Love editing and filtering your selfies? It actually makes you feel worse

Using filters and editing software to make your selfie look better actually ends up making you feel worse about your appearance. — AFP

All the filters and apps now available to supposedly make ourselves look better in selfies could be making young women feel worse, according to new Australian research.

Carried out by psychology researchers at Flinders University, the new study asked 130 women aged 18 to 30 to look at Instagram photos of thin and average-sized women before being asked to take a selfie on an iPad and given 10 minutes to edit it.