So I'm pretty sure that by now you've heard and seen all of the stuff going on with the #DontJudgeMe challenge. Now hear me out, it started out as a great opportunity for people to feel better about their insecurities. However, what started out as a great project, quickly turned sour from people turning it into something else.
People have turned the whole challenge into a complete mockery. Individuals and their friends are getting together and making themselves look ridiculous with drawn on "insecurities," if you can even call them that, because I've seen quite a few clips of people with what appears to be globs of sunscreen on their face and I don't understand how in the world that is an insecurity? Are the videos entertaining? Yes. BUT, they completely miss the point of what the challenge stands for. Overemphasized drawn on unibrows, lipstick smeared all over their face, marker spots, and blacked out teeth just show how ridiculous this challenge has gotten.
These are just offensive. Especially things in the "before" part of the videos that include glasses and the "after" that shows them all perfect and gorgeous without glasses. What's wrong with glasses? As someone who wears them and has since they were a kid, this doesn't help the insecurities I have battled for years. Instead, it offends me. I don't know how the rest of you feel about the videos or what you think about the insecurities. Am I the only one who doesn't see how a good portion of these are actually helping people feel better?
These videos make fun of people that society may not deem to be attractive and make it bigger than it should be. Acne isn't something that should be made fun of. Glasses aren't ugly. A makeup free face is beautiful. All of these imperfections are beautiful and they are being made out to be something hideous.
There is one video I have seen that was actually inspiring because it showed a young girl who was bald and she showed that she was beautiful as she was and didn't need to make herself look all dolled up.
Here is what ThinkTank had to say about the challenge: The message has been lost in the challenge.
"If you wanna do the Don't Judge Challenge, just put your face. This is what I look like, don't judge me. I know that I'm good looking," says John Iadarola from ThinkTank.
If you want to show who you are, then just show yourself. The challenge has gotten out of hand and ruined the idea of not judging a book by its cover. Despite what you take away from the challenge, you are good enough, okay? I challenge you to tell yourself at least three times a day, morning, noon, and night, that you are good enough. So what if you wear glasses, have braces, acne, birthmarks, thick eyebrows or whatever else you may feel insecure about? You are good enough. It's taken me 22 years to realize that I shouldn't be insecure over my glasses, a zit or breakout, my curly and sometimes unruly hair or braces (when I had them in high school). You are not your breakout or glasses. You are you. And you are beautiful.
Tell me your thoughts on the #DontJudgeMe Challenge! Comment below or email me at marissa93@comcast.net with your thoughts and honest #DontJudgeMe pictures embracing your insecurities.
