Bloggers need to come clean about their fake views
Model Rachel warns girls some looks on social media not what they seem
IRISH model Rachel Wallace has blasted bloggers for not owning up to having cosmetic procedures done.
The 28-year-old has been open about having a boob job, lip fillers and botox in the past and believes social media influencers should follow suit.
The Dubliner – who works in event management and is also a make-up artist – said young kids are left questioning why they don’t look like Instagram stars when bloggers aren’t honest about their images.
Rachel told the Irish Mirror: “The lips, when I started getting it done it was very taboo and a lot of people would never say they’d had it done.
“I’d just say, ‘Shut up, all they have to do is look at a picture of you a year ago and now’.
“A couple of the big bloggers back then would be advertising these lip plumping glosses or advertising facials – I was thinking, ‘I know you get your lips done and I know you get Botox, just come out and say it’.
“There are 13-year-olds looking at them thinking if they buy that lip gloss they’ll end up looking like that – no they won’t.
“You have to be honest. When you’re that young you can’t see what goes behind each photo… sometimes pictures can be altered or it can be where the photograph is taken.
“When you don’t admit when you’ve certain things done, like veneers or lips or whatever, young girls will start saying, ‘Why don’t I look like that?’
“I think there needs to be honesty. I have a niece who says, ‘I wish I looked like girls on Instagram’. I’m telling her not even they look like that.”
Speaking at the launch of Iconic Bronze Luxury Tan’s “Glow Girl” Christmas gift sets, Rachel also opened up about the shady side of the modelling industry and revealed she had been approached by fake agents on numerous occasions. She said: “I was approached a couple of times by people who didn’t really have agencies or would like to meet up about opportunities in the UK.
“You’d go to the meeting, obviously I’d always go to a public place, but the amount of times you’d go and think to yourself, ‘This isn’t right’.
“Thankfully I had a good head on my shoulders but I’m sure you could fall into that very easily.
“They say they’ll sign you up for a photoshoot but unless it’s a legitimate agency, you don’t know where you’ll end up. You just have to be really really careful.”
However, Rachel added those working in the industry in Ireland are nothing but respectful – especially photographers.
She said: “In Ireland, as far as photographers go everyone is really respectful and talented.
“You hear horror stories of photographers taking advantage of models and things like that but it’s not like that in Ireland.
“It’s such a close-knit circle, if someone did it, it would spread like wildfire and they would be out of the business straight away.”
When you’re young you don’t know what goes on behind the scenes RACHEL WALLACE
DUBLIN YESTERDAY