--- title: Snapchat Adds A Marilyn Monroe Selfie Filter description: It's Marilyn Monroe's 90th birthday today — and you can celebrate by taking a selfie overlaid with her face on messaging app Snapchat. canonical: https://time.com/4353747/snapchat-marilyn-monroe-filter/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-01T17:29:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:32:51.992Z og:title: Snapchat Adds a Marilyn Monroe Filter for Your Perfect Bombshell Selfie og:description: Birthmark included og:url: https://time.com/4353747/snapchat-marilyn-monroe-filter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Snapchat Adds a Marilyn Monroe Filter for Your Perfect Bombshell Selfie twitter:description: Birthmark included twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Snapchat Adds a Marilyn Monroe Filter for Your Perfect Bombshell Selfie > Sponsored content. 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So if you’ve always dreamed of impersonating the [iconic blonde bombshell](http://time.com/4349808/marilyn-monroe-quiz/?iid=sr-link1), now’s your chance. Kim Kardashian West, newly-minted Snapchat queen and selfie trailblazer, was the [first to gain access](http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/06/kim-kardashian-snapchat-marilyn-monroe-filter-headquarters) to the special filter during a visit to Snapchat headquarters on Tuesday. She posted videos from the Los Angeles offices with a blonde wig, red lips, and classic beauty mark floating over her face. The filter also offers a subtle glowing effect — to give you that Old Hollywood glamour — and is now available to all users. The Marilyn Monroe lens is currently one of 16 different options the app provides for snapping selfies with extra oomph. Other choices include a koala, a combat soldier and a vomiting tomato — but the Marilyn is the only one that actively emulates a particular person. In April, users complained when the app debuted a Bob Marley filter that added dreadlocks and darkened users’ skin tones, which some called [“digital blackface.”](http://time.com/4300726/snapchat-bob-marley-filter-blackface/?iid=sr-link1) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4353747/snapchat-marilyn-monroe-filter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4353747/snapchat-marilyn-monroe-filter/"},"headline":"Snapchat Adds a Marilyn Monroe Filter for Your Perfect Bombshell Selfie","datePublished":"2016-06-01T17:29:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:32:51.992Z","description":"Birthmark included","url":"https://time.com/4353747/snapchat-marilyn-monroe-filter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Social Media"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4353747/snapchat-marilyn-monroe-filter/","name":"Snapchat Adds a Marilyn Monroe Filter for Your Perfect Bombshell Selfie"}}]}] ```