Contact MAKEAPP Support

I figured I’d put this app’s “remove makeup” feature to the test with one no-makeup selfie, one male model, two heavy makeup pictures, and one natural makeup picture. The last four were googled, of course. The no-makeup selfie was a crack head, as expected. The male model didn’t see much change - just general desaturation. The two heavy makeup pictures were poorly filtered. The fake eyelashes, eyeliner, eyeshadow, highlighter, and purple lipstick all survived the purge. The only thing it really did was desaturate the skin and thin out the (still fake) lashes. The natural makeup picture almost looked normal. She still had fake eyelashes, highlighter, and (slightly less) filled in eyebrows, though. I played around with the makeup adding filters, too, but none of them looked good. The app basically photoshopped a new set of eyes onto them and airbrushed the rest. Oh, but on the note of this app being sexist - no, it’s not inherently sexist. It is, however, sexist to say that women are liars/catfishing because they wear makeup and to point to this app as a reliable way to “expose” them.

I heard about this app on Reddit and wanted to try it. First off, let's just talk about the app and not what it actually does (or doesn't) do. You only get to use it about 3 times before it tries to charge you. I can't imagine who would actually want to pay for this. Now, I was only able to use the app on a few pictures of myself, but the results were ridiculous. It doesn't recognize winged liner, so it leaves it. That's hilarious. It also doesn't recognize sparkles or lip gloss, so my glittery eyeshadow could still be seen and my lips were still shiny, just very pale. Okay... Last, I tried it on a picture of myself already not wearing makeup. It just made me super pale and removed my eyelashes. You could see the edges of the filter around my eyes where it had messed up. Stupid idea, stupid app, and stupid people believing this is accurate.

I downloaded this app to see how accurate it would be in detecting the amount of make up I have on my face. So as a control, the first picture are used on this app was one of me with no make up. I was surprised to find that the app could not detected the lack of make up that was already in the picture and when I try to “remove“ the make up it made me look worse. It made my skin tone lighter because I’m assuming the app thought I had foundation on and it seemingly added spots on my skin that weren’t there. I also noticed that it exaggerated my eyebags and just overall made my skin look older than it is. And when I used a picture of me with makeup, it didn’t completely remove the makeup. It maybe just me but take the results with a grain of salt.