Interestingly enough, I’ve found out #1 search words that reached my blog is “double eyelids” & “single eyelids” and top post has been my old post titled, “Double Eyelids vs. Single Eyelids“ which is about my years of endless pressure from my own family to make my single eyelids to double via a simple surgery. I’ve also realised that many young teenager girls and boys who are at the age when they don’t have their confidence in their appearance are encouraged to get eyelids surgery by their own mother, father, grandmother and aunts – because in their western media fed perspectives, rounder eyes with double eyelids are prettier than asian slant thin eyes. Some of them are forcing it to their younger generation. I think that’s why this subject holds highest interest from any asian girls or boys who have slant single eyelids and that’s why I decided to write a series on this subject.
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First of all, for all the westerners who are very ignorant about this kind of plastic surgery,(that’s a good sign!) let me explain about the double eyelids surgery that has been popular among Japan, Korea, China, Thailand and other asian culture over generations. (Yes, they all done it) Its medical term is “blepharoplasty” and here is a good explanation with photos of before and after. This site also has an article with interviews of couple of Korean American young girls who decided to do it b/c their grandmothers and mothers think it’s prettier. Here is an insert from it,
“All my Korean friends had it done just because they wanted bigger eyes,” she says. Han, now 18, was encouraged by her grandmother, her mother, and her aunt, all of whom she describes as having naturally large eyes. “Before I got mine done, we used to look at Korean magazines or TV, and all the Korean actresses had big eyes or had had it done. They think it’s prettier,” she says.
It’s my huntch but, this interviewee’s grandmother, mother and aunts got their eyes done and not admitting it to her, I think. My mom, aunts, friends, cousins – they all did it and I don’t think it’s something to be shameful of. However, I don’t think it’s right to give peer pressure to young girls who hasn’t figured out their own identities yet. I hope young girls or boys undertand that having single eyelids are okay and double eyelids won’t necessarily make them look prettier or more handsome. Anyway, I once even told a friend of mine that getting eyelids surgeries can be almost compared to circumcising procedure for male babies…
I believe at least 70% of asian girls you see who have rounder double eyelids, they’ve done thier eyelids, perhpas more % out there. (I have very keen eyes to detect them since I majored art and design – I’m crazily detail oriented – I see 1 pixel off in graphic in the screen.) Anyway, I think it’s not that far from very popular brow fixing surgery that is being done in the west. (In the article, Spain is the number 1 country where the most people get their eyebrow work done surgically)
I found this interesting forum about eyelids – “Plastic surgery in Japanese society or entertainment?” Check it out, you might see some insight in this topic.
I found this image from there that shows Japanese product that can creat double eyelids for you.
Anyway, I have to conclude that I like uniqueness in people so that, I found many asian girls and boys look very exotic and beautiful with single eyelids. Actually, my favorite top 3 Korean celebrities all have single eyelids and I think they look very attractive to me, more so and make them unique. I really miss natural harmoneous beauty in Korean TV nowadays. It’s a pity to watch some beautiful girls ruining their beautiful faces and making them looking freakish by pressure… because eyelids are only the beginning.
January 3, 2007 at 1:05 pm
So glad that this topic has surfaced again. My korean wife has natural double eyelids but we agree that the folds do not make a prettier face, and it is alarming that pressure is applied to the younger generations to look more “western”.
Well, it is not exclusive to Korean culture. All of the older generations of non-whites seem to gravitate towards a “western” concept of beauty (blonde hair, blue eyes, big tits, slim waist). In Colombia, you are “pretty” if you have light skin and hair, clear eyes, and a big chest and ass (for women of course). God forbid you might look more indigenous, or “indio”.
It’s silly, and I think our generation (the gen xers who are now in their mid to late 30s) has been more accepting and broader in their interpretation of “beauty”. I hope the younger generations are not sliding back the other way.
January 3, 2007 at 1:10 pm
This is from the link you provided above:
Cosmetic surgery of the upper eyelid, commonly called the double eyelid operation is by far the most common esthetic operation in the Orient. In the early days when this surgery was becoming popular, many women requested double eyelids which often did not match the Asian face.
Orient? hmmmmmmm. Asia redused to a cardinal direction.
February 16, 2007 at 7:42 pm
http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/2007/02/a_brave_new_wor.html
Here is the link of Metropolitician’s post regarding plastic surgery. I liked how he compared that upgrading look of female android robot and plastic surgery. I don’t know with new bigger eyes, sharper higher nose and narrow jar, most of them look freakish – perhaps android like pretty but, unreal in my eyes. It looks like it became a norm for celebrities to have plastic surgeries nowadays.
June 22, 2007 at 11:09 am
AWW!! i get to comment x3! So i was looking for single eyelid makeup techniques.. bumped into a page about eyelid surgery -scary- they use a scapel on asians cuz we have ‘more reactive’ skin.
i should stop blabbing but i do want that eyetalk stuff i wonder if double sided sticky tape would work.
Anyway x3 (i blab and i blab), i was like OMG my mommy is the same way too! She told me that if i got eyelid surgery it would make me look prettier. That made me cry. Cuz i don’t know who i got it from but i think i am unique.. although everyone else around me has big pretty crease (easier with makeup) eyes.
So yeah i was like im not getting no surgery i only wanna do lasik.. which im still scared of. -im blind- Yeah i saw that ‘eyetalk’ the glue on another site with that same tutorial but its a video xD. The vid was a little weird when she keeps shovin the stick into her eye i was like OMG NOO. My auntie got hers done, my mom says some people with their eyelids done don’t look good and some do so you have to tell them how you want yours to look.
I mean i think i’ve actually really wanted doubles.. or still do.. but whats the point really? its not like anyone really cares.
But i hate taking pictures and im so squinty next to someone with humungous eyes.
HAHA.
Yeah, i was telling my friend at school [who is caucasion] that i have no creases and stuff so im squinty. And shes like what? (she still doesn’t understand and i won’t try anymore, she doesn’t care so what should i?)
My friends think i would look good how i am right now, they think i would look creepy with eye creases, i don’t know.. would i? hmm so i’d like to test it but i have eternal changes like: tattoos (its gonna stay forever cuz your probably not gonna be able to afford to take it off! my cousin got one when she was 12), then surgery (what happend to natural beauty? you can’t ever get it back!!).. but i think lasik.. is okay.. cuz i really want to be able to see. okay i’ll stop blabbin and move on to other sites x3! [your cool btw] [and i hope tis posts]
June 22, 2007 at 11:14 am
By the way, i am very sorry for my grammatical errors. (tee-hee.) I haven’t been online for a while and this new laptop makes me type weird. But on the second to last run-on sentence. “I wouldn’t want eternal alternations on my body such as: tattoos”
[see ya!! x3]
August 2, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Single eyelids are beautiful. Double eyelids are beautiful in a different way. God forbid we start thinking we all have to look the same. Boring!
August 25, 2007 at 8:14 pm
I think asians who vainly undergo blepharoplasty for “whasianness” fit the term FOB (fresh off boat).
If they want white people to like them, they should remain how they are now.
For example, in a catwalk, models should keep their chins slightly down down; with asians, our smaller chins are therefore admired.
Plus, all this madness occurred after celebrities like Jackie Chan opened the floodgates. Hopefully, no one will suddenly start nose, ear, or chin job trends in the future! Jackie Chan still has unchanged squinting, small eyes, and it’s the reason he keeps his job, so this shows how surgery doesn’t give you bigger eyes and that our eyes represent who we are.
3rd, people need to realize that eyelids are genetic, and if they run away for 1 generation, their children will still have single eyelids, and repeat stereotypical surgury. It’s better to accept who we are NOW.
Finally, I think because there are more asians than any other race, Single eyelid people are probably the majority in homo sapiens. Now, should we all give ourselves 2 mouths?…
August 30, 2007 at 4:03 am
[...] decided to write further on this subject. Here is double eyelids vs. single eyelids – Part 2 [...]
October 4, 2007 at 6:24 pm
….Sorry, but subconsciously in a double-eyelid society, double eyelids are infinitely preferable. And I have single eyelids. People often think I’m bored because of my eyes, or just unhappy/angry…
The picture showed in the first part of a single eyelid isn’t actually even that bad….Many single eyelids are much worse…Where do you think the “small Asian eye” stereotype came from? From small single-lid eyes….
October 14, 2007 at 5:59 pm
I left a reply on part 1. *cough*
I have single eyelids, but I consider them a medium sized sort of single eyelids. I’ve seen people with smaller “squinter” eyes, and others with (amazingly) larger single ‘eyelidded’ eyes.
I myself am fine with them, and I think this perception of sing vs. double is kind of silly. We are what we are.
(Also of note, I’m adopted in a Caucasian family. Funnily enough, my mom has essentially forgotten that I’m Asian. That is, until somebody mentions the fact that I am. <_<)
October 24, 2007 at 8:40 pm
I totally disagree with the mentality that asians are only getting double eyelid surgery to fit in with the stereotypical western beauty. I’m trying the tape right now, and it’s because I don’t like squinty little eyes that I opt for double eyelids…not because some white celebrity has it and I want to look like her. That is the most immature thing I have ever heard. Personally, I believe big eyes are prettier than squinty little eyes. It’s not a western vs. eastern thing, small eyes are just NOT photogenic.
October 31, 2007 at 7:53 pm
“asian” meaning….? i’m a malaysian chinese girl and while my eyes are small, i actually have double eye lids! (they were single when i was younger but they sorted themselves out in my teens?!) my dad and brother only have single lids so i guess my sister and i take after my mum. she’s of chinese ethnicity too but her family have been in malaysia for a longer time. also, the malays and thais (and perhaps other south east asians ?) are not generally “chinky eyed”, so sometimes i wonder whether the environment has an influence? anyway, your 70% probably does not apply to ALL asian girls but only those from north asia and its emigrants.
December 8, 2007 at 1:00 pm
I have single eyelids and I hate them, and I’m actually waiting till I have enough money to get double eyelid surgery. (By the way, I’m 17 years old.) My parents are against plastic surgery, so I have to wait till I’m older till I can get it without needing parental consent. I’ve thought about it for quite awhile, and I’ve always wanted double eyelids since I was young, so this isn’t a spur-of-the-moment kind of thing. I’ve tried eye glues like Eye Talk (as mentioned above) and double eyelid tapes. They don’t feel and look natural, and they irritate my eyes. I’ve also heard that using double eyelid tape is harmful to the upper eyelid, so using double eyelid tape in the long run wouldn’t be a good idea.
December 15, 2007 at 5:30 pm
I’m Cantonese and I actually have double-eyelids and bigger eyes. My brothers would tease me and make fun of the crease below my eyes. Every Asian had simple, single-eyelids. I used to hate my big eyes. But now I LOVE them after knowing that Asians would kill for them.
December 27, 2007 at 3:30 am
hello:
there are also two types of double eyelids: inner and outer. my left eye is inner double; my right eye is outer double. it’s quite an irksome predicament i find myself in when i apply make-up (i only apply make-up maybe four times a year for photos). if i don’t do my make-up well, i end up looking like i’ve got one eye smaller than the other, and it’s really obvious in photos. it’s such a hassle. i’ve used the glue thing for eyelids, but it irritated my eyes (just as random’s does), and i hated wasting time applying it in the morning every day. it’d be great if anybody has any advice on that…
have you ever noticed that the western men who marry asian women…usually end up with the ones who have phoenix eyes (the typical, slanted asian look- like lucy liu’s)? it’s interesting how quite a number of asian girls try so hard to have westernized beauty when westerners try so hard to find traditional asian beauties.
January 18, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Hello~
Hmm..actually Im still confused about double eyelid and single eyelid thingy..Im Asian too~ I think Single eyelid is nice..like Xiah Junsu..His eyes is so something..Or is it just me to think single eyelid is nice..huhu..I dont know wheter I got single or double~
Confused~
January 23, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Wow…I like both. I have many friends who have single eyelids that are very pretty. I have natural double eyelids, but I think it would be very weird to do surgery just for that. We are born the way we are born, and we should not just change it like that..
March 27, 2008 at 11:00 pm
You know white people?…not all their eyes are nice looking. Some white people have ugly eyes..
So stop categorizing single lids all together.
Asians with single lid are not necessarily ugly. There are hot single lid asians as well as ugly single lid asians. I THINK THAT if you are pretty to begin with, the fact that you have single lid wont matter much.
March 27, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Large percentage of Koreans, Japanese, and Chinese are born with creased eyelids, although they certainly tend to be shaped differently than those of, say, Caucasians. In fact, in some regions, such as in southern China, as many as 70 percent are born with them. In addition, double-eyelid surgery is enormously popular in Asia, and has been considered attractive since well before the infiltration of Western media. Therefore, many argue, Asians seeking double eyelids are simply trying to look like the more attractive members of their own race.
March 27, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Even within the Asian population, the incidence of natural crease formation varies. For instance, while approximately half of those of Chinese descent show at least some natural crease formation, only about one-third of those of Korean ancestry demonstrate this finding.
April 4, 2008 at 2:49 am
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April 6, 2008 at 3:49 am
I think many Asians look beautiful, with or without double eyelids. And btw, there are many Asians with natural double eyelids which was mentioned in the article.
April 29, 2008 at 3:30 am
I like single eyelids too.
I can’t help thinking that part of the inspiration is Westernisation, of which there seems to be a little too much, or too onesidely. In my humble opinion Asians have a tendency to be more attractive than Westerners because they take better care of their bodies. In spite of this, fact and plentitude of beautiful Asian women there is very little in the way of “single eyelid” conversion products or surgery.
There is no counting for the vaguaries of taste but when everyone seems to want to go in the double direction, something is wrong.
April 29, 2008 at 8:15 am
I can’t stand it when people say that Asians are undergoing cosmetic surgery in order to look more “western”. Yes, the ‘double eyelid is more beautiful’ thing came about when Asian women wanted to look more Caucasian in order to attract more Caucasian men.
However, this is no longer the case. You don’t see any Asian woman getting Caucasian eyes, do you? Even after the surgery, their eyes still look very Asian. The only thing that is different is that they have double eyelids. If they really wanted to look more westernised, they would get rid of the epicanthic fold as well, but do you see that happening? The fold is also much higher in Caucasians as compared to Asians.
The double eyelid is now considered more beautiful because it makes the eyes look brighter and bigger. The raising of the eyelashes, for example, makes your eyes look more lively and gives them more expression.
What about Asians who are born with natural double eyelids(me)? Is it nature’s way of making them(us) look more’ Caucasian’? Don’t be ridiculous.
May 12, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I LOVE single eyelids, and I’m not Asian. I’m from Saudi Arabia, and I think they look gorgeous. Lots of Koreans who go to my school, so I’ve seen plenty of girls with single-lids…and I honestly think it’s an appealing facial feature.
It seems most Asians disagree.
It’s not about whether they’re an Asian quality or not. We’re not arguing that all Asians have single lids. Some do, some don’t. And the ones who don’t feel pressured to get surgery. That’s the focus of these blog posts, not you ladies who were born double–this has nothing to do with that, obviously.
Read it over. Twice.
It’s just the fact that people change themselves permanently to fit an ideal with dubious motives, whether subconscious or not.. It’s just a question of basic ethics, man.
This girl is just explaining HER reasons for not changing herself. It’s her justification, she’s not trying to call you double lid girls Caucasian. Understand her thesis before taking offense.
May 12, 2008 at 2:15 pm
P.S. I’ll even quote her if people can’t be bothered to read both blog posts:
“There are some asians who have double eyelids naturally and they are beautiful”
I think single lids make eyes look intense and add elegance to the face. I also love it when single-lidded girls laugh or smile: you can detect it immediately because their eyes seem to smile before it even reaches their mouths.
June 1, 2008 at 7:11 am
@ [a}
Oh, really? Let me quote something too.
“because in their WESTERN media fed perspectives, rounder eyes with double eyelids are prettier than asian slant thin eyes.”
as well as
“I find the beauty of being eastern is being eastern, not trying to look like a WESTERN model you see on the TV shows”
Clearly, the blog writer is implying that girls undergo the surgery purely for the sake of looking westernised.
Like what I said before, there are more differences between Caucasians and Asians than just their eyes, such as the forehead, the nose, the face shape, etc etc. Big round eyes(which are said to express innocence and generosity) have always been the perception of beauty, and not just a western-made concept.
June 4, 2008 at 4:33 pm
i’m chinese and i felt like an weirdo growing up having natural double eyelids. everyone in my family tell me that i look more european or american rather that chinese b/c my eyes are big and round. now that i think about it the whole single and double eyelids thing it just odd. i could care less about what i look like now as long as i’m healthy and in shape i’m happy ^-^
August 26, 2008 at 10:00 am
This is going to sound totally weird. I’m an Australian girl with absolutely no Asian blood in me, but I’m often told that I look like I could be half Japanese.
I have funny eyelids though. I suppose you could call them triple eyelids?
Well, anyway. It’s strange but I don’t think it matters what your eyelids look like.
September 30, 2008 at 11:59 pm
To natural beauty!
cheers
October 19, 2008 at 1:25 pm
well i`m 18 now for last 2 years i notice that my eye got different opening that one eye are single eyelid and other are double eyelid.don`t remember before this i got what type of eyelid
November 26, 2008 at 7:12 am
I never knew there was such thing as single and double eyelids until i came across the terms in some forums.
And this is where my research has lead me.
I’m fully Asian and I have natural double eyelids. I think both double and single eyelids look beautiful.
I do think that some people undergo the operation because of the (Asian) media’s view of “beauty” which has taken a turn to the Caucasian side….Look at how many younger girls are dying their hair red/blonde and getting lighter contacts and using creams for promiss of lighter skin…ALL of which are the general characteristics of Caucasians.
Then again, this does go down to the “we all want what we don’t have” debate. On the one side some Asians are dying to look more Caucasian while on the other side some Caucasians are wanting darker hair and darker skin (tanning).
December 3, 2008 at 4:18 am
My brother is getting the proceedure done but not for cosmetic reasons. (He’s 14 by the way) Apparently there are some eyelashes that are growing towards the eye and the way to correct it is to get this proceedure done. A bonus says my mom since his eyes are really small and like my boyfriend just said, “Sometimes he looks like he’s asleep.”
I’ve head about single/double eyelids since I was little. I never quite understood what the hell it meant. My mom says that my dad and I have thief eyelids. Sometimes they’re single and sometimes they’re double. It doesn’t really concern me at all as long as they work. I did have a school friend ask me to open and close my eyes like 10 times because she had never seen eyelids that apparently “goes missing”.
Some Korean friends of a friend of mine have discussed getting cosmetic surgery to make their eyes appear more caucasian. I guess this is what they’re talking about. I just came to the conclusion that I’d look weird with bigger and rounder eyes. I’m perfectly fine with my slanty eyes.
December 12, 2008 at 10:34 pm
dude, they dont want occidental eyes.
thatd be rtarded. were all people.
having round and big eyes are not creepy.
-caucasian creases are PARRALELL. those are higher. parallel to the tear duct area ish,
-asians [most] creases are TAPERED. those are lower. like connected to the tear duct area ish,
December 26, 2008 at 2:41 am
I am Asian and I have double eyelids (naturally). I’ve had Asians ask if I’ve either had surgery on my eyes or if I was half-Caucasian.
I don’t think Asians who want double eyelids necessarily want to look more Caucasian – my guess is that they think the double eyelid is more beautiful. If you look at movie/tv stars in Asia, a lot of them have double eyelids (by surgery). So when people see them, they naturally associate beauty with the double eyelid. Just like some might associate thinness with beauty.
Even with double eyelids, there’s differences when eye structure. While I have double eyelids, I don’t have a lot of space between my eyelashes to crease to eyebrow, so I can’t really put on eyeshadow like someone with “typical” (whatever that may be) Caucasian eyes can. I perform on stage a lot (ballet) and I’ve tried the stage makeup techniques that are usually recommended and they look horrendous on me. I don’t look like myself. So I just put on my makeup the way I think looks best. One little girl (who is Japanese) put on lighter eyeshadow on her eyelids and then drew in a crease with darker brown shadow. It looked ridiculous.
January 6, 2009 at 8:59 am
What people don’t understand is that most asians that want a double eyelid don’t want to look more western, they just want to look better. Being single eyelidded myself i find it difficult to apply makeup, also with the disadvantage of having one single and one double eyelid, making it worse.
January 24, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Hey, not all Asians out there are East Asians. In fact, many SE Asians naturally have “big round eyes with double eyelids”.
I’m single-eyelided but my eyes are still medium-big and roundish with no epicanthal folds. I hate it when people automatically think of narrower eyes when they hear the term “Asian eyes”. Asians come in all shape and form!
February 15, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Dear goodness…
The asian double eyelid is nothing like the western eyelid. Stop confusing the two. No Korean girl goes to a plastic surgeon asking asking for Western eyelids. She will most likely say “I want to stop looking sleepy, please make my eyes more awake.”
Many asian are born with natural double eyelids and other asians find that prettier. The single eyelids many asians have tend to give off an aggressive or sleepy countenance.
Stop saying Asians want to look more western. They don’t. They just want to have the prettier features of their race. There are many people already born with eyelids in Korea and the girls who do decide to get their eyelids done only wish to look like their prettier friends, who are also KOREAN.
Not everybody wants to look white. Stop thinking that looking European is what every race is trying to achieve. Its not.
February 22, 2009 at 1:54 pm
I agree with the above poster (Random 10034). I came out with “big eyes” naturally. My mother, as she grew older, has a subtly defined crease, but my little sister is pure monolid. The funny part is that because I have big eyes and live in a sunny area…some people mistake me as “mixed” or totally miss my ethnicity.
But guess who gets the boys? My little sister.
We were born in the US and not once did anyone in my family encourage surgery. We believe in naturalness (which is funny because we’re big-breasted too for Asian women). Apparently, judging by my sister, the more “Asian” you look the more you stand out and catch someone’s attention.
Mom had this cool saying, “Clothed, you’ll look American. Without clothes, you will always, always be Vietnamese.”
April 7, 2009 at 10:58 pm
This topic is of great interest to me, because I myself am Korean.
I do have double eyelids, but I don’t consider it much of a privilege; if I didn’t have them, I wouldn’t have gotten surgery to make them anyways. (They aren’t very noticeable/big though. XD http://www.flickr.com/photos/36842339@N07/3405895798/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/36842339@N07/3393485420/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/36842339@N07/3416619830/in/photostream/ <–Although those aren’t very good pictures. XD)
Asians should learn to embrace their appearances.
~lizi.french@yahoo.com
April 21, 2009 at 8:31 am
I agree with Random 10034. Not all asians want to look more “western”. I myself use double eyelid glue, because one of my eyes is a double eyelid, and one is a single, meaning that one eye’s bigger than the other, which just looks…weird. I never even realised the difference in eyes until i was 12, when i was getting ready for a wedding. I know that my eyes will never be the same as a caucasian’s eyes look, and i don’t really care.
April 25, 2009 at 10:20 am
where can you get double eyelid glue? I’m in Australia btw…
and, does it really work? does it hurt at all/uncomfortable/troublesome to apply?
cos my right is single, but my left is double
April 23, 2009 at 2:09 am
You talk like as if all Asians have single eyelids – some of my friends and I were born with double eyelids, but we are Asians.
May 6, 2009 at 6:15 am
Again, we aren’t talking about girls who are naturally born with double eyelids. Don’t get offended.
I’m East Asian and I was born with eyes that change folds. It’s really annoying, sometimes both would have big creases and look big (which is good, in my view) and sometimes only one of my eyes have double and I look retarded. Think about taking senior portrait and eyes are of different sizes.
Now, I saw lots of comments how some of you resent that some girls do it to look more western. No, they don’t go to plastic surgeon and ask for “Western looking eyes, please.” But don’t you think the whole big eye thing is somewhat Western concept? I really don’t think having big eyes were considered pretty back in the old ancient days in Asia.
Even just 30 years ago, when they were judging Miss Korea, all the contestants tried to hide their boobs because big breasts weren’t considered beautiful. And don’t tell me good amount of Asian girls don’t want long slender legs, because they do. I do too. But that’s also Western features. Westerners have longer legs and us East Asians have longer torso ratio compared to leg.
It’s not about saying Asians are inferior to Westerners appearance wise. It’s just that us East Asians are at the receiving end of this cultural exchange and we are more influenced by it than Westerns are. If they were the recipient, I’m sure they desire certain Asian characteristics. That’s all.
June 1, 2009 at 11:21 am
I am Chinese. I have single eyelids and I like them very much because they looks bright and smart to me. I inherit them from my mother. I appreciate them very much and feel comfortable with my look.
It is true that not all Chinese have single eyelids. Lots of my childhood friends eyes are natural double eyelids and so do my father and his side of the family. I think natural double eyelids are very common.
I believe it is interesting to be unique and have our own characteristics. Life will be very boring if we all look the same.