Don't it make my blue eyes blue
My two best features, I think, are my near-perfect nose and my blue eyes. My lips aren't bad, either, although they're a bit on the thin side (hey, I'm a cracker).
But I was born with these features and I can't take credit for them. They just are.
It saddens me when I see people with darker features -- blacks, Asians, Latinos, et. al. -- wear green or hazel or blue contacts or bleach their hair (or both). It's certainly their prerogative to do so, but it saddens me that the Anglo look is so widely considered to be superior that people change their eye and/or hair color -- and/or even get plastic surgery and/or even bleach their skin (yes, Michael, I'm talking to you) -- to look more Anglo.
And I hate to see media images like the one above, the promotional image for the film "Memoirs of a Geisha."
I don't know anything about "Memoirs of a Geisha," but I do know that the vast majority of Asians have brown eyes. Yahoo!'s brief description of "Memoirs of a Geisha" says that it's about a Japanese woman who is forced to be a prostitute before World War II. They didn't have colored contacts back then, so I'm at a loss as to why this Japanese woman, played by the beautiful Chinese actress Ziyi Zhang (who has very brown and very beautiful eyes), is portrayed with blue eyes in the promo.
The promo with the blue-eyed Japanese woman tells Asians, "Your (brown) eyes aren't beautiful. Blue eyes are beautiful." Or, at least, it tells them, "Blue eyes are more beautiful than your brown eyes."
When you are bombarded with such images, I guess it wouldn't be too terribly difficult to come to feel that your black hair and brown eyes aren't beautiful.
But I'm here to tell you that brown is beautiful and that black is beautiful.
Thin lips aren't in, but I'm not about to go get the Angelina Jolie treatment. I look the way I look and the way I look is good enough. You may change the way you look if you wish -- it's your body -- but I encourage you not to change a thing. You're beautiful, dammit.
7:57:07 PM 
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