Beauty Geek

How I Edit My Instagram Photos.

It's hard enough taking a selfie that you're happy with. When it comes to editing photo's, these Apps will take all the hard work away and save you a bit of storage space!

The Apps I use are Squaready, POTO, and Afterlight.

Afterlight is what I use mainly just for general editing. It does everything I need it to do from having loads of filters, to the basics like brightness, contrast, sharpening, highlights & shadows etc. It also has other features like adding a border to your photo. The borders come in different shapes and sizes. As well as that, you can also decide on the transparency of the border, as well as colour.

Down the right side, you can see the variation in transparency and also the choice of colour. Down the left side you can see the different variations or border shape.

The next App is called POTO. This is what i use to make collages. Its a really great App, very professional looking.

What I love most about this app is how easy it is to use! All you do is choose the photos you want to add to your collage and bam, its done! There are many different styles of collage to choose from as well as the number of photos you want to add.

You can also create a pin board which is another one of the things I love. Pin boards look a lot more creative in a sense that it almost looks as though you stuck photos onto a cork board and that's the whole idea. I recently used the pin board feature to create a memory using a few of my photos from Paris.

The last App I use is called Squaready. There's one reason for me downloading this App and that is simply to make my photos square. I've started to get my Instagram to look nice and tidy and the way I'm doing this is to get all my photos to be square with a white border. This App does exactly that!

So that's it! All the Apps I use for editing, making collages and cropping my Instagram photos. I hope this was of use to you.

Don't forget to leave a comment letting me know if you guys have these Apps already and what you think, or if you've decided to download them after reading this.

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Makeup & Anxiety.

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I've always been the girl that doesn't like going out without putting makeup on. I feel like everyone is constantly staring at me as I walk around. Even if I am just going across the road to the shops, I would still feel the need to put some sort of makeup on to cover my face. Recently, I'm starting to become more comfortable within my own skin. I don't have the best skin in the world, I get pimples, I have dark under eye circles, and spots of discolouration. But, the one thing I've started telling myself when I go out is 'who cares what other people think of me?', or, 'As long as I'm happy with myself, that's all that matters!'

I suppose the route of all the insecurity and anxiety came from being a teenage girl at school, feeling like I didn't fit in or, didn't have what other girls had etc. I felt like I needed to be a part of that 'popular girl' image that is portrayed so much and so highly on social media nowadays, and that took its toll on my education. I spent so much time focusing on how I looked and trying to have what others girls had, that it took all my time and efforts away from what was really important. (Now I feel like I'm rambling a little!)

I guess all I'm trying to say is, girls, don't let how you look or material things define you, or get in the way of the more important things in life. It doesn't matter if you don't look like the girls in the magazine, or if you don't get as much attention as someone else, or if you don't have that many friends, because I guarantee, that small handful of friends you do have, will be your friends for life. Focus on being the best version of yourself, not somebody else.

I decided to upload and image of me without makeup, and then right next to it an image of me with makeup. I encourage everyone that see's this to do the same thing! Embrace your natural beauty but also, don't be afraid to go all out glam with makeup! After all, makeups there to be used, so use it to your advantage and forget about everybody else's opinion..