Kylie’s way to connect with her fans?


Have you been watching YouTube videos or scrolling through snapchat/Instagram and seen those ‘gorgeous’ photos of Kylie Jenner and her perfect life, perfect body, PERFECT LIPS?
The Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge became a viral trend at the start of 2015 and if you don’t know what it is, then let me tell you.

The ‘challenge’ is to make your lips look as plump and large as possible by taking a shot glass or any small bottle and placing it to your lips while creating pressure build up by sucking out the air in the glass, sounds silly right! The trend caused a massive ruckus leading Kylie to explain, the 17 year old – at the time -  made  several twitter post to her 9 million followers and fans explaining -  










The trend has caused damage to many young teenagers who’ve tried to achieve the ‘Kylie Jenner Lip’. The damage includes; pain, swelling, severe bruising, scarring, disfigurement and in some cases the trend has sent many teenagers to hospital from torn skin that lead to excessive bleeding.

What teens didn’t understand when the trend was at its peak was that although the challenge seemed to only give the effect of big lips for a day or so, the repetitive attempts were seriously harming their lips and possibly causing permanent disfigurement. There were several cases where the shot glass was breaking and shattering under the high amount of pressure built up causing glass to cut the skin around the teenager’s lips.

What teenagers and young kids don’t understand is that not everyone can look the same, if we were all born to have the same eyes, lips and nose the world would be pretty boring right. We are all developed in a different way and makes us all unique, we all have our separate personalities and our separate looks.
Social media has made young girls and boys think that everyone needs to look picture perfect and if they don’t, they aren’t accepted or they aren’t liked. 

Social media these days really affected people’s mental health which puts a massive impact on the well being or teenagers, young adults and children.
According to the Social Media News in January 2019 there were 6,400,000 Monthly active Snapchat users, 15,000,000 Monthly active Facebook users and 9,000,000 Monthly active Instagram users and 15,000,000 monthly visits to YouTube.
Some statistics show:
·         6 in 10 Australians use Facebook
·         1 in 2 Australians use Facebook on a daily basis
·         1 in 2 Australians use YouTube
·         1 in 3 Australians use Instagram
·         1 in 4 Australians use Snapchat

I will say, not all things that are posted on social media are bad but most of them are, these active users are constantly in amongst the hate and criticism that people post about, but, it’s not all about the hate, young teenagers are constantly viewing posts of models or beauty vloggers and are seeing the large amount of likes and comments these users get.
The views and likes these ‘popular’ posts get are making teens think the only way they will be liked and accepted is if they are the same as everyone else. Making sure they are look-alikes of celebrities or well-known beauty vloggers. This is where the Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge comes into play, these young teens are seeing how they can ‘achieve’ the same big/full lips like Kylie Jenner, but what they don’t know is, it’s causing serious damage to their lips, and having short term and long term effects.
Have a think, is all this pain and discomfort just too look like someone they’ve see on social media who has more than likely used Photoshop and makeup to look the way they do, really worth it? why do teenagers think they have to look a certain way to ‘fit in’?

Comments

  1. Danyon10 September 2019 at 18:14

    Very interesting points and some intriguing statistics

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  2. abi10 September 2019 at 18:34

    I agree with all of your points, challenges like this are damaging. You have used a grate amount of supporting evidence that really makes your argument strong.
    great post you have written :)

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