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No personal information, no self promotion. Absolutely no racism or sexism or overall bigotry will be tolerated here.įollow reddit rules. Refer to the Wiki for further explanation about this rule. Simple questions/topics should be kept to our daily recurring stickied threads. really anything so long as you follow some rules below.Īll posts must encourage discussion. This is where you can complain about trends in makeup or on MUA, talk about anything makeup related, have casual conversations. But I’m learning to accept it.As /r/circlebroke puts it: circlejerk without the satire. It’s not like I can blink-and just love my natural eye shape. Monolids are part of who I am-literally-and deeply a part of my Asian identity. But a stronger part of me looks at my past experience as painfully changing something that I was born with. Part of me continues to tell myself that it would have worked had I continued to use the products and pushed through. So, I ditched the entire double eyelid routine. The week before prom, As I was putting on the tape before bed, I looked at myself and thought, “What am I even doing?” I was uncomfortable every day with the products on and no one at school had even commented on my eyes looking slightly larger. It was a 24/7 process: the glue went on in the morning and the tape went on at night. The glue is designed to physically pull your eyelids together-which means you can’t even blink. But my determination for double eyelids would not waver. I bought two more packets of the tape and a bottle of glue. By the time I got the tape on, my eyes were tearing up from the mental and physical irritation. For more details on how the process works, check out Michelle Phan's video.įor a month, I poked my eyes with the plastic fork several times a day. This isn't me, but I really did poke myself in the eye like this to try to get a double lid. Many beauty bloggers who've used eyelid tape say they kept it on 24/7 for several months in order to achieve a new lid crease.
Instructions vary kit-to-kit, but here's how they basically work: These kits come with colorful packets filled with slivers of tape and a fork to press the strips into your eye socket to create that double lid. So, a month before prom, I went to a Japanese store to buy a double eyelid kit. My only option was to cake a thick layer of makeup around my eyes, making me look like a raccoon every time I blinked.
Even though there are hundreds of online tutorials for applying monolid eyeliner online, none of the techniques ever looked right on me. The thin line of makeup tends to disappear from sight once you open your eyes. The more I looked at her, the more I started to buy into the trend, even imagining the way my eyes could look with double-lidded makeup.Īpplying eye makeup with monolids is a challenge. It became strangely normal for me to see my sister with tape hovering above her eyes. Double eyelids kit come with tape and fork inside. Instead of paying for expensive eyelid surgery, also called Asian blepharoplasty, she decided to try to create a permanent crease by wearing eyelid tape constantly. She started with packets of pre-cut tape from Asian beauty stores and eventually mastered cutting the tape herself. So when my sister decided to try to change her monolids, I was intrigued. My sister before and after taping her eyelids for months. In middle school, a girl called my friend’s eyes “weird” because her eyelashes pointed down - just like mine. I looked at my predominantly white classmates’ double-lidded eyes and paid way too much attention to their shape and depth. To me, they were yet another reminder of how different I was from the other kids in my class. Growing up, my eyes were my biggest insecurity. Oakland, CA - Like many East Asians, I have monolids, meaning my eyelids don't have creases.
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