Last week, WWE posted this image of Women’s Tag Team champions Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler to their Instagram.
If it looks more like a painting than a photograph, that’s because it’s heavily edited. Jax noticed, and made the reasonable request for WWE to use a non-manipulated version. She explains it’s because she doesn’t like what it says, and she takes pride in both her natural beauty and hard show business work & skill that already goes into her appearance.
“I get that Facetune is a thing now, but I’m not a big fan. I wear enough makeup and have great hair installed to pick up where I lack in looks, Facetune is a bit much. Yes, in my untouched pic you can see a big zit on my chin, whatevs. I have asked WWE to please replace my obviously facetuned pic with the untouched [version]. I’m not happy with the message it sends.”
Fans often find Nia “polarizing” (excuse the WWE-speak), but she’s 100% in the right here.
I couldn’t find any renders of the Tag champs on WWE.com, or social media since last Friday’s SmackDown. All of those still use the Facetune-d version, however.