Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It feels like beauty filters and editing apps are really blurring the line between reality and digital enhancing. So what type of ...

Filters abound on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram, smoothing out skin blemishes, enhancing facial features and in many cases, offering up an unrealistic image of beauty. However, ...

A Chinese beauty influencer’s filter glitched mid-livestream, revealing her natural face and reportedly causing her to lose 140K followers.

As research highlighting how beauty filters can have a damaging effect on mental health grows, calls for social media companies to makes changes are finally being heard. Last week, TikTok – which is ...

The embattled Chinese social media app TikTok has said that over the coming weeks it will start blocking beauty filters after growing research showing that transforming one’s face from its reality ...

Bold Glamour is the latest viral TikTok beauty filter, and users are alarmed at how creepily realistic it is. Experts warn that unregulated use of the filter can distort self-perception and worsen ...

We are increasingly curating our online personas, handpicking the images we share and choosing to present ourselves through a “beautification” lens. This shift has given rise to a quiet revolution: ...

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has become the unexpected architect of beauty standards, subtly redefining our self-image through the filters we apply to our digital selves. From ...

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that in one of the pictures above there has been some digital wizardry going on. Filters have come on a long way since the fun-to-play-with bunny ears first ...

TikTok's It-girl opened up about acne and her use of the app's built-in beauty filter Alix Earle is keeping it real about her struggles with acne. Though she has spoken about her journey with acne ...

Sonia Skrzesinski likes getting beauty advice on Instagram, but she’s picky about her sources. The 17-year-old prefers tutorials from creators who share her values, she said, which in this case means ...