Viral Filter Works Perfect on Black Features, but Can It be Recreated With Makeup?

Photo:  Dan Kitwood / Staff (Getty Images), Screenshot:  Screenshot from Tiktok @avonnasunshine (Other)

Photo: Dan Kitwood / Staff (Getty Images), Screenshot: Screenshot from Tiktok @avonnasunshine (Other)

Yes, I am your typical “Gen-Zer” who has grown up with the good, bad, and ugly realities of social media filters. Instagram, Snapchat, and the infamous TikTok all allow their users to have a little bit of fun by putting filters on their pictures and videos to look like their favorite cartoon characters or animals, or controversially completely changing the shapes of their natural features to look like the Insta baddies that typically achieve their looks through plastic surgery.

So, what is this filter?

Currently, there is a TikTok filter called Bold Glamour that has over 8.2 million videos that have been made with the filter on. What’s making this filter go viral? It gives people that popular, “perfect” bold glam face often seen on celebrities like the Kardashians. Users of the filter get thicker brows, wider

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