Journalist Ester Honig's photography series, Before and After, explored what it is to be beautiful. By Photoshopping her image using beauty standards in several different countries, Honig showed how many different ways a woman's face can be distorted to fit society's standard of beauty.

Fellow journalist and close friend to Honig, Priscilla Yuki Wilson took the series one step further by applying the same experiment to her own face, with drastically different results. Wilson, who is African American and Japanese, often finds that her biracial identity is challenging to those around her.

"The question 'what are you?' regularly influences how I experience the world ... Growing up, my Japanese mother would often tell me to wear sunblock and to stay out of the sun to avoid getting 'too dark,'" Wilson noted on her website.

While Honig's experiment raised a conversation about a double standard of beauty, Wilson said to Mashable, "I found it interesting that there was no real talk about race in the dialogue, but this was because as a Caucasian woman, Esther’s face isn’t an appropriate face in which to address any issues that surround the dialogue of race."

Image: Before & After Part Two Che Landon

Using digital artists in 18 different countries, Wilson set out, just as Honig did, to see how each country would conform her face to their liking for her own series, Before & After Part Two.

Wilson's results were both surprising and unsurprising, simultaneously. Each country's artist adjusted Wilson's looks, often darkening or lightening her skin tone or changing her nose and jawline. While most artists made changes that Wilson predicted they would make, they also "made me feel more confident in my actual beauty, which I was thankful for."

Each photo, however, is reflective of Wilson's own experience as a biracial person. She said, "a question that I always get asked is: 'Do you feel more Japanese or do you feel more black?' This question always confused me ... The countries that performed the most digital surgery certainly tried to confine me into some racial box and the ones that kept me most natural left me out of the box. That’s generally been my experience being biracial."

Wilson, while looking at her images, was most happy to see ones that kept her looking natural. There were a handful, like one image from Slovenia, that made drastic changes to her face, rendering her unrecognizable. "I just sigh with confusion," Wilson said.

However, out of all her pictures, Wilson believes the image from Algeria best reflects who she is as a person. "We are all spiritual beings having a physical experience; I think Algeria got the closest to embodying that belief I have," she said.

More information about Wilson's experiment can be found on her website.