The best applications to take a selfie

There are applications for everything: to cook, to read, to look for parking... Even, soon, we will have an application to find clean toilets in which to do... Well, that. Of course, in our beloved Play Store we also find a good handful of alternatives to be able to take the perfect selfie and thus sweep Tinder, LinkedIn, Grindr or Instragam Even for your mother to show off her handsome son who is addicted to new technologies.That she, the poor thing, as we already know, is not clear.

We begin with the ranking of the 5 best applications to take a selfie. Be careful, it produces addiction.

5. Candy Camera

We started with an application that caught our attention due to its elegant and sweet pastel-toned interface. Look beautiful with Candy Camera filters! says the application in the Play Store And who am I to deny it? A Recommended by Play Store Editors app with plenty of filters that let you the skin as if age had not gone through it, as well as stickers of all kinds and colors to troll yourself or get cute to show your girlfriend.

In addition, it contains an essential set of tools to touch up any flaws you see in selfies. One of the best options of Candy Camera is to be able to see in real time how a particular filter looks on you. It is a real beauty salon where you can take a selfie and lose weight, whiten your teeth, apply lipstick, blush, eyeliner, mascara... The amount of money you can save with this application. And without leaving home.

4. YouCam Perfect – Selfie Camera

With this application you can touch up your skin in real time until it is smooth and soft like a baby's. You can make small video clips with your selfies and also complete videos with filters. Here you can see how well I turned out in the selfie. In one of the photos I have applied the contouring effect You'll see how it shows, especially if you have a little wide. With cheeks, as your mother would say.

The best thing about this app is the huge number of tools to beautify your face: softener, face reshape (counturing), enhance the nose, reduce bags under the eyes and dark circles, enlarge the eyes, eliminate acne and color the cheeks... One of the best applications, without a doubt, that you can have to take the perfect selfie. You can get this application free in the Play Store with ads. You also have available YouCam Makeup , the perfect complement to this application.

3. BestMe Selfie Camera

An application specially developed for taking selfies and which is also not very well known, despite being tremendously well valued: More than 100 filters totally free , a special camera interface for selfies, real-time mirror filter… I predict you a lot of idle time looking to seehow your face looks with this application.

Besides many more mirror-effects, including not only horizontal but vertical reflection, BestMe has, of course, lots of of stickers, real-time compositing, bullet points and even a timer to give you enough time to do your best. In addition, in a few steps you can apply the best light to your portrait to see yourself in all your splendor and that girl (or boy) finally choose you in the flirt application that touches.And if you want to share the photo on Instagram, has a special blur filter to make it perfect . Do you dare to try BestMe? Well download one of the applications in the Play Store selfie best valued by the user.

2. PIP Selfie Photo Editor

An application to not take yourself too seriously. With PIP Selfie Photo Editor you can add to your selfies a handful of fun effects, in which that you can appear inside a bottle or emerging from a zipper. It is much better that you see for yourself. The results are frankly good for a totally free application (but with ads).

You can add these cool filters to the photos you have stored in your camera. Photos of your pets, your parents, friends... Any modification is possible with this application. Of course, it has more than 1,000 emojis, 200 different types of collages and the possibility of applying texts to photos. What more could you ask for?

1. Retrica

300 million users around the world endorse one of the most used camera and selfie applications in the universe Android. Number 1 download in 84 different countries. What's so special about Retrica? Taking into account, moreover, that it is not advertised as a selfie app but just a photo editing app.Well, it will be its clear and intuitive interface that avoids the accumulation of buttons and decorations, its more than 100 filters that can be applied in real time or the possibility of doing collages with your favorite selfies (a gift that is always good to have on hand to surprise the couple.

Brief history of the selfie

I think we all know what it's like to take a selfie, right? Bring out the best in us to show the world, cheat, maybe a little, to update the Tinder; show how much fun we are having at the party or what » badly" that we walk on the beach. The selfie is already part of our life, like fried potatoes with eggs and reality shows to find a partner. But there was a time when we did not have an appropriate word to define this act of vanity. Selfie? Photo of me? Mirror photo? Anyway, we are going to briefly tell you how this neologism appeared among us to never leave again.

While we can trace mock »selfies» throughout the history of photography, it isn't until 2014 that the term begins to spread like wildfire, after appearing, a year earlier, in an Internet forum on Australian public television, ABC On line It was during the ceremony of the Oscars 2014 on March 12. Ellen DeGeneres invites all the front rows of the Dolby Theatre to take a joint photo that is later he would share through his Twitter account. The phenomenon had only just begun since the image is, so far, the most retweeted in history.

We know you don't have to have the face of a movie star to want to take a selfie, but we do know you want to look like one.The work is not easy and we can always resort to some basic tricks such as never taking the photo from below, choosing our best profile or drying our skin to any shine.We do not contemplate cosmetic surgery, mainly because we do not want you to come to us later with claims.