Lorde: I'm obsessed with Instagram

Royals singer says she Instagram is her turn to activity and she checks it once every hour 
Jack Simpson4 April 2014
The Weekender

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Teenage sensation and singer-of-the-moment Lorde, has admitted that she is addicted to the social media site Instagram.

The 17-year-old Royals singer said she is obsessed with the site and finds herself constantly browsing, updating and taking pictures for her page, which currently has one million followers.

She said: "I'm kind of cruising Instagram every hour or so, it's the one I check back to when I'm bored."

Lorde has been no stranger to using the social media site as a way to voice her views, and last week she launched an attack on those celebrities that use re-touching and Photoshop before publishing selfies of themselves.

Included in the attack was a call on her fans to embrace their flaws and highlighted just how much of a difference Photoshop could have on the way a person appeared by posting a before and after Photoshop picture of herself.

She followed the pictures with message: "i find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok (sic)."

The calls on her fans to celebrate their imperfections, however, have not stopped Lorde from recently pairing up with cosmetic company MAC to create a limited edition range of lipstick to be in stores this Summer.

The lipstick will have a limited run and will be a copy of the purple lipstick that Lorde is famed for.

She said after the news was announced: "I have loved MAC cosmetics since I was a little kid. I remember saving up to buy my very first MAC lipstick [Snob] at 14, and it was used by about 20 of my friends!"

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