How Societal Standards of Beauty Have Led Us All To Believe That The ‘Instagram Face’ Is The Highest Form Of Human Allure
The luxury of being a freelancer used to mean that I could wake up, open my laptop and start working, regardless of the sculptured bird’s nest on the side of my head, or my huge puffy eyes. But then the pandemic hit, working from home became a hashtag, and the Zoom invites came piling in.
Never before had I been forced to look at my face for so many hours in a day. Personally, I reacted by joining the tribe of women who gave up on makeup entirely in the first wave of lockdowns. However, the increased visibility of our faces in our post-pandemic #WFH world meant filters came to the rescue – but did they?
“Where we used to complain about how we looked in a mirror, more people are criticising their photos instead of their reflection,” explains Dr. Melissa Doft, a New York-based plastic surgeon.