Illustrated by Mallory Heyer. Growing up as Chinese-Americans in the predominately white Bay Area of the '90s, Jenny and Willa Jin knew their eyelids were different. "If only you had double eyelids, it would make your eyes look bigger and you'd look better," Willa, now 21, recalls hearing her parents and family members remark. Double-eyelid surgery, or blepharoplasty, was an oft-discussed subject in the Jin household. Both sisters were born with monolids -- an eye shape characterized by a lack o...
Illustrated by Mallory Heyer. Growing up as Chinese-Americans in the predominately white Bay Area of the '90s, Jenny and Willa Jin knew their eyelids were different. "If only you had double eyelids, it would make your eyes look bigger and you'd look better," Willa, now 21, recalls hearing her parents and family members remark. Double-eyelid surgery, or blepharoplasty, was an oft-discussed subject in the Jin household. Both sisters were born with monolids -- an eye shape characterized by a lack o...
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