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Can I change my eye shape into more slanted eyes? (Photo)

juuyinNov 7, 2015
I'm Filipino and Black but my whole face says African American, not filipino at all. I want my eyes to be more slanted so I don't look so "African American." No monolids, just smaller, upward slanted eyes. That is how my mothers eye looks, and I want it to look similar. (I can't show a picture since her eyes lowered with age, she is 52, and she has used double eyelid tape for a long time that her monolids technically do not exist anymore.)

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