The 'Max Factor' Factor: A Brief but Disturbing look at Dolls, Self-Loathing and the Awesome 'Power of Make-up' as a De-Racializing Agent.

(photo by Reddit.com)

Yikes! Here's a sad, absurd, and fairly odd short blurb by writer Grace Gold on the increasingly common practice called ulzzang—a Korean word delicately translated as "to put on one's best face." I don't even know where to begin on this one, folks, so I'll leave it up to you!

Click here if you dare to read a bit about the Power and Practice of Asian ulzzang!

The Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog What-NOT-to-Buy-for-Christmas! Item Uno: Josefina from AMERICAN GIRL

Of course, I have treated with the phenomena of marketed ersatz Mexicans before in Tex[t]-Mex:

Latina Barbies, Cheap at Half the Price

Thanks to our Boston reporter, Daphne Strassmann, for the link--hit Barbie for the skinny.