I see no white people who does it and it makes me a bit uncomfortable but I do think that eye makeup style look very cute
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Ofc no one gatekeeps make up. Do it!
As long as you’re not like, trying to imitate Asian eye anatomy by taping your eyes back or something weird it’s totally fine
What style are you asking to use? Like I’m sure it’s fine
I think any makeup style is fine as long as you’re not trying to change your entire face to look like a different race. Like extending your eyes trying to intimate a different eye “shape”.
I’m black and I found that soft Douyin or Korean makeup suits me and compliments my features the best.
As a makeup style you can use it, just dont try to make your eyes look more like japanese and you are good.
adjust it to your own features :)
I did gyaru type makeup recently as a white person if you want to see an example it’s in my post history. I was nervous about it too lol I didn’t want to accidentally racebend but it turned out fine. Try searching on tiktok for gyaru, there are more examples of people of different races doing it for you to look at.
I’m a pro makeup artist and it’s not cultural appropriation to use an eye makeup style. As long as you’re not painting yourself like a geisha it’s completely fine.
It’s sad that it came to this point
Yes, white people, we are allowed to do our makeup like other races do. Other races can do their makeup like we do, what’s the issue.
Check out Bronte Marie on TikTok; she does a lot of Korean and Chinese makeup-inspired tutorials but adapts them for her own features. It’s very helpful in learning how to adjust looks for different eye shapes.
You can do whatever makeup you want. I personally like to do aegyo-sal on my eyes and I just adjust it to my own features.
Do we really need this question posted like every week
"Very Hot Take and Soapbox Talk:
This is like asking if non-drag queens “can I use contour”. Just because drag queens invented contouring doesn’t mean only drag queens can use it.
You’ll be surprised how many makeup techniques came from drag queens; yet no one credits them for their techniques or known they are from drag queens. They are literally THE makeup gurus of all makeup gurus.
Nothing is unique to one culture if you truly think about it. Like braids, many cultures have braids in their culture, and they all have meaning.
For example, the Aztec people wore different styles to represent their profession. So, this whole argument that braids belong to Black culture is silly because not all black people are African, and not all Africans are black. Heck Jamaicas and Nigeria are (usually) black, yet have very very different culture . Which adds to my point that Black culture is very diverse and doesn’t belong to one area of the world.
The term ‘cultural appropriation’ needs to die. It’s a form of racism, in my opinion. Why is it so wrong to want to experience other people’s cultures and take part? For God sake, Christmas was a pagan holiday at one point, then became a ‘religious holiday’ to attract more followers. Now it’s just a commercialized holiday that anyone can enjoy. HECK FOOD is widely shared and its not a problem, so why stop at food? Did you know hot dog were invented by American slaves and sushi was peasant food? Some many people now eat it regularly without knowing its originals.
Everything should be shared and enjoyed with others. I do, however, agree that people should take the time to learn the meaning behind things before jumping straight into something new. Like for example, Japanese kimonos have a specific way of being worn. Instead of grabbing one and putting it on willy-nilly, ask or research how to properly put one on and make sure it’s worn the correct way. Last thing you want to do is put it backwards or wear it where it symbolizes a dead person.
Hoping of my soapbox. That my hot take for today.
Nah, I get what you’re saying girl and I can tell you’re probably a smart person, but that’s relativism stretched to lose meaning. The point of all of this is context. At some point over time things lose their power and context at which point nobody cares, but there are specific moments in time where power and context matters and we’re in one of those times with the rise of both globalism and populism, so it’s good to check. It’s pretty complicated and nuanced so I don’t want to get into it in great detail here, and I’m guessing the reason why some people chose to pretend like it doesn’t matter when it very clearly does in today’s dialogue is a backlash against all the delicacy and complexity of the situation, so I get it, but that doesn’t mean you can just reason it out. This isn’t a the sort of problem you can reason correctly with deductive logic, but a social situation that takes heuristics to learn correctly and that’s ever changing, more like an AI learning a pattern using neural networks lol.
I don’t think it’s wrong you asked this question, I think it’s a good thing to be conscientious about so it’s a little odd to me that some comments seem annoyed with it. Asian fishing and cultural appropriation are a genuine things people do so I get your concern about not wanting to be lumped into that.
That being said I’m not Japanese or Asian but I do think that if you are not trying to change/actively look a different race, are purposely ambiguous about your actual race or claim that you’ve invented the makeup style you have on it’s fine to do different styles even from different cultures! I think that if you do it and get push back or even compliments from actual Japanese people then heed what they say the most. But other than those things it should be fine! Best of luck!
You’re fine and people can check themselves if they are offended and want to police every action of a whole race. It’s okay. Your heart is in the right place for asking, but don’t let anyone make you think you need permission.