The upcoming spring is the best time to get rid of old habits and some additional kilograms. Wow, what do I say, what extra kilos? Now when everybody is fit and with an insane six-pack on a stomach, there is no way that some extra kilos got stuck to somebody’s thighs. So let’s think about why we need a detox in the spring? 
Is it reasonable that we are supposed to drink detoxifying cocktails, herbal mixtures or some nasty clays if we kept to green juices and steamed vegetables all year long? Ok, maybe a few, but really a few times we sinned with a piece of chocolate or an ice cream, but it really does not count. Where is the line between being healthy and blindly following the food fashion? Are we buying a white zebra coat of the next season because we saw it on Chiara Ferragni, do we eat the same things as our favorite bloggers or other celebrities?  Maybe it has gone a bit too far, that also our health has been put into the hands of the marketing machine. Gluten bad, gluten killer we’ve heard everywhere, and suddenly social campaigns supporting gluten involved celebrities like Kardashians and went viral. Beautiful women eating pizza and burgers, claiming that it is ok to eat gluten. And then we thought, no, this gluten cannot harm us, because these goddesses eat it and they still look like million dollars babes.  

Even on Instagram marketing companies created a hashtag – #girlswithgluten, what makes a lot of women post their photos with gluten food with hope to become just as famous as the celebrities who did it first. So we find ourselves in a bind because we want to be like those influencers, even if our tummy filled with gluten food hurts. But we are looking at the filtered celebs photos and we think, oh no, I have a poor metabolism.
All this fun in being thin, thinking I’m fashionable because I’m skinny is also a trap. The role models that we follow on Instagram are driving us into an everyday struggle for muscular buttocks, slender thighs and a flat stomach. Today, fashion is not limited to functional things, it is not enough that you will be wearing the latest Gucci collection, buy a car in the color of this season or you decorate your apartment the way Lena Perminova did. Oh no! Your body, including your hair, must also be subject to seasonal changes, according to the calendar of the fashion weeks. I have always been interested in how to have a short bob in the spring-summer season, and just two months later enjoy long hair in the autumn. 
Years later, I discovered that some wigs and hairpieces were created just to trick everyone that even hair can be easily adapted to the next season. 

So what is the detox fashion victim supposed to depend on? Perhaps taking a look at yourself and asking the question if my life habits really have to be dictated by influencers, who are paid for promoting a given trend? Do I want to be a target group for a product or diet? Do I, however, deserve to look at myself as an individual who can sometimes be inspired by a celebrity, but does not live according to a schedule of a promo campaign? If we are a fashion victim, then we are merely a victim, someone who puts down their life, including sacryfying their free will. Who do we choose to entrust our fate – to fashion and food companies? So maybe it’s time to go detox and separate from them? Instead of being a fashion victim, sign up to becoming fashion conscious, an individual who filters  all this social media mess and chooses what is best for her, and only for her.

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