‘How is posting a picture without make up going to help cure cancer?’.

One of the main questions being asked all over social media this week is ‘how is posting a picture without make up going to help cure cancer?’. When the whole craze of the make-up free selfie nominations first arose at the beginning of the week I didn't really know what to expect. Originally I thought that the whole thing was not going to help in the bigger picture, but after more and more pictures popped up I knew that this had to be serious.

Over the past 36 hours my Facebook, Twitter and Instagram has become full of natural skinned girls posting their bare faced selfie in an attempt to raise awareness for cancer charities. Social Media crazes tend to come and go, but important issues like cancer is where we should all be coming together and supporting the charities.

I have also seen a lot of negativity surrounding this. With many people simple stating that this is pointless and people should be putting a £1 in charity box rather than posting a make-up free picture. But surely aren’t these people missing the point? The whole idea of this was to raise awareness of cancer campaigns and charities not just about money. By all these ladies posties their bare faces, and all the negativity surrounding this for doing so, is getting people involved and talking about cancer. It is already raising the profile of all the campaigns and charities out there so it is doing its job! Even if it helps just one person can an early diagnosis so they have a better chance to fight then it is a job well done to me.

I have seen so many people stating they have donated to cancer research and other charities after seeing all the conversations on these various social media platforms. The majority of people would not have donated money to these charities without this awareness and I suspect many  more than I have seen have so this is an incredible Many of the ladies posting these photos donated, I did. There is a simple option to text BEAT to 70099, this donated £3. But being Tenerife it’s hard for me so I simply headed over to the website and donated £5, you can do it here http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/

There is also a mens version that has erupt over the past 12 hours with men posting a ‘make-up selfie’. Although this is releasing quite silly pictures, it is showing their support too and if the men are help and donating too then it is even better and raising awareness even more.  

 It is amazing that this craze has encouraged so many people to donate to cancer research, so that one day this horrid disease may be cured.

 Sophie Jones story has also emerged in recent weeks. 19 year old Sophie suffered severe stomach pains for weeks and was refused a smear test as doctors said she was too young to have the disease. When doctors discovered later she had cervical cancer it had already spread to other parts of her body and was incurable.

Sophie’s friends and family are campaigning for the age to be lowered, currently it is 25 years old. So that less young women lose their life as a result of this disease. I am highly backing this and added my name to the petition straight away. If you haven’t signed the petition yet keep the support going and add yours here http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/62385

 Cancer to me is close to home, like others all across the world I have had family members suffer from this terrible disease. At the moment my incredible and beautifully brave Granny is suffering from chronic leukaemia and if there was any simple thing out there to help cure this and stop her suffering I would.

Like Sophie, my granny and so many others that are affected by cancer, just stop and think when you make a negative remark about raising awareness on this issue. We should all join together and support this. If raising awareness would get us closer to curing this disease then I would post no make-up pictures every day for the rest of my life!

Ryanne  ♥