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How High Heels Are Today’s Foot-binding
When I read the article about Chinese foot-binding in the Los Angeles Times, I really found it highlighted the complexity of the practice of foot-binding. On the one hand it was a painful, dangerous, demeaning, and debilitating practice that women were coerced to engage in. On the other hand, it’s a historical tradition, an expression of conceptions of beauty from a certain human time and place, and a wealth of treasured shared experiences cherished by [...] Continue »
Sulwhasoo Niemen Marcus West Coast Launch At the San Francisco Asian Art Museum
Sulwhasoo invited 8Asians to partake in the Niemen Marcus Launch Party to celebrate the long-anticipated arrival of this amazing Korean cosmetics line here on the west coast. Fashion journalists and bloggers were invited to the Asian Art Museum to meet with the line’s key representatives. Sulwhasoo has been at Bergdorf Goodman in New York for the past year, but Amore Pacific, the parent company that owns Sulwhasoo, just made its debut in San Francisco and [...] Continue »
On The Different Cultural Ideals of Beauty
By Hua Jing Li Zadie Smith in her book On Beauty compares beauty to be akin to art a western myth in which we console ourselves and make ourselves. So what defines a person to be beautiful? Many times, beauty is spoken to be in the eye of the beholder. Yet, often in society there is one main dominant ideal of beauty.
Former Miss USA Rima Fakih Arrested for Drunk Driving
Rima Fakih, you are a complex woman: On one hand, you were the first Muslim and Arab American Miss USA. On the other hand, you dressed up as a sexy Halloween version of the eagle from the back of a dollar bill for your Miss Universe costume competition. It takes a strong woman to both break racial barriers and dress up as the sexy version of, well, things you have in your wallet. And now, [...] Continue »
Do All Asians Have Flat Butts?
I like big butts and I can not lie You other brothers can’t deny – SIR MIX-A-LOT, “Baby Got Back” Every time I hear those lyrics, I cringe. Why? Because I admit that I have a flat butt. Please, no jokes. I’m a little sensitive about it. Once I asked an ex-girlfriend if she thought I had a nice ass and she said I had a wonderful personality. I should have known then that the [...] Continue »
Japan’s Latest Crooked Teeth Trend, According To New York Times
Oh, New York Times. Where would we be without your hard hitting and insightful reporting on Asian culture? According to this article from a couple weeks back, crooked teeth, or yaeba, is the hot new trend among women in Japan. Japanese men are said to find this attractive: blogs are devoted to yaeba, celebrities display it proudly, and now some women are paying dentists to create it artificially by affixing plastic fronts to their real [...] Continue »
DUDE WTF ASIA: Filipino Man Gets Plastic Surgery To Look Like Superman
File this under “new to me” as well as “dude is Asian so we’re totally allowed to blog about this:” A man in the Philippines is reported to have multiple cosmetic surgeries to look like Superman. Note that if you’re looking for specifics, we’re talking about 1980′s “Christopher Reeves before he fell off a horse” Superman with the square jaw and the white man jeri curl, rather than the more approachable “at least you’re a [...] Continue »
DUDE WTF ASIA: Thai Beautician Slaps The Pretty Into Her Clients
Per Gizmodo, women in Thailand can skip the plastic surgery and instead, get the breast size and liposuction that they’ve always dreamed of by getting the crap beaten out of them. Some say that beauty is pain but I never imagined this would be translated literally.
The 8Asians Talk About: Eel Removed From Man’s Bladder In China
Our internal e-mail lists have us discussing all kinds of stuff: Asian American identity, representation in the media, the experiences of activism in an academia setting and its progression as we transition to the working, adult world. And sometimes, we talk about WTF happened in this article about a Chinese man who had an eel surgically removed from his bladder after it swam up his penis during a beauty spa treatment.
Crystal Renn Defends Chinky Eye Taping From Vogue Nippon Shoot
Jezebel scored an interview with model Crystal Renn, who was seen taping her eyes back in a photo shoot for Vogue Nippon. Renn states that she wasn’t trying to look “Asian” but often taped her eyes back to transform her face: “No-one told me at the shoot to tape. It is something that I often do to add to the look of the character if I feel that the look makes sense, and often I [...] Continue »
L.A. Giveaway: Audrey Magazine 2011 Fashion Night Out Show Tickets
UPDATE 9/11/2011: Congrats to our winner, Katrina P! Don’t forget, you can still buy tickets and get 20% off with the code “8Asians”! Audrey Magazine– an award-winning national publication created by Asian American women, for Asian American women– presents Audrey’s Night Out 2011, their biggest bash of the year and their 4th annual fashion show and party. Be there at Exchange L.A. for a “night out” of music, live performances, fashion and entertainment including: Fierce [...] Continue »
Who’s Afraid Of Being “So Asian”?
As it turns out, one’s intensity of Asianness is measurable. You can be “not Asian enough” or “so Asian” and such quantifications will have nothing to do with the ethnic identification of your parents. What’s more, there are even assigned values to Asianness, because apparently no one wants to be seen as “so Asian.” The other night I was at a dinner function of white folks and two lone Asians–another female and me. [Tangent: And why is [...] Continue »
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