It's A Trending Nightmare: The No Mirror Makeup Challenge

The good, the bad, and the what does ugly even mean at this point? The "No Mirror Makeup Challenge" popular on YouTube has it all. We decided to give it a go, though we left out Jenna Marbles' drinking component and gave ourselves 7 instead of the standard 5 minutes for her remediation of it. We did choose, however, to utilize only our paws. No brushes. No sponges. Pure hell.

New styles of the challenge have emerged. There are untimed editions, three minute sprints, party-versions that may involve the alcohols, and so on.

Are we original? No. But we're a little bit funny. And it's always amusing to watch people flounder in hysteria. Other vloggers like Black Friday attempting this feat have really set the bar high. We thought nailing the basics would be difficult. She had to paint her eyebrows on with a special makeup marker type thing. Literally paint her eyebrows on. 

Most are of course not professional makeup artists, but the content creator NikkieTutorials is, and honestly her look at the end was nearly perfect. 

We noticed ourselves that it was so frustrating to not have a point of reference. And, per usual, nearly everyone who does this challenge makes a fish face. We wish doing it could give us magical powers to not come out looking like 

and feeling like

but such is the joy of humiliating yourself on the internet.