Or is it cutting you???
“Hey, whats up you guys? Yes!” – @shanedawson
If you know anything about Shane Dawson, you know his love for pigs, emotional series with other YouTubers or celebrities who are thick in drama and scandals, and – his conspiracy videos.
In the beginning of 2019, he released a two part investigating conspiracy series consisting of two 1.5 hour long videos PACKED with all types of crazy conspiracies.
Too be honest, I didn’t find out about Shane Dawson until the end of 2018. For Christmas, my mom & dad gave me an Amazon Fire. In the beginning, I used it for trying to get into reading & checking social media – aka shopping on Amazon 🤦🏼♀️
I made a Youtube channel back in 8th grade and it was STUPIDLY cringy.
I talked (AND SANG LYRICS TO CAMP ROCK SONGS) about the transition from middle school to high school life, and at the time I had no idea that I was vlogging. Instead, I thought I was just be superrrrr cool.
All lies.
When I got my Amazon Fire, I started downloading tons of free apps. Youtube came up as a suggested app and, out of interest of seeing if I ever deleted that HORRID channel, I downloaded it.
Within 5 seconds of downloading the app, I ended up checking out the trending page.
Jeffree Star was a hot topic, so I gave it a go.
6 videos later… I realized I had a problem.
Then, I met Shane.
Shane Dawson’s series with Jeffree Star was immediate click bait for me after spending several hours watching Jeffree’s makeup videos.
His video showed up on the right hand side of my screen in the “Up Next” column.
I watched the entire series over a span of 3 days. Well, more like nights because I have this thing where I can’t sleep without background noise. So, I’d start playing the videos in hopes it would lull me to sleep.
It did quite the opposite.
3 am would roll around and I would be & look just like a zombie from The Walking Dead.
Spoiler alert: I am the start of the apocalypse
Shane should make ME a conspiracy!
I digress…
The more I’ve watched Shane over the past few months, I have began watching some of his older content.
In his conspiracy video with Nikki Tutorials, he explains to Nikki the conspiracy of fiber glass in Chapstick.
This got me thinking.
My dad has used Chapstick FOREVER. My childhood memories of his everyday routine involved Chapstick. So much so that I would ask him to buy me Chapstick at the store so I could be more like him.
I know, it sounds cute that we had daddy daughter routines. However, all of my memories of him using Chapstick revolve around his religious use of it.
Think about it, anyone you know that uses Chapstick or even if you yourself uses it, you use it A LOT. But why?
In 2018, a series of tornadoes struck three different areas of my town: Elon, Timberlake, and my side of town – Boonsboro.
Me and several friends headed out that week to help neighborhoods clean up their yards and fix any damage we could.
Throughout cleaning someone’s roof out of their driveway, we picked up large amounts of insulation. At the time, it was soft and pillow like.
By 5 pm that evening, I was covered in small scratches and was SO itchy.
That was Shane Dawson’s theory of this popular lip product.
He believes that they add small shards of glass to Chapstick to further make your lips chapped so you have to use it more often, therefore buying more Chapstick more frequently.
Shook. I know. It makes so much sense.
So I tested this out. I added Chapstick to my cart this week and used it for a full day to see what was up.
My lips WERE SO DRY the morning after. So much so that I actually had to do a lip scrub and smear oils all over my lips to try and salvage them.
Ever tried applying lipstick to dry lips?
One word: crusty.
My final thoughts:
Shane, yes. I believe Chapstick is drying. Is it fiber glass? Who knows. But I won’t be buying another tube of the Sahara Desert.
Below I have linked an article about the bad ingredients in lip balm.
The B Word 