5 of the greatest apps for selfie lovers

There are three ingredients to a good selfie: a good camera, a photogenic model, and a fine selfie app. Arguably, the third element is the easiest to find, due to the sheer abundance of photo editing apps inside the major app stores. It's hard to weed out the great ones among all the wannabe apps, but if you take the time to do it, you can strike gold. As smartphones processing power increases, so does the potential of retouching apps, and right now, we've reached a point where achieving near fashion magazine cover results is possible with just a few taps. What used to require considerable time invested in learning Photoshop is now available to smartphone users, mostly free of charge. How great is that?

Without further ado, here are five essential apps for selfie lovers that contain all the editing and sharing functionality you possibly want.