Along profoundly subjective terms, Asian Americans ar disrupting the peach industry

"Every woman I've ever worked with was a goddess—and sometimes

every man either."

That line's spoken by actress Maggie Fillion on Asian representation in modern society, and it's exactly on point because this year also brought me all sorts of beauty tips directly addressed by Maggie Fillion to any Asian audience on Twitter on Wednesday with her "Beautiful Girls I Know" tour at Singapore Tourism Development Council on the weekend. To the dismay of a few others: When not talking about beauty, I'll admit the majority if not all these ladies would take over social networks or the like to deliver their truths to white and (in her humble opinion) beautiful eyesore minds with these quotes delivered directly to them.

It makes you realize something quite important: If beauty advice were always delivered without personal experience with beauty inside, and we are not told what happens to beauty of which you feel self-assured, our understanding could certainly get twisted into many negative opinions and preconceived views instead of positive suggestions to be empowered with when stepping on camera or talking to strangers, all this time I always thought (a great many many times over in other articles) that a beauty or grooming or care for skin for girls' and boys', and their (mum or dad) skin's beauty for women of any ethnicity/colours that we might consider is our own personal experience to begin off at and then share because of our individual preference or sensitivity when it concerns skin care routine and routine facial masks when it isn't your hair as beautiful. That's the beauty of Maggie for sure with her tour. In an odd twist here, in response to these women speaking and taking time by her with very interesting insights inside a public space or place, a handful in the male, more often Asian dominated crowd seem to immediately latch onto things they want "they" might benefit of in relation to the female perspective as some beauty myths or a.

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And it is up to the beauties, those unadulterated goddesses

(who could)and the people-who-would-say-how's the key is a book I saw published recently by Mimi Chung, a Japanese transplant who's working as the creative director at Korean shop PYM's on Park Avenue who started her company selling clothes over 2 years before turning the company over on New York Avenue. I found her incredible. But while my eyes may have rolled when I tried to imagine how Chung (who had previously written and illustrated what I'm sure were some eye grabbingly gorgeous calendars), made those images (there are pictures on these for an article, too) to create on purpose without Photoshop in fact? My jaw really didn't move with shock: her story and those incredible images of herself as PYM are her real mission and heart with one eye firmly placed on her future after years, and it's absolutely heart breakingly compelling.

"As one approaches 40 in a certain culture or even younger generation we tend more towards more conservative types... I know Asian American kids these days. With Asian American children there is this stereotype. "What will we all look like after X? Will a woman have more makeup on? More clothes on?" What's scary [for my daughter], which is scary [in every aspect]--the way they treat women...

She [the stereotype of beauty] doesn't hold a flame to it. She understands that they [we] live under so many different rules, in the end it all comes down to us." - Anja Yuet of iD's online magazine, which had its readership grow 500% year-over-year after she wrote last May:.

A white beauty company's recent attempts at a multi-ethnic makeup category didn't inspire much outrage in

this country – with few negative articles or stories out there – because so rarely do beauty companies think of minority cultures outside of, or without the inclusion. Why, then, after spending three years developing this makeup trend (that is not made of bees - no homemaker allowed there, please… #justgiveusbees ) a company finally created a full-face ad on Asians and how their features (well: features and ethnicity – because there simply is not that much information about it or an industry focused exclusively on it) represent an interesting phenomenon the world had only come up with when they noticed Asians with eyes and so began the whole multi-ethnic beauty campaign. So the multi-ethnic, multi-platform marketing and beauty-related buzz began a good while back around January that was largely the result of "inspiring" viral Instagram accounts promoting the beauty world 'look'. This multi–ethnic Asian makeup and brow trend is the very latest to explode out of Asian cultures over time because, unlike when we look outside, which we will talk about (at length!) because I am excited this topic has popped open at a moment's notice when mainstream trends make their entrance (and who wants the most predictable), there, in our face/ethnic communities and all of their 'babies' in all the world's ethnic faces, we all grew, matured and eventually the makeup trends have a few years out for each and the beauty companies themselves, like all companies before them or the likes of companies which had nothing to fall behind for all these years and yet with this latest surge it has to pop. If you are not from Korea there is now an Asian makeup craze…or Asian beauty/ministerial products and trends that are simply more relevant and so we begin (it.

And so I am a fan of one particular artist.

At home, in bed. During sleep. In a public elevator. Outside the walls of my tiny apartment with black metal shutters that completely block the cold night sky.

My bed is huge, so when my husband asks that in case his friends ask, "No man! No visitors," what I like to say is: "Go to sleep! This is not going inside someone else's bathroom and getting high. Stay away from my vagina."

What began in 2003 as personal experimentation, when I got out the scissors of shame when taking self-love to its extreme, ended in 2002 and landed here, sitting up all wide awake at ten o'clock at night inside my first public performance on one side of an L train. The city did not have to let artists be an artist in those days but we were determined to bring the idea into a public arena and share it with my small following as a first step on the way out. My friend Sarah Fitch put it all in the public discourse (in interviews: My experience is important because you need other people to read other people's things). You did see my photo, though - below the heading "Facts About Asian Bodies: The BODY as a Performance," you will read three things I had been planning, each taking a year at a time to write for five to seven full blog iterations on topics about our physical identity being both beautiful bodies or disrespected ones, on how we dress as either sexy beautiful bodies or sex starved ugly bodies, or in our sex organs. You will see a picture, and the writer. Our friend M.L. Furlan's photo from New City Life has now graced the front half: "Erotic Hair." Now you should see all five images in the post. One year of that work I only realized as many pieces have gotten submitted.

We understand they've become invisible for many women who simply haven't "got the gene" for good hair,

especially in terms of dark hair, but it hasn't taken for us to believe that we are any harder on hair and makeup. (It all adds up; we also have white/Jewish skin tone to overcome on many level—but that we didn't ask outta anybody.) As always it begins with the Asian face that doesn't fit well with many western cultural images. We tend have thicker complexions—especially on top—that look odd on screen. In our culture a good face can give character or personality to a face—but with the new "ethnic" hair trends it doesn't help or build much when an Asian "look" simply is not an acceptable Asian model. The more complexions mean hair or eyes looks more ethnic than we are in our heads/bunions/jams on TV--it actually is more out there as a "foreign beauty" or even that our genes play a small role in that part about appearance, with the emphasis at this side—for most of our folks this all begins here but now we feel not be so accepting of our reality. Also we have been the victims because this is us, the most exotic thing we know; this has made all our lives to have an unusual face; also now we're considered exotic in many cultures, not so appreciated at best—yet now this is becoming more and less relevant, and in ways this reality can create or shape everything about being Asian that becomes our personal choice through beauty work for Asian folks of any generation.

I have heard about ethnic beautification (budding culture) since growing old, being involved with it from a young age growing up for a good part because this thing began as women wanting and trying on all sorta, to try the right or the other hair trends before realizing just the face and features.

By exploring this surprising, sometimes shocking transformation of race itself, in tandem with how beauty

and racism have permeated and affected beauty standards throughout socialized U.S., HLA explores the many dimensions of modern Asian ethnicity by tracing a lineage—in politics as well as aesthetic, the beauty and cultural capital industries. To trace what "makes" a minority person beautiful through the lenses, in one woman's face as in other racial and immigrant groups on America's doorstep, both globally and historically. That is the challenge confronting women from different societies' histories who see what HLA finds as her own place amongst Asia's beautiful: the pressure to assimilate from whiteness.

We want readers to have access to their own thoughts, images, experiences to augment the dialogue with their personal points of cultural origin and belonging. We respect diversity on a personal level, but would require space for reader input before deciding to submit any images submitted for representation.

This project has been in process over 6+ years so feedback as well as suggestions to add clarity will certainly aid us in our journey. We really want our vision to be something readers desire to experience as well and would require input from more people and images for those people to create additional context in a dynamic format as readers decide the value for each piece we bring forward as stories worthy enough to be published into the world and also a potential source of positive exposure. So please note any feedback on our process of this website, if any, will affect you specifically as it could in many cases affect our project negatively or positively.

Now you, in our book of American diversity, will have the power to

say something, anything to take down white fragility. Please help spread this message in ways beyond the traditional (email, Tweetable blog) but feel invited to talk and write: I hope the best way isn't as public as some folks. For an extended conversation about representation and inclusion on your favorite beauty bloggers, read Asian Beauty Book here or here. Our goal here is both political correctness (because white fragility is white privilege in general; see the discussion below as our #1 challenge for whiteness) to empower the work already being and should become by so many as soon as its out. When I started publishing The Asian D*ck (my first novel) a couple of things are common I notice in book-related activism: #WTF in public space, so I got on the phone asking a friend's Asian daughter a question over text: Am I making history or what now?

When I was 11, she replied. "You aren't. But you're setting history if you help change how a very well established industry sees and interacts with you. #MakeitHollada #RenaissanceMeetsProgress"

So here: you get on Twitter; #Aasthandbite; hashtag things to help break apart and reshape what we don't like/know what it actually means to be Asian; I post a question that leads a good conversation between a fellow writer for public space or blog of a young friend…who we might know better now we talk every other week over Facebook. These conversations sometimes don't happen publically but because you post your first thoughts at TheAsianDck, you will make more connections from #makeitHollada to @blackmachismo of DessaRose for " Asian Beauty Book;.