Why TikTok’s Controversial Bold Glamour Filter Is More Than Meets the Eye – E! Online

As the makeup artist put it, “But maybe this filter is fun for the everyday gal to have a little piece of that.”

Calling the Bold Glamour filter “eye-opening,” she added that “it into perspective that nobody wakes up and looks like this.”

But of course, Erica understands that filters can be discouraging and disenchanting once you snap back to reality. “You feel a little bad when you take it off,” she admitted. “You’re like, ‘Oh, that’s what I really got going on?'”

She continued, “If you got self-esteem issues and you take it off, you could definitely be disappointed.”

Despite Erica acknowledging that the filter was too much for her, she found it to be a useful tool.

“I did my makeup while the filter was on and followed where the shadows and the colors were going,” she revealed. “Remember when you were learning to draw and you had the tracing paper? I thought of it as tracing paper, like makeup by numbers.”