Are Instagram Filters Popularising Unrealistic Beauty? _Shift

Available for reading via: https://www.shiftlondon.org/features/are-instagram-filters-popularising-unrealistic-expectations-of-beauty/ In today’s social media-obsessed world, we are now beholden to the powerful lens of Instagram filters to fulfil our fantasies of higher cheek bones, plumper lips, chiseled jaw lines and glistening white teeth. Whilst filters have a fascinating ability to totally transform you into the picture-perfect imagined self, it may come at quite a cost.