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Published: May 15th, 2023,
Last updated: May 15th, 2023

双眼皮 – shuāngyǎnpí – double eyelids

Saddle bags, flabby bellies, hooked noses – when it comes to our own appearance, we’re hard on ourselves. In our self-confidence body screening, every pore is closely analyzed. That was already the case even before selfies and Instagram. But have you ever thought about the beauty score of your eyelid crease when you look in the mirror? (Not counting swollen eyelids after all-nighters and tearful breakups, of course!) Have you ever been horrified because there’s so little „eyelid mass“ visible after you’ve blinked your eyes? While Europeans undergo surgery to get full lips and straight noses, the Chinese are wary of another supposed beauty flaw: the eyelid (眼皮 yǎnpí).

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