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Seven years ago, The New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino is widely credited with coining the term “Instagram face” to describe a beauty standard that she noticed emerging on social media among white female influencers.
“The face looked like the beauty filters that Snapchat and Instagram provided to kind of lift your cheeks, and plump your lips, and make your eyes bigger, and make your chin a little more heart-shaped,” Tolentino says. “It was the kind
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