Lip Glue Challenge

About

Lip Glue Challenge is a viral beauty hack in which people apply a line of either super glue or eyelash glue above their top lip and then fold their top lip onto the glue until it holds to make the lips appear fuller. The trend became popular on TikTok in September 2019 until it moved to Twitter that same month.

Origin

On September 6th, 2019, TikTok user @chloehammock4 uploaded a video in which she applies glue to her face to make her lips seem fuller (shown below). The video gained over 401,100 likes and 22,300 shares in four days.

Spread

On September 7th, 2019, as TikTok user continued to attempt the beauty hack, Twitter user @Y2SHAF^[1] reposted the video to twitter with the caption "imagine you’re talking to someone and your lip falls down by accident" which accumulated over 356,100 likes and 68,000 retweets in three days. That same day, Twitter users began trying the beauty hack. Twitter user @brianna_vacio replied "Y’all I tried it😂 ignore the laugh" (shown below). The tweet garnered over 4,700 likes and 150 retweets in three days.

Twitter user @SprklShneGlistn also attempted the challenge calling her attempt hilarious (shown below). The video accumulated over 3,300 likes and 160 retweets in three days.

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