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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Audrey Hepburn
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.”
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.
Kendall Jenner
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.
Charlize Theron
Nicole Kidman
Please try to get over her having botox or whatever she had done. It's her face to do with whatever the fuck she likes. And she looks beautiful regardless
Melania Trump
Wow ... with yellow – yes, I mean yellow – hair she would look like her husband. The hairstyle is pretty similar.
Emma Watson
Chloë Grace Moretz
Why does this app make the photos all look like before and after for meth use?
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!
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.
feels like this app is far from accurate in a sense that some very young women in no make-up pics are made to look extremely worn, while some mature actresses still rock somehow unnaturally good appearance. I mean, how exactly it works anyway? Has someone tried to "remove" make-up from their bare face? I mean, if say I have thick bright lips naturally (I don't), the app removes those good features anyways, considering it being make-up?
Yeah I don't think the app could do this one, there's still brown on her eyelids
Not really good makeup style, especially ially the eyes. Needs lessons.
She probably didn't even do it herself. Make up artists don't always get it right for their clients.
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Ana Kasparian
Kim Kardashian
Note: this post originally had 56 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
Ah, shaming women. The favourite hobby of spiteful people.
BP always rants again body shaming. But if it is about celebrities. They ought to be perfect, beautiful, slim...
Waaaaah!
Yes Kathleen, you are so right on & I so much agree with you. I grow so sick of it. Let's congratulate and stand up for weman but instead we are the worse at being critical. This attack is than passed down bc this behavior is what we TEACH our children.
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It's not shaming women, its showing their natural beauty and getting rid of unrealistic body standards.
Oh yeah, you know Bored Panda, always woman shaming *rolls eyes *. This is an article about a phone app that shows celebrities but somehow you've turned yourself into the victim here. Way to go.
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How could it possibly be shaming them? It's merely showing now they naturally look. Do you think being natural is something to be ashamed of? I'd say the opposite.
The only thing is the app makes them look like they have bad skin and ugly bald eyes! I don't know many woman who look that weird without make-up. But yes nothing wrong with no make-up. Also nothing wrong with make-up. Whatever floats your boat.
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.
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.
I don't quite see makeup removal as body shaming. In my opinion, people look better in the no-makeup pictures, most of the time. I feel that it is more of a process of revelation of one's natural beauty. If one wants to play with options and mix in some makeup, well, that can be fun. But I almost invariably prefer a non-enhanced face.
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).
Agreed with you
You know you can post pictures too right?
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no. men don't wear makeup... also, many men hate makeup on women... also, the non-makeup pics make them look more normal and they are all still pretty.
Why does the app assume everybody has blotchy and dead looking skin??
and no eyelashes
Scratching my head trying to find out the purpose of this post...
Ha. How many people saw this post and said, "This seems like a good idea!" before you actually put it up? I suspect the comments will not be kind to you and rightfully so, frankly. Jesus Christ.
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)
Sooo almost everyone look pale as heck
Some of the pictures from this filter app makes the people look like extras in a horror movie.
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
Its kind of hard to predict skin discoloration. And not everyone has non-existent eyelashes.
Here's what happens when it's tested out on FEMALE celebrities ONLY.
No men I see.... typical.
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Name me some male celebrities who wear make-up.
Uh how about all of them? If they're in a movie or on a red carpet or being interviewed like all these women are, they are wearing makeup.
I want to put the filter on the same pic over and over again and see what happens
Does the app not work on people of color, or does the OP prefer to only be negative of white people?
"People of color" Like blue, green, or purple?
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Every person has a skin colour of some sort.
This app is intended to make women look ugly, it's not about makeup.
This app doesn't work, removes colour, removes eyelashes, turns pretty girls into zombies.
We've seen a lot of these celebs without makeup and this app makes them look bad when they actually don't. Apps like this are just so dangerous :-(
Why does this app make women look like they should be in rehab? Pure nonsense app...
Instead of taking woman to a pool on a first date guys could use this app to see what they "really look like". Buuuuuuuuut judging someone on their looks alone isn't cool. Yes there needs to be that first initial attraction but why can't that come from charm or someone cracking a super awesome joke? People jump to quickly to judge these days. Slow down people. Give everyone the time of day
I never cease to be amazed when people discover that celebrities are people too. The astonishment of the willingly deluded.
Is this really an app or someone doing a terrible photoshop job?
W.T.F is this?! Why is BP posting so much crap today?!
This app is ridiculous. It is APParent that it does not work well. What waste of time.
Yeah, Melania without makeup DOES NOT LOOK like the Orange Cheeto she calls her husband.
XD 'orange cheeto' I love that
Yes, actresses wear make up. If they don't look like picture perfect dolls, people would criticize and be disinterested, yet their is this appetite to also prove "they are people too".
Wow, that app sucks. It makes anyone with a lighter skin tone ashen and gives them the skin texture of a meth addict.
This got boring after the first few pics
I just want to know: Why does anybody really care about this? Is your life so devoid of meaning and excitement that it's necessary to live vicariously through celebrity? I could be wrong, of course. I'm not, however.
HERE'S A QUESTION: Has this app been tested with real-life models? The non-make up pictures definitely look CGI'd.
Get ready for the triggered and insecure femenazis! (Grabs popcorn)
This app is bs. I’ve seen half of these celebs without makeup and that not at all what they look like.
I don't think this is real. They deny the existence of people with eyelashes, dark eyebrows, pink lips, and no red skin.
I have seen a ton of women without makeup on, and I myself am also a woman. I can promise you that this isn't how most women look without makeup. According to this app, women have to wear makeup or else we have terrible skin and huge bags under our eyes. Most men don't wear makeup, you think they look like that?
Omg people freaking out, half these celebs dont look like this without make up its more to be a joke not fricken serious. Everyone knows the majority of these women are pretty without make up and this app is just a exaggeration.
ok that was fake
I think this is the ultimate invasion of privacy and I am disgusted that people were given a tool for such dishonorable purposes. Like clothing, make up is part of a person's armor, and should be respected as such. What's next? An app that removes clothes from people's pictures, so that we can see them naked? The developers should be ashamed of themselves from not foreseeing this super foreseeable result.
The developers are responsible for how people use their product?
How they look without is is mostly better. But whose damned business is it if a woman chooses to wear makeup or not? Just as it's none of anyone's damned business if she dyes her hair, shaves her legs, etc. It's a f'n personal choice, and NO ONE ELSE get an opinion. And, is the creator of this app so stupidly naive s/he thinks male celebs don't use makeup and other artifices? SRSLY??
What a dumb idea, and it does not show how these people really look without makeup. Next there would be an app to remove clothes? Who is the idiot who came up with this?
A much better article that demonstrates that even if you use the app on a makeup-free selfie, it still goes out of its way to make your skin look 10x worse: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/11/15/16655106/makeapp-no-makeup-terrible-apps-android-ios
I doubt half of these are realistic.
But you forget that the vast majority of women (particularly young women) are on board. How much money is spent by them on makeup lotions, etc to look like celebrities. I think that is really sad and probably feeds into the feelings that many pre-teen girls have about their sexuality and their feelings that they are really boys - we have made them afraid of being anything but a beautiful women with tons of makeup and expensive clothes and overflowing sexuality. Being a boy seems a lot less trouble. The reality is that most women only need minimum makeup to look great. As a redhead with not a lot of pigment in my eyebrows/eye lashes - I focus on those things and putting a light lipstick on. Takes me all of 2 minutes to head out the door. When I have to get an official photo taken (driver's license or passport) I need more makeup or I blend with the background (had to have my driver's license retaken twice because all they could see was my lips)
This app is truly fake. I've never touched make up in my whole life and still when I applied remove make up filter... I got this image with no eyelashes nothing.. well.. I was not wearing any make up and I never have.. but you see.. it's just an application that removes everything from your face whether you're wearing make up or not.. try it without make up and you'll know how fake it is..
IMO most women would do fine without makeup. This app confirms it.
Why do you call it "body shaming"? They, for the most part, still look beautiful.
what i think is that women like there makeup and look different without it. some of those women are still lovely tho, show your true colors..❤️🐼Blood Queen out! 😂🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️⚪️🟤
Hah get prepared for the femenazis to get triggered *grabs popcorn*
The app's failed to impress me. Would work for mortuary cosmetologists.
Reminds me of the Star Trek episodes "the Menagerie" a.k.a "the cage" and "Mudd's Women"
There are people who make those apps, there are people to sell them, there are people to buy them. American people, of course.
Personally I think they look better without the makeup.
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Kind of fun to look at but it makes a lot of assumptions about skin tone etc
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This is fuckin stupid BP why do you pick shit like this
This software was made to help stop human trafficking! And this is how its presented by the media *eye roll* (the software that removes makeup is used to identify victims, who are often made over to make them unrecognizable)
You were downvoted for saying that. It's amazing how pathetic the commenters on BP can be.
Que mal photoshop, que vergüenza que publiquen eso!
que mal Photoshop! que vergüenza que publiquen esto.
There are pictures of many of these people without makeup. They don't look like this app shows. It's doing something more than just "removing' makeup. And let's stop with the nonsense that this is "shamming".
The app should be banned.
Yeah! Ban a cell phone app! Ban books! Ban raising your left leg twice in a row!
Finally an app that (almost, sort of) makes people look MORE natural... I wish people would stop with makeup in general. Uncanny Valley.
The title should be "This app doesn't work. Why are we even posting this?"
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Aaron Pie lol
they all look beautiful! Make up or no makeup, they're gorgeous.
They all looked just fine w/o makeup.
Why no men?
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People with small minds can find shame in anything. I saw this as a celebration of how beautiful most of these women are au naturelle (except Hillary - no filter can fix her ugly).
Ah, shaming women. The favourite hobby of spiteful people.
BP always rants again body shaming. But if it is about celebrities. They ought to be perfect, beautiful, slim...
Waaaaah!
Yes Kathleen, you are so right on & I so much agree with you. I grow so sick of it. Let's congratulate and stand up for weman but instead we are the worse at being critical. This attack is than passed down bc this behavior is what we TEACH our children.
yee
It's not shaming women, its showing their natural beauty and getting rid of unrealistic body standards.
Oh yeah, you know Bored Panda, always woman shaming *rolls eyes *. This is an article about a phone app that shows celebrities but somehow you've turned yourself into the victim here. Way to go.
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How could it possibly be shaming them? It's merely showing now they naturally look. Do you think being natural is something to be ashamed of? I'd say the opposite.
The only thing is the app makes them look like they have bad skin and ugly bald eyes! I don't know many woman who look that weird without make-up. But yes nothing wrong with no make-up. Also nothing wrong with make-up. Whatever floats your boat.
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.
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.
I don't quite see makeup removal as body shaming. In my opinion, people look better in the no-makeup pictures, most of the time. I feel that it is more of a process of revelation of one's natural beauty. If one wants to play with options and mix in some makeup, well, that can be fun. But I almost invariably prefer a non-enhanced face.
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).
Agreed with you
You know you can post pictures too right?
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no. men don't wear makeup... also, many men hate makeup on women... also, the non-makeup pics make them look more normal and they are all still pretty.
Why does the app assume everybody has blotchy and dead looking skin??
and no eyelashes
Scratching my head trying to find out the purpose of this post...
Ha. How many people saw this post and said, "This seems like a good idea!" before you actually put it up? I suspect the comments will not be kind to you and rightfully so, frankly. Jesus Christ.
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)
Sooo almost everyone look pale as heck
Some of the pictures from this filter app makes the people look like extras in a horror movie.
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
Its kind of hard to predict skin discoloration. And not everyone has non-existent eyelashes.
Here's what happens when it's tested out on FEMALE celebrities ONLY.
No men I see.... typical.
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Name me some male celebrities who wear make-up.
Uh how about all of them? If they're in a movie or on a red carpet or being interviewed like all these women are, they are wearing makeup.
I want to put the filter on the same pic over and over again and see what happens