Self-beautification
Friday, January 4, 2008,4:00 PM
Seems like ladies have always wanted to look pretty. Each culture has their own set of ideals for beauty, the current one in Asia being the ‘big-eye’ look. How do you do it? Enlarge your eyes and puff your cheeks, and do a ‘V’ with your fingers.
Classic.
And there’s surgery,
plastic surgery. Its main purpose would more likely be to help those who aren’t so fortunate- those born not having some features or needing a new face due to horrible burns, etc. There are all those ladies going under the knife, celebrities and others that can’t accept the fact that they are aging. So what, everyone does. It makes them look artificial- some look good but have complications after their surgery.
Which reminds me of the Korean movie, ‘
200 pounds beauty.’ That’s the director poking fun at Korean ladies who’ve gone under the knife and the different treatment that ladies get, depending whether they are pretty or not.
Not everyone has the money to go under the knife, there are cheaper alternatives,
MAKEUP. And that brings us to the main idea of this post:
what makeup can do nowadays.
okay. pictures of two ladies. here's the scoop: they are the
same person,
before and
after makeup. apparently this is what happened.
A Mainland Chinese girl Lala, sparked a heated debate after she posted pictures of herself before and after applying makeup. Some even questioned if she had photoshopped the pictures. Lala, in a fit of anger, decided to document the process to prove herself as a real internet beauty.
Because of the stark differences between Lala's before and after pictures, some people even speculated that she had used her "twin brother's" picture for the 'before' picture. On the other hand, some have shown support, stating that girls can use makeup to transform themselves.
Comparing the two photos, Lala stated that she used double-eyelid stickers, iris-enlarging contacts, false lashes to open her eyes and highlights on her nose and chin...
here's the full article, but it's in chinese. scroll down to view the pictures of the process.
we ladies cannot deny that we all quest for beauty, but obviously not only external beauty matters, the inside matters too.
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