Indigenous beauty different from the mainstream

Indigenous eye shape different from mainstream

Squinty/hooded eyes from Indigenous background:

Hey everyone!

I hope this note finds you well!

Well, my eyes are bigger than normal ( and I’m not saying that for flex but it is all genetic; like for example: people with extreme nearsightedness have larger sized eyes.

So I’m Saami from the high Arctic.

This means I have no lower eyelashes end- to keep them from freezing over. I don’t even try putting mascara there since it’s literally like 5 lashes and I don’t use lower falsies cuz having suddenly so much lower lashes overwhelms me.

In the Arctic, there is less light from the sun, so over generations you adapt and the size of your eyes overall gets bigger, the pupil range is larger (from going from bright reflective snow to the darker inside the lavvu (winter hut, like a Tipi or a grass hut dug into the ground).

Now my eyes are big but squinty/hooded because 1: the fat layer keeps heat close to your eyes and traps that heat in close with the long upper eyelashes, and 2: in the short summer months, not only are you getting the light of the sun but the light reflecting off the snow, but that squintyness is what has shaped my under-the-eyes features.

I know, it sounds like a paradox, larger eyes but squinty/hooded at the same time!!

I don’t really - and I know I won’t- go under the knife to get it fixed.

Especially after Renée Zellweger got the Saami removed from her eyes and it ruined her authentic look back in 2014 - people were freaking out as it erased her ethnicity to make her look more mainstream Northern European.

I am, like I said, looking for a way to keep adding pops of colour on my hooded eyes while also trying to find a way to fix the sunken under eye look between where my lower eyelashes end and where the ridge of my cheekbones begins?

My cheekbones are very prominent and bunch up when I smile, but more prominent on the front side of my face and not the sides.

Is there a specific product for filling in that gap? Do my eye area doesn’t look sunken in?

Or is it all make up tips?

which I am grateful for and go shopping on the weekend for — so thank you/ Ollu Giitu!