This is the most faked on Instagram

Just to kick in an open door that has been kicked in a thousand times: on social media and Instagram in particular, things are sometimes exaggerated and staged. Nothing wrong with that. But precisely because we all know this, here’s a list of the things that are most often lied about and obscured, you can see if you are also guilty of it.

Traveling

Yes. I am extremely guilty of this. The travel photos I post are always mega colorful, taken in the most beautiful places and with the most stunning sunsets. Not only am I quite good at (if I may say so myself) editing my photos to perfection, I also only show the perfect moments. You haven’t seen that dreary gray ugly airport of Mallorca for example. And my grumpy face when the flight from Milan to Amsterdam was delayed either. And we haven’t even talked about the hauling of heavy suitcases and sweaty heads during New York Fashion Week.

Going out

I was once out abroad with a not to be named big blogger and on our agenda was a visit to a party of a not to be named magazine. That party turned out to be super boring and we literally weren’t inside for more than three minutes, but on her Snapchat appeared a lyrically enthusiastic video of ‘Omggggggg it’s so super duper awesome here’. And I also do my wine poses nicely, but the fact that I had to leave the place completely drunk is generally less suitable for Instagram.

Being somewhere

I will never name names (but tap me during a drink moment and I might be a bit more loose-lipped), but I know fashion people (whom you also know) who frantically Instagram about hip parties and how fab it all is – where they are not. They are sitting at home on the couch without an invitation pretending to be there. This happens a lot during Fashion Week; bloggers who steal photos on Instagram, edit them, and then post them as if they are their own photo. But they were definitely not there.

Cats

Yep, guilty as charged. You only get cute fuzzy Cat Disco photos to see and oh look how cute and pretty she is. But that gross hair stuck to the other pillow I keep to myself. Just like the occasional little vomit she sometimes leaves on the wooden floor. Not to mention the smell of the litter box.

Perfect clothing

There are plenty of days in the week that I wear almost exactly the same thing as the day before because I have no inspo for my closet. This to the great annoyance of May by the way. Two weeks ago, due to organizational and logistical problems, I even wore the same thing for three days (okay, maybe five) and it was our male publisher who at one point said: “Uh Lies, didn’t you wear this on Monday too?” And he said that on Friday. But in such a case, I just slap a photo from another moment on there and then you don’t see anything of it online.

Self-evidence

This is the biggest lie. Every photo seems like it’s a spontaneous moment but ooooooh that cannot be less true. My wine pose for example (there it is again), it’s quite a job to get that as charming as possible. And sometimes we are in a really nice moment but then it turns out to be an impossible task to capture that moment just as nicely in a photo. And I can tell you, we can be busy with that for hours.