Kessie Ho analyzed 100 popular accounts and reincarnated as a social media star using Photoshop.
The younger generation is increasingly focusing on the Internet. After all, there is absolute freedom of expression and the ability to monetize your own content. However, not everyone succeeds in achieving success and promoting a profile on social networks. Often the reason for this is modern beauty standards.
American blogger Kessie Ho analyzed 100 popular Instagram profiles and turned herself into a typical Internet star using Photoshop. We will tell you the result of her experiment.
Who is Cassie Ho?
Kessie is a popular Instagram blogger. She is a supporter of body positive and part-time fitness trainer. In her opinion, physical activity is an important part of life, but not for the purpose of losing weight, but for health. The girl even founded the studio Blogilates, where she teaches Pilates classes. Ho posts many lessons and advice for beginners on the studio's Youtube channel, which has more than four million subscribers. In addition, Cassie invented her own Pilates program with the unpretentious name "Pop Pilates." You train as usual, but with popular music.
In one of the posts on her Instagram, the girl showed subscribers how her body would look if in each of the eras it corresponded to ideals. The results are varied and frightening. For example, from the 2010s to the present, the number of injections and placement of gluteal implants using plastic surgery has increased by 58%.
Results of the research of profiles in "Instagram"
Once Cassie asked the question: "Why in the era of body positive among the most popular" Instagram "there are no girls with a lot of weight?" She decided to analyze 100 top profiles, find the ideal of the beauty of a modern person and, as a bonus, turn herself into one of the stars of the social network. As a result, the blogger identified 24 characteristics that most Instagram beauties have. The first thing she paid attention to was the age and appearance of popular girls. On average, they are 22 years old, their height is about 170 cm, and their hair is dark and long.
Eyes are the mirror of the soul, but not for social media users. To become popular on Instagram, you need to have a certain size and shape of the eyes. According to statistics, women with an Asian appearance are gaining less popularity on the Internet. There are only 15% of them in the top 100.
A small nose and plump lips are must-have items for winning followers. So 90% of girls on Instagram have matching lips.
What should be the body to become famous? More than 80% of popular girls have a flat stomach, but, which is very important, without muscle relief. Apparently, Instagram is against muscularity. It is desirable that the body type correspond to the hourglass standard: with a thin waist and large hips.
The audience is larger for ladies with naturally fair skin, but a beautiful tan is also welcome. Fans are also attracted by a thin long neck and necessarily large breasts.
Popularity with Photoshop
After analyzing popular accounts, the girl began her own transformation. To do this, she needed makeup, fashionable clothing, and a photo editor.
In this photo, Kessie has brightened her skin, enlarged her eyes, breasts and buttocks, and reduced her nose and chin. And, of course, she lengthened her hair. In addition, the blogger did not forget about the "right" attributes for a good shot - a crop top and gold jewelry.
The reaction of Cassie and her followers to the experiment
The results of the study upset Ho, because it turned out that notorious beauty standards rule even on the free Instagram network. In the era of the body positivity boom, the top 100 are still girls with perfected figures. Cassie's audience thanked the girl for the video. Especially because she tries to show people that it is worth loving yourself and your body, regardless of the standards of society. One subscriber even wrote in the comments on YouTube:
