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Bizarre social media trend sweeping Taiwan and China features women showing how to eat after applying red lipstick

The My Big Mouth Never Stains The Cup challenge is sweeping Asia, and sees young women showing how they eat and drink without smudging their freshly applied lipstick

HOW to chow down without smudging your lipstick isn't a conundrum most women spend a lot of time thinking about.

Surely the solution is pretty simple - just reapply it after you're done eating.

 A woman opens her mouth as wide as it will go as part of the trend
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A woman opens her mouth as wide as it will go as part of the trendCredit: Jam Press

But over in Taiwan, a new 'hack' showing how to avoid smudging your lippy or worse still, getting it on your teeth, is sweeping social media.

The lipstick challenge sees young women carefully applying bright red or orange lipstick before eating a mouthful of food.

In videos and pictures being widely shared, they open their mouths as wide as possible for comic affect, pulling hilarious faces in the process.

Some girls cheat a little by using a filter that makes their mouth look incredibly big - if their mouths were really that big then they would probably get through a tube of lippie a DAY.

 This girl's face contorts with a mouth changing filter
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This girl's face contorts with a mouth changing filterCredit: Jam Press
 This girl has a mouth as big as a frog in her hilarious entry to the challenge
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This girl has a mouth as big as a frog in her hilarious entry to the challengeCredit: Jam Press

The challenge via a Chinese video app called Dou Yin, which is similar to Music.ly.

Dou Yin created a challenge called My Big Mouth Never Stains The Cup, which people began taking part in. 

claims that the challenge involves women applying lipstick while asking "What do you mean how do I drink water after applying lipstick? I just drink it normally". 

They then turn on the 'big mouth' filter and drink the water, but it has since evolved to also include eating.

 The challenge started in Taiwan but is now popular in China, too
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The challenge started in Taiwan but is now popular in China, tooCredit: Jam Press
 The challenge sees girls putting on fresh lipstick then drinking or eating
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The challenge sees girls putting on fresh lipstick then drinking or eatingCredit: Jam Press
 Some of the entries have been really fun and the craze shows no sign of slowing down
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Some of the entries have been really fun and the craze shows no sign of slowing downCredit: Jam Press

It's the latest social media challenge to sweep Asia - and is harmless compared to some.

Last year people posed with pieces of A4 paper to show that their waists were as thin as - or thinner - than a piece of 21cm wide paper.

In the summer an anime cartoon left viewers comparing the length of their feet to their forearms.

 People taking part make sure to pull funny faces as they eat without smudging their lippie
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People taking part make sure to pull funny faces as they eat without smudging their lippieCredit: Jam Press
 It doesn't matter what is on the table - you can't smudge your lipstick eating it
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It doesn't matter what is on the table - you can't smudge your lipstick eating itCredit: Jam Press

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