Girls go bare to boost self-esteem
It is with interest that I noticed the latest trend following the spurt of #NekNomination/ #ChangeNomination videos. This time around, women all over litter our facebook timelines with selfies of their bare faces to create cancer awareness. Thank you for sharing your true colours;I’m sure a lot of men, like myself, enjoy seeing women without …
It is with interest that I noticed the latest trend following the spurt of #NekNomination/ #ChangeNomination videos.
This time around, women all over litter our facebook timelines with selfies of their bare faces to create cancer awareness.
Thank you for sharing your true colours;I’m sure a lot of men, like myself, enjoy seeing women without excessive makeup plastered on their faces. But what are you actually doing for cancer patients? Nothing. Let me strip it down.
The #NoMakeUp #Selfie campaign seems to have originated in the UK. There, however, women did things the right way. They donated a set amount to Cancer Research UK following their nomination.
I understand that most of us are cash-strapped and our expenses increase by the minute, but if you really want to help create cancer awareness, do it in a way that cancer-support organisations (such as Cansa) and eventually cancer patients benefit from your efforts. I know you mean well, but showing people the real you, the way you were born, is not helping anyone but your own self-esteem.
My fiancée received a nomination from one of our friends yesterday. She is a naturally beautiful woman who hardly ever applies make-up to her face, so she automatically didn’t see the need for her to do this. I explained the new trend to her and we agreed that she should rather donate an amount to Cansa or something to that effect and then post a photograph of herself with a story telling everyone what she has DONE in aid of cancer awareness.
I’m not saying that everyone involved should stop snapping their clean faces after a shower or face wash and share it with their online community, but I am asking you to think about what you aim to achieve by doing so. If you aren’t willing to donate even R10 to the cause or make a cancer patient’s day, don’t even bother.
My father is a cancer survivor, and I always try to help the cause where I can. My fiancée also will do her bit, because we know that merely posting a photograph online will achieve nothing.
It seems a lot of the copy and pasting lost the important info in SA. My no’ination came with a link to 2 sms numbers, one for #Pinkdrive and the other I cannot remember offhand.
If the people involved were just more careful in their nominating and included all the correct info, the campaign can be successful here in SA. Too. I donated my R20 to P ink drive and think its a great idea.
Hi
if you go look on facebook again, you will notice you can donate R10 by smsing a certain name to a the number supplied. I think this is a great cancer awareness. if people do not feel like taking a photo then do not do it. Yes the selfie wont help cure cancer but it is a great awareness.
stop seeing this with a negative eye.
Samantha Woollatt
Samantha, he is not seeing this with a negative eye. But rather trying to get the people involved in this trend to do more for cancer. Even my facebook some will donate to pinkdrive and post the link but 70% of the people are just taking a a photo. He is just stating the fact to go back to basics and making people aware. Hopefully people that already did their nominations see this article and understand they need to make a contribution to the cancer community. In the end good on you Tihan making people aware that the trend got broken by means of broken telephone.
No one said you had to post a “no make up selfie”, its totaly your own choice ! Some of us girls just prefer going the xtra mile including donating our R20 or more to cancer showing our support as we all know someone battling cancer or had someone close to us who lost the battle against cancer so, this not just some stupid thing just showing off our bare faces ! Maybe some research needs to be done on the funds already donated before any comments or accusations are made !