Asian eyelid surgery

[venaja]

Some Asians do not have eyelids. Some Asians get surgery to create an eyelid. There is much misunderstanding that surrounds this procedure. By far the greatest one is "they're doing it because they want to look white

Comments

[mywornoutmasks]

Someone could just as easily argue that when Asians get eyelid surgery they are trying to look black, since, well, blacks have eyelids too!

And when you say that some Asians don't have eyelids, do you mean they don't have any at all, or that the eyelids they do have are not prominent?

[venaja]

HAHA, YES!

"No eyelid" means there is no crease above the eye.

This woman has no crease.

[mywornoutmasks]

Ah, gotcha! I actually knew that. I think I just had a stupid moment coz the first thing that popped into my head was, "If some Asians don't have eyelids, how do they close their eyes?" hahaha!

This is what happens when I study too much. My brain becomes saturated with abstract intellectual theories and concepts about such and such a topic, which then leaves it unable to grasp simple concepts.

[venaja]

HAHAHA, well, I get your confusion, because that thought came to me as soon as you asked. :)

[immu]

Eyelid? I've never heard of such. Can you educate me?

[the_turtle_girl]

Well, since I think tanning is evil, as is about 99% of plastic surgery, I don't feel too wrong in asking why anyone would be so picky as to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to have a crease in their eyelids? Both of the girls pictured above are very beautiful. I'll trade the bottom one my eyebrow crease if she'll wear my fat.

[venaja]

Different reasons. The best one I can think of is that some people have droopy eyes. Adding a crease lifts the entire area.

[kibean16]

If I had no crease, I'd want one just so I could wear eyeshadow in many ways. No crease kinda limits your eyeshadow wearage.

-Kiki

[aritei]

No kidding. My sister and I had a hell of a time figuring out what the directions in Seventeen/YM meant. "What's this crease they're talking about?" During our last trip to Asia, my sister bought these small adhesives meant to go right above your eyelashes, so the wearer would have the much coveted Occidental Fold.

[venaja]

I'm confused why the eyefold continues to be associated with "Occidental" when plenty of Asians have them.

[aritei]

Well, I couldn't read the directions (in Japanese), but that's how my grandmother translated the writing on the package. My dad has one natural eyefold, but he had the other operated on to match.

[genno]

Why do people always assume everyone wants to "look white"?

With my dreads, a lot of people think I want to "look black". I don't really think anyone wants to "look white".