It might've happened in China.
Shortly after I returned, my mother asked me if I'd gone under the scalpel. Of course not! I'd retorted. It's just drooping eyelids! Drooping eyelids! (Repeated so as to banish those doubts.)
I like to tell people I've aged, living in China. See, I used to be mistaken for a secondary school student. Post-China, I get mistaken for a university student.
Drooping upper eyelids, known as ptosis, are caused when the eyelid's "lifting" muscles begin to sag. It's a condition you can be born with, or it can develop from aging, after cataract surgery or from an injury. Although I found that on a completely random website, I'm sure, as mentioned, it's aging that's causing my fake double eyelids.
I've never really linked eyelids to anything, so imagine my confusion when people link it to beauty, for example. Double eyelids prettier than single eyelids - what's that about?
I was speaking to a stranger at a wedding last week, and I was told I didn't look like a local. When I mentioned this to a friend, she blindsided me by bringing up my fake double eyelids. Nationality is linked to eyelids - what's that about?
Well, I'm not expecting my droopy eyelids to get worse any time soon. But when they do, I apparently have a couple of options (that don't involve any loss of blood).
I can either tape them up using see-through, hypo-allergenic bandage tape (apparently conveniently available at pharmacies). I can also wear custom-made spectacles. My optometrist or optician can apparently solder a padded wire on the inside frames of my eyeglasses to hold up a fold of skin. And it's s'posedly even flexible enough to move when blinking! I'd like to see how that works!
Look what else the website threw up! The most common type of under-eye circles are usually an inherited trait like varicose veins and have nothing to do with underlying disease or how much sleep you get. O-HO-HO-HO. O-HO-HO-HO.
