#dontjudgechallenge

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Since most of you have Twitter/Instagram, I'm sure you would have come across videos with the title "#dontjudgechallenge". There were a few videos on my Facebook feed so I was curious to see what it was all about. At first, I thought this was just those silly challenges but when I googled for the main intention of the challenge, I have to say, this challenge is really stupid.

This is freaking hilarious! HAHAHA!

Now, for those who do not know what the #dontjudgechallenge is, it's basically a person making him/herself look 'ugly' by drawing their face with marker, tying their hair badly etc then, they'll cover the camera and next appears a "beautiful version" of themselves. You can say it's suppose to be a transformation video. I think what the video is trying to say is, "oh don't judge a book by its cover, I can actually look super amazing."

Here's an idea of what the challenge is like. I just got this video off youtube, so the owner can have all the credit.

There's a page called "Don't Judge Challenge" on Facebook where people submit their videos. Go check it out, some are just super absurdly funny (That's not a real phrase... Is it?)

The funny thing is, the main goal of this challenge was to protest against body shaming. Yes, I know this is a don't judge challenge, yet, I'm gonna be giving my opinion on how stupid this challenge is. (don't judge, lol) Instead of protesting against body shaming, I think what these people are doing is that they're putting a fixed representation of what 'ugly' is and what 'beautiful' is in society. So where's the part where you try and stop body shaming? When I watch these videos, people are just drawing their faces with markers and making ugly faces. In one of the videos I watched, this guys had Q-tips sticking out of his ear, hahahaha! Seriously though, I doubt there'll be people out there who will be walking around with Q-tips in his ear, it's too ticklish! Anyway, after their 'miraculous' transformation, its either some girls with their make up on while showing their cleavage or some guys become shirtless, they flex their muscles, bite their lips and all. Are you suppose to be 10x hotter with your tits hanging out or with you pulling your pants as low as possible? If that's your perception of 'beauty', then yeah thats great, good for you but what they are doing is putting down the people who actually have acne conditions, (Nobody wants to have acne, it's bloody painful and disturbing but some people can't help it because their body reacts that way) or people with glasses or people with unibrows (If they like their unibrow, leave them be) or people with exceptionally different moustaches etc.

I just think this challenge ended up sending the exact opposite message of its main intention. Many people now are just totally veering off the main aim of doing this challenge and their turning it into something vain instead. "Look world! After getting rid all of the sharpie on my face, I'm fucking hot now!" We all have our own perception of beauty and yes we are all entitled to our own opinions. But this challenge is like someone shouting at you in real life, "Hey! That's what ugly looks like!" It can be a real slap in the face for some people. We want everyone to accept and love who they are but how can people do that when there are people out there who keep emphasising on what beauty is supposed to be with challenges like that?

If there's a challenge that has to be out there, I think a challenge where the girls do a before with make up on and an after without the make up. Maybe that will help more girls to be comfortable in their own skin. (Just a thought). I just have quite a few friends who never dare to go out without having make up on, but I hope that girls out there know that they're still beautiful even without all of the make up :)

Check out this girl who did the exact opposite of the challenge. I really salute her, I don't think I would have been able to do the same if I was in her shoes. 

I guess, at the end of they day we're all humans and we can't help but judge. Anyhow, I do hope if we ever do judge, that it'd be for the better (makes sense?). I had to be really careful when I wrote this post as well because I too have my own perception on what beauty is and it might be a little touchy to some readers. I did not mean to offend anyone, if I did, I'm very sorry. I'm just putting how stupid this challenge is out there, I don't support it at all. Come on guys, it's just face with marker and face with no marker.. *shrugs* It's another stupid internet trend we DON'T WANT to encourage. We're just taking a huge step back on trying to improve society.

Love Rachel*