No Makeup for Cancer

[Rachel]

A cause stays a cause but some people doesn't take it seriously enough. A month ago we done a cause for someone we knew to raise money for a friend that needed money for an operation and our cause was to go outside in shorts and tanktop(girls) and shorts and no shirt(for boys) and lay in the snow for as long as you can and drink a beer and say "I support the cause and will give (amount of money) and nominate a few people and the one they nominates had the choice to do it as well to raise money. It was worth it as we got to our goal but of course there will always be people doing causes to not even support the actual cause.

[-Amyy]

I really don't see the point in it. I don't understand how posting a selfie is helping cancer in any way

Unless you are actually donating then go ahead and post one

[Matthew]

seems a bit pointless...

though a few of my friends did it and actually donated as well so I guess in those cases its fine!

[wixard]

omg matts i love your sig

Edited by Nick (Forum Super Moderator): Please don't post offtopic.

[Absently]

suddenly exploded all over my facebook.. ****loads of girls doing it saying it's for a good cause and only seen about two that have ACTUALLY donated to the cause. seems like they're all just doing it for attention and it's really annoying. i also noticed a lot of them are still wearing makeup which really isn't doing what you're supposed to.. can say that if i get nominated i will not be doing it, will just donate instead, considering most people see me without makeup cus im too lazy to wear it sometimes.

[Cerys]

Fair enough it's raising awareness. I imagine you've all been thinking about it more since the campaign started so it's clearly doing something positive

But those girls who clearly still wear makeup and just want attention...ugh.

[Futz]

Its made me realise how many girls have **** eyebrows and they've been lying to me this entire time

[lemons]

article on dm about it

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...ing-money.html

[Charz777]

I personally don't believe that it helps to raise donations and that some people would honestly wait for a nomination just to show off their flawless skin. But, by being as viral as it is it is at least raising awareness.

I posted my no-make up selfie (first selfie I've ever taken, just FYI) mainly because the people who nominated me would think I was a heartless ***** if I didn't and I don't need the **** for that :/

One thing I made sure to do, which is actually the point of this, was to include the information; text BEAT to 70099. Many people didn't bother. I've seen far too many posts along the lines of 'Thanks for my nom, sorry I look ugly. I nom (insert name here).' And the poster's main concern is for the attention and so people will say, 'no you are NOT ugly, you're beautiful.' Blah blah.

I have seen some good ones, especially from people I know have been affected by cancer, usually not themselves but a close family member. And you just know they are posting because they care. I've lost an aunt to breast cancer and she was so wonderful. I really wanted to mention all about her on Facebook but my uncle (her then-fiance) and many other family members are my friends on Facebook and I didn't want to say anything that they might want to keep private, so I kept it to myself. But I do like the ones where people have posted in memory of someone.

I honestly think a lot of them are from people who really do care, and that you can tell the ones who are just doing it for attention. I don't see a problem with it at the end of the day, if people don't like their feeds clogged up from it then they should just un-friend the posters, but I think that's a bit petty. It's not doing any harm. And I like to see all girls getting together for a good cause and being nice (for the most part) to each other. It's lovely.

On an unrelated note, I actually find it interesting to see what people look like without make-up. When you see people natural it makes you realise that flawless skin isn't something everybody has, but at the same time people don't actually need make-up to look pretty.

[-Moniquee.]

I have seen it happening heaps. I'm not sure about it, I think that some of the people are taking advantage of the situation to get attention. Whereas, other people are actually doing it for the cause, not sure how one no make up selfie is going to help breast cancer patients. I guess it's more of a support thing like if breast cancer patients saw it they would feel good that people are there to support them etc