Ulzzang, or “best face,” is a Korean subculture in which girls alter their looks digitally, with a shitload of makeup and by any other means available to them, to get that perfect anime look. In other words, a ulzzang girl is going to have behemoth, circular eyes, a teeny little nose and mouth, flawless, pale skin and an itty-bitty body dressed up in perfectly coordinated outfits.
So here’s how ulzzang eyes work: First, you slab a shitload of makeup all over your face. Then, you jam some contacts designed to make your irises look huge into your eyes. Never mind that the lenses will prevent oxygen from getting to your eyes, which will lead to frequent infections and, in a worst-case scenario, will actually poke a hole in your cornea and you’ll literally go blind—those big eyes of yours aren’t freakish at all!
Once your sight is in danger, it’s on to the eyelid glue, which is kind of a putty that you use to get rid of that pesky Asian “monolid.” Here’s an actual quote from a tutorial on applying the stuff:
“Apply eyelid glue or tape to the eyes and using the pusher stick, poke into the lid what shape you want until you get a crease.”
So, just to be clear, “pusher sticks” are a real thing, and what the sticks are pushing is the eye zone. And the people who are pushing their eyes with sticks are doing so because they want to look more like cartoon characters and less like human beings.
From Cracked