Faced with the obsession with filters, influencers promote their conscious use and the defense of the real image

Raise your hand who resists the temptation to use a filter on Instagram. Not a stone in the confessional of the vanities. Right now, while I’m writing, I’m rehearsing in front of my cell phone, Friday a holiday with a clean face, and it’s difficult to choose the stripped photo from the gallery given the range of options with, at least, minimal retouching.

The use of filters it can become a vice, or what is worse, a pathological obsession. The specialists are already talking about selfie dysmorphiasomething like getting to believing the fictional image of the networks and not tolerating the one that the mirror returns to us.

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“It is a variant or derivation of what we know as body dysmorphiawhich is when a person, faced with an imperfection that may or may not be real, begins to obsess and that disrupts your mental health and daily life, because you are constantly searching Modify that alleged mistake. With selfies this phenomenon was aggravated, the filter becomes the due image. But the happiness obtained in a click quickly fades and when the person faces the mirror, then frustration, anguish, and anger appear”, explains Mara Fernández, a psychologist specializing in beauty disorders.

He bold glamor He came to add more fuel to this bonfire. This new TikTok filter not only refines your face, fills your lips, refines your nose, erases wrinkles, smoothes your skin and puts on makeup in a single click, like so many others, but by being intelligently designed artificial does not jump with movements, becomes undetectable except for those who know you face to face and know that none of what they are selling through the screen has to do with you. Well, that filter was used more than six million times only in its first month of launch and in addition to furor, it sparked several controversies.

It makes you fit for the imposed hegemonic beauty standards, reflects Daniela López (@soydadatina) the influencer who teaches us how to take care of the skin without spending fortunes on products that are impossible to obtain and pay for, while acknowledging the challenge of resisting the drive magic of falling into the temptation of becoming China Suárez at the touch of a button: “I saw myself with those filters, I looked much prettier and then I turned it off and I felt horrible, you wonder why I can’t be like that.”

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“Followers have told me that They came to take photos with the filter that they take to plastic surgeons and they tell them how you can do to leave me like this. As a beauty content generator, wanting to explain how makeup or shadow works, hiding everything behind a filter doesn’t make sense, for that I don’t do anything. That’s why I started using the hashtag #realskinto show how a skin with makeup really looks, a skin that has acne or rosacea, or blemishes, as we all have,” she said.

We are not proclaiming to walk the networks with a clean face, nobody asks us so much. Although to Dahlia Gutman His followers celebrate it as a great crusade to film yourself without preamble, every time you have something to say or wherever an idea comes to you, grab the phone and start recording. “Many women thank me for something as insignificant as publishing my natural face, without filters” She tells us from a story without makeup, without added eyelashes, or cheekbones, or blush, or extra tan. It is fabulous to think that we are surprised to see passing in the feed someone with a face without aggregates.

If you reached this point in the note with any intention of moderating the compulsive retouching of our features, I leave you with the filter invented by Agustina Suásquita, better known as @paprykaok. “I began to question myself, to say that it is not free to be seeing me, seeing all of us on a screen with a face that is not yours. At one point I got tired of seeing my face modified and so I created my own filter (they look for it on ig as Zafarelli) that does not alter any feature of the face. I did it with a little texture, a slight blur on the skin and it had a very good impact. It’s good, I use it a lot, I must say that at one point I also questioned it; I thought that it is still a contribution to an image of perfection, which is what I want to dismantle”.