This app lets you turn your selfie into Ziggy Stardust

11 months ago

You can now have Ziggy Stardust hair and add that distinctive colour flash on your face with help from an image recognition app.

Blippar, which lets you scan objects and images to display related information around them, is paying tribute to David Bowie with a new update to their app that allows you to ‘blipp’ the famous image of David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust and and superimpose it on your own image to make you look more like Ziggy.

Blippar says that their Bowie tribute is intended to celebrate one of his finest moments as his fictional character Ziggy.

“There’s a bit of Ziggy in all of us, and that’s why we’re helping fans remember David fondly,” said Omaid Hiwaizi, the president of global marketing for Blippar.

The team at Blippar came up with the idea after noticing Bowie fans were sharing pictures of themselves on social media painted with the ‘Ziggy’ flash.