Are Beauty Filters Actually That Bad for My Mental Health?

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TikTok users say Bold Glamour should be illegal, but they’re missing the point: We can control how technology makes us feel.

. But even those without pre-existing mental-health conditions may be negatively impacted by filters — especially the ones that incorporate passing beauty fads, as the Bold Glamour filter does. “High cheekbones may be all the rage now, but what happens when that changes and we’ve still got a bunch of cat ladies walking around?” she says. “People completely lose perspective of natural human faces when they look at themselves or other people with these filters on.

Listen, technology is evolving faster than medical experts and academic researchers can study it, so now is the time to think critically about how you want to engage with it. “If there’s a healthy way to use photo filters, it has to include stopping to ask yourself:

 

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