The before and after images offered a striking look at what these apps can do with just a few taps of a finger.
"What I was particularly scared by on that was how much like a game it is to do it," he said."You take a picture of yourself and, as you're changing it, you can look at a before and after very easily. It also makes you feel very inadequate about what you look like in this game-y way." As he witnessed the girls edit their photos, he realized that they all seemed to do the same things ― enlarge their eyes and plump their lips, for example ― which he felt was a reflection on how people see beauty at the moment. Interestingly, he said, the individuals didn't really like the altered versions of themselves, but they did feel like the edited images would warrant more likes on social media.
In his opinion, being the better version of yourself is about looking like yourself, not someone else. And being able to so easily"change the makeup of your face or the makeupyour face to look like somebody else or like a beauty norm or ideal, that seems like a really bad way of approaching who you are as a human being."
This is sad