Lemme let you in on a little secret. 95% of us don't do this.

only thing i see in the originals is a bunch of lovely people...that need chapstick! other than that, the original untouched photos are beautiful. Chapstick is your friend! Moisturize those lips.

Side by side placement would have been easier to show the differences, but it seems that most of the subjects think they should look like elves from the LOTR and Hobbit movies.

I hated all the edited pictures. They all look like weird Avatar hybrids. I much prefer the originals, you can see their personalities in those....

"After" photos remind me of Sims characters

If young people do this, image what would older people do? so sad, it shows that society is all about looks (yes, Bored panda, you do this too!). I am depressed these days because people tell me I look old and "tired" and older than I am. Instead of just ignoring them I am really depressed now, so I can understand these kids, society gives too much pressure on all of us. We should know better, but that day is far far away.

They all look like aliens after wards...blurry scary aliens who eat reptiles.

So the "social media look" is striving to look like a creepy Barbie doll. Poor kids.

Character vs. bland. Strange, quirky, askew, off-center, uneven, oblique; way more interesting and arresting! I don't want to know plastic, I want to know crinkles, freckles, scars, and laugh lines.

Photo filters drive me nuts! I laugh when people post pics of themselves with a dozen filters acting as if that's how they actually look, when in reality the picture they posted makes them look like an alien creature.

where is the f**king acne scars and acne itself where WHERE

Aliens...

everyone looks better before they edited their photos.

All their eyes looks like snake eyes 😬

Jeeze...... One of them looked like a 5 year old when he was finished. Hilarious.

They activated the "beauty filter" in the phone camera app

Hmmm. Even the before pics look digitized. Plus, all the “edits” have a similar style to them. Not sure if I believe this article.

I feel bad for the day these girls turn 40-whatever and get their first wrinkle. If they are already this looks-obsessed, they are screwed when gravity catches your a*s.

Bradz effect

Why do they have "lizard eyes"? It makes them look scary

The number of these kids who changed their actual facial features (noses, lips), seems really alarming!! To me anyway... a plastic surgeon may like it....

None of the photoshopped ones were improvements.

So, people basically think they should have tiny noses, fat lips, glass eyes & no pores in their skin.

It's not so much alarming as thoroughly expectable. Everybody pretty much did the exact same things: made the eyes a little bigger, changed the complexion, slimmed the jaw. It's unfortunate that some very pretty people thought they needed to be enhanced. From the over-the-top headline, I thought I was going to see how everyone went crazy with photoshop. A few people took it too far and made themselves look creepy, and most of us would look at these pictures and see that the eyes aren't right. But I think the most striking thing to come from this exercise is that people didn't go crazy with it.

The more shocking thing is that everyone agreed on the exact same snap filter...

All of the before pics win hands down! The edited pics are weird, unnatural, and just feels... wrong. Shocking that teens think this is how they "should" look. All of these young adults are so much more beautiful in the natural pics. :)

So just make the noses thinner and add makeup? Their reg misses looked better and makeup is the norm so? 🤨

#1 edited her ears ): she looks fine as is! Beautiful! It's okay to have little 'flaws' they make you unique!

I can also make people lips nicer and their eyes sparklilier and add a cool title

Too much correction. Some hint of reality should be left behind.

We, have done this to. Them. People are too worried about how they look naturally, and think they aren’t good enough... poor self esteem issues, body issues, there are kids out there that escaped this c**p, but not enough do.

Horrible and frightening.

The males all change to very androgynous looking. They all slim down their noses an sculpt the facial structure to look less ethnic. Very homogenized.

This is meaningless. If it was a psych experiment proposal, it would be instantly rejected. They SHOWED the teens the app then TAUGHT THEM how to use it. Then they PROMPTED THEM to edit the photos. The language used suggested to the teens that their photos already weren't good enough so they needed to Facetune them- that suggestion alone would be enough to taint the results of this if it was a real experiment on social media selfies. They implanted the suggestion that the pics weren't good enough then clearly showed them the program they wanted them to use and taught them how to use it. So all we've learned is that teenagers will do what authority figures tell them to do. Big surprise. The one real take away I'm getting is that we all need better critical thinking skills and also I hope this shoot was heavily supervised. Also, what a s****y format to upload this list in. Side by side, duh. But it's dumb and pointless anyway.

#2 is actually amazing and I only see increased colors and contrast, nothing else. Or am I blind?

All their original pictures are so beautiful. Natural beauty for the win, filter be-gone

It's the reason instagram filters are so popular.

In my opinion their face works as it is when they change things about their features it highlights other things about the face because it becomes very mismatched in the edited photo yet in the normal photo it looks normal

They all look like that s****y snapchat filter..

My daughter who is about 3 years younger than the girls was visibly shaken looking at this post. Why? Thry all are so pretty in the before. If you are not good at subtext it is they are so pretty if they feel ugly what does that make me?

I love the originals, but I think the manipulated ones look just like what people do with makeup every day.