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Latest News · Mar 22, 2023

TikTok's strikingly accurate, overly authentic beauty filter has people worried

Generally, I'm content with my face. (One of the benefits of being in your late 40s is that you can fully accept your face for what it is.) But I was taken aback to find that the more I used the filter, the less my actual face seemed to be. There's simply no way for my true face to compete with the model-like one in the video, as this filter isn't just a phony makeup. It's almost like a combination of plastic surgery, botox and a Photoshop airbrush, and although it's so over the top, gazing into the mirror after creating the video did lead to some insecurities regarding my real face that I hadn't realized.

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