How to use Instagram Stories skins

Instagram enjoyed an enormous growth of active users since it opted to copy Snapchat Stories, those small ephemeral videos in which we could unleash our creativity. Stories are already the most popular feature on Instagram and are used by more than 250 million active users every day. A commercial vein that brands are already taking advantage of to give visibility to their products, develop an adequate personal brand and reach more potential audiences on a daily basis.

But here today we are going to focus on the domestic use we make of Stories. Perhaps you have just arrived at our special because you are a bit lost in all this stuff about the Stories, but here we are going to explain everything to you, from scratch, emphasizing the functionality of the masks in the Stories, those filters that you will have seen that people are placed in the face with multiple possibilities. Do you want to know how to use Instagram Stories skins? Well, don't miss out on what we have to tell you because it's very simple.

First steps: creating your first Stories on Instagram

To create our first Stories on Instagram we are going to do the following.

• We open the Instagram application and enter our account. If we don't have one yet, we can connect our Facebook or email account. You have it? Well, we continue.
• Now, there are two ways to access the Stories section. Or, slide your finger from the left side of the screen to the right, and we will see how a new screen opens with the front camera activated, or click on the camera icon that we have located in the upper left part of it.

• Have you noticed the center balloon at the bottom in white? Well, this button is the one that we must press to start making a small short video (we can also take a photograph) in which we can pour any occurrence that we have in mind. Once we have done it, we must look at the bottom of the screen where we can read 'Save' or 'Your Story'. If we click on 'Your Story' it will be added to our reel and your friends will be able to see the story for 24 hours.After this period of time, the story will disappear.

Second step: how to use the masks in the Stories

And now we come to what interests us. How can we use the masks that make up the Instagram Stories? Well, in a very simple way. Just before starting to record a story we must press on our face for a couple of seconds We do this so that the application detects where our face is and the masks can fit properly. Once done, a gallery with all the skins that are available at that moment will appear at the bottom. Masks and filters are not eternal, there are some that last longer, others that are ephemeral and special for some festive occasion or celebration... The best thing is that, every day, go to the mask section and try to see what's new about it .

Once you have the mask on, now you must proceed as in any story, pressing the 'Your Story' button to add it to the reel . If you prefer to try another skin, you just have to go back and perform the same operation as before. As you can see, using Instagram skins is very simple. Now get to work!