Defining Beauty in Today’s Society
In today’s society, trends are always coming and going. The term of filters allows you to change your online appearance. Filters allow you to create a funny face like adding dog ears to yourself or distorting or enhancing your face. Recently, TikTok made a beauty filter so realistic, people are shocked when they can move on the screen or put their hand over their face and the filter won’t glitch and break the magic.
Based on philosophers, from an objectivist view beautify is a quality of objects while from a subjectivist view beauty comes from within the beholder. A universal dependence of visual aesthetic preferences is objective, and a cultural dependence of visual aesthetic preferences is subjective. But what makes something or someone beautiful in one’s eyes? It could possibly be from mostly culture values which can be from social statistics and social interactions. In today’s modern world, children are growing up more and more exposed to social media and they get to see what is “beautiful” and what is not.
By seeing this Bold Glamour beauty filter being used all over social media, it is believed that this filter embodies the beauty standard that pulls away from one’s natural look. Everyone makes their own choices on their individual preferences on how they want to look, but even then, we are still sway by the current trends and styles that beauty brands try to create. It’s even easier now with filters to morph and fit in with the trends without having to pick up a make-up brush. Filters allow you to cover up what you believe is your flaws and insecurities to fit in in today’s society and this can affect self-perception and mental health as well. It is believed that people who are constantly on social media viewing other people’s photos and videos are focusing on other’s idealized lives when in reality they used a filter and made some adjustments to their face or body to be accepted in the culture we live in today.
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