To look like their icons, teenage girls would do anything. The latest challenge to date: the Kylie Jenner Challenge or how to display lips as full as those of Kylie Jenner, the half-sister of Kim Kardashian.
The suction effect causes swelling of the lips
To obtain the same mouth, the young girls place the neck of a glass around their lips, squeeze and inhale the air which is there.
This process creates a suction effect and causes swelling.
#KylieJennerChallenge: bleeding, bruising, cuts …
The result of this “self-mutilation” is sometimes frightening, even bad. And above all, by forcing on the suction, the gums can bleed, the small blood vessels around the mouth can rupture and create bruises.
Worse, the lips can split or be cut because of a broken glass …
A humorous idea, a dangerous challenge …
Initially, the idea was not to look like the starlet: the Kylie Jenner Challenge had a humorous vocation since many young people, seeing the gradual transformation of the young girl, thought that she had recourse to this process of sucking to inflate them lips.
But some teenage girls genuinely want to get the same mouth and that’s the scary part. How far will they go?
And it is not Kylie Jenner who will prevent them … On Twitter, the young woman left a rather ambiguous message on the topic April 21 : “I am not here to try to encourage people / young girls to be like me, or to make them believe that this is the way they should be. I want to encourage them to be themselves and not to not be afraid to try things with their look “.
Setting up movements to denounce this game
Saint Hoax wanted to denounce this phenomenon by drawing three Disney princesses with completely misshapen mouths. On Twitter, its message is simple: “Violence takes many forms. Self-harm is one of them.”
The artist has already staged disney characters for campaigns against anorexia, incest or even abuse.
A “counter hashtag” of the Kylie Jenner Challenge, which circulates quite shocking images and videos, has even been created to show the damage caused by this risky game.
Remember that the challenges launched by social networks are most often dangerous. Last year, Facebook had heard about the Fire challenge, a game consisting of immolating oneself by fire, or neknomination, a phenomenon during which young people put themselves on the stage by drinking glassy glasses and invited others to imitate them via interposed cameras.
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