I am Alienman. This is my blog. I have sensitive acne-prone combination dry skin with an oily T-zone. Yea, my skin sucks. I have bulgy fatty monolids (aka single eyelids). I hate expensive over-hyped products that don't work. My female readers apparently dig my bewbs.
Daughter of Asia
Don’t Ignore Us, Maybelline
Not all Asians are monolids. Not all monolids are exactly the same.
So, when Rasilla discovered that renown cosmetic company Maybelline had lumped all of us Asians into a single type of eye shape on their promotional website she was rightfully outraged.
Check out Rasilla’s blog for details.
UPDATE: It looks like Maybelline finally corrected this [...]
Adopted an Asian with Monolids? Get More Bang for your Buck! Give your pretty little Asian adoptee a DIY tune-up.
Some poor little girl ended up with one hell of an adoptive father. Apparently, he didn’t get a pretty enough girl from the Asian baby market, so he wielded his own professional cosmetic surgery skills to upgrade his current model.
o look! a defect!
He described her as a beautiful, happy child in whom he took much [...]
you’re labeling it wrong
Dear morons who classify certain types of clothes as “ethnic”
Will you pleases cut that shit out?
Do you even know what “ethnic” means? What? Is the socially constructed white race so celestially above and beyond having some sort of ethnic origin that anything that seems foreign to you can be perceived as “ethnic”? Adding large streaks [...]
How I found peace in my small war
A man starts off deciding he is a good man because he makes good decisions. Next thing, he’s convinced that whatever decision he makes must be good because he’s a good man. Most of the wars in the world are caused by people who think they have God on their side.
-Helen Fielding in Olivia Joules [...]
Do they ever say nice things in Korea anymore?
By alienman on March 8, 2010
I think it’s been over five years since my last visit in Korea. Around that time, just about every other young lady I met had either undergone cosmetic surgery or was saving up for a procedure. For a while, my mother was also planning on putting me under the knife to get my receding chin [...]
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