{"id":4209,"date":"2022-01-01T19:38:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T18:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/01\/is-that-really-me-the-ugly-truth-about-beauty-filters\/"},"modified":"2022-01-01T19:38:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T18:38:41","slug":"is-that-really-me-the-ugly-truth-about-beauty-filters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/01\/is-that-really-me-the-ugly-truth-about-beauty-filters\/","title":{"rendered":"Is that really me? The ugly truth about beauty filters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smoother skin, slimmer faces, plumper lips \u2026 how unattainable ideals are harming young users<\/p>\n<p>Popping a beautifying filter on the TikTok video she was filming seemed harmless to Mia. It made it look as though she had done her makeup, took away the hint of a double chin that always bothered her, and gently altered her bone structure to make her just that bit closer to perfect.<\/p>\n<p>After a while, using filters on videos became second nature \u2013 until she caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror one day and realised, to her horror, she no longer recognised her own face.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2022\/jan\/02\/is-that-really-me-the-ugly-truth-about-beauty-filters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3da43d0f057da2936de4fa8347badafed26b01fb\/0_65_1500_900\/master\/1500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7df6c9662557d085be6558cc7dcfd4de\" title=\"Is that really me? The ugly truth about beauty filters\" \/>Smoother skin, slimmer faces, plumper lips \u2026 how unattainable ideals are harming young users<br \/>\nPopping a beautifying filter on the TikTok video she was filming seemed harmless to Mia. It made it look as though she had done her makeup, took away the hint of a double chin that always bothered her, and gently altered her bone structure to make her just that bit closer to perfect.<br \/>\nAfter a while, using filters on videos became second nature \u2013 until she caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror one day and realised, to her horror, she no longer recognised her own face. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoother skin, slimmer faces, plumper lips \u2026 how unattainable ideals are harming young users Popping a beautifying filter on the TikTok video she was filming seemed harmless to Mia. It made it look as though she had done her makeup, took away the hint of a double chin that always bothered her, and gently altered &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/01\/is-that-really-me-the-ugly-truth-about-beauty-filters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is that really me? The ugly truth about beauty filters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}