#DontJudgeMeChallenge

Ok, so I've just recently encountered this new trend on the internet called "Don't judge a book by it's cover" or "Don't Judge Challenge" and for all those of you who haven't heard of it yet - it's basically teenagers recording short clips of themselves where they've modified their looks to purposefully make themselves appear 'ugly' with painted-on mono brows, pimples and wearing big, nerdy glasses for instance (who even told them that these things are what makes a person ugly??), they then cover the camera with their hand and when they remove the hand they are shown all styled up looking their absolute (and of course natural, ahem..) 'best'.
Now the seeming 'goal' of this was originally to promote tolerance for people who look different form the norm, hence are perceived less attractive and to ditch the dogmatic beauty ideals - but to be REALLY honest with you and to say it with quite blatant words (excuses for my language) this has really turned into nothing but bullshit! 
Do these kids really think they are helping people that can't help or change the way they look by shaming them for not matching society's (sometimes ridiculous) beauty standards and into believing they're ugly??
In my opinion, this challenge is just taking body shaming to a whole new level and all the shallow, superficial teenagers participating in this are just doing it to impress their crush and get attention really. 
There's no way to fight mobbing with even more mobbing.
Seeing nonsense like this I sort of wish I could just exit the planet to be honest.. 
To me personally beauty is about so much more than just appearance-

This was my opinion on the matter but what do you think?  

 (please excuse me if this sounded too much like a rant) 

xx ♡ Micky

美拍！

美拍 (Meipai) is a new video editing app, 

or actually rather a 'social network' such as instagram but only for videos.

you might have heard of it already or seen videos 

that were created in meipai on your instagram or Facebook. 

so basically this network makes it really simple to edit your videos, 

trim them, apply filters and add music 

so they look really professional and cool when you're done!

I love this app and use it a lot which is also the main reason I want to recommend it. 

You can even fit the outlook of the video to your mood 

or the theme of the content so it can represent emotions

like happy, funny, angry, sad or send the viewer 

straight into a magic world like a fairy tale! (*^_^*)

since meipai is a chinese app the main option to register an account 

is via connecting it to your weibo but it also offers Facebook 

in case you don't have a weibo account (like me = =).

The videos you share in meipai are automatically saved to your phone 

from which you can post them to any other social platform you like, 

such as tumblr or instagram. 

The use of this app is really easy and fast and it allows you 

to straight away share created videos to chinese networks : 

WeChat, Qzone & Sina Weibo and of course Facebook 

The app itself works in a very similar way to instagram actually;

you can like & comment on posts of others, explore, follow & be followed 

and have a home timeline with posts of the people you follow. 

The only negative point I could find about it so far is that 

it limitates the lenght of the video to 10 seconds and the 'tips' for advice are in chinese haha 

but it really didn't bother me since the use of the app

 is really so simple so you won't need help for it. 

If you're interested, check it out here or download it straight from the app store 

These are some of my videos from Meipai: 

(quite stupid to be honest :p)

feel free to add me if you have meipai ～(´･ω･`)
『みみお姫様』

By The Way! - the Meipai equivalent for photos is called 

MeituPic and also offers many beautiful filters and is available in the app store as well. 

xx ♡ Micky

Do you like posting videos on social networks?