Snapchat is in hot water again for inappropriate filters — this time it is the filters it created to honour women. Photo: Frank May

Snapchat has moved to mark International Women’s Day by three special filters. So far, so good.

But where it has turned sour for the recently publicly launched company is how that it turns someone’s face to resemble that of artist Frida Kahlo, activist Fosa Parks and scientist Marie Curie.

The biggest reaction online has been to the Marie Curie filter, which slims a person’s face, adds make-up and extends the eyelashes — because that is clearly what the two-times Nobel prize winning chemist needed, apparently.

Unlike with the Bob Marley filter Snapchat launched last year, which was criticising for giving people a digital “black face”, this time Snapchat hasn’t changed the skin tone for Parks.

Instead, they have changed their eye tone which has also upset people online with claims the two historical women have been “whitewashed”.

Perhaps Snapchat should skip trying to honour real people altogether and stick with vomiting rainbows. Everybody loves vomiting rainbows.