From a dog licking the screen to a flower crown that makes your eyes sparkle, Snapchat released a variety of colourful lenses for its users to share in their snaps this year.

Now, in honor of 2016 coming to a close, the social media platform has complied a list of the 10 most popular designs for the year. 

The list reveals Snapchatters went wild for the dog that licks the screen, the flower crown and the filter that puts a flutter of butterflies above the head. 

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From a dog licking the screen, like the image of Demi Lovato (left) to a flower crown that makes your eyes sparkle, such as the filter in Kim Kardashian's (right) selfie, Snapchat released a variety of colourful lenses for its users to share in their snaps this year

10 MOST POPULAR SNAPCHAT LENSES

Dog

Flower Crown

Butterflies 

Pink Crown 

Deer

Bee 

Frown 

Rosy-Cheek

Friend Face Swap

Camera Roll Face Swap

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Snapchat first debuted the filters in September 2015 and since then, it has been reported that more than 30 million snaps using the fun 'Lenses' are shared each day.

However, a few of them were deemed fan favorites in 2016, and a Snapchat has shared the Top 10 list with DailyMail.com.

The most popular filters in the carousel this year were the Dog, the Flower Crown, Butterflies, the Pink Crown, the Deer, the Bee, the Frown, the Rosy-Cheek, Friend Face Swap and finally, Camera Roll Face Swap.

Lenses use object recognition to map to your face, which is able to 'see' your eyes and nose to precisely overlay the filter onto your selfie taken with the in-app camera.

And they also add sounds and interactive motion effects to video selfies - like the Deer.

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The carousel of Lenses is updated every day with fun new additions - the only way to know if there's a new one is to take a look.

Earlier this year Lenses for both you and a friend were introduced, for example the Dog Lens works on two people at the same time.

One of the most popular filters this year was the 'Butterflies' (shown with Ryan Seacrest) and it proved to be a huge hit with keen user who noticed its beautifying skills. The filter appears to slim down the face and also adds a contouring and highlighting effect to the cheekbones

Snapchat first debuted the filters in 2015 and since then, it has been reported that more than 30m snaps are shared a day that include these fun Lenses, such as the Friends Face Swapping one that made the most popular list and was used by Chrissy Teigen and John Legend in a snap

The technology for Lenses comes from a San Francisco start-up called Looksery, which was acquired by Snapchat.

To use Lenses in Snapchat, users go to the Camera screen and switch to the selfie camera.

Once active, users should press and hold the image of their face to make the Lens options appear below.

Users can then swipe through the menu of possible options and select one to see a preview of the effect.

Lenses use object recognition to map to your face, as it did to overlay the Bee, one of the most popular filters of 2016, on Saint West's (left) face . And they also adds sounds and interactive motion effects to video selfies - like the Deer filter chosen by Ariana Granda (right)

To take a grab of the image, users should then click the capture button to take a photo, or press and hold the capture button to record a video.

When Snapchat first debuted the filters, it included a selection of lenses that users could buy for $0.99 cents that were displayed alongside the free lenses in the carousel – it was called the 'Lens Store'.

To use Lenses in Snapchat, users go to the Camera screen and switch to the selfie camera, as Gisele Bundchen (left) did to choose another popular filter - the Pink Crown. Users can swipe through options, like Simon  Cowell did find the Frown (right)

One of the favorites this year was the 'Butterflies', released in August, and it proved to be a huge hit with keen Snapchatters who noticed its beautifying skills. 

The filter appears to slim down the face and also adds a contouring and highlighting effect to the cheekbones.

Eyes appear to be both bigger and brighter, and a veil of glittery sparkles shimmers down the face.

In September, Snapchat opened up a new world of geofilters for its users – templates they customize themselves for birthdays, weddings and other fun celebrations.

To take a grab of the image, users click the capture button, which was done to capture the Rosey-Cheek Filter (left), to take a photo. Another popular filter for 2016 is the Camera Face Swap and the image on the right is a face swap with Leonardo DiCaprio

Snapchatters can access the design tools through Snapchat's on-demand page, choose a theme and add their own colours and text to personalize the template for their special event.

And in honor of the holidays the firm has added templates that are themed after the festive season.

Users can choose geofilters with '2017' for ringing in the New Year, among other options.

'Whether it's New Year's Eve or holiday sweater, Geofilters are perfect for any get-together,' shares Snapchat. 

'For your party or celebration — wherever it may be, Say 'Happy Holidays!' with an ODG'. 

In honor of the holidays, Snapchat has  added festive templates to its On-Demand Geofilters, such as designs for Ugly Sweater Parties

 

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