Okay, I'll give you that. Huaihai District, Shanghai, China. After a week, there were whiteheads around the sutures, like the tiniest little pearls studding her eyes. She took a sewing needle to them, she'd always had a steady hand, honed by the embroidery her mother had taught her as a child. When she drew blood, she blotted it away impatiently, waiting for it to clear so that she could continue poking into her skin, flicking away each hard bead of concealed oil upended.
It'd been two weeks since she left the People's Liberation Army Hospital. There had been a school-holiday special on double-eyelid surgery: from 3, renminbi to 1, renminbi, how could she pass on that? When she moved her eyeballs from side to side, it hurt. She took to swiveling her whole head rather than just her eyes when she had to look at something.
She was told that the scarring would take a few months to fade, she was prepared to wait it out. She wasn't told about the possibility of double vision, of the bright lights that would follow. She was irritated—and hurt—that they ascribed it to vanity. For this wasn't vanity, this was getting ahead in life. Didn't they know that merely having a university degree wasn't the be-all and end-all anymore? The happiest day of my life , her mother said on the day of her convocation, and she was touched but also she had the undercurrent of an urge to take her mother by the shoulders and shake her, to say, Really?
Is your life that small, Mother? Did they know that the chances of employment for a grad with double eyelids and wider eyes are 70 percent higher than those of a grad with single eyelids? That, ceteris paribus, with the same grades and portfolio, the prospective employer will unswervingly choose the one with the double eyelids? Eyes with double eyelids give the overall impression of a person being more energetic.
A more energetic person will contribute more productively to the company. There was also the Wuhan study that showed that women could expect to earn 1. So when they say, Serves you right for being vain , she wants to say, What do you know. She didn't even ask them to pay for it—and even that wouldn't have been too untoward; she had friends for whom the double-eyelid surgery had been gifted by their parents as natural consequences of completing the gao kao.
Weren't you fine before this , they say, with the pair of eyes that heaven above consigned you. When will you get it? Why would you ever think that "fine" is enough? She blinks away the tears, tries to unsee the bright balls of light. The post-surgery ptosis is throbbing, like it sometimes does.
She won't hold anything else against him, but it's not fair that she has to live with this droop that was never there before. If she has to, she can live with the rest, the tearing, the temporal scarring, the whiteheads, the bright lights, the double eyelids achieved at the expense of looking perpetually shocked. But the ptosis; can he just please fix the ptosis? Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
A matter of periocular anatomy. It isn't just the eyes per se we are talking about—there's the flatter nose, the lower-based nasal bridge, the higher amount of preaponeurotic fat in the epicanthic fold. More precisely, the orbital septum fuses to the levator aponeurosis at variable distances below the superior tarsal border, and there is no extension of the capsulopalpebral fascia.
By the by, to term it "Chinese" eyes isn't quite accurate, for the condition isn't unique to the Chinese, but a definitive racial trait of the Mongoloids—though the word is pejorative now, it was utilised in early ethnology and we still use it in academic formality; we mean no harm, but things move so slowly here. The epicanthic fold was one of several adaptations to the cold, the bitter conditions of the Mammoth steppe during the Middle Pleistocene, some , to , years ago.
The others: short limbs, flat faces, short noses, lower surface to mass ratio, cyclical vasodilation, and vasoconstriction of the peripheral capillaries.
Rue de Chabon, Paris, France. She is the first Chinese model to be on the cover of Jalouse. She's lying in Pierre's bed, smoking.
He doesn't care that she gets ash on his pillows. She prefers it here—she prefers it at anyone else's—to the models' apartment. She has a sign on her door that says Fuck off I'm sleeping in a childish hand. An emerald-eyed Latvian blonde threw away the preserved egg slices she'd gotten her mother to mail her from Sichuan.
Why did you do that, she'd asked the Latvian girl. Because it smells, the Latvian girl said, and so do you. Pierre comes out the shower and mouths I love you ; points at her, as if there were anyone else in the room. She just smiles at him, presses down on the lighter with her right thumb and toys with the flame, lights a new cigarette. These photographer types, their love is aggregated via the camera, developed in film. Relationships last as long as seasonal fashion, then you pack your bags and you're spreading your legs for someone else in a shoot, someone else is pointing his camera at you and telling you your single eyelids and cheekbones are so precise they can cut diamonds.
She looks over at Pierre, the fold of loose tummy fat, wiping his pubic hair and white arse dry before stepping into his Calvin Klein briefs. She's helped Pierre to lay the table. The caviar on the table costs more than her parents ever made in a decade of backbreaking manual labour. The caviar is served up on custom-made mother-of-pearl spatulas, to avoid tainting its taste.
She watches the people coming through the door. There's Emmanuel Alt and Franck Durand. There's Mert and Marcus. There's Filippa Hamilton and Pierre has his arm around her, they are laughing, Pierre in his element, with his little in-jokes and finespun compliments. Research says the cleft palpebral is smaller in Japanese, Chinese, Koreans and other people as a practical matter to help against cold regions, a way to reduce the luminosity reflected by snow.
According to scientists, Mongoloids appeared in an icy area in North Asia thousands of years ago. Genetics is developed during the process of adapting people to a specific geographic space or ecosystem. You may be wondering why the Japanese still have their eyes pulled up, since Japan is not that cold, and they have countries in North America that are much colder and no one has eyes pulled. Not to mention that even the russia that is very cold, the Russians did not acquire this characteristic very much.
We do not know whether the slanted eyes are the result of human evolution, or just characteristics of a DNA. The most certain thing is that all Japanese people have slanted eyes due to their isolated nature. Japan and other Asian countries still have their eyes wide open because the country has lived a long time away from the world. Even after Westernization, there are still few relationships with Westerners to mix and share this characteristic.
The eyes of the Japanese or Oriental are not drawn or smaller than the western ones, but the eyelid is smoother, and not curved as in the western eyes. The upper eyelid groove , usually well defined and about 7 mm above the ciliary line in westerners, is absent in easterners. Another reason that helps to give the appearance of slanted eyes is the epicantic fold, present in most Orientals, while Westerners have lost this cover.
Research shows that Westerners suffer more prejudice than people with skin colors, size and weight. Do Westerners feel superior? This is ironic since the Asians who are the majority in the world. The Japanese are heavily influenced by Western culture and anime. This ends up resulting in a lot of young people and people who want to increase their eye size.
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