How I love them so.
An Instagram makeup artist was messing around trying something different. Her effect was quite artistic. She has no intention of going around like this. Her followers tried mostly with less success, but some with even more intrigue. This caused a rush of kids trying it themselves and uploading their results, boys and girls and in-betweens. Most results are deplorable. They know that they don't have what it takes to be artistic with their own faces. They're just messing around having fun.
They're playing with their precious pure flawless faces as canvass. That's all. It's not a thing you can expect to see at large. And if you do see it at large then know the kids are just having fun.
Come on, Kids be a couple of sports. Do each other's faces.
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She has no intention of going around like this.
And you know this how? She's already showed up here for my eyeballs to behold in what appears to be another online attempt on the part of a playful, creative youth to gain attention and leave a mark.
At least I won't be totally surprised when I have a face to face encounter with one of the playful youths that's decided to try that look out in public.
Back when basketball players were wearing tiny little satin shorts with a side scallops, I couldn't have imagined I'd be seeing players with their arms and torsos covered in illegible hieroglyphs and their legs in tights. What I knew of tights at that time, made running in them impossible to do or imagine.
And you know this how?
I know this by way of television channel TBD.
I saw the television show first then went to YouTube to find a corresponding video.
There is a show that you wouldn't watch due to being set in your ways, say, music for example, and with an apparent antipathy toward young people and anything they try by way of simple experimentation and playfulness.
The show features sets of bloggers and single bloggers who are popular with young people due to their charm, openness and enthusiasm combined with sensible judgement.
It's a look into their world, what they make of the world that we've bequeathed to them.
The popular bloggers with subscriptions that run in the millions, are all gorgeous, obviously, and they're asked to respond to trends.
All of them were excited to be presented with this trend. All of them had heard about it but none of them actually knew anything about it. One goes, "Oh, oh, oh, my dad told me about that one." They were interested to see more about it.
All of them judged it outrageous and not their sort of thing, and all of them judged it interesting and none of them judged it shocking or ugly.
"That guy's lips look like he was kissed by a sea creature"
Separately, they all had a great time looking at the photos and responding to them.
They agreed the original was very good. And a few even better done.
They each considered it a form of art and not a cosmetic mode.
They were all surprisingly sensible. As you'd expect your own children to be. But also open minded. As you'd teach your children to be. Watching them judge reaffirmed my faith in young people. So sensible. So grounded. So kind.
Then they were presented with a make up kit and a mirror. Each, separately. One blogger or team isn't aware of the others. They were recorded in sequence. (The set is the same for each one)
"Oooooh, no. " Then they all eagerly dug in to see what they could do with their face.
The bloggers span the demographic range except age. This segment was limited to them. Often they present other non-bloggers in our age group as counterbalance to the young bloggers to see their reactions. To note any contrast. But not in this segment.
Maybe they did record such a session but it turned out to be too negative to air, too short, too hard, and useless for not adding anything worthwhile to their show. That's a possibility. There were no responses from elderly.
They all did poorly on their own faces.
The young men with beards tried to connect eyebrows to beard.
Two young women did each other's face extremely moderately with barely no difference at all.
A married couple tried it, the man with a beard.
A gay couple tried it and failed at their attempts.
Through the whole thing, their reaction to photos and their attempt to try it, they answered the question you ask me.
So then, should you encounter this in the wild and assume it's an attempt to shock you, then you'd miss the opportunity to respond differently. You'd miss your chance to play with them. You'd pass on the chance to respond positively to art and say something like, "Ew, you made your lips look like a flower" or "Did you try shading?" or "How long did this take?" or anything that comes to mind in the moment. That is, you'd pass on the chance to interact with young people.
At any rate, that's how I know what I think I know.
There is a show that you wouldn't watch due to being set in your ways, say, music for example, and with an apparent antipathy toward young people and anything they try by way of simple experimentation and playfulness.
There it is! And you also know what I would and wouldn't watch due to being set in my ways, with an apparent antipathy toward young people! Well, that made me smile.
What I have is a realistic approach, realized through the process loving, guiding, encouraging and supporting two experimental and playful children into authenticity and adulthood where they daily find ways to use and balance creative expression with the responsibilities of work, leadership and the care and provision for others who depend on them.
Each generation faces its own challenges and takes on the world bequeathed to them. For my parents doing so meant entering the world on the heels of one World War to survive a Depression in their youth and encounter the effects of another World War before they were married. Working through high school and college at jobs that required the use of set phrases and involved wearing a uniform that did not allow for individual expressions of playfulness or experimentation was what I needed to do to get by.
I've yet to meet a group of people at any age (children, young adults, adults or seniors) who were gorgeous, charming, popular, enthusiastic, sensible, open minded, grounded and kind without also encountering the presence of the shadowside of the ego, which starts to manifest around the age of three, once mobility, languange and independant thinking is onboard.
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