Photographer Asks Teens To Edit Their Pics Until They Look ‘Social Media Ready’, Posts The Alarming Results
Teenagers feel a lot of pressure to be and look a certain way. But to what extent? To find out, creative agency M&C Saatchi has partnered with the renowned British photographer Rankin and MTArt Agency. As part of VISUAL DIET, a campaign that explores the impact of beauty standards on mental health, they asked a group of teens to polish their selfies for social media.
“In the series ‘Selfie Harm‘ I was specifically looking and experimenting with the apps that are actually targeted at teenagers,” Rankin told Bored Panda. “They are like playing computer games and consequently are really good fun. I’ve personally enjoyed messing around with them but they are very addictive.”
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The project saw the renowned British photographer shoot a group of teens aged 13-19. They were then asked to spend a few minutes editing the photo until they thought it was good enough to match the Instagram trends. “Initially, we used models and then I wanted to expand it to other teenagers, so we did a call out looking for [more] subjects for the perfect selfie.”
“The program we used was one of many like Facetune <...> but there are hundreds of these apps,” the photographer added. “The main thing is that we weren’t casting people that used these apps, but found teenagers and asked them to try them out. They were shown how to use them, which literally takes seconds as they are very easy to work out, then they did the body image editing themselves.”
Rankin also believes that there is no sense checking around it. “What you can do on these apps is way beyond what photoshopped images. The technology is moving forward very quickly and the idea of being somebody in any way different from the person you are can be exciting, but what are the pitfalls around it. That’s what I’m asking. If you can be even just a ‘more polished’ version of yourself, how hard does it then become to accept who you actually are? This is a very bad influence for mental health and this project is only just scratching the surface of it.”
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All the edited pictures look creepy
agreed, like something out of a horror movie. No thanks, I like the originals.
All the usual - make eyes look bigger, mouths look bigger, slim down the nose, make skin perfectly smooth and characterless. They all end up looking freaky. So much worse than their original selves. Sad.
@Carrie de Luka You are absolutely correct. All these afters are horrible. When I’ve “touch up” any photo of mine, I NEVER go this far. It just makes me laugh at what some younger “kids” think about their self worth shown to the world.
Yep. That’s kinda like some of the stuff I had to do when I worked as a Graphic Designer for a famous candy company in Tacoma, Washington. For the Employee of the Month photos I was told to “pretty them up” by upper management since they were going to be displayed where everyone that came to the company could see them. They even had me remove neck tattoos from the guy that had gotten Employee of the Year. It cracked me up that they wanted me to do that. But the ones I did I never changed their skin tone or made them thinner in the face or moved their ears to make them not stick out.
I know! The originals looked edited anyway
So do lots of the befores. These do not look like normal kids.
I know, right? They already looked eerily perfect to begin with.
the original look better
Lemme let you in on a little secret. 95% of us don't do this.
None of the teenagers have acne? While I get what you are trying to say, why are all of these teenagers perfect?
Yeh, no acne scars or huge pores. I'm jealous of their skin. The before pictures look great
Yeah, I have atopic eczema so I can relate.
I suspect the before pictures are the photographer's 'before' - ie post-processed incl light correction and spot removals
lmao do teens actually get acne bc i only get a pimple once every now and then🤷♂️
That's not very considerate! Now people are going to read your comment and think, "I get acne. I must be abnormal." Teens do get acne. So do adults. It doesn't mean they are "gross" or "dirty". It's an oil imbalance in your skin. I used to get really bad acne and people would tell I needed to stop being so nasty and wash my face more often. I did wash my face! I took a job after school so I could buy expensive facial cleansers and acne treatments, which didn't work. I went through life assuming people were judging me; people who would say inconsiderate things like, "it doesn't happen to me, there must be something wrong with you." I hid my face and cried because of people like you.
only thing i see in the originals is a bunch of lovely people...that need chapstick! other than that, the original untouched photos are beautiful. Chapstick is your friend! Moisturize those lips.
Issac is giving me Draco Malfoy vibes
He looks like the love child of Draco Malfoy and Benidict Cumberbatch
Maybe a little Jeff Sessions thrown in.
Side by side placement would have been easier to show the differences, but it seems that most of the subjects think they should look like elves from the LOTR and Hobbit movies.
Somehow Benedicte (#10) looks the least edited. Almost like she'd only put on makeup. And while scrolling down I somehow knew that she would have made very few changes, because she's smirking a little bit. There is a glint to her eyes that speaks of self-confidence. At least that's what I see.
I agree. She just went from a "day" look to evening. Either way she kept her natural beauty
Agreed, which explains why I prefer hers the most....
These people are beautiful the way they are. Having perfect selfies and getting likes isn't worth turning into a fake version of yourself. That's not what life is about, ladies and gentlemen!
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I suggest that the kids KEEP the alien look! ITS HILARIOUS!!!
Dude. Seriously shut up, its not funny!
Funny how all chose to have a smaller jaw line, and no one is wearing a shirt. As for the "huge foreheads" I think that just happens when one pulls the bangs/hair back.
I hated all the edited pictures. They all look like weird Avatar hybrids. I much prefer the originals, you can see their personalities in those....
"After" photos remind me of Sims characters
Umm uncanny valley much? The edited pictures aren't that good sorry.
If young people do this, image what would older people do? so sad, it shows that society is all about looks (yes, Bored panda, you do this too!). I am depressed these days because people tell me I look old and "tired" and older than I am. Instead of just ignoring them I am really depressed now, so I can understand these kids, society gives too much pressure on all of us. We should know better, but that day is far far away.
Is this real? Because for me every single one of them looks prettier before! And I do mean that. They look weird in the afters, too fake and (very important) not even prettier.
They all look like aliens after wards...blurry scary aliens who eat reptiles.
What's with all the implicit "we love pointy chins"?
So the "social media look" is striving to look like a creepy Barbie doll. Poor kids.
This is not an accurate test. You taught these people how to use an app and then set them free on it, of course they're going to want to play around with it and see what it can do. This in no way represents how much they would actually edit their own photos.
Plus, in the first part he says he literally ASKED them to "polish their selfies". Not only isn't it accurate, it's complete and utter bullshit.
Character vs. bland. Strange, quirky, askew, off-center, uneven, oblique; way more interesting and arresting! I don't want to know plastic, I want to know crinkles, freckles, scars, and laugh lines.
Terrible to see so many young women, beautiful already, interested in changing. Women are given one life like men and body shaming pressure on women (and men) sucks and NEEDS TO END NOW.
Shame that this is inbuild nature. Humans want to find a mate, humans and animals do their best to impress that mate. Males will try to look strong or successful using cars, muscles, tattoos, walking in a stupid way...and females draw on their faces or in this case virtually draw on their faces. It has happened since the dawn of humankind and all animals do it in their own way. There is no pressure. The vast majority of people doesn't do this anyway. Men don't even like too much make up. So stop blaming them. Imagine Cleopatra without her eye make up, lol. Just leave them be, it's not stopping the world form going round.
Photo filters drive me nuts! I laugh when people post pics of themselves with a dozen filters acting as if that's how they actually look, when in reality the picture they posted makes them look like an alien creature.
#5 is defintely waiting for Atreyu to call he name.
Hahha! 😁
where is the f**king acne scars and acne itself where WHERE
it looks like all pictures were edited by 1 person.
Aliens...
They all look literally the same: eyelashes, orange eyeshadow, pupil-less eyes, super-smooth skin, and less of a smile
everyone looks better before they edited their photos.
They all are beautiful people with their own original face type. Like all of us - our hair, eye color, face shape, noses, mouths - everything that makes us unique. But nowadays I feel like every kind of girl I meet on a street or see in music clips, in ads or Instagram looks exactly like one of Kardashians' family - they are all the same: characterless. Boring. Looking artificially.
All their eyes looks like snake eyes 😬
I blame the Kardashians.
Yeah before they came along nobody had ever had a photo edited to make themselves look "better".
Actually, throughout history people have had pictures of themselves somehow edited. Ex. Victorian and Edwardian women faked their small waist by wearing clothes with sides the color of the background in order for it to blend in in a black and white photograph.
Some edited photos do look better, but most of them don't appear to be human to me.
Jeeze...... One of them looked like a 5 year old when he was finished. Hilarious.
Imagine thinking you need to change your face
Terrifying.
They activated the "beauty filter" in the phone camera app
Now I'm so glad that the social media didn't exist when I was a kid.
Hmmm. Even the before pics look digitized. Plus, all the “edits” have a similar style to them. Not sure if I believe this article.
Looks like an army of elves...
I feel bad for the day these girls turn 40-whatever and get their first wrinkle. If they are already this looks-obsessed, they are screwed when gravity catches your ass.
1. they were all gorgeous to begin with. 2. this is really sad that people think they need to change their appearance to be accepted. I don't have like any body positivity but it is still hard to see how much others would want to change themselves
Bradz effect
the before pictures look great - perfect skin - georgeus eyes - beautiful people!!! The after pictures looks creepy with that make up like number 8 ....
Why do they have "lizard eyes"? It makes them look scary
They all look prettier in the first pictures!
The number of these kids who changed their actual facial features (noses, lips), seems really alarming!! To me anyway... a plastic surgeon may like it....
so many of those people are naturally beautiful yet they still feel they need to heavily edit their appearance , in the edited version they all look like aliens, social media has a lot to answer for, young people are under so much pressure to look "perfect" but what under 125s think is perfect I find hideous , glad I grew up in the 90s.
None of the photoshopped ones were improvements.
What's up with everyone wanting a Michael Jackson Official Nosejob™???
So, people basically think they should have tiny noses, fat lips, glass eyes & no pores in their skin.
WTF is up with the alien shaped heads?
It's not so much alarming as thoroughly expectable. Everybody pretty much did the exact same things: made the eyes a little bigger, changed the complexion, slimmed the jaw. It's unfortunate that some very pretty people thought they needed to be enhanced. From the over-the-top headline, I thought I was going to see how everyone went crazy with photoshop. A few people took it too far and made themselves look creepy, and most of us would look at these pictures and see that the eyes aren't right. But I think the most striking thing to come from this exercise is that people didn't go crazy with it.
everyone wants to have super slim nose that looks like alien
The more shocking thing is that everyone agreed on the exact same snap filter...
They look like badly rendered cgi Disney princesses in the touch-up pics. That kind of says a lot there.
All of the before pics win hands down! The edited pics are weird, unnatural, and just feels... wrong. Shocking that teens think this is how they "should" look. All of these young adults are so much more beautiful in the natural pics. :)
Alarming because the edited ones look so demented?
So just make the noses thinner and add makeup? Their reg misses looked better and makeup is the norm so? 🤨
they all look a little alien. the eyes are all stunning in the originals.
#1 edited her ears ): she looks fine as is! Beautiful! It's okay to have little 'flaws' they make you unique!
Sad they all look the same in the edited ones. Filters are giving people body dysmorphia.
I can also make people lips nicer and their eyes sparklilier and add a cool title
I thought the subjects were all quite lovely in the "before" photos. A few of the "afters" weren't TOO bad, the ones where just slight alterations were made, but some of them were downright scary. That first guy? With the blond hair? OMG - scary!
Too much correction. Some hint of reality should be left behind.
#9's eyebrows are great in his first photo, the after one looks really weird. Like this long thin line that goes into his hairline. Not that his original didn't go into his hairline but the before picture is better by far. Some look fine but others look strange or something one would do to their faces if they were going out on the town, at night, like at midnight! LOL Where are the fangs? :-)~
We, have done this to. Them. People are too worried about how they look naturally, and think they aren’t good enough... poor self esteem issues, body issues, there are kids out there that escaped this crap, but not enough do.
They're all so much more interesting and attractive without the editing, and it's sad that they feel like they have to do this.
Horrible and frightening.
So weird. The Instagram ready just look plastic, and the first boy has pretty much lost all contouring; you'd think his nose is just two airholes sticking out of his face. I was glad to see the one girl didn't edit out her freckles/moles.
When I got to the black girl I was reluctant to scroll down because I was sure she'd make her skin lighter...but she didn't! So glad.
The males all change to very androgynous looking. They all slim down their noses an sculpt the facial structure to look less ethnic. Very homogenized.
It would have been much better to have shown the pictures side by side.
They all have beautiful complexions! I don't understand the desire to be so airbrushed you cease to look human though. Some almost give off an alien vibe.
This is meaningless. If it was a psych experiment proposal, it would be instantly rejected. They SHOWED the teens the app then TAUGHT THEM how to use it. Then they PROMPTED THEM to edit the photos. The language used suggested to the teens that their photos already weren't good enough so they needed to Facetune them- that suggestion alone would be enough to taint the results of this if it was a real experiment on social media selfies. They implanted the suggestion that the pics weren't good enough then clearly showed them the program they wanted them to use and taught them how to use it. So all we've learned is that teenagers will do what authority figures tell them to do. Big surprise. The one real take away I'm getting is that we all need better critical thinking skills and also I hope this shoot was heavily supervised. Also, what a shitty format to upload this list in. Side by side, duh. But it's dumb and pointless anyway.
Omg, I am laughing so hard at the edited pictures!
#2 is actually amazing and I only see increased colors and contrast, nothing else. Or am I blind?
Enlarged lips, slightly thinner nose, pointier jaw. And then there's the whole creepy plastic skin filter that they all seem to be using.
they all look like elves from LOTR
All their original pictures are so beautiful. Natural beauty for the win, filter be-gone
Too shiny like plastic
It's the reason instagram filters are so popular.
Wish they would have been side by side...
In my opinion their face works as it is when they change things about their features it highlights other things about the face because it becomes very mismatched in the edited photo yet in the normal photo it looks normal
Issac looks like the Shermanator from American Pie, only blonde and younger.
They all look like that shitty snapchat filter..
Every single one of them changed their noses to be thinner. We can thank the Kardashians for their wonderful example to these kids.
My daughter who is about 3 years younger than the girls was visibly shaken looking at this post. Why? Thry all are so pretty in the before. If you are not good at subtext it is they are so pretty if they feel ugly what does that make me?
And the girls wonder, why the boys run away. + The need of attention is dramatically big nowadays .....
I love the originals, but I think the manipulated ones look just like what people do with makeup every day.
The childlike empress!! She lives, Fantasia must be real! Bastian must still be spinning yarns somewhere..
Nerf Bastian
So they just need some blush and to look like an alien?
SCARY SCARY ALIENS!!!!!!!
Um, that's just how EVERYONE edits headshots when they first learn Photoshop.
I think that everyone should be confident in themselves, but if they wanna edit their photos, or wear makeup, that's their choice.
Looks like everyone was "whitened" up
What? Alot of them bronzed their skin.
Also, narrow noses and pointy chins are not Caucasian exclusive.
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To be fair, some of them looked like aliens in their Before pics hahahahaha
Show us your photo.
Wait.... there were boy pictures??
Most apps have the built in face filters, I use them, don't see what the big deal is. Plus these photos mostly look like before and after makeup. I always like to point out the hypocrisy in that "they" invent these fun little photo taking machines with apps that let us share our photos, they add face filters, and then - they criticize us for using them.
I'm not a very visual person, but my take on this is that the women changed their pictures much more than the men did, but they mostly did it by putting on more "makeup." The men seemed to want thinner eyebrows.
LPC
This is sooooo deep. lol NOT DEEP.
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Too bad # 9 couldn't do something to photoshop those brows clean.
Rude
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Some of these look like they came out of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
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body dysmorphic and sad.
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You can’t convince me that all these teens independently chose to have huge ass foreheads in the after pics. I agree with the concept of this but I don’t buy it that these teens all chose huge alien foreheads with no guidance from anyone else.
They don't have bigger foreheads in the after pics. That's just an optical illusion because they airbrushed the skin and the jawlines are smaller.
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I would tell these kids to keep up the good work! All of the edited pictures look way way way better! I would also encourage them to look into plastic surgery to make this more of a permanent thing.
Good work? Check your monitor and/ or eyes. They either look like androids or wax figures left in the sun and started to melt. And surgery? Teenagers don't need surgery and photoshop to be beautiful.
He's a troll, upvote and ignore so he quits.
I would encourage you to get a lobotomy.
Go fuck yourself, William.
why so hateful?
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nothing but hate from you
PEDOPHILE FAGGOT
does hating help you?
Shock of gayness you have to be the least creative I love it
All the edited pictures look creepy
agreed, like something out of a horror movie. No thanks, I like the originals.
All the usual - make eyes look bigger, mouths look bigger, slim down the nose, make skin perfectly smooth and characterless. They all end up looking freaky. So much worse than their original selves. Sad.
@Carrie de Luka You are absolutely correct. All these afters are horrible. When I’ve “touch up” any photo of mine, I NEVER go this far. It just makes me laugh at what some younger “kids” think about their self worth shown to the world.
Yep. That’s kinda like some of the stuff I had to do when I worked as a Graphic Designer for a famous candy company in Tacoma, Washington. For the Employee of the Month photos I was told to “pretty them up” by upper management since they were going to be displayed where everyone that came to the company could see them. They even had me remove neck tattoos from the guy that had gotten Employee of the Year. It cracked me up that they wanted me to do that. But the ones I did I never changed their skin tone or made them thinner in the face or moved their ears to make them not stick out.
I know! The originals looked edited anyway
So do lots of the befores. These do not look like normal kids.
I know, right? They already looked eerily perfect to begin with.
the original look better
Lemme let you in on a little secret. 95% of us don't do this.
None of the teenagers have acne? While I get what you are trying to say, why are all of these teenagers perfect?
Yeh, no acne scars or huge pores. I'm jealous of their skin. The before pictures look great
Yeah, I have atopic eczema so I can relate.
I suspect the before pictures are the photographer's 'before' - ie post-processed incl light correction and spot removals
lmao do teens actually get acne bc i only get a pimple once every now and then🤷♂️
That's not very considerate! Now people are going to read your comment and think, "I get acne. I must be abnormal." Teens do get acne. So do adults. It doesn't mean they are "gross" or "dirty". It's an oil imbalance in your skin. I used to get really bad acne and people would tell I needed to stop being so nasty and wash my face more often. I did wash my face! I took a job after school so I could buy expensive facial cleansers and acne treatments, which didn't work. I went through life assuming people were judging me; people who would say inconsiderate things like, "it doesn't happen to me, there must be something wrong with you." I hid my face and cried because of people like you.
only thing i see in the originals is a bunch of lovely people...that need chapstick! other than that, the original untouched photos are beautiful. Chapstick is your friend! Moisturize those lips.
Issac is giving me Draco Malfoy vibes
He looks like the love child of Draco Malfoy and Benidict Cumberbatch
Maybe a little Jeff Sessions thrown in.
Side by side placement would have been easier to show the differences, but it seems that most of the subjects think they should look like elves from the LOTR and Hobbit movies.
Somehow Benedicte (#10) looks the least edited. Almost like she'd only put on makeup. And while scrolling down I somehow knew that she would have made very few changes, because she's smirking a little bit. There is a glint to her eyes that speaks of self-confidence. At least that's what I see.
I agree. She just went from a "day" look to evening. Either way she kept her natural beauty
Agreed, which explains why I prefer hers the most....
These people are beautiful the way they are. Having perfect selfies and getting likes isn't worth turning into a fake version of yourself. That's not what life is about, ladies and gentlemen!
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I suggest that the kids KEEP the alien look! ITS HILARIOUS!!!
Dude. Seriously shut up, its not funny!
Funny how all chose to have a smaller jaw line, and no one is wearing a shirt. As for the "huge foreheads" I think that just happens when one pulls the bangs/hair back.
I hated all the edited pictures. They all look like weird Avatar hybrids. I much prefer the originals, you can see their personalities in those....
"After" photos remind me of Sims characters
Umm uncanny valley much? The edited pictures aren't that good sorry.
If young people do this, image what would older people do? so sad, it shows that society is all about looks (yes, Bored panda, you do this too!). I am depressed these days because people tell me I look old and "tired" and older than I am. Instead of just ignoring them I am really depressed now, so I can understand these kids, society gives too much pressure on all of us. We should know better, but that day is far far away.
Is this real? Because for me every single one of them looks prettier before! And I do mean that. They look weird in the afters, too fake and (very important) not even prettier.
They all look like aliens after wards...blurry scary aliens who eat reptiles.
What's with all the implicit "we love pointy chins"?
So the "social media look" is striving to look like a creepy Barbie doll. Poor kids.
This is not an accurate test. You taught these people how to use an app and then set them free on it, of course they're going to want to play around with it and see what it can do. This in no way represents how much they would actually edit their own photos.
Plus, in the first part he says he literally ASKED them to "polish their selfies". Not only isn't it accurate, it's complete and utter bullshit.
Character vs. bland. Strange, quirky, askew, off-center, uneven, oblique; way more interesting and arresting! I don't want to know plastic, I want to know crinkles, freckles, scars, and laugh lines.
Terrible to see so many young women, beautiful already, interested in changing. Women are given one life like men and body shaming pressure on women (and men) sucks and NEEDS TO END NOW.
Shame that this is inbuild nature. Humans want to find a mate, humans and animals do their best to impress that mate. Males will try to look strong or successful using cars, muscles, tattoos, walking in a stupid way...and females draw on their faces or in this case virtually draw on their faces. It has happened since the dawn of humankind and all animals do it in their own way. There is no pressure. The vast majority of people doesn't do this anyway. Men don't even like too much make up. So stop blaming them. Imagine Cleopatra without her eye make up, lol. Just leave them be, it's not stopping the world form going round.
Photo filters drive me nuts! I laugh when people post pics of themselves with a dozen filters acting as if that's how they actually look, when in reality the picture they posted makes them look like an alien creature.
#5 is defintely waiting for Atreyu to call he name.
Hahha! 😁
where is the f**king acne scars and acne itself where WHERE
it looks like all pictures were edited by 1 person.
Aliens...
They all look literally the same: eyelashes, orange eyeshadow, pupil-less eyes, super-smooth skin, and less of a smile
everyone looks better before they edited their photos.
They all are beautiful people with their own original face type. Like all of us - our hair, eye color, face shape, noses, mouths - everything that makes us unique. But nowadays I feel like every kind of girl I meet on a street or see in music clips, in ads or Instagram looks exactly like one of Kardashians' family - they are all the same: characterless. Boring. Looking artificially.
All their eyes looks like snake eyes 😬
I blame the Kardashians.
Yeah before they came along nobody had ever had a photo edited to make themselves look "better".
Actually, throughout history people have had pictures of themselves somehow edited. Ex. Victorian and Edwardian women faked their small waist by wearing clothes with sides the color of the background in order for it to blend in in a black and white photograph.
Some edited photos do look better, but most of them don't appear to be human to me.
Jeeze...... One of them looked like a 5 year old when he was finished. Hilarious.
Imagine thinking you need to change your face
Terrifying.
They activated the "beauty filter" in the phone camera app
Now I'm so glad that the social media didn't exist when I was a kid.
Hmmm. Even the before pics look digitized. Plus, all the “edits” have a similar style to them. Not sure if I believe this article.
Looks like an army of elves...
I feel bad for the day these girls turn 40-whatever and get their first wrinkle. If they are already this looks-obsessed, they are screwed when gravity catches your ass.
1. they were all gorgeous to begin with. 2. this is really sad that people think they need to change their appearance to be accepted. I don't have like any body positivity but it is still hard to see how much others would want to change themselves
Bradz effect
the before pictures look great - perfect skin - georgeus eyes - beautiful people!!! The after pictures looks creepy with that make up like number 8 ....
Why do they have "lizard eyes"? It makes them look scary
They all look prettier in the first pictures!
The number of these kids who changed their actual facial features (noses, lips), seems really alarming!! To me anyway... a plastic surgeon may like it....
so many of those people are naturally beautiful yet they still feel they need to heavily edit their appearance , in the edited version they all look like aliens, social media has a lot to answer for, young people are under so much pressure to look "perfect" but what under 125s think is perfect I find hideous , glad I grew up in the 90s.
None of the photoshopped ones were improvements.
What's up with everyone wanting a Michael Jackson Official Nosejob™???
So, people basically think they should have tiny noses, fat lips, glass eyes & no pores in their skin.
WTF is up with the alien shaped heads?
It's not so much alarming as thoroughly expectable. Everybody pretty much did the exact same things: made the eyes a little bigger, changed the complexion, slimmed the jaw. It's unfortunate that some very pretty people thought they needed to be enhanced. From the over-the-top headline, I thought I was going to see how everyone went crazy with photoshop. A few people took it too far and made themselves look creepy, and most of us would look at these pictures and see that the eyes aren't right. But I think the most striking thing to come from this exercise is that people didn't go crazy with it.
everyone wants to have super slim nose that looks like alien
The more shocking thing is that everyone agreed on the exact same snap filter...
They look like badly rendered cgi Disney princesses in the touch-up pics. That kind of says a lot there.
All of the before pics win hands down! The edited pics are weird, unnatural, and just feels... wrong. Shocking that teens think this is how they "should" look. All of these young adults are so much more beautiful in the natural pics. :)
Alarming because the edited ones look so demented?
So just make the noses thinner and add makeup? Their reg misses looked better and makeup is the norm so? 🤨
they all look a little alien. the eyes are all stunning in the originals.
#1 edited her ears ): she looks fine as is! Beautiful! It's okay to have little 'flaws' they make you unique!
Sad they all look the same in the edited ones. Filters are giving people body dysmorphia.
I can also make people lips nicer and their eyes sparklilier and add a cool title
I thought the subjects were all quite lovely in the "before" photos. A few of the "afters" weren't TOO bad, the ones where just slight alterations were made, but some of them were downright scary. That first guy? With the blond hair? OMG - scary!
Too much correction. Some hint of reality should be left behind.
#9's eyebrows are great in his first photo, the after one looks really weird. Like this long thin line that goes into his hairline. Not that his original didn't go into his hairline but the before picture is better by far. Some look fine but others look strange or something one would do to their faces if they were going out on the town, at night, like at midnight! LOL Where are the fangs? :-)~
We, have done this to. Them. People are too worried about how they look naturally, and think they aren’t good enough... poor self esteem issues, body issues, there are kids out there that escaped this crap, but not enough do.
They're all so much more interesting and attractive without the editing, and it's sad that they feel like they have to do this.
Horrible and frightening.
So weird. The Instagram ready just look plastic, and the first boy has pretty much lost all contouring; you'd think his nose is just two airholes sticking out of his face. I was glad to see the one girl didn't edit out her freckles/moles.
When I got to the black girl I was reluctant to scroll down because I was sure she'd make her skin lighter...but she didn't! So glad.
The males all change to very androgynous looking. They all slim down their noses an sculpt the facial structure to look less ethnic. Very homogenized.
It would have been much better to have shown the pictures side by side.
They all have beautiful complexions! I don't understand the desire to be so airbrushed you cease to look human though. Some almost give off an alien vibe.
This is meaningless. If it was a psych experiment proposal, it would be instantly rejected. They SHOWED the teens the app then TAUGHT THEM how to use it. Then they PROMPTED THEM to edit the photos. The language used suggested to the teens that their photos already weren't good enough so they needed to Facetune them- that suggestion alone would be enough to taint the results of this if it was a real experiment on social media selfies. They implanted the suggestion that the pics weren't good enough then clearly showed them the program they wanted them to use and taught them how to use it. So all we've learned is that teenagers will do what authority figures tell them to do. Big surprise. The one real take away I'm getting is that we all need better critical thinking skills and also I hope this shoot was heavily supervised. Also, what a shitty format to upload this list in. Side by side, duh. But it's dumb and pointless anyway.
Omg, I am laughing so hard at the edited pictures!
#2 is actually amazing and I only see increased colors and contrast, nothing else. Or am I blind?
Enlarged lips, slightly thinner nose, pointier jaw. And then there's the whole creepy plastic skin filter that they all seem to be using.
they all look like elves from LOTR
All their original pictures are so beautiful. Natural beauty for the win, filter be-gone
Too shiny like plastic
It's the reason instagram filters are so popular.
Wish they would have been side by side...
In my opinion their face works as it is when they change things about their features it highlights other things about the face because it becomes very mismatched in the edited photo yet in the normal photo it looks normal
Issac looks like the Shermanator from American Pie, only blonde and younger.
They all look like that shitty snapchat filter..