- Gotta touch it up.
- Annie put that away,
(Annie laughs)
we're eating lunch!
(playful music)
- I have a really complicated relationship with my eyes.
I would say around 70% of the time,
I'm like completely fine with my eyes,
but the other times, I feel like I do feel
the pressure of wanting double eyelids.
- When I was growing up, I lived in Korea
for about three years, and during that time,
double eyelid surgery was all the rage.
Some people even suggested that I try it.
You know, I'd get it as a gift for my birthday or something.
- Even when I do makeup, I don't even think about it,
but I instinctively try to fake a crease.
- Whatever work you do on top of your eyelids,
it just disappears as soon as you open your eyes.
I use so much eyeliner to make up for that lost gap.
- For one week, we're gonna physically give ourselves
double eyelids using either glue or tape.
- You know what, I'm just gonna go for it.
I'm gonna see what happens.
- Oh, okay, okay, so the glue comes up.
- Alright I'm just gonna grab one.
So ... Oh! What the heck?
- My eyelashes are caught in the glue.
- Oh goodness, oh the things we do for beauty.
- My eyes do look a little bigger.
The right eye's still intact, which gives me hope.
- Having a pair of scissors so close to my eyes
is a little bit nerve-racking.
Okay, I guess that worked.
- My eyes are very sticky.
It does make my eyes look significantly bigger,
which is kind of discouraging.
I kind of don't look like myself.
- I'm looking forward to being surprised
at how it affects my life.
- (bleep) I kinda do like it.
- One eyelid is more visible than the other one (laughs).
(playful music)
- So this is my sixth attempt.
It's 7:30 in the morning and I'm not having it.
Nobody should ever go to work late
because they're putting on extra set of eyelids.
- I've attempted this like five times, and it's not sticking
so I guess I'll have to do the glue.
- The first few days was miserable, because I was still
trying to figure out how to (bleep) put those on my eyes.
As I was trying to redo this eye because it was uneven,
I cut a little bit of the inner corner of my eye.
But I guess that's fine because beauty is pain.
- So you can tell that your eyes look bigger,
but it's not necessarily like a better look.
- Nobody noticed, not a single person
without me mentioning it noticed.
- Do you have double eyelid?
- Yeah.
- I actually never knew that you didn't before.
To me, it doesn't look different.
- Do my eyes look bigger? No?
- No.
- Doing makeup, I thought it would actually
be easier with double eyelids,
but I just found it incredibly difficult.
- So I've learned how to do my makeup based
on the fact that I have monolids.
I don't know, it just doesn't look right.
- Let it be said that I've given up
on putting eye makeup on all together,
because it just (bleeps) up every time.
- My eyes still look like my eyes, just a little bit bigger.
Like the Snapchat filter.
- No matter how many layers of glue I put on,
it still kind of unravels, so that's great.
- (laughs)
(calm music)
- I'm so glad this week is over.
That was a lot of work.
- I thought I would come out of this week
wanting double eyelids more.
Nothing really changed, nobody noticed.
I stopped noticing the differences after awhile.
Trends change all the time.
I plucked all of my eyebrows when I was young
because I thought thin eyebrows were the coolest thing ever.
So, maybe there's something to learn from that.
- I lived my whole life wanting double eyelids.
It's not really a big deal.
It didn't really make my life better (laughs).
It just made it different.
(happy music)