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“When I first saw it, it was shocking how authentic it looked compared with other filters,” said Lindsay Borow, a 28-year-old TikTok user who tried the ‘bold glamour’ filter.
Using selfie filters is now a trend. However, most people using various filters can tell whether that photo has one. Nevertheless, the ‘bold glamour’ released by TikTok recently is hyper realistic, as if it perfectly fits one’s face.
Lindsay Borrow said that she used it to record one of her videos, yet after removing the filter, she looked like a ‘catfish’ and felt super ugly.
One of the TikTok users said in the caption of her video, “I feel awful for young girls with access to these filters, honestly.”
Borow, and other TikTok users admit that using these hyper realistic filters often affects mental health and self-perception.
According to US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, in their recent study, 57 per cent of girls in their teens undergo hopelessness if not persistently sad.
One youngster told NBC News this week that girls can become trapped in a cycle of comparison on social media amid several pressures like the coronavirus pandemic, gender discrimination, and dress requirements.
The problem with filters is that it is close enough to a user’s natural appearance, making it seem attainable using makeup, yet it is not.
Hira Mustafa, 26, another user, claimed that because of how drastically they altered her look, several TikTok filters had impacted her mental health in the past.
“I realised that whatever I did to my makeup to try to look like that, once I had the makeup on and put the filter back on, it still elevated whatever I currently had on,” she said. “So it’s like you’re never going to reach that goal.”
The filter’s “physical changes to our bone structures and our natural features are drastically different than what can be achieved by makeup,” Mustafa echoed.
Now, users are one of the driving factors of people undergoing cosmetic surgeries. They can get close to the look filters give through permanent aesthetic alterations.
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