This is how Instagram filters have gotten out of hand

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Before the internet, there was also flirtation.

was the first to hit the brakes on her aging and

they placed on the camera to

her image and hide wrinkles is mythical.

Even she, beautiful like few others, wanted to 'last' longer smooth.

That average, in fact, is preserved in the museum that RTVE has in the Sant Cugat production center in Barcelona.

Time has passed and now, in the universe of mobile applications, there are hundreds of options to transform the human face.

You can grow old, put on your hair green, become a cartoon, a work of Warhol,

... These tools are joined by those already incorporated by networks like Instagram with their famous

that, by magic, they leave us like a brush even though we are like foxes.

'tricks'

are like Cinderella's enchantment, the one that left her with a pumpkin and an apron past midnight.

What happens is that one thing is to remove dark circles and another... to

a new face.

A few days ago, the singer and songwriter

posted a 'post' complaining precisely about this matter.

She explained how the existence of an app had reached her through an ad that changed her face so much that the original person was no longer visible:

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The effect of this

is so decisive that both people, the incoming and the outgoing, look the same as an egg to a chestnut, excuse me.

The singer admitted to using filters because "they fix your life", especially for women like her who are raising small children and working at the same time, ergo they don't always have time to look perfect.

But she warned of the danger of not looking for an improvement, but of inventing what one is not: "I think we are going crazy," she said.

Julia Vidal Fernández,

health psychologist and director of the Human Area, is an expert in body image issues.

Paradoxically, she considers that those filters that transform one into another person are not 'dangerous' from the point of view of self-acceptance, because she is so far removed from us that she is not a real aspiration.

On the other hand, when the resulting image responds to an improvement, we see it as more accessible to achieve and favor an increase in body dissatisfaction: "You don't see yourself as another person, but rather you look more beautiful than in reality and that can frustrate us," he says.

In fact, in 2018, a study conducted by Flinders University in Australia concluded that "exposure to

on Instagram has a detrimental impact on body image."

Even a couple of years ago, a controversy arose because the filters of this social network were increasing surgical interventions to look like those retouched images, specifically, those that copied the slanted

of the eyes.

"People are tired of posturing"

Not all social network users improve their appearance with filters, or at least not always.

Noemí Navarro is an 'influencer', an occupation to which he has dedicated himself professionally for more than five years.

He has more than 200,000 followers and, in addition to his account, @noemimisma, where he comes out ideal from death, he also has another, @noemimismafails, in which he shows the image of himself unedited and without filters:

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"I also take great care of my photos, I use filters, but I don't like those that change your face," he acknowledges.

She uses them because they achieve

lighting

, but "little more", she says.

"I have also shown my imperfections, my stretch marks... People really like to see it because they are tired of so much posturing. We all like the idyllic, but that harms our mental health," she admits.

tips to look good in photos

Filters are not the only way to get top 10 photos. Miriam Llantada is a psychologist and promoter of beauty and wellness issues and has written 'Pretty inside, happy on the outside'.

She offers in this video tricks to optimize our image in photos, which is summarized in:

For Llantada, filters are interesting when they are used as a game and, in the same way as makeup and hairstyle, with a point of enjoyment and from the perspective of self-care.

In addition, they can help us connect with overlapping facets of our personality: "If you're shy, for example, wearing red lips will bring out more hidden emotions from you," she explains.

The problem comes when

are always used .

"There are beautiful girls, with perfect skin, who use them. The rest, perfectly normal girls, are going to think that

with them for not having that complexion, those eyes, those lips, and they are going to wish they had them," he warns.

Therefore, it is the massive use of these perfectly retouched

on networks and with the same standards, almost from

, which generates a

and erases, at a stroke of the pen, the

that exists in the street, that is, in the real life.

"That generates a negative impact, because it touches a very vulnerable part of the human being that leads us to seek acceptance and belonging to a group," he says.

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