Thursday 3 February 2011

What is the Obsession with Double Eyelids?

I think before I came to Korea I had never heard of double eyelids! I must admit when I first heard the term I was a little lost. Well, if you have never heard the term....I my reader.....am going to enlighten you. This beautiful little angel has got double eyelids and so do many other people but most asians from Korea, China and Japan do not. So, double eyelids is the term which explains the extra fold of skin on your eyelids which I explained is absent in many asians. Big DEAL, right!!!!


I had never given eyelids a second thought until I came here. I honestly feel that asian eyes are very exotic and quite attractive without the @double eyelid@ but you know how it is.....everyone wants what they can't have....or can they have it!!! Well, again....reader I am going to enlighten you on how many asian obtain "double eyelids." The cheap and non permenant option is just to buy a pack from the shop.....that will have some tape or something in it to create the illusion of a double eyelid. Well, that's not too bad....you fancy a little change....you wonder what it'll look like if you had that extra flap of skin.



But, unfortunately it doesn't end there!!! Many students from around age sixteen years old get cosmetic plastic surgery to obtain these eyelids. They do it at this age because it is before their graduation picture is taken....so, supposedly it makes it look more natural??????? Not to sound RACIST but how the FUCK can it look natural when 99.9% of the time most Koreans don't have double eyelids and maybe if they do it's because they are mixed or they have the smallest flap of skin already. But it doesn't just stop at creating the double eyelids some kids even have surgery to make the eyes look bigger. It really makes me feel sad when someone changes something that is already beautiful..... The other day a Korean actually said they hate another singer because "his eyes are too Asian"...absolutely mental!!!

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