Okay, if you’ve done any perusing on beauty brands available online or even on Amazon, you’ve seen the phenomenon that Korean Skincare.
The coziest season is finally here! Grab your pumpkin spice latte or hot chocolate, your favorite fall sweater, nice jeans, sneakers and a book and snuggle into your bed!
Let’s take a moment to bask in the glory of warm weather. Thank goodness the cold and snow is behind us at least for a little while. I’m sure most of us enjoy hanging out with friends, take photos alone or even workout.
Cultural appropriation is defined as the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. of a people or society by members of another, typically more dominant group of people or society. Cultural appropriation has become a new medium for ignorance in social media, and, more recently, in fashion.
In the US, students are taught at a young age that the country we live in is a giant melting pot. It’s a metaphor for the coming together of people from varying cultures and backgrounds: the ingredients, into something greater, like Bo Kho (Vietnamese beef stew).
Growing up in Hong Kong, our family always went to a particular floating seafood restaurant, because one of my uncles worked there so we could get a nice table with a good service and excellent food.
Cultural appropriation in fashion isn't new. Most of the “trends” we follow year after year are created on runways where the targeted consumers are those who don't think twice about buying a £580 hat.
I'm unhealthy.
I hate sweating so I rarely exercise and obsessively avoid being outdoors in the hot and humid tropical weather.
For decades, the beauty industry has controlled what the idea of beauty is. Traditionally the ideal woman was a skinny, fair skinned, light-haired(usually), doe-eyed, young looking woman.
“The Model Minority”
Isn’t it an oxymoron of a stereotype? Asian Americans have moved to the United States and have taken over as the highest earning salary … Asian men even earn more than white men…
I grew up in Indonesia and Singapore, and the pressure to have "double eyelids" (eyelids with a crease) is high. I grew up believing that getting the "double eyelid surgery" to add a crease to my monolids is a normal rite of passage like graduating high school or making questionable fashion choices in your teenage years.