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In different eras of human history, there were different standards of beauty, both female and male. It is enough to look at ancient statues, ceremonial portraits of the Middle Ages or paintings by the great masters of the Renaissance to understand how radically these very standards have changed. But what can we say - even in the 20th century alone, at least four approaches to what is beautiful and what could, for instance, be retouched, have changed.

Around the end of the nineties, Photoshop firmly entered our lives, and real life finally diverged from what we see on the pages of fashion magazines. Yes, in recent years the world has been steadily moving towards the perception of human appearance as it is, without numerous filters and many hours of retouching, but photographers still continue to turn models into similarities of glossy icons according to approximately the same "standard".

Bored Panda has already told about the art project 'Goddess Women', the founder of which takes photographs of famous women of our time - and applies to them the same filters that many social media influencers love so much. As of today, the project's Instagram page can boast over 374K followers, including world stars such as Gigi Hadid or Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, as well as more than 2.6K publications.

From this abundance of photos, Bored Panda carefully selected the most popular ones, so please feel free to scroll to the very end of this list and observe how world-known women could look with all those numerous filters on them. And if the photos we have chosen are not enough for you, then here is the first, second and even third parts of our collection.

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Rachel Mcadams

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We must say that the opinions of people in the comments to the publications are radically different. Some are simply delighted with the retoucher's really outstanding work, and some simply do not understand why all these filters should be applied to already beautiful people. "LOL she's already beautiful without the facetune," writes, for example, one of the commenters to the photo where the actress Alexandra Daddario is depicted.

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Jennifer Lawrence

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They’re just as pretty, if not more so, I’m the before pics. Sheesh. This is a gross idea.

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Britney Spears

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The scary part of this is that at a first, superficial glance, I can barely tell the difference.

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"As a professional, I can judge these shots from two quite different angles," says Dmitry Kravtsov, a Ukrainian photographer who was asked by Bored Panda to comment on these works. "On the one hand, the excellent work of the retoucher is really visible. Almost flawless, you can't say anything. On the other hand, over the years of working with Photoshop and Lightroom, certain 'standards' for retouching the skin, eyes, lips and etc have been developed - and thus a kind of unification is obtained."

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"Just look, let's say, at one of the photos of Gal Gadot exposed here - commenters are trying to guess who it is, and only a third of people name her correctly. That is, we are faced with a problem when, in an effort to emphasize their individuality, people in fact achieve the exact opposite - they become damn similar to each other. I'm not sure if that's what we really wanted."

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Margot Robbie

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Nina Dobrev

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So even these ladies can’t live up to the photoshop lie. They are all beautiful as is.

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According to statistics provided by Consumer Reports, around 1 out of 5 Americans (21 percent) who has ever had any social media account has used a beauty filter before posting pictures on social media. Among these, 9 percent said they “always or nearly always” use them and 13 percent said they “often” use them.

At the same time, 47 percent of those who regularly retouch their photos are in the age group from 18 to 29 years, and 33 percent - from 30 to 44 years. In other words, these are practically all generations of modern Americans, starting with Gen Z. At the same time, many of the respondents understand that there is a certain problem here.

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"They seem to recreate the same problem that fashion magazines perpetuated in the '80s and '90s - literally unobtainable beauty standards - but on a more insidious microscale," one person that took part in the survey admits. They do understand, but continue doing so simply because almost everyone does it.

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Elle Fanning

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Body in the second pic (skin tone, birthmarks) are giving you an idea how much was done in the first pic. Serioulsly: both are more Photoshop than Elle Fanning.

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Megan Fox

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Alison Hell
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So if the second picture of her is edited....then all her pics must be edited as all I ever see are pics of her looking like the second one.

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Lana Del Rey

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She’s already beautiful. Instagram and social media standards are SO high. It makes people hate themselves

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"The problem with these filters is you see a side of yourself with dramatic filters that don't exist, which corresponds to an unnatural and inhuman ideal of beauty that you can now achieve with filters," says British influencer Faye Dickinson, founder of popular Instagram page 'Filter vs Reality', in her interview with the Daily Mail. "It's the unhealthy obsession we all have with that perfect look."

In any case, there are thousands of social media influencers with millions of followers, and literally all of them continue to live an incredibly beautiful, carefully filtered online life that has almost nothing to do with reality. And people seem to be happy with that. So let's just look at these women. Look and perhaps enjoy.

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Salma Hayek

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If they were going to mess with the picture for some reason, they should have edited below the neck. It doesn't match and looks odd. But as with most of these, she looks better in the first one. People do have pores after all.

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Michael Jackson And Madonna

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You never know what Madonna's going to look like from one day to the next, she has a different face in every picture

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David And Victoria Beckham

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The picture just looks clearer. Slight difference but still looks nice before and after

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Catherine Zeta-Jones

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The left looks like im not wearing glasses and the right is with glasses, same dif just blurry

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Selena Gomez

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This does look better. This met gala look of hers was not her best. Like the makeup artist was still learning how to blend.

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Miranda Kerr

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some of these look fine as when they all get super glam anyways!

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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

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Marilyn Monroe

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Note: this post originally had 40 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.

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