People Are Asking Plastic Surgeons To Make Them Look Like Snapchat Filters

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There’s no doubt that the selfie culture exploded all over the world. It was so huge that the Oxford Dictionary added it and named it as word of the year in 2013.

But some people might underestimate how much selfies actually impact our lives. Sure, it may just look like “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a  smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website” (that’s it’s actual definition), but a selfie is so much more than that—it’s the you that you project to the world.

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Researchers at Boston Medical Centre found that people are changing their perception of beauty thanks to photo-centred social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat.

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We’re getting used to seeing faces and hair altered digitally by these camera filters, and it’s triggering body dysmorphic disorder in some people who are now asking plastic surgeons to turn their IRL faces into their online faces… permanently.

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Neelam Vashi, director of the Ethnic Skin Centre at Boston Medical Centre said in a press release, “Filtered selfies can make people lose touch with reality, creating the expectation that we are supposed to look perfectly primped all the time.”

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Whoops! It might be time to cut back on those heavily filtered photos and start appreciating the #wokeuplikethis, #nomakeup, #nofilter and #bareface in our feeds.

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