The Grudge Eyes

If you read this post earlier, it was titled 'Longan Eyes'. I've changed it because I just went through 1/2 kg longans and they were all black-brown, not a single was black. For those who don't know, The Grudge was one of those Korean horror flicks that makes you want to live in a commune so you'll never be alone. I've never watched a single horror movie since 'The Exorcist' and 'The Shining'. How can I when I jump at my own reflection after I've washed off my make-up.

I recently met my very uptodate friend and as I looked at her, I saw Grudge eyes. Really, they were a solid shiny black and then what struck me next was that they were very BIG, covering more of her whites than I've ever seen on anyone. The giveaway was she used to have dark-brown eyes like all Orientals do. Now they are a weird impenetrable onyx black. So I made a couple of checks and this is what I found:

Look at that. Her eye is much much bigger with the lens but in a scary The Grudge sort of way. They look big but dead. I might not like it, but that's the look the girls want. Not just big but big solid black.

Her augmented irises (right) are more natural.

These lenses, available more than 4 years ago, were invented by the Japanese (who else? Inventors of all things unnatural) because Jap, Koreans and most Asians girls all want to look like anime (Jap cartoon mags) heroines: saucer-sized black shiny eyes, teeny-weeny peapod mouths and non-existent noses. Think Dawn Yang without her nose and strange-looking mouth. I read that while Orientals want bigger eyes (and that's the feature most often surgically improved for them in a procedure called blepharoplasty), causcasians have problems with big too-prominent noses and rhinoplasty is the No. 1 cosmetic surgery procedure for them. Look at the western actresses and cover girls. The smaller the noses the better it seems. For guys, big noses are more acceptable except for the Karl Malden type. Tom Cruise didn't do so badly despite his Great Wall Nose. I've always wanted to know--if Tom closes one eye, will he have 150 degrees vision like I do, or will it be 90 degrees?? But the topic is on eyes you remind me. Okay, okay.

Some of you probably already are wearing anime contacts now. That's okay. Just make sure you don't give me that chin-down-wide-eyes-pursedmouth-peacesign-and-knockknees look if I see you. Especially if you are over 16 years old.

p.s. this will still be a food blog - I just failed to get good pics last night so I'm going to cook something earlier today before the sun goes down. Can anyone tell me if they use studio lights for their food pics, and what brand and how to use it? Meanwhile, a filler. We need to relax before March 8.