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This App Has A Filter To Remove Makeup And People Are Using It To See How Celebrities Look Without It (30 Pics)
There are dozens of beauty apps out there that you can use to make your selfies more polished than you look in real life. If you want to smoothen your skin, darken your eyelashes, or add cat ears (no judgment), technology has you covered. But in “features that we’re pretty sure literally nobody asked for,” here is a photo editing app that does just the opposite by removing makeup from photos for a more natural look.
MakeApp actually has a number of functions that it can perform on photos or videos, using a neural network to imagine what a person’s facial features look like with more or less makeup. It’s the no-makeup feature, though, that has had the most controversial results. Here's what happens when it's tested out on famous people.
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#1
Audrey Hepburn
#3
Angelina Jolie
It’s probably fair to guess that most people aren’t using this feature on themselves. Commenters were quick to point out its sinister uses, saying that it encourages viewing makeup as deception and would most likely be used to jeer at the supposed shortcomings of women’s un-made-up faces. Some called it “a plot to make men think all women are ugly” and criticized its ability to “strip women of their makeup without their consent.”
#4
Jennifer Aniston
#5
Rita Ora
#6
Bella Hadid
Others pointed out that the makeup app actually exaggerates one’s appearance without makeup. Many of the popular celebrities whose doctored photos were used as examples have appeared without makeup in reality looking considerably different. Women who tried out the app on themselves found that it took deepening lines and blemishes so far that it added some that weren’t there in the first place. To prove the point, one journalist put her bare face through the photo filter repeatedly until the app had made her look like a decaying zombie.
#7
Kendall Jenner
#9
Kate Middleton
To sum it up, the neural network has its flaws and we can’t take it as a definitive picture of regular people or celebrities without makeup. But even if you needed help visualizing that celebrities have dark circles and uneven complexion under the layer of contour they’re wearing to brightly lit promo events, that’s nothing shocking—if you think showing someone with normal features like those is some kind of sick burn, you might need to go outside more.
#10
Charlize Theron
#11
Nicole Kidman
Frankenfrog 4 years ago
Please try to get over her having botox or whatever she had done. It's her face to do with whatever the f**k she likes. And she looks beautiful regardless
#12
Jennifer Lawrence
#13
Katy Perry
#14
Scarlett Johansson
#15
Victoria Beckham
#16
Adele
#17
Taylor Swift
#18
Britney Spears
Daniëlle Raats 4 years ago
Not sure if this is sarcasm, ;-) so just to be sure she is 38
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Lea Springstead 4 years ago
I think it's so s****y how the media is focusing on how Britney is aging. Like wow, she is a human being that is effected by the passage of time, did everyone think she was going to remain 17 forever? I was never a fan, but seriously, leave Britney alone. She was thrown into a very public, sexualized life, at a very young age. She's had to deal with a lot of crazy s**t, and lo and behold, she is a human being like the rest of us.
Geri Stevens 4 years ago
I turned 60 last October (2019). This was taken in August 2019. Okay..so I'm wearing a little makeup. And nail polish (= Ottawa-ACO...c2-png.jpg 
KT Trondsen 4 years ago
Jesus, she's only 38!? Thats how old I am and she easy looks 15 years older than me O.o
Molly Block 4 years ago
I wonder if, with this app, do you enter the person's age? To help give accurate results?
Hank Selletti 1 year ago
I think she is beautiful she has gone through a lot and taking the makeup off with CGI don't help none
surprised pikachu 3 years ago
with all the crap she's been through, i can understand why she looks a bit rough
GOT7 STUFF 4 years ago
How about the colour of her skin on her collar bones and neck, are you suggesting they put make up there to lmfao.. Also the colour of the hair.. This app is taking off colour
Suzanne Chalmers 4 years ago
Don’t be mean-Martin Laurson!!!! Too many mean people already in this world!
Kathi Keegan Chang 4 years ago
As women, we can really ruin an actor's day, doncha' think? Women can be so mean about other women.
Tifferooski 4 years ago
That's odd, it aged her really badly. Even her neck. She probably doesn't look this bad.
Colleen Coughlin 4 years ago
Her plastic surgery looks ridiculous... her mouth looks like the Joker's
Shawna Kimble 4 years ago
Actually, having dark hair makes a woman look older.
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Rachel Mcadams
#20
Melania Trump
Christoph Lindemann 4 years ago
Wow ... with yellow – yes, I mean yellow – hair she would look like her husband. The hairstyle is pretty similar.
#21
Emma Watson
#22
Gigi Hadid
#23
Chloë Grace Moretz
#24
Selena Gomez
#25
Ana Kasparian
#26
Emma Watson
#27
Angelina Jolie
#28
Kim Kardashian
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Hans 4 years ago
BP always rants again body shaming. But if it is about celebrities. They ought to be perfect, beautiful, slim...
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Clavelle 4 years ago
Yeah, let's make an app that tells women they shouldn't leave the house without full hair and makeup. This app is horrible and doesnt seem to work. All it does is put a filter over the picture assuming everyone has bags under their eyes. Also, why are the same people posted multiple times? This one story bores me.
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
It fades the eyebrows, removes the lashes (sometimes) and dull the lipstick - but still leaves most lips more coloured than natural. What it doesn't do (if it wanted to be accurate) is remove contouring.
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Nea 4 years ago
Stop this nonsense! One, this is blatant body shaming of women and two, men wear make up too and you could incldue their photos as well if your grand motive was to show the power of make up (for whatever reason you might have).
Night Owl 4 years ago (edited)
Interesting idea for an app but in reality it's pointless and doesn't even work right and since many pictures are already also photoshoped before the app is used on them it really doesn't make sense. And why wasn't it used on some pictures of male celebrities and politicians too? Many of them also wear makeup when in front of cameras. Conclusion: this app is useless (and this BP-post too)
Lazy Panda 4 years ago
I’m calling BS on this app. I downloaded it and took a picture of myself (a man not wearing any makeup) and it still “fixed” my face, basically making me look like a drug addict. Anyone who actually reads an article about shaming celebrities, and of all things using a cheap phone application to do it, needs to find something better to do
Rebecca Schultz 4 years ago
Its kind of hard to predict skin discoloration. And not everyone has non-existent eyelashes.
Otis Spunkmeyer 4 years ago
Does the app not work on people of color, or does the OP prefer to only be negative of white people?
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 4 years ago
Why does this app make women look like they should be in rehab? Pure nonsense app...
Laura is The bombdigity 4 years ago
Instead of taking woman to a pool on a first date guys could use this app to see what they "really look like". Buuuuuuuuut judging someone on their looks alone isn't cool. Yes there needs to be that first initial attraction but why can't that come from charm or someone cracking a super awesome joke? People jump to quickly to judge these days. Slow down people. Give everyone the time of day
Kevin Camp 4 years ago
I never cease to be amazed when people discover that celebrities are people too. The astonishment of the willingly deluded.
Elijah Snow 4 years ago
Yeah, Melania without makeup DOES NOT LOOK like the Orange Cheeto she calls her husband.
Helen Haley 4 years ago
Wow, that app sucks. It makes anyone with a lighter skin tone ashen and gives them the skin texture of a meth addict.
Doc Thissen 4 years ago
I just want to know: Why does anybody really care about this? Is your life so devoid of meaning and excitement that it's necessary to live vicariously through celebrity? I could be wrong, of course. I'm not, however.
John Louis 4 years ago
HERE'S A QUESTION: Has this app been tested with real-life models? The non-make up pictures definitely look CGI'd.
SHELBIE FOSTER 4 years ago
This app is bs. I’ve seen half of these celebs without makeup and that not at all what they look like.
Ivana 4 years ago
I have seen a ton of women without makeup on, and I myself am also a woman. I can promise you that this isn't how most women look without makeup. According to this app, women have to wear makeup or else we have terrible skin and huge bags under our eyes. Most men don't wear makeup, you think they look like that?
Danielle Arnold 4 years ago
Omg people freaking out, half these celebs dont look like this without make up its more to be a joke not fricken serious. Everyone knows the majority of these women are pretty without make up and this app is just a exaggeration.
Elijah Snow 4 years ago
I think this is the ultimate invasion of privacy and I am disgusted that people were given a tool for such dishonorable purposes. Like clothing, make up is part of a person's armor, and should be respected as such. What's next? An app that removes clothes from people's pictures, so that we can see them naked? The developers should be ashamed of themselves from not foreseeing this super foreseeable result.
Full Name 4 years ago
The developers are responsible for how people use their product?
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AnnieLaurie Burke 4 years ago
How they look without is is mostly better. But whose damned business is it if a woman chooses to wear makeup or not? Just as it's none of anyone's damned business if she dyes her hair, shaves her legs, etc. It's a f'n personal choice, and NO ONE ELSE get an opinion. And, is the creator of this app so stupidly naive s/he thinks male celebs don't use makeup and other artifices? SRSLY??
Maureen Matthew 3 years ago
But you forget that the vast majority of women (particularly young women) are on board. How much money is spent by them on makeup lotions, etc to look like celebrities. I think that is really sad and probably feeds into the feelings that many pre-teen girls have about their sexuality and their feelings that they are really boys - we have made them afraid of being anything but a beautiful women with tons of makeup and expensive clothes and overflowing sexuality. Being a boy seems a lot less trouble. The reality is that most women only need minimum makeup to look great. As a redhead with not a lot of pigment in my eyebrows/eye lashes - I focus on those things and putting a light lipstick on. Takes me all of 2 minutes to head out the door. When I have to get an official photo taken (driver's license or passport) I need more makeup or I blend with the background (had to have my driver's license retaken twice because all they could see was my lips)
Aayesha Nomani 4 years ago
This app is truly fake. I've never touched make up in my whole life and still when I applied remove make up filter... I got this image with no eyelashes nothing.. well.. I was not wearing any make up and I never have.. but you see.. it's just an application that removes everything from your face whether you're wearing make up or not.. try it without make up and you'll know how fake it is..
Sherrell Bennett 4 years ago
Why do you call it "body shaming"? They, for the most part, still look beautiful.
Blood Queen🖤❤️🩸 4 years ago
what i think is that women like there makeup and look different without it. some of those women are still lovely tho, show your true colors..❤️🐼Blood Queen out! 😂🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️⚪️🟤
Val Izhakevich 4 years ago
The app's failed to impress me. Would work for mortuary cosmetologists.
Danny Glasner 4 years ago
Reminds me of the Star Trek episodes "the Menagerie" a.k.a "the cage" and "Mudd's Women"
Emmanuel Tanguy 4 years ago
There are people who make those apps, there are people to sell them, there are people to buy them. American people, of course.
Melissa Nunya 4 years ago
Kind of fun to look at but it makes a lot of assumptions about skin tone etc
Ani Archeron 4 years ago
This software was made to help stop human trafficking! And this is how its presented by the media *eye roll* (the software that removes makeup is used to identify victims, who are often made over to make them unrecognizable)
Full Name 4 years ago
You were downvoted for saying that. It's amazing how pathetic the commenters on BP can be.
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Leodavinci 4 years ago
There are pictures of many of these people without makeup. They don't look like this app shows. It's doing something more than just "removing' makeup. And let's stop with the nonsense that this is "shamming".
Full Name 4 years ago
Yeah! Ban a cell phone app! Ban books! Ban raising your left leg twice in a row!
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Aaron Pie 4 years ago
The title should be "This app doesn't work. Why are we even posting this?"
Hans 4 years ago
BP always rants again body shaming. But if it is about celebrities. They ought to be perfect, beautiful, slim...
Load More Replies... Clavelle 4 years ago
Yeah, let's make an app that tells women they shouldn't leave the house without full hair and makeup. This app is horrible and doesnt seem to work. All it does is put a filter over the picture assuming everyone has bags under their eyes. Also, why are the same people posted multiple times? This one story bores me.
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
It fades the eyebrows, removes the lashes (sometimes) and dull the lipstick - but still leaves most lips more coloured than natural. What it doesn't do (if it wanted to be accurate) is remove contouring.
Load More Replies... Nea 4 years ago
Stop this nonsense! One, this is blatant body shaming of women and two, men wear make up too and you could incldue their photos as well if your grand motive was to show the power of make up (for whatever reason you might have).
Night Owl 4 years ago (edited)
Interesting idea for an app but in reality it's pointless and doesn't even work right and since many pictures are already also photoshoped before the app is used on them it really doesn't make sense. And why wasn't it used on some pictures of male celebrities and politicians too? Many of them also wear makeup when in front of cameras. Conclusion: this app is useless (and this BP-post too)
Lazy Panda 4 years ago
I’m calling BS on this app. I downloaded it and took a picture of myself (a man not wearing any makeup) and it still “fixed” my face, basically making me look like a drug addict. Anyone who actually reads an article about shaming celebrities, and of all things using a cheap phone application to do it, needs to find something better to do
Rebecca Schultz 4 years ago
Its kind of hard to predict skin discoloration. And not everyone has non-existent eyelashes.
Otis Spunkmeyer 4 years ago
Does the app not work on people of color, or does the OP prefer to only be negative of white people?
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 4 years ago
Why does this app make women look like they should be in rehab? Pure nonsense app...
Laura is The bombdigity 4 years ago
Instead of taking woman to a pool on a first date guys could use this app to see what they "really look like". Buuuuuuuuut judging someone on their looks alone isn't cool. Yes there needs to be that first initial attraction but why can't that come from charm or someone cracking a super awesome joke? People jump to quickly to judge these days. Slow down people. Give everyone the time of day
Kevin Camp 4 years ago
I never cease to be amazed when people discover that celebrities are people too. The astonishment of the willingly deluded.
Elijah Snow 4 years ago
Yeah, Melania without makeup DOES NOT LOOK like the Orange Cheeto she calls her husband.
Helen Haley 4 years ago
Wow, that app sucks. It makes anyone with a lighter skin tone ashen and gives them the skin texture of a meth addict.
Doc Thissen 4 years ago
I just want to know: Why does anybody really care about this? Is your life so devoid of meaning and excitement that it's necessary to live vicariously through celebrity? I could be wrong, of course. I'm not, however.
John Louis 4 years ago
HERE'S A QUESTION: Has this app been tested with real-life models? The non-make up pictures definitely look CGI'd.
SHELBIE FOSTER 4 years ago
This app is bs. I’ve seen half of these celebs without makeup and that not at all what they look like.
Ivana 4 years ago
I have seen a ton of women without makeup on, and I myself am also a woman. I can promise you that this isn't how most women look without makeup. According to this app, women have to wear makeup or else we have terrible skin and huge bags under our eyes. Most men don't wear makeup, you think they look like that?
Danielle Arnold 4 years ago
Omg people freaking out, half these celebs dont look like this without make up its more to be a joke not fricken serious. Everyone knows the majority of these women are pretty without make up and this app is just a exaggeration.
Elijah Snow 4 years ago
I think this is the ultimate invasion of privacy and I am disgusted that people were given a tool for such dishonorable purposes. Like clothing, make up is part of a person's armor, and should be respected as such. What's next? An app that removes clothes from people's pictures, so that we can see them naked? The developers should be ashamed of themselves from not foreseeing this super foreseeable result.
Full Name 4 years ago
The developers are responsible for how people use their product?
Load More Replies... AnnieLaurie Burke 4 years ago
How they look without is is mostly better. But whose damned business is it if a woman chooses to wear makeup or not? Just as it's none of anyone's damned business if she dyes her hair, shaves her legs, etc. It's a f'n personal choice, and NO ONE ELSE get an opinion. And, is the creator of this app so stupidly naive s/he thinks male celebs don't use makeup and other artifices? SRSLY??
Maureen Matthew 3 years ago
But you forget that the vast majority of women (particularly young women) are on board. How much money is spent by them on makeup lotions, etc to look like celebrities. I think that is really sad and probably feeds into the feelings that many pre-teen girls have about their sexuality and their feelings that they are really boys - we have made them afraid of being anything but a beautiful women with tons of makeup and expensive clothes and overflowing sexuality. Being a boy seems a lot less trouble. The reality is that most women only need minimum makeup to look great. As a redhead with not a lot of pigment in my eyebrows/eye lashes - I focus on those things and putting a light lipstick on. Takes me all of 2 minutes to head out the door. When I have to get an official photo taken (driver's license or passport) I need more makeup or I blend with the background (had to have my driver's license retaken twice because all they could see was my lips)
Aayesha Nomani 4 years ago
This app is truly fake. I've never touched make up in my whole life and still when I applied remove make up filter... I got this image with no eyelashes nothing.. well.. I was not wearing any make up and I never have.. but you see.. it's just an application that removes everything from your face whether you're wearing make up or not.. try it without make up and you'll know how fake it is..
Sherrell Bennett 4 years ago
Why do you call it "body shaming"? They, for the most part, still look beautiful.
Blood Queen🖤❤️🩸 4 years ago
what i think is that women like there makeup and look different without it. some of those women are still lovely tho, show your true colors..❤️🐼Blood Queen out! 😂🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️⚪️🟤
Val Izhakevich 4 years ago
The app's failed to impress me. Would work for mortuary cosmetologists.
Danny Glasner 4 years ago
Reminds me of the Star Trek episodes "the Menagerie" a.k.a "the cage" and "Mudd's Women"
Emmanuel Tanguy 4 years ago
There are people who make those apps, there are people to sell them, there are people to buy them. American people, of course.
Melissa Nunya 4 years ago
Kind of fun to look at but it makes a lot of assumptions about skin tone etc
Ani Archeron 4 years ago
This software was made to help stop human trafficking! And this is how its presented by the media *eye roll* (the software that removes makeup is used to identify victims, who are often made over to make them unrecognizable)
Full Name 4 years ago
You were downvoted for saying that. It's amazing how pathetic the commenters on BP can be.
Load More Replies... Leodavinci 4 years ago
There are pictures of many of these people without makeup. They don't look like this app shows. It's doing something more than just "removing' makeup. And let's stop with the nonsense that this is "shamming".
Full Name 4 years ago
Yeah! Ban a cell phone app! Ban books! Ban raising your left leg twice in a row!
Load More Replies... Aaron Pie 4 years ago
The title should be "This app doesn't work. Why are we even posting this?"
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