We can't let the white people tell us what we should look like! Hey guys
welcome back to my channel and today we're going to be talking about The
Erasure of Asian Beauty. So as for my history with it, you can see that I don't
really care about beauty. I've actually made a pact not to wear makeup
because I think it's bad for your skin and I also am kind of a conspiracy nut
and think that they just want my money. Makeup is supposed to make
you look youthful, but then at the same time ages your skin faster so you need
to buy anti-aging products and skincare products and I just can't with it
anymore, so I just don't wear makeup because A) it's gonna age my skin faster
B) it costs a lot of money to upkeep because not only do you need to buy
makeup but you need to buy skin care products and you know I'm just lazy. I
don't care what I look like. I look the way I look and that's it. When I was
a teenager I was pretty into like the K beauty stuff but I realized that was
kind of impossible to maintain for me because I just didn't like wearing
makeup but when I did do it it did make my skin feel really great so that was
good, but I don't think my skin doesn't feel great now either... Alright so let's
get into the video. The first thing I want to talk about is "space buns" and I
hate when people call them "space buns" and if you don't know what "space
buns" are you see them at like all these raves like they're these
girls like putting their hair and like double buns and I hate when people call
them the "space buns" A) because I don't know why they call space buns is it because
they look like planets or they're futuristic
but B) and the biggest reason is because their this style originated from East
Asia specifically China. They are called ox horn buns or double buns and this was
a hairstyle mainly worn by younger girls in China and now that we call them
"space buns" it's just kind of erasing the history of the style and how it came
from Asia. If you want to wear a "space buns" or oxhorn buns you know you can do
that but let's just be mindful and call them what they are. Number two... What is
with all the white models in East Asia - specifically China, Japan, and South Korea
trying to look Asian or half?! Most recently on my Instagram there has been
a model on there and her name is Dasha Taran, who is from Russia but works in
Seoul and she's had great success there because A) she looks half but B) and more
importantly she has all the Korean beauty standards because she's white. You
know she has pale fair skin, a small face, the high-bridged nose, big eyes, dark hair
and big lips, not like huge lips but like plump lips, so she has everything that
Korean beauty strives to give fully Korean people, but she's white so she's
really popular there and I get why she's popular there because you know everyone
wants to look half white or everyone wants to look white - let's just be
honest and you know it just frustrates me because why is only one standard of
beauty beautiful? And this doesn't go for just people in South Korea or just
people in East Asia this also goes for like Asian Americans. I feel like these
beauty standards that are created in East Asia carry themselves to Asian
Americans and we also need to fit these beauty standards even though things are
more liberal and the American Beauty industry I still think that the beauty
standards for Asian people in America are similar - especially trying to make
your eyes look bigger. I think that people in Asia aren't aware that they
want to look white because they lie to themselves and say, "Oh it's because in
ancient times peasants worked under the sun and the
rich people stayed indoors and therefore they had pale skin so that's why I want
to have pale skin", and I just roll my eyes so far back in my head
because the world has become so globalized that it's obvious that our
beauty standards have been colonized by white people and that we want to look
white and we want to look half white. I get it, you know, so let's just stop lying
to ourselves and saying that we don't want to look white because that's not
true. And there has been a few YouTube tutorials specifically targeted to white
people about how to look Asian or half Asian. So we're living in a world where Asian
people don't want to look Asian, but where white people do want to look Asian, so
it's honestly ridiculous that white people even want to embrace Korean
beauty standards or trends because when they do put the Korean makeup on them
and like like with the pink eyeshadow on, the circle lenses, etcetera, it doesn't
make them look any different because they already have what's beautiful to
Asian people already. If anything it makes them actually look half Asian and
that's pretty insidious because I have seen models on Instagram lie about their
heritage and say that they're half Asian when they're clearly not and it's just
so frustrating. Of course when they want to say that their "half" it's always mixed with
being half white which is a whole other thing because you know there are
Asian people mixed with other races but everyone wants to be half white. This
isn't you know to hate on anyone specifically, I'm just here to give legit
criticism. I feel like people who lie about their ethnicity or who try to look
half Asian or try to look half white like that's not cool because A) you're
lying about your race for likes and B) Asian people are marginalized in society
so much already and it's even worse because our beauty standards don't go
out of their way to accentuate our natural features, but to try to distort
them to look white. And these like white models who come to Asia and are
naturally popular because they're white or they look like half Asian,
it's you know, a sham for diversity and only further marginalizes the native
models of those countries. You know there are famous Asian models in the U.S. but of
course the U.S. only picks the Asian models that look the most exotic, for
example like Sun Feifei and He Sui, they both have you know smaller eyes they
don't embrace those kind of big circle lens eyes you know things like
that, that is championed in Asia and because they don't look half white
they're popular in the US because they look fully Asian. It's like this whole
paradox that's really confusing and I hope I'm making sense. In Asia they
only champion like white models for example like - Dasha Taran - or half models
like Kiko Mizuhara, she's half but she's half white. Now this brings me to why
full Asian in a presentation is so important as well as Asian people mixed
with other races besides white, you know their representation is so important
because so many times full Asians or Asians who are mixed with other races
don't get and you know the praise that they deserve or aren't validated because
they're not marketable enough in Asia and that's because they don't look white
enough, it's as simple as that, and I know that this isn't all the models' fault
obviously they need to get money and they're beauty is appealing to global
markets and that's why they're popular, but it just sucks how these white models who
use K beauty products are more followed and more appreciated than the actual
Korean people who made these products in the first place, simply by their virtue
of being white. Yeah the real people to blame are companies that sell
whitening creams and societies that make it impossible for you to avoid getting
plastic surgery. How much of a choice is plastic surgery when you're living in a
society where you need to look beautiful and uphold a certain standard of beauty
in order to even get a job at the end of the day? And the takeaway from this is
that we need to embrace our natural beauty, you know whatever it may be, if
it's your wide flat nose, if it's your smaller eyes, if it's your bigger face, we
need to embrace these things because no one else is. You can't let the white
people tell us what we should look like, you know we should use makeup to
accentuate our natural features and our natural beauty, we shouldn't try to be
this like homogeneous society that's all trying to aspire to look like they're
half white because we think that being mixed with white blood is you know
"better" than being fully Asian because that is extremely harmful, and I think
that it's been normalized for too long. In the description box I'm gonna post an
article about a Youtuber who has posted videos
about how to look white. I didn't want to name-drop anyone in the
video because I don't really think that's fair but there is this one
popular Youtuber who did get famous for transforming herself into looking half
Asian, so if you're interested in that read the article down below and I'll see
you in the next one bye :)