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Forget the Instagram filters that give you cat ears or heart eyes or add a chromatic layer to every shot you take. The filters that have been all the rage lately are ones that alter your face in the style of a cosmetic procedure, with contoured cheeks, fuller lips, angled noses, highlighted brow bones — you name it.

But to combat the mental health effects of social-media tools like these, Instagram is removing filters that give the appearance of plastic surgery altogether, including previously similar filters from their Effects Gallery.

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A statement from Spark AR, Facebook’s platform for augmented reality development, reads, “We want Spark AR effects to be a positive experience and are re-evaluating our existing policies as they relate to well-being. While this happens, we’re doing the following: Removing all effects associated with plastic surgery from the Instagram Effect Gallery; postponing approval of new effects associated with plastic surgery until further notice; continuing to remove policy-violating effects as they are identified.”