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Black Mirror | Nosedive Featurette [HD] | Netflix

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Black Mirror | Nosedive Featurette [HD] | Netflix

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This episode of Black Mirror satirizes how people portray themselves and how they are viewed, in modern society. The rating system resembles 'likes' that are given to images and posts shared on social media platforms like Instagram.

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Black Mirror | Nosedive Featurette [HD] | Netflix

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How Selfie Filters Warp Your Beauty Standards

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How Selfie Filters Warp Your Beauty Standards

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We're starting to prefer our faces with filters on them to the point that we can hardly bear our real appearances.

Most of us have had the experience of running our selfies through a "beautifying" app like FaceTune or Meitu. It's not all that embarrassing when you consider that whoever saw you virtually smoothing out your skin or slimming your cheeks probably does the same thing to their own front-facing photos. The normality of using filters - the ones clearly intended to prettify as well as the silly ones that just happen to alter our appearance in a photogenic way - may be contributing to the exacerbation of self-esteem issues directly linked to the disparity between our filtered selfies and how we actually appear in the mirror.

Take Kim Kardashian: She previously shared a video of a trip to an aesthetician, the smartphone camera focused on herself as she received an expensive facial, a treatment that requires the removal of foundation and concealer. Kim kept the skin-smoothing, eye-brightening Snapchat flower-crown filter on her face the entire time, as if she was unwilling to show her millions of followers what her natural face - the very skin she was having treated - looks like. It's a tendency I'm familiar with; if I had a dollar for every time one of my friends posted a selfie while they were wearing a skin-care mask and simultaneously veneered with a cuteness-boosting Snapchat filter, I could buy Snapchat. Is it fair for me to assume that they're doing it not so much for the adorableness of the animal noses as the eye-enlarging, chin-shrinking properties that come with them? Perhaps it isn't. But I do know that's exactly why I've done it.

Why do so many of us prefer the filtered versions of our faces? It's not the cat whiskers or bunny ears, as endearing as they may be. "Snapchat filters refine the face," explains Dr. Daniel Maman, a board-certified plastic surgeon in New York City. "They smooth blemishes, wrinkles, and give the skin a glow. Some filters also make the eyes appear bigger and lips plumper." Naturally, we like looking what we've come to believe, through years of exposure to subtly confidence-destabilizing imagery and harmful yet tenacious beauty standards, is our best; it's what motivates us to buy acne spot treatments, conditioner, contour kits. But for some, the desire to look our best means looking "better" than we ever could in the flesh. We justify using filters by telling ourselves that if even the most conventionally beautiful models and actors are Photoshopped for ads and editorial spreads - if someone like Kim Kardashian won't go without foundation unless she's veiled in digital gauze - then surely it's normal, even expected, for us regular folk to present an edited version of our faces; that our as-is faces aren't even acceptable.

According to Heather Senior Monroe, a licensed clinical social worker who holds a masters in social work and serves as the director of program development at Newport Academy, a mental health treatment center that provides support to teens and their families, people who use selfie filters can experience a detrimental disconnect between what they're putting out into the world and not only what they really look like, but who they really are.

"Not only have I observed this in my work with teens, research also shows a clear link between social media use and depression, narcissism, and body-image issues," says Heather. "BDD [Body Dysmorphic Disorder] is a very serious mental health condition in which a person's misperception of how they appear becomes obsessive to the point that it severely affects their everyday functioning. While social media use does not directly cause BDD, it can definitely act as a trigger for teens with genetic or psychological predispositions toward the condition, and it may worsen BDD symptoms in those who are already suffering from the disorder." Although BDD is a more extreme response to the variances between one's filtered selfies and real-life appearance, the more common depression and self-esteem issues associated with them are no less troubling.

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Selfies Could Be Changing Your Definition of Beauty

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We're starting to prefer our faces with filters on them to the point that we can hardly bear our real appearances. Most of us have had the experience of running our selfies through a "beautifying" app like FaceTune or Meitu.

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The Awesome Reason This Chrissy Teigen Cover Is Going Viral Months Later

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The Awesome Reason This Chrissy Teigen Cover Is Going Viral Months Later

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An artist created a satire Women's Health Magazine Cover of a shoot that Chrissy Teigen took to highlight harmful and unrealistic standards of beauty.

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2016/04/108898/fake-chrissy-teigen-cover-women-beauty-standards

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The Uglies is a dystopian book/series in which people are considered 'ugly' until they reach the age of 16, and must undergo extreme cosmetic surgery to become 'pretty'.

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Uglies is a book series by Scott Westerfeld for young adults. Westerfeld originally intended for Uglies to be a trilogy. However, after publishing the series' first three novels, , , and , he ultimately wrote an additional fourth book, . This fourth book is dedicated "[t]o everyone who wrote to me to reveal the secret definition of the word 'trilogy'."

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Teenagers Seek Extreme Procedures to look like Snapchat & Instagram Filters: Plastic Surgeons

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Teenagers Seek Extreme Procedures to look like Snapchat & Instagram Filters: Plastic Surgeons

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Youngsters love the attention they get on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter where selfies act as a key tool to increase popularity. Plastic Surgeons have warned that Snapchat filters should carry health warnings as young people think that they can be made to look like their filtered images.

Teenagers Seek Extreme Procedures to look like Snapchat & Instagram Filters: Plastic Surgeons

British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) has called for the measure. It says that users under 18 are seeking "extreme" procedures in order to look like the online filters that alter their appearance.

Ash Mosahebi, the honorary secretary of BAAPs and a leading private and NHS consultant, told the Telegraph:

teenagers as young as 15 in the last 18 months seeking "extreme" procedures to look like filters.

However, some other Psychologists have added selfie obsession in the list of mental illness as well. They even say that people who continuously post selfies on social media may need help. The reason behind the selfie trend is just to seek approval and attention. Such behavior could lead to mental health problems, especially it can put a bump on self-confidence. It has also been observed that people who are obsessed with selfies after some time they start pointing out too many flaws on their face & in their overall personalities.

The apps like Snapchat and Instagram have also played a major role in increasing selfie obsession, as it has introduced beauty filters which give perfect results when someone clicks a selfie with it.

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Teenagers Seek Extreme Procedures to look like Snapchat & Instagram Filters: Plastic Surgeons - PhoneWorld

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Youngsters love the attention they get on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter where selfies act as a key tool to increase popularity. Plastic Surgeons have warned that Snapchat filters should carry health warnings as young people think that they can be made to look like their filtered images.

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No filters here! Women reveal their best 'ugly' faces in a viral photo challenge - and you won't believe they're the same person

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No filters here! Women reveal their best 'ugly' faces in a viral photo challenge - and you won't believe they're the same person

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No filters here! Women reveal their best 'ugly' faces in a viral photo challenge - and you won't believe they're the same person

Hilarious online trend sees women posting their least attractive photos

Gorgeous girls post stunning selfies wearing makeup, and using filters

They go on to share their best 'ugly' face, proving that looks can be deceiving

The before and afters are shared on Reddit forum 'PrettyGirlsUglyFaces'

While most of us want to look our best in the photos we post online, more and more women are embracing a hilarious trend for posting ugly selfies in which they're practically unrecognisable.

The transformation trend is popular on Reddit, where enthusiasts from around the world head to subforum 'PrettyGirlsUglyFaces' to post stunning snaps alongside their most unflattering looks.

The forum, which is devoted entirely to hideous selfies, receives dozens of submissions a day and has almost 80,000 subscribers.

It promises that there will only be judgement on the snaps if users attempt to maintain their dignity.

But participants are happy to do some enthusiastic gurning, use angles that create multiple chins and ditch make-up to show off breakouts in an effort to look as bad as possible.

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Women reveal their least flattering angles in ugly photo challenge

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Hilarious online trend sees women posting their least attractive photos Gorgeous girls post stunning selfies wearing makeup, and using filters They go on to share their best 'ugly' face, proving that looks can be deceiving The before and afters are shared on Reddit forum 'PrettyGirlsUglyFaces' While most of us want to look our best in the photos we post online, more and more women are embracing a hilarious trend for posting ugly selfies in which they're practically unrecognisable.

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The Business of Beauty is Very Ugly​ | Carrie Hammer | TEDxSantaBarbara

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The Business of Beauty is Very Ugly​ | Carrie Hammer | TEDxSantaBarbara

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The Business of Beauty is Very Ugly​ | Carrie Hammer | TEDxSantaBarbara

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Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model. | Cameron Russell

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Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model. | Cameron Russell

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Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model. | Cameron Russell | TED