This is an app that you can buy and download on your phone or iPad to doctor all your pictures. You know, make it look like you don’t have any freckles, pimples, or circles under your eyes. Heck, with the before and after shots, it looks like you can even add make-up, whiten your teeth, airbrush things up a bit, and look like your own supermodel. This brings the selfie-age to a whole new level. You could look ten years younger, or not even like you! 

Well I’m not sure why. With all the creepy spiders that crawl on my Facebook page, why did the Internet powers that be decide to give me this particular advertisement in my newsfeed? But there it was: Facetune.

This is an app that you can buy and download on your phone or iPad to doctor all your pictures. You know, make it look like you don’t have any freckles, pimples, or circles under your eyes. Heck, with the before and after shots, it looks like you can even add make-up, whiten your teeth, airbrush things up a bit, and look like your own supermodel. This brings the selfie-age to a whole new level. You could look ten years younger, or not even like you!

Don’t wait for the perfect shot.

Facetune it.

That’s the catch-line. I have to admit; I look in the mirror some mornings and think a face tune-up would be nice. It sure would. Now, I can forget about expensive creams or surgery. I don’t even need to worry about gaining a few pounds, or laugh lines, or, gasp, a blemish! No way, Jose! Now, for just $2.99, I can be like the celebrities who aren’t confident enough to show us their real faces either. I can Facetune it, post it, and forget it. We can post artificial pictures to go with our artificial perfect lives, right there in our authentic newsfeed for all our friends to hit like.

Only, I guess things might get a little weird when people see me in real life. That could be a little bit of a let down. “Wow, Aimee, you’ve been looking so fab on social media pictures; are you having a bad day or something?”

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