I remember one time my roommate from China showed me a
picture of an Asian model. She asked me if she was beautiful. I told her, yeah,
she's beautiful. She told me that she didn't think she was beautiful. She told
me that the model didn't match up with the Asian standards of beauty. But what
are the Asian standards of beauty?
My knowledge of Asian beauty pertains to South-East Asian
beauty. From what I know, a v-shaped face, double eyelids, and pale skin are
considered beautiful. Basically Western features. Now I know what you're
thinking, what the heck is a v-shaped face and what is a double eyelid? Those
terms are not familiar to most Americans because we don't really think about
our face shape or our eyelids.
The v-shaped face is essentially a pointed chin. There are a
lot of "weird" products that are available in Asian to help achieve
that v-shaped face as well as plastic surgery which is a more normal concept
over there than it is here.
Double eyelids are in a nutshell non-Asian eyes. That's a
horrible way of explaining it. Essentially, most Asians have what they called
monolids or those narrow eyes that don't really have an eyelid. Double eyelid
tape or even double eyelid surgery is used to make that extra lid and create
the illusion of bigger eyes.
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