The latest beauty trend involves the use of broccoli to create fake freckles...

Social media users are creating fake freckles with broccoli. Photo: AFP

Freckles have never been universally popular, but the advent of beauty filters seems to have changed all that.

Thanks to various apps, it's now possible to appear on social networks with multiple freckles, offering a sun-kissed effect to users who use (and abuse) such filters.