The amount of white people on YouTube and Instagram doing âfoxeyeâ is absolutely infuriating.
Asian eyes are shaped differently than white peoplesâ eyes. Asian eyes are generally thinner, elongated, and often hooded. White peoplesâ eyes on the other hand, are generally wider and more circular.
Asian people are often either fetishized or seen as inferior-looking to white people (especially those of us who donât have the anime-style ultra-pale smooth skin or super-full lips). White people do not experience this double standard in the western world.
Therefore I am understandably irritated when I see white influencers and makeup artists doing eyeliner tricks to make white people look more âAsianâ, because first off, these tutorials are usually very âstylizedâ and not an accurate representation of what actual Asian people look like. Secondly, itâs a form of cultural appropriation (similar to the âyellowfaceâ that is often seen in anime cosplayers). We arenât an exotic or âotherâ culture for you to use as a Halloween costume or Instagram selfie. Because white people have the privilege to pick and choose their desired âAsianâ features for a little but still benefit from being perceived as white.
And not to mention the fact that the majority of white people-oriented eyeliner and makeup tutorials are inaccessible to a lot of POC. Our faces, skin tones, and facial structure are different than yours. Itâs not just âslap a little more melanin on someoneâ, people from different ethnicities have different facial types than you do. And your white person facial type isnât the ideal ânormâ to return back to, itâs just another in a big group of area-specific phenotypes. So quit acting like it.
White people who like makeup, please kindly choose one of the other myriads of makeup styles available to you. And people making tutorials, if youâre white, it isnât your place to make foxeye videos.
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