'I went to a mostly-white private school and wouldn't leave the house without straightening my hair.'
, in procedures like nose jobs and double eyelid surgery, and in products such as skin bleaching creams and chemical hair relaxers.
people of color in the BuzzFeed Community to talk about how they've conformed to Eurocentric beauty standards and why. Here are 16 of their stories:"I'm Chinese and grew up predominantly around white people.
"I also have full Mexican eyebrows. I was a preteen in the late 2000s, and I received unsolicited comments from my older siblings and classmates when I started getting unibrow hairs. I found tweezers and basically had spider-leg thin eyebrows through all of middle school and high school. It did not look good. I grew them back out in college — around the same time as all the people who'd looked down on me for my brows started making theirs look thicker with makeup.
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