Makeup Monday process and policies
How does it work?
You start a group. You will meet once a week for a video chat, usually about an hour or two long.
Thus far, they’ve typically started in a Facebook group message, so that everyone can settle on a time. Ideally, the call occurs at the same time every week (for example, ours is Mondays from 7pm to 9pm)
Each club has an unofficial “facilitator” (or facilitators) who schedule the video calls (my team has been using Zoom, but Google Hangouts, Discord, Microsoft Teams or another video platform may work best for you). The facilitator(s) are there just to help organize, and may change over time. They’re also likely to be the ones letting the teams know the weekly team-to-team competitions.
Once the time is chosen, you start having video calls. Each video call has a theme or an event. Although we have gotten pretty settled into Makeup Monday, not every week has to be makeup. My group has done fashion watching, baking, sewing, and just chatting. You could also do different craft hangouts. Be creative! During these calls, you all get to hang out together, share, and do the activity! Your club can pick what activities work best for you, and you can repeat the ones you like the most.
I recommend no more than 8 people per group. Each call is not mandatory for every member, but try to make it to as many as you can! After you reach 8, we recommend either splitting the group or starting a second one. Why? The more people in the call, the harder it becomes for the quieter members to share, and we want to make sure everyone gets heard!
At the end of the video call, your group sets aside some time so you can show off your makeup. This is also the time that you agree as a team on next week’s activity.
Each club has a group chat, where you can post links to relevant subjects, share photos and progress mid-week, and organize the call links.
You can choose to come up with your own themes, or join the collective weekly challenges, as a team. Each week, you can choose whether to compete in a team-to-team competition, or do your own thing.
Periodically, there will be larger meetups where multiple teams can join in on giant calls, (I haven’t quite figured that one out yet) so you can see others that might not be in your direct team.
Start your own team!
Want to start a Makeup Monday team? Please join in. Using the instructions above, get your friends together and start meeting. Let me know your team meeting time, and your leader, and I’ll get you connected with the team challenges!
As a part of being a Makeup Monday Team, you get a custom stamp. You have to pick a hex colour code and a name for your team! During your first meeting, I recommend picking the colour code and team name, so that I can get that to you. After that, you can enter the challenges anytime. (I haven’t designed these yet.)
The Rights and Freedoms of a Makeup Monday Member
Last updated: March 12, 2021
Human rights
Or alien rights, elf rights, etc… we'll assume they’re basically the same as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for consistency. https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
The right to a safe space
No harassment, bullying, or slander. Because a bunch of you may be trying something that might feel new and scary, we will be following this set of safe space rules: http://thesafezoneproject.com/groundrules/. If you feel worried or unsafe for any reason, please let me or your group leader know immediately.
Freedom from pressure
All of this is meant to be fun and to help us. Please do not be pressured to attend meetings, complete goals, or participate in team-to-team challenges if you’re not up for it. The goal is to have fun, and if you’re feeling pressure, you’re definitely not having fun. If all you want to do is be in the group chat but not participate in video calls, you’re welcome do to so. Be free!
The right to positive human contact
Humans are social creatures, and this is a time of great upheaval where we have to figure out how to get the social contact we need when we can’t really do it physically. This is an attempt to do so, an experiment with a new form of planned social contact that I’m hoping will work better than social media currently is. If this is not positive for you, then do what works best for you instead.
The freedom to enjoy a good video call
Video call etiquette, whaaat? Yup, fraid so. Members are expected to make sure that they abide by this basic video call etiquette:
Make sure to give all members a chance to speak. Take pauses, as it is much more difficult for someone else to stop you from talking in a multi-video setting.
Make sure that your video and audio quality are as high as possible.
Do not be offended if the facilitator needs to temporarily mute you because of audio quality issues. Let them know in the text chat when you have resolved these issues so they can unmute you.
Make sure that there are no loud noises or music in the background.
Do not be offended if the facilitator needs to temporarily mute you because of loud noises in the background. Let them know in the text chat when you have resolved these issues so they can unmute you.
Do not display anything that other members would find offensive, rude, scary, or traumatizing. You can always ask first if you are unsure.
Do not be offended if your request is refused.
Video call facilitators, make sure to keep control of your call. This has nothing to do with the topic or activity - tangents recommended!
Chat with members about inappropriate behavior where necessary.
Mute members where necessary.
Remove members where necessary.
Freedom from drama
More people, more terrible drama, and we don’t need that during quarantine, that’s for sure. These groups should be supportive, but if something happens, here are the policies:
Negative drama will not be tolerated. This includes any form of harassment, bullying, or pressuring of other team members. If one of the team members is doing any of these things, the others have a right to:
Ask the team member to stop.
If they do not stop, to ask the team member to leave their group.
Having issues for which you request help does NOT constitute negative drama.
Dealing with mental or physical health during quarantine, stress, sadness, or at-home conflicts do not constitute negative drama
Dealing with being a front-line supporter or working outside of the house does not constitute negative drama
Needing emotional support from your team does not constitute negative drama, but your team can also provide boundaries of the amount of emotional support they can and are willing to offer. If your needs go beyond this, you are expected to find another source of support and respect your team members’ boundaries.
Excessive discussion of Covid and negative news CAN constitute negative drama if the team member(s) have been asked to stop or lessen the amount of information presented. Excessive presentation of this information can be hard on some members and is a violation of their safe space.
The right to leave the group, or join another group
Character conflicts, timing conflicts, and activities interests are some of the reasons why you might want to leave a group and join another. Totally cool! Or, you might be leaving on bad terms (see Freedom from drama).
All members must be informed in advance and acquiesce in writing or recorded video to a new member joining their group. Group members should not be added without permission.
All members are held accountable for their policies of group addition/removal.
If there is a character conflict, the facilitator can work with other leaders of different groups to find a group that is a better fit for one or both of the rival members.
If a team member is asked to leave a group for bad behavior, this team member may, depending on their actions, be invited to join a different group where character conflicts or other issues would naturally be resolved. Depending on their actions, any new group can refuse them entry.
Refusal to cease harassing, bullying, or slandering another member are reasons to be denied entry to a group.
Excessive violation of minor boundaries are reasons to be denied entry to a group.
A group sensing a character conflict or knowing of past negative drama is a reason to be denied entry to a group.
Whoever has joined first has the first right of refusal to stay or leave the group, in the case of a conflict between two members.
Members can leave a group at any time to join another group that meets at a time that is better for them, whose activities are more in their interests, etc…
Members are expected to let their existing team know about this, so that they can leave on good terms.
Members will be asked about the reasons for leaving another team during their request to join a new team.
Unacceptable reasons to refuse a new group member include:
Issues of race, gender, sexuality, size, or skill level are NOT acceptable reasons to be denied entry to a group.
Any group that is proven to be denying entry to members for any of these reasons will be removed from our collective and will not be allowed to join in team-to-team competitions or group meetings.
All members of a group will be held responsible for this behavior as addition or removal of a team member is a team effort.
Acceptable reasons to refuse a new group member include:
A group already having a comfortable number of members is a reason to be denied entry to a group. Depending on the members, this does not have to be a maximum of 8. Groups with more quiet members may prefer a smaller number consistently. Groups that are full can indicate so.
None of the group members knowing the individual is a potentially acceptable reason to be denied entry to a group. This depends on the safe space level requested by the current members.
The interests and activities desired by the new member not matching with the interests and activities planned by current members.