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💉 Plastic surgery 🖼️ Digital retouching
face lifting

face lifting

4.8
App that edits a person's face in photos to look younger
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : retoque digital
  • The makeup tutorial showed how face lifting filters can enhance your selfies instantly.

Examples

  • Many influencers rely on face lifting techniques to improve their appearance in online videos.

  • She used a photo-editing app for a quick face lifting to make her skin look smoother.

  • Now Speaking of concealer, a viral face lifting trend is where people I cannot take myself seriously looking like this.

Antonyms

naturalness
1 3.7

How much a sound, image, or performance feels like real life

How Retouched

to photoshop
5 4.8
airbrushing
2 4.1
face lifting
  • Specialized
4.8
to retouch
8 4.2
original
194 3.5

Surface Forms

face lifting singular
face liftings plural

Morphology

face + lift

The phrase is compositionally built from 'face' + 'lift' so a B1 learner would likely infer it involves making the face look "lifted" (the same basic idea behind a facelift). However, the specific sense here — digital image/video retouching using software filters rather than a surgical procedure — is a technical extension that is not fully predictable from the parts without prior exposure.

Etymology

Face lifting in photos borrows the same picture: apps use lifting tools to smooth a face in a photo and remove spots or lines. So it means a filter or edit that makes a face 'look younger'.