Bold Glamour is the latest viral TikTok beauty filter, and users are alarmed at how creepily realistic it is. Experts warn that unregulated use of the filter can distort self-perception and worsen ...

Beauty founder and content creator Charlotte Palermino noticed something weird about the front-facing camera in TikTok. She had just updated the app and hadn’t added any filters, but she didn’t look ...

After a commissioned study highlighting the impact of beauty filters on self esteem, social platform TikTok will soon limit access to certain filters for teenage users. In an update at the company’s ...

Cruising around Instagram recently, I encountered something that I had no idea existed. It came courtesy of Golf Digest Top 50 Teacher Shaun Webb and Best In State Mike Granato, the pair behind ...

Aged 13, I became obsessed with taking selfies. I would pout and post and watch the likes roll in. Rinse and repeat. Except what I was capturing on my phone’s camera wasn’t actually me – it was a ...

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that in one of the pictures above there has been some digital wizardry going on. Filters have come on a long way since the fun-to-play-with bunny ears first ...

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has become the unexpected architect of beauty standards, subtly redefining our self-image through the filters we apply to our digital selves. From ...

When does a fun technology become a dysphoric addiction? Camera filters, powered by augmented reality, or AR, are at nearly everyone's fingertips. Opening a smartphone and downloading any one of an ...

Turns out the entire “Beautygate” controversy has been much ado about nothing. Corners of the internet have been up in arms over a perceived flaw in the iPhone XS camera that makes people in selfies ...

An ancient form of prejudice about skin color is flourishing in the modern internet age. When Lise was a young teenager in Georgia, her classmates bullied her relentlessly. She had moved with her ...

The iPhone XS and its front-facing camera are supposed to help its owners make better self-portraits. However, some think their iPhone selfies look better than they should. Users are taking to ...