Eyes

Perhaps one of the most interesting things for me in Japanese beauty is the focus on the eyes. For Americans, the most notable characteristic of the Japanese or oriental face is the “almond eye”. In modern day Japan, they do multiple things to change their eyes, such as the use of circle lenses which make your eyes look much bigger than they actually are and wearing tons of make-up to make your eye look bigger or a different shape than it actually is. Another thing that they do is shown in the picture above. When I saw my friend putting this on one day, I was very interested. This is glue that you place on your eye to glue parts of your eyelids together to make you have a crease above your eyes. This apparently makes your eyes look bigger and more like a foreigners eyes. As a person who has had “foreign” eyes her whole life, I never thought about what it was that makes ones eyes look like Caucasian. But it is true that Caucasian people usually have one or two creases on their eyes while Japanese people have one or sometimes even none. For many Japanese girls, using this glue to get a crease in their eyelids is part of their every day beauty routine.