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A great way to teach your son that women have facial hair is to just exist as a woman with facial hair. If it's normal, there's no need to remove it.
#beauty standards#eurocentric beauty standards#body hair#facial hair#body image#femininity#gender#patriarchy#radfem#o
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⛔️FDA BANS HAIR RELAXERS⛔️
#relaxed hair#relaxer#just for me#loreal#lawsuit#fda#food and drug administration#naturalhair#natural hair#4c hair#4chair#black feminism#black femininity#black lives matter#eurocentrism#eurocentric beauty standards#melanin#melanin magic#black girl magic#melanin queen#feminism#black lgbtq#black queer#social justice#anti capitalist#antiracism
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blue eye samurai was so funny to me how everyone who saw mizu's blue eyes immediately were like YUCK! 🤮 DEMON! *hides children behind them* because in modern society today it's the opposite. i remember always being bummed when a character would have blue eyes and that was their defining beauty trait. books would go on to describe characters with brown eyes as dull and lifeless and you don't think these things stick with you but it does. and then colored contacts came out. and i remember so many black people in my city buying blue contact lenses to feel "prettier". it became a huge thing. so with black girls it was ok we gotta straighten our hair with toxic chemicals and for a bigger glow up pop in blue contacts.
then photoshopping became very common. fans would give their favorite artists blue eyes. i remember this specifically with zayn in one direction. it made me so fucking mad. zayn looks like something out of perfect runway anyways. and here fans were making his eyes blue and saying "now he's perfect!" imagine thinking zayn malik needed a makeover. mind boggling then and now.
but here we have a whole show where the culture is like nah those blue eyes? that shit is demonic and ugly. it's obviously cruel and nobody should be treated as such.
but remember when fowler bragged how one day they would love a face like his and consider his beauty above their their own when he got done colonizing their country? it happened.
in damn near every country where nonwhite people exist, european features are the pinnacle of beauty.
we see this when we have "international" modeling show. a model from every country but the sharp jawlines and lightest skin always win. loose curls not tightly coiled hair like some black people have. thin bodies. tall bodies. international but those qualities are always wanted. the same fucking look. a slight shade difference at most.
hell the natural hair movement with black people is oddly just a parade of expensive products to give one the looser curl pattern that society accepts. curl puddings and products to combat "shrinkage" makes up majority of black hair products in the natural section. it's something.
chemically straightened hair. the natural hair that grows out of my black scalp has been called unprofessional and needed several laws to protect others like me from various job discrimination policies. kids with natural black hair are still being told their hair is out of dress code.
skin bleaching is popular in several ethnic cultures. i can find a bleaching soap at my local big box retail store. they're not advertised but it's still a big seller. i want you to put that into perspective.
many products today boast about glowing skin. brightening is a nicer way to say bleaching. turmeric powder and lemon in everything now.
western media loves to point fingers at koreans now due to an increase of kpop in the media. they judge those who spend a massive amount of time, money, and resources to obtain a strict set of beauty standards. lighter skin, weight loss plans, sharper cheeks, new eyelids, color contacts, chin exercises you can learn on youtube it goes on and on. western white people judge asian people on their beauty obsession standards and it's tone deaf. it's a slap in the fucking face when i see it. your ancestors told all of us people of color we were ugly and needed to look like you to succeed in life. now we do it and you wanna point fingers and talk about how vain and fickle we are? that's fucked up! it pissed me off!!!!!!
so i guess it's a bitter taste in my mouth when i do laugh at mizu's "unfortunate eye color" being the cause of so much pain. because now it's the opposite.
as the cool kids say, she would do "numbers" in beauty standard rankings now. ethnic, but not "too" ethnic. blue eyes, androgynous and athletic but not too bulky and long hair? the algorithm says money honey!
funny how all this works out. eurocentric beauty is a hell of a drug. no katana will be able to kill that. no body positivity campaign or hashtag will undo any of this global phenomenon we now live with. we can call brown eyes beautiful now in songs and yet the angels in the church will always have blue eyes. this is the first time i've not seen a fandom go batshit insane when seeing a person of color WITH blue eyes. usually it's all caps with phrases like "woke liberal bullshit" or something. the fallout from the black little mermaid with red hair showed this very well.
white people have damn near colonized every other race and then they cry foul at the thought of a non white person with eyes other than brown and hair other than black and brown. it's the funniest shit. i mean they'll accept a mermaid. but her being black with red hair? too far. we truly would have never heard the fucking end if they made halle wear blue contacts as ariel. white people would have lost their fucking minds on another level lbh!
we joke that brown contacts would have given mizu an easier life. it's sobering that blue contacts and other fucked up beauty rituals give people of color the same easier life now.
mizu in blue eye samurai during that period is shunned for their appearance. today mizu would do numbers on instagram and make money being the face of some random blue low calorie sport drinks available at big chain stores.
anyways that's my TED talk on blue eyes, eurocentric beauty standards and why i really really love how blue eyes samurai shows all of this. i am in awe of the creators making this show from them having a biracial asian baby with blue eyes. because so many don't even realize how their blue eyes will always leave them being talked about no matter what. they will be called a a faker with contacts, have to constantly prove with baby pictures their eyes were and have always been blue. people will make immediate judgements and even though you would think this would not happen in 2023 it does.
so i commend the parents for making this show. it's a conversation we need to have more. how society treats those with certain features when you are not in control of said features. and how far we go personally to try to "fit in" in a world that is hell bent on neat and tidy labels. this is good this is bad blah blah blah.
i fucking love blue eye samurai. please let there be a season 2!
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It’s only the 8th day
Lips big, wide nose, Afro, what is Eurocentric about her?? She’s pretty and you have a problem with it. She literally lives in Africa!
Y’all like to call pretty dark skin women Eurocentric, while reserving the black beauty role for the light skins, mixed girls, biracials, and 25%ers.
Then the poster had this to say afterwards after someone critiqued them.
And you know what, it’s not just her facial features that make her pretty. It’s the facial symmetry of her face, it’s the glassy skin.
I think it’s worth noting that for some reason there’s a trend where men who are attracted to other men(I’m saying this to include the bisexuals, pansexuals, and others) and trans women like to make outlandish claims on Cis-black women’s beauty or speak on cis-Black women’s features or hair(Saucy Santana and what he said about Blue Ivy’s hair, Nikita Dragun in general)
#eurocentric beauty standards#eurocentric#black girls of tumblr#black beauty#I swear the low self esteem of some of y’all#y’all stay calling African women Eurocentric cus you don’t like that they’re dark skin and pretty
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people said the faces of faerun mod is like a mod you need, if not at least should get. and yet all the faces are clearly eurocentric. which is heavily ironic considering that people were calling out bg3 for having preset faces with more variety dedicated to eurocentric features.
the solution to eurocentrism is more eurocentrism lol
it kind of hurts because i've seen some people say that the preset faces are ugly. they're not perfect by any means. but bg3 includes a preset face that looks similar to mine and it's something super important to me. like asian people don't have any specific features but most games, to make a face specifically east asian, literally include slanted eyes. this is one of the few times i've seen a game that offers a face that can't be seen as stereotypically asian.
and idk it rubs me the wrong way with how people have called the preset faces ugly when they did include faces without eurocentric features. and they switch it out for a mod that is just all eurocentric features.
#not to mention i generally don't like bg3 mods#that mod whitewashing wyll told me enough#i also don't want my tav looking like a sim#like i love that she looks like a real person#like can we just talk about this more?#how this community is SUPER eurocentric#no thanks to the game#baldur's gate 3#bg3#eurocentric beauty standards
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Cant stop thinking about that time I went on Reddit to ask for makeup advice, hoping to achieve that kbeauty soft makeup look (as in making me look soft, not as in more natural looking) and instead got replies telling me that I looked like a model, that people would get surgery to have eyes that looked like mine, that the makeup in the photo is unattainable.
The thing is that I don’t look like a model at all. I just look like a young Asian woman. It reminded me of when make up artists started saying fox eye make up was in style now and then started pulling their eyes back.
A dissonance of understanding that they didn’t mean any harm, but caused it anyway because of the system of beauty they work under: one where parts of our body come in and out of style.
From small butts to BBLs. From big eyes to fox eyes. White to tan to black to white again. Our culture rewards them for finding new features to exotify.
Let me walk it back. Why did someone calling me a model feel like a micro aggression?
Well, the advice they gave me on the subreddit was all very centered around western beauty, so I think it was less a matter of false flattery and more a matter of them having genuinely no idea how to frame my face in western beauty standards.
The photo I used for my bare face vs the advice they gave me.
Similar to the way people say Asian women date ugly white men and white men date ugly Asian women—it’s not that they’re fetishizing the other for their race (although sometimes they indeed are doing that), but that what they each think of as beautiful is different based on exposure.
So my eye shape is a unique (exotic) feature to capitalize on to them, but to me, I look like a normal Asian person.
This was reinforced by the model they said I reminded them of: Devon Aoki.
I totally get where they’re coming from with this! I do look similar to her in face shape, but I think it’s really notable that Devon is Wasian. Half white half Asian, which is pairing a lot of people say makes the prettiest babies.
What I hear when they say that, however, is that racial ambiguity is beautiful.
“The Instagram look is racially ambiguous, as it includes many features commonly found in Black women, Indigenous women and other women of color. However, BIPOC women who naturally have these features, compared to rich white and white-adjacent women who have gone through cosmetic procedures to achieve the same features for aesthetic’s sake, are rarely given the same level of acclaim or endorsements for their natural beauty.”
Again, it’s about a system where parts of our body come in and out of style, where proximity to whiteness is really key to determining what part is just an ‘ethnic’ feature and what will be trendy. So although what’s on Devon makes her look like a high fashion model, my features will always read as an un-notable Asian woman.
Ariana Grande was accused of Asian fishing. I don’t think she was doing this on purpose. It’s just that she likely got a face lift done that, as a side effect of pulling her face back, reduced her upper lid crease, making her look more Asian.
So yeah, I don’t doubt that people would get surgery to get eyes like mine. But that’s a monkey’s paw! One where, even though people are literally getting surgeries to have the “privilege” of having feature like mine, those features on my face will never have the same appeal.
The last thing is the idea that this makeup is unattainable. I find this very sweet to say, as obviously took my wording to mean I thought she had very little makeup on and wanted to reassure me that she was artificial.
However, most times when people talked about this style of makeup, they use soft to mean “looking sweet” rather than literally a soft amount, so it was really frustrating to see a cultural barrier hamstring the advice I got. Again, most of it was along the lines of the Western Baddie look rather than the more ‘soft’ makeup tutorial I was looking for (which I later found when Douyin makeup tutorials got translated).
The image I asked for advice on, the "soft" pic I posted for their reference, and a later, more skilled try (that I figured out myself by watching Douyin makeup tutorials).
It also reminded me of the way people jump on anything vaguely positive about China as a ploy by Chinese spies or propaganda by the coerced citizens. The way they pit China against America and use them as a measure of 'real' state propaganda.
Obviously it’s not the same—she clearly was wearing filters and they were misunderstanding my language in the first place—but it also made wonder about how much they’d have said had I asked about advice on getting a more Gigi look or a more Kardashion makeup style?
Sure, there would’ve been people calling out their photoshop/surgery/filters, but would their advice also have been more actionable? More understanding that I was interested in the technique of their makeup, like the Kardashian contour or the 2016 brows or Gigi's fox eyes for instance, rather than assuming that I’d been brainwashed by extreme Asian beauty standards?
I understood, even then, that her look would be unachievable on account of my face shape and skin color (and whew boy that’s its own can of ‘Eurocentric beauty standards and colonialism’ worms), but I also knew that my makeup skills were beginner at best, and that I could be achieving more similar results with the right advice, which I later did.
Anyways, I appreciated all of the advice!!!! They were all super nice, and some of the tips I did end up following!
But America's beauty culture makes it impossible to conceive of beauty unrelated to whiteness -- Western/white beauty tips, Wasians are the prettiest babies, I am a 'high fashion' model, surgery to have my eyes, extreme Asian beauty standards -- like the way orientalism fails to conceive of the East beyond a reflection of the West.
#orientalism#my thoughts#imperialism#asian american#beauty standards#chinese american#ABC#colonialism#eurocentrism#eurocentric beauty standards#undescribed
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It doesn’t help that Nigar is the most “ethnic”-looking major female character in the show amidst a sea of Eurocentric beauty (and this is acknowledged in the text of the show when Ibrahim calls her “yumuk gözlü” which I translate as “almond-shaped eyed” though it isn’t a literal translation, but that’s the meaning that is being conveyed). Don’t get me wrongly, of course this doesn’t actually matter in a Turkish context, this is not America. But I don’t know, I would like it if a woman who looked like she could be from my father’s side of the family was the “desired” one for once in a Turkish soap opera.
European-looking women tend to be the leads in Turkish soap operas, Turkish films, Turkish anything. It seems silly to complain about this since this isn’t a political issue in Turkey like it is in, say, Latin America. There isn’t a general political structure keeping European-looking people at the top lol, far from it. But just in the entertainment industry specifically, Eurocentric beauty standards for women rule and after a certain point it becomes tiring.
This is a factor in my Nibrahim-shipping I must admit.
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#talkin#tik tok#transmisogny#aretha franklin#theconsciouslee#anti trans violence#transphobia#terfs#fuck terfs#misogynoir#eurocentric beauty standards
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I felt this article in my soul. Essentially: featurism glorifies Eurocentric standards of beauty (that is, the obsession with light hair and light eyes and thin noses) and it's something we still need to work on.
#racim#colorism#featurism#when i was little kida from atlantis was my Black princess because tiana was not a thing#and she helped me love my dark skin. but I HATED my dark eyes and hair I used to wish I could have blue eyes and white hair like kida#because i thought it the only way black women could be beautiful was having those eurocentric features#and although now ive overcome my own internalized antiblackness i 100% agree with the author#and im very tired of the dark skin+light eyes and hair trope#antiblackness#misogynoir#eurocentric beauty standards#on media
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Every Black child needs to see this Malcolm X clip…
Credit: MrCrim3@MrCrim3
#YouTube#MrCrim3@MrCrim3#Malcolm X#Self-Hate#Colorism#Racism#Featurism#Texturism#Eurocentric Beauty Standards#Afrocentric Features#Anti-Blackness#Anti-Black Propaganda
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There’s something special I think about T4T sex with another person of colour. Being able to be comfortable full well with your body, and seeing theirs too. Features that Eurocentrism has deemed unappealing, on full display. Your skin tones, often used as a source of mockery, slide against eachother while touching the other’s body. Your deep brown eyes, staring back in to theirs. Your noses nuzzling into eachother while sharing a passionate kiss. All these things, you in the past have been self conscious about, due to a white narrative; you’re finally seeing that others are much the same as you- as if looking in a mirror. You notice their beauty; and they notice yours.
Having it be T4T exemplifies this even more. The social ostricization; and the sense to need to conform- all begin to fade away while you frot. Your breasts; though they not as big as hers, squish. You have both moulded your forms into ones you’re happy with. Much to the dismay of those who’ve weaved the society against you.
#t4t yearning#t4t#trans poc#peopleofcolour#trans t4t#transbian#eurocentric beauty standards#transgender#transsexual
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just saw one of my white friends post on their story they want to “be apart of cambodian culture” and they want to celebrate khmer??
idk if im being dramatic but growing up southeast asian in a family of southeast asian immagrants and hearing this rich white man say ts proudly and PUBLICILY made me do a factory reset. like how ignorant and privileged can you be? just the sheer audacity is lowkey pissing me off because WHAT
i do not get told my skin is too dark for goth makeup and get asked for a greencard by middle aged white women in walmart for THIS 😭
#poc#small little vent#not the man with blonde hair and blue eyes talking#istg white people will never know what its actually like#everyone wants to be one of us#until they face racism#or grow up unprivileged in white communities#or know the pressure of#eurocentric beauty standards
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Anyway using the presence of a unibrow on a person as a marker of ugliness, especially wearing or drawing on a fake unibrow for the 'before' of "makeup transformation" or what have you...... that's rooted in racism. Stop doing that.
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By romeavell(instagram) on make up and beauty standards
#gender#gender expression#expression#makeup#make up#beauty standards#eurocentric beauty standards#trans#transgender#poc#femininity#sexuality
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In a sense, it’s not my place to judge a Korean drama and how they depict their own culture in a Korean drama, as in this example. In another sense, those fashion, makeup and plastic surgery trends influence trends across Asia and have formed the narrative of what "beauty" looks like. And those trends are typically to evoke a more Eurocentric look, with higher nose bridges and larger eyes.
#TKEM
#the king: eternal monarch#kdrama#korean dram#korean drama#eurocentric beauty standards#lucy dot txt
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Every other filter on Instagram: “This is how you would look if you were white…”
#like don’t name them anything else#ig filters#eurocentric beauty standards#instagram#social media#ok but Snapchat too#if you need any proof#black and brown women sound off
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