The TikTok social network has some of the most advanced beauty filters out there. With a single press, we can become whoever we want. And not only that: we can modify our face without going under the knife and see how this or that nose would look on us or, without being so drastic, how that makeup would look on us without having to go through the process.
And with filters, it’s the same as with fashions: from time to time there’s a certain one that goes viral and everyone rushes to try it and marvel at the result. Now it’s the turn of one called the ‘Teenage Look’: what it does, plain and simple, is return your face to the dawn of adolescence. Here we are not only talking about beauty but also about nostalgia. And this feeling is a rising value, there is no doubt.
Using it is very simple: you just have to have the TikTok app installed (available for both iOS and Android), have an account with it, and locate ‘Teenage Look’ in the app’s search engine. At that moment, we just have to stand in front of the front camera of our smartphone and let the magic happen. Or not.
Because there are many people, surely more sensitive than others, who, seeing themselves 20, 30 years younger, cannot suppress their tears. Surely touched by an image that returns to them, like a cruel mirror, a look from when life was easier and simpler. And it is that for many people youth was the happiest time of their existence.
The tweeter Memo Akten has given a good account of this situation, whose thread about the reactions to this ‘Teenage Filter’ has gone viral in recent days, achieving more than 2,000 retweets and almost 13,000 likes. A touching thread, without a doubt, in which anonymous people from all over the world are surprised by a filter with artificial intelligence technology.
Social networks have amplified the concept of beauty. The obsession with youth is not inherent to the present era, but we do have more accessible technology through which we can see ourselves in a different way, perhaps better than we would like. If you are concerned to the point that it is limiting your daily life, please see a mental health professional.
