This video is not a depiction of someone making themselves beautiful, but rather a reflection of the psychic response to witnessing and feeling the relentless pressure to do so. It speaks to the hypervigilance that emerges in an image-saturated culture—an internalised surveillance that turns self-perception into a site of scrutiny and fragmentation. The work explores the tension between self and spectacle, authenticity and fabrication, as social media perpetuates an unattainable ideal of beauty, leaving the individual caught in a cycle of comparison, correction, and erasure. From this moving image, a series of stills were extracted, digitally manipulated, and then transformed into cyanotype prints. The act of distorting and reprinting these images mirrors the fracturing of self that occurs under the weight of impossible beauty standards. The cyanotype process, with its deep blues and ghostly imprints, embodies the lingering psychological effects of digital self-surveillance—where identity is continuously broken down and reconstructed in pursuit of an ever-elusive ideal. These works are an exploration of the psychological toll of navigating contemporary image culture and the ways it shapes, distorts, and unsettles our perception of self.