I'm always seeing people sparring over the skin blur aka beauty mode. Took a ton of pics for comparison and discussion!

I'm completely against obviously filtered photos on this sub because I think it's vain and unhelpful, but I'd like to point out a couple things:

Some phones make you look more filtered than others, even with all the beauty mode settings disabled. I primarily use an Xperia (Z3 compact to be precise) and any photo I take with the front facing camera looks mildly filtered, and I've noticed Sony phones smooth out skin a lot more than Samsung does with all beauty modes disabled. There's just nothing I can do about it unless I want to flash my phone to disable Sony's post processing, which is overkill. Someone used to a different brand of phone from someone else will think the other person is filtering when that isn't always the case. I can also see MUA/MUACJ dogpiling on an OP who claims that and accusing them of not knowing how to use their own phone.

Also, hairlines. Unfortunately hairlines tend to lose their detail in a lot of front facing camera photos so it looks like the photo was blurred when it wasn't. I've been accused of filtering before for that, even though I made certain to disable everything. It's most noticeable on the hair above your ears, and OPs photo have a little bit of it going on even though hers was set to 0%

So yeah. I do hate overly filtered photos here, but I also avoid posting any photos in any of the MUA subs because I'm sure I'd be accused of filtering because I'm sure most people here don't use Sony. Literally the only reason I don't post.

The obvious solution (which I am keen for) would be to normalise the use of front facing cameras but I don't see people doing that any time soon as they exacerbate the appearance of pores and foundation texture and no one wants to put their face on the internet unless it looks nice.

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