She’s giving 🎋abundance🎋 It took me a long time to embrace the shape of my eyes. When I moved to a new school in the fifth grade, the first thing my classmates asked me was why my eyes were so small, if I could see out of them. I learned to hate my eyes at that moment, to see myself as small as my eyes apparently were. When you’re young you don’t realize how powerful your words can be. I’m not so upset at the kids who made fun of my eyes as I am that I didn’t know that I should be proud of my features. As I entered middle school, I learned about the huge plastic surgery industry in Korea. I thought, even people who look like me aren’t satisfied with how they look! As I kept growing this page and practicing new makeup styles, I’ve taken on a new relationship with my eyes. I understand how to use them as a canvas now, and love how expressive they are. Tbh there are still parts of myself that I catch myself thinking I need to “fix” and I think it’s just an extension of how I’m inundated by beauty standards online. But I want to keep learning to embrace. I’d love to hear if you’re still learning to embrace too, or how you learned to love your favorite features too 🤍 - Products tagged in comments 🤍 - #aapi #aapiheritagemonth #apahm