This influencer wants to remind you how much difference filters make

Daniella Scott
Photo credit: Kim Britt - Instagram
Photo credit: Kim Britt - Instagram

From Cosmopolitan

Denial is great, it's a lovely safe space where we can pretend doughnuts are nutritious and bills are just a bad dream, but just occasionally, we get a little dose of reality that we actually like.

Kim Britt is an influencer from Switzerland whose uses her Instagram to show us all the difference between what we see scroll through endlessly on our feeds, to the pre-edit, pre-filter reality. She shows all her pictures side-by-side, detailing how she has edited and filtered them.

In a caption under one picture, she said, "It took me 5 minutes to change the background, make my body smaller and make my hair less messy. Stop comparing to photos you see online. They are mostly not real! Reality is not perfect and it doesn't need to be. Life is so much more than a perfect picture. Make sure you don't get brainwashed."

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Reminder: No one has flawless skin all the time. We almost see just edited pictures on social media. It's normal we compare us subconsciously to the pictures we see online. . We all have pimples, spots and oily skin sometimes. There is nothing wrong with it, it's normal. We don't need to look flawless. We are perfect just the way we are, everyone of their own kind of way♡ . Feel free to tag a friend who needs this reminder🌼

A post shared by IG VS. REALITY || KIM BRITT (@the_truth_is_not_pretty) on Jun 9, 2019 at 11:36am PDT

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Nobody looks flawless all the time🌻. Eventhough we know it, we need sometimes a reminder, because we barely see pictures like the right one on social media. There is nothing wrong with posting good selfies, because it's normal we want to show us from the best side. The right one shows me yesterday. No make-up and really tired. Both me, both worthy. So are you💫 . . . . . #instagramvsreality #thetruthisnotpretty Anzeige

A post shared by IG VS. REALITY || KIM BRITT (@the_truth_is_not_pretty) on Jan 7, 2019 at 12:13pm PST

Kim's feed is full of her 'IG vs REALITY' franchise, which typically always include a caption-pep talk about unrealistic beauty standards. Her point is that it's so easy to manipulate these tiny snapshots with poses, lighting, filters and editing apps, and that what we see on Instagram does not reflect how we look the majority of the time.

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Have you ever felt sad because you didn't look like a girl you saw on instagram? I did. A lot. I compared myself with photos on social media, without knowing how they look 24/7. The power of a perfect pose and holding your breath is huge as you can see. Both pictures show me, both not edited. . Years back, I always thought I will only love my body when I'm thin. In my head having a perfectly thin body like the ones I saw online, was the only way I could finally be happy. It took me so long to realize that first, nobody is perfect in real life, neither will I ever be, and secondly, having a body that is healthy and able to function, is the reason why I should love him at all, not because how society tells me how it should look like. 🧡 . Hope this reminder helps you and you will not believe everything you see here. . . . . Anzeige wegen Verlinkung

A post shared by IG VS. REALITY || KIM BRITT (@the_truth_is_not_pretty) on Sep 15, 2019 at 9:44am PDT

Time to start integrating a bit of real life into the feed, maybe? Oh, and if that wasn't enough, she's got a really cute doggo.

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Cozy dog would be an understatment. Buddy counts to the dogs who always needs love and body contact😊 You may think this is cute. Don't get me wrong, it is, BUT it's no secret that every dog needs rules and a leader, so you need to be strict and be ably to say "no". This is really hard if he gives you that perfectly cute "dog look" like on the picture. Could you say no to him? 😍 To be honest, I have a hard time too when it comes to that. 🤷🏼♀️🙈I mean look at him ❤😍 . . Do you have a pet? 🐶🐱🐹 . . . . Unpaid Ad . . #thetruthisnotpretty #instagramvsreality

A post shared by IG VS. REALITY || KIM BRITT (@the_truth_is_not_pretty) on Feb 8, 2019 at 9:05am PST

Kim Britt isn't the first influencer to share the 'Insta v Reality' concept on her grid, breathing a breath of real life onto our feeds. Rianne Meijer, also an influencer, uses her platform to share the reality of what actually goes into perfect Instagram shots - whether that's perfect lighting, multiple angles, or choosing from a thousand shots.

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