'I'm not encouraging people to look like me': Kylie Jenner responds to disturbing social media craze where teens plump their lips with a shot glass to look like reality star
Kylie Jenner
has responded to an internet craze where teens are enlarging their lips
to grotesque proportions, by sucking on a shot glass, to try to emulate
the reality star.
The
17-year-old tweeted on Tuesday: 'I'm not here to try & encourage
people/young girls to look like me or to think this is the way they
should look.'
She added: 'I want to encourage people/young girls like me to be YOURSELF & not be afraid to experiment w your look.'
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Reacting: Kylie Jenner took to Twitter
on Tuesday to respond to the craze sweeping social media that is
encouraging teenagers to plump up their lips to grotesque proportions
using a shot glass - in an attempt to emulate the star
It
follows the emergence of a trend sweeping social media dubbed the
'#kyliejennerchallenge' whereby youngsters attempt to blow up their lips
using bottles or shot glasses.
The
reportedly painful method involves participants placing their mouth
over the opening of a cup, jar or other narrow vessel and sucking in
until the air vacuum causes their lips to swell up - all in the hopes of
emulating Kylie's bee-stung pout.
Countless
teens, both boys and girls, have been sharing the disturbing results of
their experiments on Twitter and Instagram, which in many cases has led
to severe bruising around the mouth.
Speaking out: The 17-year-old star took to Twitter with this message
Embracing individuality: She added that she wanted people to be themselves but also experiment
Not a good
idea: A worrying new trend dubbed the '#kyliejennerchallenge' has swept
social media, encouraging teens to blow their lips up to epic
proportions using bottles or shot glasses (pictured)
Surprisingly, given the sheer number of teens attempting the feat, it appears the results are far from desirable.
'I screwed up,' wrote one teenage girl along with her #kyliejennerchallenge selfie, while another complained she looked 'gross'.
All
natural? The 17-year-old star has denied going under the knife to create
her bee stung lips which are much bigger from the pout she displayed
just a couple of years ago
Pouting: Kylie displayed full lips and wore a pink wig for her latest Instagram image on Tuesday
The
method - one this journalist won't be road-testing - works by way of
the airlock created in the opening of the glass or jar, which increases
blood flow to the lips and causes them to swell.
Problematically,
the results are said to last for hours, even days, with several people
complaining that they were stuck with the after-effects for a lot longer
than expected.
Plenty of Twitter users have been quick to ridicule the craze.
Concerning: Surprisingly, given the sheer number of teens attempting the feat, it appears the results are far from desirable
Last
month, two Icelandic sisters attempted the trick by sucking into a
hairspray lid, and warned others against it after the stunt went
disastrously wrong.
Yrja Ás Baldvinsdottir, 18, and her sister, Birgitta Ás, from Reykjavik, were left with swollen and blue bruised lips.
Writing
on Facebook, Yrja As said: 'I wanted to warn people against
do-it-yourself lip expansion, but was really surprised and shocked that
it ended up being something that loads of people were copying.
'I
just wanted to try it and see what they would look like, I've never
done it before, and I won't be doing it again. It was very, very
painful. My lips turned blue.'
Don't try this at home: The method works by way of the airlock created
in the opening of the glass or jar, which increases blood flow to the
lips and causes them to swell
Don't try this at home: The method works by way of the airlock created
in the opening of the glass or jar, which increases blood flow to the
lips and causes them to swell
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