06/05/2025
AI has had me crying. Let’s all pretend I’m this put together but it’s scary, right?
What’s the point in turning myself into a polished, perfect unrealistic version of myself for the grid? Especially when you all see me at your appointments with my hair scraped up and in my scrubs, a million miles from this woman. It’s to prove that AI isn’t real.
I’ve had a huge influx recently in clients showing AI images for nails, makeup and brows and I’ll be honest, had I not have had a hunch, they would have had me believing they were real too. What you see online now isn’t all it appears.
I’ll be honest I’ve spent the last hour on an app, convincing myself that I need a facelift, new lips and liposuction to appear like my AI self. Perfection does NOT exist and it’s taken me a long time to accept this. I apologise in advance that I can’t recreate an AI image. All jokes aside, don’t let the internet fool you.
In my late teens and early twenties I suffered with an eating disorder, had this sort of image altering been available back then, I dread to think the depths of what my disorder would have led to. I worry for my daughter. This is getting deep but my point is, AI can never take our jobs in the creative industry because every set of nails, brows and face of makeup has a quirk from that artist. A subtle flaw here, a signature eyeliner wing there. And that’s what attracts our clients to us, right? They can spot our work and link it to us or see something in it that they like.
Be what sets you apart. Don’t strive to look like everyone else, be it in your work, in your appearance, in everything you do. Be you, because there’s only one of you and that’s what makes you, you.