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*GRIN*

That’s me! Disease free and everything. HOHOHO! Although, I can’t be sure if I’m really shaped like an eggplant or not. Some eggplants are kinda shapey and others are long and skinny… unless aubergines are COMPLETELY different from eggplants. Of course a lot of them are more fatty fatty boom boom shaped. Judging by the selection here, I’m sure eggplant was a good and ambigious choice yup yup!

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Congratulations, you’re worth MORE in bed than the average ($235.67594093033) person taking this quiz!

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This is a funny little quiz that measures you on the Gigolo-Meter to help you find out how much you are worth in bed. Apparantly, estimations are based on averages taken from advertised male and female private escort sites, so it’s kind of interesting to see if you should give up your day job… or not

Evidently, I should. What a great score! Obviously coz I’m fantastic in bed. I can sleep for DAYS! Aww yeah!

I was flicking through the Asian Pacific Post yesterday when I found this:

Looks like Asian women (and men!) have started changing their minds about eyelid surgery, as in, instead of getting eyelid surgery to create wider, Westernized eyes, more and more of them are beginning to request double eyelids, while still retaining the oval, oriental shape and look, known as “Asian Blepharoplasty”.

Statistics indicate (I really should quote my references but I’m too lazy! Sorry!) that Western Eye Surgery is still the most popular request in the plastic surgeons offices across Asia, while in North America, it seems that eyelid operations are the third most popular body enhancement choice after breast augmentations and nose jobs, although now, more Asian American women want their double eyelids to still look Asian instead of Western. Hmm. Even though the reason for surgery may have changed for Asian women in the West (to look like the other 50% of Asian women who are born with double eyelids, instead of trying to look Western), the actual number of Asian American women requesting surgery continues to rise rapidly and exponentially year after year. Apparantly, “Beyond the aesthetic benefits of the procedure, women patients who have had double eyelid surgery frequently cite greater ease of applying eyeliner as a major benefit of doing the surgery.” Double hmm.

So it seems that the double eyelid craze has gone down a notch so Asian women are beginning to choose to retain their identity although still opting for surgery. What do you think? Is it aesthetically viable? Too severe? Too permanent? Fantastical? Gorgeousness?

My opinion: both the mono-lid and the crease can look amazing depending on how you work it. Wouldn’t it be great to have temporary ways to create double eyelids so you can mix and match your eyes to your outfits? (More on that coming soon! Watch this space.)

What DO you think? Leave a comment.

I spent a weekend by the beach and am now quite tan. I went out and bought a whitening infusion mask pack. This was the first time I had ever bought or used such a product, or felt the inclination to do so. The fancy-shmancy packaging might have been a contributor, I don’t know.. Heheh.

But still, after using one and wondering if it made any difference*, I was thinking about why I actually tried it out. So, yeah, this post is kinda about the role of skin colour in the concept of beauty.. (the Yahoo Answers link in this post actually has tips for fairer skin, if that’s what you want..)

I looked it up and there are a bunch of questions on this on the Yahoo Answers thing, such as How to get fair skin? Thing is, lots of comments were from people saying “check your attitude, not your mirror”, “love who YOU are”, and similarly themed stuff.

Guess the desire to be fair is regarded by some as a kind of self-esteem problem? But beauty is only skin deep. Who you are has nothing to do with what you look like, right?

Personally, what I look like always surprises me. Sometimes when I look in a mirror in some shopping mall I even fail to recognize myself.

Stereotype me for a bit - Asian female, not very well-educated, desires fairer skin - probably has issues with ethic identity, might even regard the whole fair skin thing as some sort of status marker maybe? That’s racism even within the same racial group!

Nowadays, euphemisms of whitening lotions or luminosity boosters replace the Michael Jackson-esque term bleaching products. But the concept’s the same.

Blatant stereotyping continues:
Backward-thinking Asian girl, somewhat naive maybe, thinks looking fairer makes her look better. Does it really make her look better? And isn’t beauty in the eyes of the beholder?

A typical Asian with a geographically-limited social circle would likely agree that a fairer-skinned girl would be more attractive. And if that’s her world, her social-circle, who’s to argue with that? A paler Caucasian who thinks a “healthy” tan looks great is also molded by her own culture and experiences (doubtless experiences not related to skin cancer, heheh).

There’s no right or wrong, it just goes to show that different people have different perceptions of beauty. Physical traits have always been part of the construction of ideal beauty. Beauty is outward, beauty is shallow. Beauty is vain and beauty is for display.

Who you are on the inside, who you really really are, is a totally different matter.

I guess it doesn’t matter what you look like, or what you choose to look like, as long as you know who you are inside.

Vanity is not to be confused with pride.

So, back to my original musing.. I suppose I bought the whitening product just because I felt like it. Partly to see if it worked, and partly because I might look better fairer, but for the most part just because I wanted to. And I think I look fine with or without fairer skin anyways.

Dressing like a bimbo make you no less smart. It just confuses people more. And isn’t that more fun?

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* decided it was inconclusive, might be a placebo effect?