Selfie culture causing angst with teenage girls

Peter Sutton
Aug 25, 2017 · 4 min read

It’s a quest for the teenage girl to craft the perfect shot.

It starts with a simple selfie.

Apply a little make-up, caress the hair into position, lean forward to elevate the developing cleavage, put on some smoking eyes, pout the lips and click. Perfecting the self-portrait is done with a filter, some editing then to Instagram it goes for critique and peer review with several hashtags to round out the post in a bid for an audience.

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