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Daughter of Asia
The Dried Fish Look Is Apparently In
I love sifting through Japanese Fashion Magazine scans. I download the hell out of the Livejournal community. One thing that really bugs me, though, is the way they seem to advertise weigh loss solutions. A lot of times, the models employed for “before” and “after” shots start out already being pretty skinny. Their “after” photos [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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