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This App Has A Filter To Remove Makeup And People Are Using It To See How Celebrities Look Without It (30 Pics)
There are dozens of beauty apps out there that you can use to make your selfies more polished than you look in real life. If you want to smoothen your skin, darken your eyelashes, or add cat ears (no judgment), technology has you covered. But in “features that we’re pretty sure literally nobody asked for,” here is a photo editing app that does just the opposite by removing makeup from photos for a more natural look.
MakeApp actually has a number of functions that it can perform on photos or videos, using a neural network to imagine what a person’s facial features look like with more or less makeup. It’s the no-makeup feature, though, that has had the most controversial results. Here's what happens when it's tested out on famous people.
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#1
Audrey Hepburn
Pamela Scott 5 years ago
No surprise here! She is just as lovely and classy with or without makeup. Think that of several of these ladies though! Nice to see!!!
Shaun Kirby 5 years ago
Yay. Another app (probably from Russia) that will steal your data. Thanks Mom!
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#2
Emilia Clarke
#3
Angelina Jolie
It’s probably fair to guess that most people aren’t using this feature on themselves. Commenters were quick to point out its sinister uses, saying that it encourages viewing makeup as deception and would most likely be used to jeer at the supposed shortcomings of women’s un-made-up faces. Some called it “a plot to make men think all women are ugly” and criticized its ability to “strip women of their makeup without their consent.”
#4
Jennifer Aniston
Sha Clemons 2 years ago
Lol I just don't see the hype of here she isn't attractive with or without make up
#5
Rita Ora
#6
Bella Hadid
Nadine Francis 5 years ago
Wow, it even took the diamonds out of her earrings!! That is some app!
Others pointed out that the makeup app actually exaggerates one’s appearance without makeup. Many of the popular celebrities whose doctored photos were used as examples have appeared without makeup in reality looking considerably different. Women who tried out the app on themselves found that it took deepening lines and blemishes so far that it added some that weren’t there in the first place. To prove the point, one journalist put her bare face through the photo filter repeatedly until the app had made her look like a decaying zombie.
#7
Kendall Jenner
Hungry Sammy 4 years ago
Nah she looks even more precious and beautiful like this
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Tiffany Hargrove 5 years ago
She has on so much makeup even the app can't take it all off, lol.
Paul Jordan 5 years ago
agree... but have to admit not a fan of the Kartrashian Klan anyway.
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Debby Hartinger 5 years ago
She is naturally beautiful and uses makeup the way it's meant to be used. To bring out the best.
Kaley Jacobs 5 years ago
Out of all the people in her family she looks the most natural, what evidence do you have that supports her having plastic surgery? Her face is the same as when she was a child.
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Miranda Kerr
Maggie Dougherty 5 years ago (edited)
Maranda, is just gorgeous! You sure can't take those dimples away!! Peaches and cream complexion with, or without makeup..❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
#9
Kate Middleton
Amy Walker 5 years ago
Now, she looks a little tired, but she should be with all her children.
To sum it up, the neural network has its flaws and we can’t take it as a definitive picture of regular people or celebrities without makeup. But even if you needed help visualizing that celebrities have dark circles and uneven complexion under the layer of contour they’re wearing to brightly lit promo events, that’s nothing shocking—if you think showing someone with normal features like those is some kind of sick burn, you might need to go outside more.
#10
Charlize Theron
Shane Henry 4 years ago
need a good photo. this doesn't really work with a blurred photo, like the black and white one above...they don't get good results. She is also wearing a light palate. She never goes overboard with her makeup, so all combined you won't see much here.
#11
Nicole Kidman
Frankenfrog 5 years ago
Please try to get over her having botox or whatever she had done. It's her face to do with whatever the f**k she likes. And she looks beautiful regardless
pusheen buttercup 5 years ago
Simultaneously we are very hard on our actors and some kind of work is practically a requirement if you want to keep your job. Hollywood can be cruel
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Nadine Francis 5 years ago
I think she is one of the most stunning and demure actresses of this day and age, make-up or not!
Jacey Lynn 5 years ago
She reminds me of the ballet teacher on Dance Academy and Dance Academy: The Comeback
Shane Henry 4 years ago
Pretty sure she would still have eyebrows, app needs a lot of work. it just lightens areas, not a true depiction.
Maggie Dougherty 5 years ago
To me, Nicole Kidman-Urban looks fantastic!! I love this superb actress, in all her movies and television roles!! She rocks <3
Kathi Keegan Chang 5 years ago
Most photos of Nicole Kidman are well brushed to soften her complexion. But even the first photo WITH makeup, has the frosty lens on it. Kinda' sad....
Nathalie Zamarripa 5 years ago
it is not the real thing,cause i saw her whitout makeup and she is white as a sheet,and not beautryfulo skin
Jack Lambrecht 5 years ago
where are her eyebrows, you ask? the app gets rid of them. The app makes all possible makeup disappear, even when its natural!
#12
Jennifer Lawrence
Evie Modra 5 years ago
I'm pretty sure that after a 4am call and grueling 14 hour shoot on location, she does. And she still looks pretty.
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Janice Humbertson 5 years ago
It's not the same smile, they added pockmarks and sun damage, and somehow aged her, what the heck?
#13
Katy Perry
April Simnel 5 years ago
Now I'm recalling those photos her ex-husband Russell Brand put online of her without make-up. And woke her out of a sound sleep, too!
Kathi Keegan Chang 5 years ago
Looks like the middle of her nose hides the makeup. What a nice nose!!
So_Long_And_Thanks_For_All_The_Fish 5 years ago
Tbh she looks kinda creepy with all that makeup
#14
Scarlett Johansson
Aunt Messy 5 years ago
I have platinum blonde eyelashes....and I haven't been out of the house without mascara since I was 14 years old. Without it, they're invisible.
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Margaret Jewell 5 years ago
She needs the eye-make-up and skin evening foundation. Other than that she looks pretty similar.
#15
Victoria Beckham
Molly Block 5 years ago
The woman who NEVER smiles and always looks pissed off. All for the sake of combating wrinkles. This has got to be the most vain woman in the world. And she's not even pretty. She's be more pretty in appearance and in character and personality, if only she'd smile!
Chris Jones 5 years ago
She is on record as saying how much she hates her smile. It might be partly to do with wrinkles but I suspect disliking her smile is the main reason.
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#16
Adele
Ness Watson 5 years ago
Another lady who has plenty of examples without makeup across the internet. Again, she isn't anywhere near this haggard
Hungry Sammy 4 years ago
Again we look like children without a thin layer of cheap makeup. Some are blessed by the gods. Others can help with medicine and operations if need be.
#17
Taylor Swift
Molly Block 5 years ago
The app didn't remove all of her lipstick, hahaha. Taylor is the only woman who can pull of wearing cherry red lipstick all of the time. :-) (And I'm not even a fan of her music, I just think she always looks amazing with her trademark red lips).
#18
Britney Spears
Daniëlle Raats 5 years ago
Not sure if this is sarcasm, ;-) so just to be sure she is 38
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Lea Springstead 5 years ago
I think it's so s****y how the media is focusing on how Britney is aging. Like wow, she is a human being that is effected by the passage of time, did everyone think she was going to remain 17 forever? I was never a fan, but seriously, leave Britney alone. She was thrown into a very public, sexualized life, at a very young age. She's had to deal with a lot of crazy s**t, and lo and behold, she is a human being like the rest of us.
#19
Rachel Mcadams
Sheanna Caban 5 years ago
Probably because we all have them IRL and without makeup.
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Debby Hartinger 5 years ago
I like how the red lipstick draws your eyes down and her forehead doesn't look so big. Good use of makeup.
Chris Green 5 years ago
She always looks like someone just slipped ice down the back of her pants and she must hide it.
#20
Melania Trump
Christoph Lindemann 5 years ago
Wow ... with yellow – yes, I mean yellow – hair she would look like her husband. The hairstyle is pretty similar.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Tangerine turd only loves himself, so he bought a mail order bride that looked like him.
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Maggie Dougherty 5 years ago
And what a lousy nose job, she should of got her money back, Malaria!!
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Full Name 5 years ago
Yeah. Her name is literally Trump, and she's a she. Great burn.
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#21
Emma Watson
Jace 5 years ago
Thanks for posting this. This context says it all. Fuuuuuuck.
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glowworm2 5 years ago
The guy in the back seems to have changed more from the app--and he's not even wearing makeup!
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
They guy in the back is the infamous Harvey Weinstein
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Kate Marin 5 years ago (edited)
This picture really lets you see the inaccuracy of the make-up removing app, as it has darkened & coarsened the face of the man behind Emma. (AS others pointed out, it looks as if that's Harvey Weinstein- if so, then perhaps the app sheds a more accurate light on his coarser inner self.
#22
Gigi Hadid
#23
Chloë Grace Moretz
You’reGonnaDissaprove 5 years ago
Why does this app make the photos all look like before and after for meth use?
Johnnee 5 years ago
It desaturates all the colors while accentuating any facial marks giving such appearance
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There are plenty of examples online (and in the films she is in) of her without makeup... she doesn't look haggard or this old!
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
I have seen plenty of photos of her without makeup, and I can assure you she looks nothing like a 38-year-old meth head.
#24
Selena Gomez
Bean59 5 years ago
no way. She is definetely way prettier than that, this makes her look like a sleep deprived lizard.
#25
Ana Kasparian
Kim Bush 5 years ago
I've thought that about half the people on this list
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Full Name 5 years ago
Let's be honest, she's not ugly. Period. If your buddy showed up with this as his gf, zero people would whispering to each other "Have you seen Derek's gf? Jesus she's busted". She's a garbage human being but she's certainly not ugly.
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Emma Watson
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
Judging by the previous photo of her, I believe Harvey Weinstein may have exploded in her face.
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Kathi Keegan Chang 5 years ago
I think the Beauty Game is coming to an end. We make too much of all this of looking like your true self. Emma is still a beautiful woman. I kinda' doubt anyone who responds here is observing their own reflection.
#27
Angelina Jolie
Jjjane20 5 years ago
Dead and more dead. I am wondering how and if it is possible to be more dead than just dead.
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Kathi Keegan Chang 5 years ago
Ms. Jolie has magnificent facial expression. I think the entire rest of the womens' human race, is well above the Kardashians... a most boring bunch.......
#28
Kim Kardashian
Randy Hughes 5 years ago
Now if the app could reverse all of the plastic surgery, then we would see something.
Sandra Porras 5 years ago
what makeup does for the rich, what would they be like without money
Nadine Francis 5 years ago
You can dress a pig up but it will always be a pig! (I apologize to all the piggies in the world for the comparison)
#31
Angelina Jolie
Sue Sanders 5 years ago
Why so many of her? Do we need constant convincing that she's pretty average looking?
#32
Helen Mirren
#33
Gwyneth Paltrow
#35
Emma Watson
#36
Cara Delevingne
#37
Emilia Clarke
#38
Emma Watson
#39
Kylie Minogue
#40
Liz Hurley
#42
Rosie Huntington-Whitely
#45
Megyn Kelly
#46
Kate Beckinsale
Sue Sanders 5 years ago
She just has fine and almost invisible eyelashes.
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Emily Ratajkowski
#48
Cheryl Cole
#49
Reese Witherspoon
#50
Rachel Maddow
Sue Sanders 5 years ago
The "after" kinda resembles my great-gramma -- but I still like Rachel!
#51
Kandy Swanpol
#52
Kim Kardashian
#53
Mariah Carey
Sue Sanders 5 years ago
The app didn't scrub off the blush and eyeliner, but she's a cutie anyway.
#54
Melania Trump
#55
Hillary Clinton
Lori Ann 5 years ago
Interesting that every other picture was a flattering picture of the woman. I mean, surely there must be at least ONE photo where she's not making a silly face. Cheap shot, Bored Panda. Surely you can do better.
Danielle Arnold 5 years ago
Go Hillary? Lmao not only is she truly unattractive but shes corrupt. Shes unattractive making a face or not or with/without makeup. Just cuz your a liberal doesnt mean you have to find her attractive.
Joy Palmerton 5 years ago
She looks like Granny on the Beverly Hillbilly’s... Sorry Irene Ryan...
#56
Kim Kardashian
KKP 5 years ago
use the filter 3,000,000,000 more times and theres still enough contour to replace the indian ocean
Kathi Keegan Chang 5 years ago
Why do we need to see ANY Kardashian in a second round of photos.. they get enough coverage with their boobs, for crying out loud!!
Maggie Dougherty 5 years ago
Holy c**p!!!That's freakin' scary!!! Rode hard and put away wet!!
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Hans 5 years ago
BP always rants again body shaming. But if it is about celebrities. They ought to be perfect, beautiful, slim...
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Clavelle 5 years ago
Yeah, let's make an app that tells women they shouldn't leave the house without full hair and makeup. This app is horrible and doesnt seem to work. All it does is put a filter over the picture assuming everyone has bags under their eyes. Also, why are the same people posted multiple times? This one story bores me.
RaroaRaroa 5 years ago
It fades the eyebrows, removes the lashes (sometimes) and dull the lipstick - but still leaves most lips more coloured than natural. What it doesn't do (if it wanted to be accurate) is remove contouring.
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Nea 5 years ago
Stop this nonsense! One, this is blatant body shaming of women and two, men wear make up too and you could incldue their photos as well if your grand motive was to show the power of make up (for whatever reason you might have).
Night Owl 5 years ago (edited)
Interesting idea for an app but in reality it's pointless and doesn't even work right and since many pictures are already also photoshoped before the app is used on them it really doesn't make sense. And why wasn't it used on some pictures of male celebrities and politicians too? Many of them also wear makeup when in front of cameras. Conclusion: this app is useless (and this BP-post too)
Lazy Panda 5 years ago
I’m calling BS on this app. I downloaded it and took a picture of myself (a man not wearing any makeup) and it still “fixed” my face, basically making me look like a drug addict. Anyone who actually reads an article about shaming celebrities, and of all things using a cheap phone application to do it, needs to find something better to do
Hans 5 years ago
BP always rants again body shaming. But if it is about celebrities. They ought to be perfect, beautiful, slim...
Load More Replies... Clavelle 5 years ago
Yeah, let's make an app that tells women they shouldn't leave the house without full hair and makeup. This app is horrible and doesnt seem to work. All it does is put a filter over the picture assuming everyone has bags under their eyes. Also, why are the same people posted multiple times? This one story bores me.
RaroaRaroa 5 years ago
It fades the eyebrows, removes the lashes (sometimes) and dull the lipstick - but still leaves most lips more coloured than natural. What it doesn't do (if it wanted to be accurate) is remove contouring.
Load More Replies... Nea 5 years ago
Stop this nonsense! One, this is blatant body shaming of women and two, men wear make up too and you could incldue their photos as well if your grand motive was to show the power of make up (for whatever reason you might have).
Night Owl 5 years ago (edited)
Interesting idea for an app but in reality it's pointless and doesn't even work right and since many pictures are already also photoshoped before the app is used on them it really doesn't make sense. And why wasn't it used on some pictures of male celebrities and politicians too? Many of them also wear makeup when in front of cameras. Conclusion: this app is useless (and this BP-post too)
Lazy Panda 5 years ago
I’m calling BS on this app. I downloaded it and took a picture of myself (a man not wearing any makeup) and it still “fixed” my face, basically making me look like a drug addict. Anyone who actually reads an article about shaming celebrities, and of all things using a cheap phone application to do it, needs to find something better to do
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