The economy is bad and fuel prices are rising, so instead of flying to another country for discount double-eye lid surgery, some might opt for cheaper homegrown alternatives. Reader Matt has brought our attention to Eye Talk, a beauty set that allows women to glue their eyelids into a more pleasing configuration:
[via Japundit]
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nothing new about this. this has been around for years. you can use the “glue” like the one in the video or you can use super thin double sided tape and it’ll work also.
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Yeah, I’ve seen ads for eye-widening makeup kits like this before. Not everyone who wants double eyelids does surgery, some of them use these kits instead.
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I go to an all girls’ private uni in Japan and all the girls use these. It’s bonkers. they’ll be lined up in front to the loo mirror and all be putting in these strips of glue to make a double eyelid… strange…
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it is kinda odd, but i do find it attractive. not the process, but the result, yknow…
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I guess I really never noticed a difference in eyes either way.
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Leave your eyes alone, there fine the way they are.
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Bought a small bottle of eye talk a couple years ago; Could never apply those damn glue properly, nor do i have the discipline or patience to keep up the feat on a daily basis…. so I gave up.
Having said that the glue, IF applied properly, looks way better than using tape. Of course, I have also seen ads of models with badly glued eyelids that only reminds me of that girl in Ringu. Proceed with caution people!
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i like the Japanese eyes better without the glue
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Asian girls have such pretty eyes.
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That looks like it hurts):
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that looks like it hurts..
why do they have to do that to themselves??
i like thier almond eyes.. why go through all the trouble to make them “regular”??
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We reported on this more than three years ago.
Normally I wouldn’t bother to say anything, but just the other day a Japan Probe reader was over at JAPUNDIT complaining because we reported on something a day or two after it appeared here.
So what is “news,” I guess, is in the eye of the beholder after all.
JP
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You probably ripped that story off another Japan site anyway.
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JP:
Sorry about that, Matt didn’t say in his e-mail where he got the link. I subscribe to your feed and generally remember what you’ve posted recently, but I’m afraid I wasn’t able to go back 3 years in your archives and see that you’d posted this already.
No need to apologize. Google shows it appeared on 3Yen before Japundit and they had links.
http://news.3yen.com/2005-01-24/makeup-lesson/
Japan Today showed years ago how Japundit regularly ripped off other Japan sites and now he’s proved it himself.
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James. I didn’t mean to suggest that you got the story from us or anything like that.
My remark was meant as a dig at those (like the guy I mentioned) who a prone to making wild accusations about others “stealing” or “ripping off” news stories, or posting old news that someone has already “put in play.”
As you know, we all have our aggregators, to which piles of news stories arrive each day. From there we select our different stories and schedule them for publication. Sometimes we do not get around to posting on particular item until a fews days or even longer after it arrives, which means the same news may already have been covered by another site.
I don’t remember where we picked up the link for EyeTalk, but it certainly could not have been 3yen.com for the simple fact that I do not follow 3yen.com. Also, as anyone who reads JAPUNDIT can see, we always credit our sources.
As for Japan Today showing years ago how Japundit regularly rips off other Japan sites. . . Well I missed that one and would really like to see it. I did a quick GOOGLE and could not find anything for some reason. Perhaps Harry would be so kind as to provide a link?
In closing, I would like to point out that not everyone on the web reads Japan Probe, 3yen.com, Japan Today, JAPUNDIT, or any of the other fine Japan-centric sites out there. And just because you or I saw some particular news story, it does not mean it is no longer news to everyone else in the world.
Anyway, James, keep up the great work.
JP
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“it certainly could not have been 3yen.com or the simple fact that I do not follow 3yen.com”
That is false because you used a picture from 3Yen with their logo on it as JT showed!
If you do credit your sources, why the strange “attribution policy” which appeared following the JT discussion you claim never to have seen?
http://japundit.com/sitemap/japundit-attribution-policy/
It says you’ll credit sources unless you are accused of not crediting in which case you won’t credit. Very handy!
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Concerning the 3yen.com photograph, it was used in a story that included a link back to the original 3yen.com story that contained the photograph in question, so to this day I do not understand what the problem is. Accordingly, I have made it a point to ignore and avoid 3yen.com ever since.
As for our attribution policy, I am starting to suspect that this is more of a reading comprehension problem than anything else. Our attribution policy was written in response to people with the strange habit of claiming some kind of inherent ownership of information that originally appeared in a a newspaper or some other publicly available source once report on or quoted the news source on their blog.
Anyway, rail all you want, but the simple simple truth that we always credit our sources at JAPUNDIT is there to see for anyone willing to take a look, so I don’t know what else there is left to say.
JP
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So you weren’t telling the truth because you now admit to using 3Yen images. You say “we always credit our sources” but there’s no credit given on the story you have brought up here and you even have an attribution policy to explain why you don’t give credit . Or maybe you magically “found” the story after it already appeared on Geisha Asobi, 3Yen, Big Daikon and the FG Forums. And now you have the cheek to claim it as a JAPUNDIT story all along. The truth: Japan Probe always has the courtesy to tip sources and JAPUNDIT doesn’t.
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Well, commenting on the article, I’ve always thought Asian people’s eyes made them unique in a good way; while I understand the social/media pressure to look otherwise (w/countless ads & magazines devoted to the Western look), still it is difficult for me to understand.
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