Someone Is Editing Celeb Pics To Fit Today’s Influencer Beauty Standards And People Have Mixed Feelings (30 New Pics)
Even the abundance of cat pics and wholesome posts isn’t enough to hide the fact that the internet isn’t just about making people smile. When you enter the realm of beauty on social media, you have to prepare not just for artistic and aesthetic photos but also for what lies beneath the surface—society’s barely constrained desire to look ‘perfect’ at all times and how damaging unrealistic beauty standards can be.
Case in point—the popular ‘Goddess Women’ Instagram account with 319k followers whose founder photoshops already beautiful-looking celebrities to make them fit social media influencer beauty standards. Have a scroll through some of their latest photoshops and let us know what you think, dear Readers, because the internet’s divided into two camps about this content.
The content they put out raises some very interesting questions about beauty standards, how much is too much, and to what extent trying to replicate these digitally-altered photos can be damaging. After all, research has shown that unrealistic beauty standards can have powerful negative consequences. You’ll find part 1 of Bored Panda's article series about the ‘Goddess Women’ IG page right here.
This post may include affiliate links.
Margot Robbie
Monica Bellucci
The ‘Goddess Women’ IG page is slightly controversial and gets people fired up, whichever side of the fence they fall on because the social issues that the account draws attention to have very tangible effects on people, especially young women.
On the one hand, you have people who very openly love looking at aesthetic content on social media. They believe that the ‘Goddess Women’ page is all about using Photoshop and filters to create digital art (of sorts) and to show the founder’s interpretation of what they find to be beautiful. However, far from everyone thinks this way.
Emma Watson And Margot Robbie
In the first one they look so pretty but then in the second they look fake pretty
Phoebe Tonkin
@StreamFan 68 While some Women have been influenced enough to do such things, Men have also joined the throng. There are many Male influencers of actual note, Males that have been catapulted to stardom and have also had work done, add filters, create fictional content for likes and popularity. While Instagram and Social Media is the platform of now, the Males leading the way have been in control for much of history in why Women do such things. Male Clothing Designers making it impossible to wear their content unless fitting a standard they dictate. The control of publications that dictated how Women should walk, talk and just be the Super Woman that she is meant to be, but also to be very sure she does not get out of control. Men were in heels, dyed their hair and wore frills and ribbons in many parts of history. Women and young girls are definitely losing their identities amongst this level of crazy, but do not think for a moment that Men and young boys are not doing the same.
Load More Replies...
Wat movies has she been in, i feel like ive seen her before, pls reply, i reallt wanna know
She's been in H2O, The Originals, The Vampire Diaries, Tomorrow When the War Began, Bloom, Safe Harbour, The Place of No Word and a few others
Load More Replies...
When older actresses have modifications made.. lips, whatever... face lifts..botox, all that.. I seriously am sad or them... I realize they can still squeeze the last bit of juice out of there blessed looks they were once given. I realize that.. But when I see them do this.. I see "struggle".. and sadly enough a person losing a war.. a war they should refuse to try and fight.. watching 40+ year old women still try and play the role of a much younger woman seems tragic to me. Aging gracefully should be celebrated and revered and it isnt... its truly mental health issue bigtime...
When I see women do so much to themselves... not talking these filters but when they basically pay and have themselves removed... when they pay thousands of dollars for makeup..and for surgerys... I see physical evidence of low levels of pure insanity.. When a person resorts to chopping up there bodys ...removing parts.. its scary.. Its really alarming to see society normalize it too... This to me is NO different than a person wanting to have an amputation of a leg... on purpose... Its truly on that level... and its soo detrimental to not only themselves, but to society... society who they intentionally try and coerce into influencing...
I really don't think having a nose job because you feel self conscious about your nose or having Botox to feel better is the same as wanting to have your arm or leg amputated, and the fact you've compared the 2 makes me worry for YOUR mental state not these womens!
Load More Replies...Others are concerned that the IG page is making unrealistic, photo-edited beauty standards the norm. What’s more, there’s an underlying hint there that even though the photoshopped pictures do feature beautiful women, they also ignore the fact that it’s our ‘imperfections’ that can also make us look beautiful.
In other words, ‘perfection’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be because it doesn’t necessarily have as much character. Though research has shown that we’re all drawn to symmetry, that’s not the whole picture because, as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as well.
Kristen Stewart
Earlier, I’d reached out to Nuno Albuquerque, the Head of Treatment for the UK Addiction Treatment Group, and spoke to him about social media addiction. According to him, it’s a new phenomenon that even professionals in the field are learning more and more about each and every day.
Megan Fox
Emilia Clarke
She doesn't even look like Emilia Clarke in the edited photo, so what's the point? All the edited photos look like the same woman in different styles. Enough of it!
Albuquerque explained that the line between being addicted to social media and being a regular user can be unique. However, the main point is to recognize whether or not someone has lost the power of choice. In short, if somebody can’t stop scrolling through social media or posting photos for likes on Instagram, then there’s a problem.
Anya Taylor-Joy
Scarlett Johansson
Honestly i think that she looks better in the first pic because she is smiling!
"If the person cannot undertake their regular day to day routine without being on social media or needing to get back to being on social media, as in they have potentially developed not only a psychological desire to be online but also physical urges begin as well, then there could well be an addiction there," he explained.
Monica Bellucci
Gal Gadot
This is what leads to so many young women feeling like they are not good enough. Take a beautiful person and remove every single thing that gives her any individuality, anything that is considered a flaw.
You can say that somebody has developed an unhealthy relationship with social media if they develop mental health issues from being online: feeling anxious or depressed because you’re using social media are examples of this.
Jennifer Lopez
Anne Hathaway
“For some people we have treated at our UK Addiction Treatment Centres, being on social media is a trigger for them to then misuse drugs or alcohol,” Albuquerque explained that it’s not an isolated issue. “During therapy, we address why a person drinks alcohol or misuses drugs, and for some, it is because of their unhealthy relationship with social media.”
Dakota Johnson
Phoebe Tonkin
But what can be done about this? Well, Albuquerque pointed out that the most important piece of advice to take home is to be mindful and aware. That means checking in with yourself while using social media and afterward asking yourself how you feel.
Blake Lively
Emilia Clarke
“Can you now switch off and get on with your day? Any negative feelings or inability to move on from being online should be a red flag.” So keep that in mind when you check to see if you're addicted to social media and everything that this entails.
Rihanna
Margot Robbie
So naturally beautiful, not much difference between these,except the one on the right looks fake, of course.
What do you think about the ‘Goddess Women’ Instagram page, dear Pandas? Do you enjoy the content the founder creates or do you think it helps promote unrealistic body standards? Let us know what you think about this and about any other social media-related issues in the comments!
Dakota Johnson
Cameron Diaz
The second picture looks like she should be staked through the heart. It is freaky
Stella Maxwell
Alexandra Daddario
Jennifer Lawrence
Johny Depp And Winona Ryder
Monica Bellucci
Dakota Johnson
I’ve always thought what makes her uniquely pretty are the slight bags under her eyes. They give her a vulnerability that’s attractive. You erase that, you erase the personality from her face.
Angelina Jolie
Kendall Jenner
Note: this post originally had 78 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
That is horrible, and now most of them look the same. Stop trying to promote these beauty "standards"
That is exactly the point the artist is trying to make.
Load More Replies...
Ladies- you don't need all of this fake bullshit. You are beautiful as you are. It sickens me to think about all of the children out there seeing this photoshopped s**t thinking they need to look like this. It's no wonder mental illness rates are increasing every year. Look at this fake (LITERALLY ) s**t you compare yourselves to.
So what I gather is; make the skin darker you you can airbrush makeup and make the lips, eyes, chest and butts bigger. That's pretty much 90% of these. All of them look fine before. What makes all people beautiful isn't that they all look the same, it's that everyone looks different.
This isn’t that bad or unobtainable. All you need to do is: Lighten your hair and change the texture; if it’s straight, make it curly and if it’s curly, make it straight or crunchy looking. Darken your eye makeup; false lashes, more eyeliner, more defined crease. Lighten your irises. Come on, this one is so simple. No matter what, your lips aren’t big or matte enough. Even if you’re Scarlett Johansson or Angelina Jolie. Make. Them. BIGGER. Oh, and no Cupid’s bow. Make your nose skinner, shorter, and have a slight ski slope. Heaven forbid your nose has any features outside of Anglo Saxon. If it does, FIX IT. Always be caramel colored. Your race means nothing and neither does your individuality. You must be the color of burnt sugar milk at all times. And lastly, simply remove your skin texture. You should have no pores whatsoever, & NEVER have bags under your eyes (avoid this by smiling with your mouth but keeping your eyes still and dead).
Good Christ, it never ends. What a stupid post. Someone needs to get a better hobby that this garbage.
Absolutely NO to all of them.... the original pix are perfect... the second ones are so cartoonish!
How did so many people miss the point of this article. The celebrities were edited to LOOK LIKE TODAYS BEAUTY STANDARDS FOR INFLUENCERS. this article, and the edited photos were literally made to highlight the beauty standards in todays society, the artist was not editing them to look better jfk. If you don't like how the edited photos look then have a look at the world!!!! this is the beauty standard!!!! if you don't like it then help women feel like they don't have to comply to them so that women can feel safe and comfortable in their own bodies!!!!!!
Do they not realize that, as "beauty & style" influencers that they put these expectations on themselves?! No one asked them to hop on youtube & do tutorials and start photoshopping themselves...
I see natural beauty vs a filter. No, STOP we can't live through a filter lens!
Can someone explain me whats the deal with these dead looking shinning eyes on most of the pictures lol ? They are scary af.
Creepy. An army of plastic dolls with identical eyes and mouths. (And what's up with lightning eyes everywhere??)
Soo, if this keeps up, actors will soon have to be replaced by robots.
note none of these edited ladies have skin texture, they have had their eyes brightened, features smoothed, layers of digital make-up, hair thickened, it goes on and on. I get what the artist is trying to do, it just shows how ridiculous it is but there are so many women out there that do this to their pics on IG, never mind just celebrities, it's a false sense of reality, even though the ladies themselves know that the people in their real life know they don't truly look like that, when it starts, it doesn't stop. I saw that with an "influencer" who was known for photo-shopping her pics posted a photo of herself at the age of 7/8 & even that was photoshopped. Once you have that skewed version of your "ideal self" you don't want to see anything yourself as anything else and that's how you develop a complex about your looks irl.
I don’t like it... it’s all just bigger lips bigger boobs more eyeliner shorter skirts. No...
Why can't they just be left beautiful as they were in their original pictures. Life isn't flawless and it's apps like photoshop that make the younger generations of today feel inadequate and unhappy in their perfectly normal and beautiful bodies. This needs to be stopped! The media can be so cruel!
all of these women are so beautiful without editing, and this is the kind of stuff that makes young people (and people in general) so insecure, and can even lead to poor mental heath. we NEEEEED to stop editing pictures. if you have acne: that's fine. freckles: that's fine. wrinkles: that's finee! you look wonderful and shouldn't look fake to be considered pretty
Most of these have had the whites of their eyes brightened, lashes and deep eye makeup added. They have also had their jaws narrowed and teeth brightened and lips plumped. Hair changed. Matte effect. Basically, the after photos are Kardashian-ized. You can't buy class, but you can resemble one of the classless.
I , for one, give not one toss about these so-called "influencers" and their skewed beauty standards... there is a standard alright, a misogynist one- it's called erasing a woman's identity, her uniqueness taken away and replaced by some Stepford Wives' plasticised version. Not for me. (My POV is probably affected by my age... but I value distinctiveness in people).
Big nah for this topic. Some pictures just get lighter version. Terrible thing
I think these are trying to show that you can be beutiful without editing, and showing how much of a change there is between reality and social media.
"Insta hot", otherwise known as fake. Also, all of the ladies look the same...
I honestly don't understand how some girls think that the only way they will loom beautiful is with a small skinny body and a pound of makeup like honestly social media is a toxic environment ruining peoples self esteem. and who cares what other people think.
I guess they want all their “Goddesses” to look the same. Taking away their uniqueness and making them fit into the insta-idealised beauty is horrible. I’ve noticed it creeping into tv and films to the point that in a recent Netflix series I actually struggled to distinguish between female characters who all seemed to be slim, same makeup, same long glossy hair etc.
What is this? Most look the same with different coloring. Dumbest post I've seen in a while.
So, what we’re saying that extremely beautiful women are not beautiful enough. This is messing with people’s head and it should stop. We’re deluding ourselves with the idea that in order to be attractive we need to lose our human features. These are not standards because they don’t exist.
They shouldn't feel like s**t. Every edited ones look kind of unhuman, without soul if you will.
Load More Replies...
Honestly, I wouldn't have a clue who the person was if they didn't add the name. Flaws are what makes us beautiful.
I think you guys are missing the point. When she’s editing the photos she’s CALLING OUT the influencer beauty standards. That’s why she’s giving everyone the same style, and using celebrities, and if you read the information given in the article at the top you would see. She’s not promoting these twisted beauty standards, she’s calling them out. Yes, she photoshopped everyone with just more makeup, but that’s because she wanted to show how the standards take someone and just dump product on them. I’m not saying that’s always bad (you do you) but it promotes a false standard. And she took already beautiful people to show how even they aren’t perfect under those standards imposed by influencers.
You can make this point without adding to the problem. It's like if you see a person hitting a child and say "Oh no, stop" and then hit the child yourself, that's how I see it, personally. I am sure their implication's were good!
Load More Replies... 
I get it, but I don't think it's effective. It's just someone putting filters on celebrities and acting like it's a big political statement.
Load More Replies...
You should write a book, you clearly have so much potential.
Load More Replies... That is horrible, and now most of them look the same. Stop trying to promote these beauty "standards"
That is exactly the point the artist is trying to make.
Load More Replies... Ladies- you don't need all of this fake bullshit. You are beautiful as you are. It sickens me to think about all of the children out there seeing this photoshopped s**t thinking they need to look like this. It's no wonder mental illness rates are increasing every year. Look at this fake (LITERALLY ) s**t you compare yourselves to.
So what I gather is; make the skin darker you you can airbrush makeup and make the lips, eyes, chest and butts bigger. That's pretty much 90% of these. All of them look fine before. What makes all people beautiful isn't that they all look the same, it's that everyone looks different.
This isn’t that bad or unobtainable. All you need to do is: Lighten your hair and change the texture; if it’s straight, make it curly and if it’s curly, make it straight or crunchy looking. Darken your eye makeup; false lashes, more eyeliner, more defined crease. Lighten your irises. Come on, this one is so simple. No matter what, your lips aren’t big or matte enough. Even if you’re Scarlett Johansson or Angelina Jolie. Make. Them. BIGGER. Oh, and no Cupid’s bow. Make your nose skinner, shorter, and have a slight ski slope. Heaven forbid your nose has any features outside of Anglo Saxon. If it does, FIX IT. Always be caramel colored. Your race means nothing and neither does your individuality. You must be the color of burnt sugar milk at all times. And lastly, simply remove your skin texture. You should have no pores whatsoever, & NEVER have bags under your eyes (avoid this by smiling with your mouth but keeping your eyes still and dead).
Good Christ, it never ends. What a stupid post. Someone needs to get a better hobby that this garbage.
Absolutely NO to all of them.... the original pix are perfect... the second ones are so cartoonish!
How did so many people miss the point of this article. The celebrities were edited to LOOK LIKE TODAYS BEAUTY STANDARDS FOR INFLUENCERS. this article, and the edited photos were literally made to highlight the beauty standards in todays society, the artist was not editing them to look better jfk. If you don't like how the edited photos look then have a look at the world!!!! this is the beauty standard!!!! if you don't like it then help women feel like they don't have to comply to them so that women can feel safe and comfortable in their own bodies!!!!!!
Do they not realize that, as "beauty & style" influencers that they put these expectations on themselves?! No one asked them to hop on youtube & do tutorials and start photoshopping themselves...
I see natural beauty vs a filter. No, STOP we can't live through a filter lens!
Can someone explain me whats the deal with these dead looking shinning eyes on most of the pictures lol ? They are scary af.
Creepy. An army of plastic dolls with identical eyes and mouths. (And what's up with lightning eyes everywhere??)
Soo, if this keeps up, actors will soon have to be replaced by robots.
note none of these edited ladies have skin texture, they have had their eyes brightened, features smoothed, layers of digital make-up, hair thickened, it goes on and on. I get what the artist is trying to do, it just shows how ridiculous it is but there are so many women out there that do this to their pics on IG, never mind just celebrities, it's a false sense of reality, even though the ladies themselves know that the people in their real life know they don't truly look like that, when it starts, it doesn't stop. I saw that with an "influencer" who was known for photo-shopping her pics posted a photo of herself at the age of 7/8 & even that was photoshopped. Once you have that skewed version of your "ideal self" you don't want to see anything yourself as anything else and that's how you develop a complex about your looks irl.
I don’t like it... it’s all just bigger lips bigger boobs more eyeliner shorter skirts. No...
Why can't they just be left beautiful as they were in their original pictures. Life isn't flawless and it's apps like photoshop that make the younger generations of today feel inadequate and unhappy in their perfectly normal and beautiful bodies. This needs to be stopped! The media can be so cruel!
all of these women are so beautiful without editing, and this is the kind of stuff that makes young people (and people in general) so insecure, and can even lead to poor mental heath. we NEEEEED to stop editing pictures. if you have acne: that's fine. freckles: that's fine. wrinkles: that's finee! you look wonderful and shouldn't look fake to be considered pretty
Most of these have had the whites of their eyes brightened, lashes and deep eye makeup added. They have also had their jaws narrowed and teeth brightened and lips plumped. Hair changed. Matte effect. Basically, the after photos are Kardashian-ized. You can't buy class, but you can resemble one of the classless.
I , for one, give not one toss about these so-called "influencers" and their skewed beauty standards... there is a standard alright, a misogynist one- it's called erasing a woman's identity, her uniqueness taken away and replaced by some Stepford Wives' plasticised version. Not for me. (My POV is probably affected by my age... but I value distinctiveness in people).
Big nah for this topic. Some pictures just get lighter version. Terrible thing
I think these are trying to show that you can be beutiful without editing, and showing how much of a change there is between reality and social media.
"Insta hot", otherwise known as fake. Also, all of the ladies look the same...
I honestly don't understand how some girls think that the only way they will loom beautiful is with a small skinny body and a pound of makeup like honestly social media is a toxic environment ruining peoples self esteem. and who cares what other people think.
I guess they want all their “Goddesses” to look the same. Taking away their uniqueness and making them fit into the insta-idealised beauty is horrible. I’ve noticed it creeping into tv and films to the point that in a recent Netflix series I actually struggled to distinguish between female characters who all seemed to be slim, same makeup, same long glossy hair etc.
What is this? Most look the same with different coloring. Dumbest post I've seen in a while.
So, what we’re saying that extremely beautiful women are not beautiful enough. This is messing with people’s head and it should stop. We’re deluding ourselves with the idea that in order to be attractive we need to lose our human features. These are not standards because they don’t exist.
They shouldn't feel like s**t. Every edited ones look kind of unhuman, without soul if you will.
Load More Replies... Honestly, I wouldn't have a clue who the person was if they didn't add the name. Flaws are what makes us beautiful.
I think you guys are missing the point. When she’s editing the photos she’s CALLING OUT the influencer beauty standards. That’s why she’s giving everyone the same style, and using celebrities, and if you read the information given in the article at the top you would see. She’s not promoting these twisted beauty standards, she’s calling them out. Yes, she photoshopped everyone with just more makeup, but that’s because she wanted to show how the standards take someone and just dump product on them. I’m not saying that’s always bad (you do you) but it promotes a false standard. And she took already beautiful people to show how even they aren’t perfect under those standards imposed by influencers.
You can make this point without adding to the problem. It's like if you see a person hitting a child and say "Oh no, stop" and then hit the child yourself, that's how I see it, personally. I am sure their implication's were good!
Load More Replies... I get it, but I don't think it's effective. It's just someone putting filters on celebrities and acting like it's a big political statement.
Load More Replies... You should write a book, you clearly have so much potential.
Load More Replies... 