From ‘Instagram Face’ To ‘Snapchat Dysmorphia’: How Beauty Filters Are Changing The Way We See Ourselves

We’ve been looking in the mirror a lot more lately—that is, the mirror of our devices. “One of the strangest things about Zoom is you’re looking at yourself, usually we don’t look at ourselves when we meet with other people,” says Dr. Helen Egger, child psychiatrist and co-founder of forthcoming mental health company Little Otter. As our lives have transitioned to our screens over the past year, we’ve become particularly self-conscious of our faces. Dr. Melissa Doft, a double board-certified plastic surgeon in Manhattan, tells Forbes many of her patients have been complaining about their appearance on Zoom, “where we used to complain about how we looked in a mirror, more people are criticizing their photos instead of their reflection,” she says