoshop apps like Facetune – which led to some bloggers pledging to use their voice to fight against cyberbullying.Â
On Snapchat last night, Rosie said, “I think I’ve learnt a lot over the last couple of days about people’s views on it and it’s taught me a lot and it’s kinda taught me not to over-edit things.”
“I never edited my body but I definitely edited my skin. And I think, I’m like do you know what, people are right, I’m just not going to do it anymore.
“And I think with all of this happening it’s actually just opened up my eyes to be like you know what, just be who you are and don’t edit and be as honest as you can.”
The mum-of-one, who has been open about her struggle with adult acne in the past, admitted that her confidence issues when it came to her skin led to her over-editing her face in pictures.
“I don’t want to overly edit anymore and the main thing I would’ve edited was my skin, so I’m gonna try and stop doing that now and just learn to love it or learn to clear it up a bit more. Yeah, and I hope that you guys will appreciate that as well.”
“Anyone that suffers from acne will know that it is hard to lay it all out there, especially to so many thousands of people.
“It’s bad enough going out when your skin is bad and meeting people face to face but when you’re putting that up online it is daunting. But I suppose I have a platform and I should promote confidence in your own skin, so I’m gonna try and do that more often and not overly-edit.
“There’s times when I have just gone so heavy-handed with the smoothing app, and I’m like, that’s ridiculous, nobody’s skin looks like that. I don’t know, I don’t know what I was doing, so I’m apologising if I’ve annoyed anyone for that, and it won’t be happening anymore.
“I’ve learned a lot over the last week about the industry and about myself and about you guys and about the followers and people that follow bloggers, and it’s really opened my eyes and I hope I’ve learned from it and grown from it, and I hope that has a positive effect for you guys as well, for the people who watch, because that’s what I do it for,” she added.
