This year, making yourself ugly has been the fad: First with the "Sellophane Selfie Challenge", then with the "Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge". Now,that the "Don't Judge Me Challenge" has given people the chance to not only make themselves ugly, but also look beautiful in the end.
The "Don't Judge Me Challenge" started off as a way to stop flaw shaming on the internet. Although this is a good cause, the internet has gone and corrupted it by making it a way to not show your flaws, but to show how good you can look. The internet has taken this confidence building challenge and changed it to make fun of a person's flaws and show how perfect they can look.
Everyone has something they are self conscious about. For some people its their acne, or their hair, or having glasses. I think that this challenge could have really brought to light that fact that no one is perfect. The original purpose was to fight shaming, but yet, if you watch some Vines of this challenge, the person with "flaws" acts goofy, or sad, but then once they are perfect they smile and try to look sexy. By doing that, we are giving a negative connotation to our flaws instead of embracing them. Rather than saying "don't judge me and my flaws" the people in these Vines are saying "Don't judge me based on how ugly I can make myself look, because I'm not that, I'm flawless".
But not all are like this. One of my favorite vines of this challenge can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_hU3y9KnNM. In this video, the girl starts off in full makeup and shakes her head. Next thing you know she's there with no make up on and reveals probably her biggest insecurity: Her bald head. I think that if more people would have done the challenge like this, then those who are fighting their insecurities would have been positively affected.
The biggest problem with this fad is that there are people out there actually fighting with their insecurities. There are people out there that actually do have uni-brows, acne and bad hair days. Just because they have these things doesn't make them lesser. Everyone has their imperfections, and I think that this challenges hasn't aided acceptance of our insecurities.
So let's stop making videos showing off our perfections. Instead let's show off our imperfections. Let's show off our bed heads, and our flawed faces. Let's show how confident we are in our own skin. Let's not worry about people judging us, but instead show that our imperfections make us #flawless.
