How We See Ourselves

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  I Joined the Cool Blonde Asian Club

  thecut - Diana Tsui

  Self/Reflection is a week of stories on the Cut about how we feel, versus how we look. The first time I tried to go blonde, I was 14 years old. …

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  New York Magazine

  

  Why I Don’t Leave the House Without Putting on Black Eye Shadow

  thecut - R.O. Kwon

  Self/Reflection is a week of stories on the Cut about how we feel, versus how we look. A little over a couple of years ago, I started wearing a lot …

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  New York Magazine

  

  5 Writers Answer: Do You Feel Like You Look Like Yourself?

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  Self/Reflection is a week of stories on the Cut about how we feel, versus how we look. It used to be that if you wanted to find out what you really …

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  New York Magazine

  

  What It’s Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman

  thecut - Alexa Tsoulis-Reay

  Self/Reflection is a week of stories on the Cut about how we feel, versus how we look. Here, a woman in her late 50s tells Alexa Tsoulis-Reay how her …

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  New York Magazine

  

  I Am a Prisoner of My Own Vanity

  thecut - Kim France

  Self/Reflection is a week of stories on the Cut about how we feel, versus how we look. I am not a beautiful woman. I am what you would call pretty but …

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  New York Magazine

  

  25 Celebrities on Their ‘Ugly Duckling’ Phase

  thecut - Carolyn Twersky

  Celebrities (“they’re just like us!”) grew up feeling insecure about how they looked, thanks to the adolescent joys of braces, buckteeth, big ears, …