THE FACE

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1. hair

   (I will talk more about the hairstyle in the next part, but it is also a part of the face so yeah~)
   Of course (if you're familiar with Kpop) you know that there are idols with other, brighter hair colors, but generally the darker you're hair, the more Korean-like you will look, at least this is what I think.
   I just find that dark or black hair does meet with the core of a typical ulzzang appearance more than colorful hair. Dark hair also enhances your face and makes it appear whiter.
   
   As I said, you can go for blonde, etc (remember you can neglect a few things), but if you're unsure about the success of your transformation, etc, black is the best color.
   If you absolutely want to dye, but not blonde, the more decent and darker the color you chose, the better it is. That is because blonde/ bright brown hair does dilute your apperance into the Japanese direction or into something undefined pretty fast and before you look quite ulzzang-ish I think it's to risky to be fancy schmancy with hair colors.
   
   I also think that nearly all ulzzangs still have black hair.
   

2. Shape

   When talking about the things that Koreans and Korean wanna-bes alike crave for the most one must mention v-line or egg-shape.
   It is maybe the most important and crucial point of the perfect face: both of these expression describe the ideal face shape which should be narrowing down towards the chin in a v-shaped contour. And many many plastic surgeries are done to bring the naturally squarish or round Asian face into a slimmer form.
   
   Why the v-line? As opposed to many other features it doesn't make you look younger, but actually older if anything. But a wide face gives a less elegant, less feminine and less delicate air. It appears to be more masculine and tough and just looks rougher than a petite face.

3. Complexion

   Koreans are extremely obsessed about natural, clean, bright, glowy skin. You haven't seen an ulzzang with pimples, redness, etc right?
   Blemish-free and particularly white skin have been playing a big role in the ulzzang scene for a long time. Even among small children it can happen that on is bullied by the other for being dark skinned. So it's no wonder that most idols are very fair, too. Those who are more tanned, like Hyori, are not really judged with the same standard as other, typical K-pop stars.
   
   Lately, a big trend is the dewy complexion, very glowy, almost to the point when it looks as if you're sweating.

4. Forehead

   Asians all more or less want to looks cute (Koreans not as much as Japanese).
   And what could be cuter than a high and outwards curved forehead?
   
   Ever looked at babies?
   Everything about them is more round, the whole features of their head, etc.
   Especially their forehead!
   It's very high and curved. It should also be not wide, but also getting more narrow towards the hairline.
   This is actually an underrated but very crucial part of a beautiful ulzzang face.

5. eyebrows

   I think one of the most important part of your face are the eyebrows. Many people tend to think that the eyes are the most important part or that lips play a very big role in your appearance, but they never think about the eyebrows.
   That is wrong, and many beauty gurus seem to agree with me as you almost never see them without having done their eyebrows, even in make-up tutorials, where they start with a bare face.
   Asians tend to have very sparse eyebrows which make us appear tired and harsh somehow and less feminine.
   
   The shape of the eyebrows also contributes a lot to your look. A set of straight and fuller eyebrows like the Korean variant creates a more girly, sophisticated and youthful look than arched, thinner eyebrows like Angeline Jolie's.
   
   So ulzzangs have rather straight to absolutely straight eyebrows with no arch, they only go downwards towards the end of the eye.
   The hairs near the nose are often teased towards the nose and are less dense than at the end.
   
   
   Here's a comparison of Western and Korean eyebrows done by the awesome QiuQiu of Bon QiuQiu:
   
   
   

   Kate Moss

   
   
   
   

   Megan Fox

   with cheek fillers
   see how the thin and arched eyebrows make her look very sexy an fierce while the Korean eyebrows just make her look innocent and easy to cheat on Haha

   
   
   
   

   Angeline Jolie

   with nose-job (to get her the nicely curved Korea nose) and fat-grafting on forehead, under cheekbones and chin.
   it doesn't really suit her, but at second glance she looks younger after the fat-grafting and with the eyebrows and the nose is pure win!

   
   
   On to some Asian examples:
   
   
   

   Sammi Cheng

   with botox/ V-Line jaw surgery and chin implant

   
   
   
   

   Stefanie Sun

   with fat-grafting, filled off zygoma (cheekbone reduction on the left) and chin job

   
   
   
   

   Stefanie Sun

   with fat grafting and chin job

   
   
   
   

   Faye Wong

   V-Line jaw contouring and zygoma filed off and a nose job and fat-grafting

   
   
   As you can see it makes quite difference whether your face is very angular or smooth. An angular face makes you look older and more masculine, while a smooth and less bony face is more youthful (compare with how babies look). That is also why people get fillers at areas where the face is sunken in to level it with protruding areas.

6. eyes

   1. Shape

      The are not especially big or round.
      Instead I have the feeling that Koreans seem to like longer eyes (thus their eye make-up will always have a winged eyeline).
      Of course there are some ulzzangs, who are more baby-ish than others. Their eyes are often rounder, but generally ulzzangs sport long eyes which are sometimes slanted downwards to create the puppy look.

   2. Double Eyelids

      Of course double eyelids.
      And here, there are different kinds of double eyelids.
      The nicest one is when the skin fold (that forms the double eyelid wtf... dunno how it's called) is quite far away from the eye and doesn't merge with the end of your lids at the inner corner of your eye, i.e. parallel double eyelids (not tapered).
      
      There are of course idols (not so much ulzzangs though, correct me if I'm wrong) who are still popular although they don't have double eyelids, like CL.
      Without wanting to demoralize anyone, I wouldn't say that they are as respected as say Girls' Generation for their beauty, but they are rather famous for their non-compliant-ness, not to say ugliness. They will always be the girls who is pretty, although she has a monolid and not the girl, who is pretty. Koreans or Asians are rather radical in their thinking so anything that is not 100% like the best is hardly accepted by the majority; i.e. the Asian parent that will only accept 1,0 grade and not 1,1.

   3. Lashes

      All Asians are somehow crazy over lashes (ever noticed that retarded movement of girl groups where they strike their imaginary lashes? this dance move is the Made in Korea for sure), it's because we don't have any!
      And all other races have like super duper thick long lashes!
      
      
      Still, and this is sort of important to me, Koreans emphasize the natural, less dramatic beauty as opposed to Japanese. So they don't apply crazy thick fake lashes like gyarus, but if they wear fake ones they still look very natural.
      As mentioned before, they like it pure and natural.

   4. Colour

      Although colour contact lenses become more and more popular these days, most ulzzang seem to stick with their natural eye color which is either dark brown or black.
      If they or idols wear coloured ones it's mostly only for special occasions, such as photo shootings or performances, so I don't think it's really a Korean thing to wear blue circle lenses, etc.

   5. Aegyo sal

      Koreans naturally have remarkable puffy undereyes, this part below your eyes is called aegyo sal or love band. If you haven't notice yet, just watch whatever MV you want. Men as women have these, especially when they smile.
      
      Many people who are not so familiar with the topic still seem to confuse them with eyebags/ dark circles or call aegyo sal eyebags, but these two are completely different things.
      Eyebags are often saggy and can be very big, they also have another colour than the rest of your facial skin, mostly they are darker thus looking kind of unhealthy.
      Aegyo sal are smaller and right below your lashline. They don't have any discolouration at all.
      
      
      So why are they so popular?
      Firstly, they act like a double eyelid below your eyes, so they enlarge the eyes optically.
      And they make your face appear cuter and more childish and friendly, especially when you smile.

7. cheeks

   While in Western cultures high and defined cheekbones are very desirable it is not so in Korea. I have explained that while talking about the eyebrows, but once again, the more bone structure appears in your face, the older you will look as only grown up people have very defined and angular faces not young ones.
   Also according to Disney a triangular face (i.e. very protruding cheekbones) make you look like a villain.
   
   So Korean cheeks are full, but not in a way that they make your face wider, they are just not sunken-in.
   
   

   Disney Villains and their cheek bones

8. nose

   Thin, Sharp, Small.
   High too, but not too much (as Western people).
   Koreans have very harmonic noses, that means the height, angle, curve, etc of the nose look very coherent with their face
   
   Asians have rather big, flat, fleshy, mushroom-ish noses, so like with the V-shape, they want the opposite of what they have.
   

That's it.


In my opinion, the most important parts about the face are:
the complexion.
the V-shape (not so important I think, because you face can still looks slim if it's not like a V, but since Koreans are so fanatic about it)
the eyebrows
the nose



Other parts like brows, forehead, and even eyes is not that important.
You might think that you need double eyelids, but they are easily to cheat and you can easily use make-up to make them appear bigger!