How beauty filters like TikTok’s ‘bold glamour’ affect tweens using social media

Teenagers using social media filters. Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock

TikTok’s new “bold glamour” filter “enhances” physical features in a way that makes it difficult to distinguish whether someone is using a filter or not, despite its airbrushing qualities.

Unlike its predecessors, this filter allows movement through an AI feature with the filter remaining fixed on when, for example, a hand crosses the face, with fewer glitches.