Superficial beauty tips
16 September 2007, 12:33 am. View comments. Filed under Miscellaneous, Rants.
It must be an Asian thing. Because I don't see a lot of non-Asians doing it, and it must be all due to (Asian) guys liking it this way.
- Enlarge the eyes:
Hold the camera with your hand held up high, keep face relatively straight, no smile but lips slightly open and stare upwards with bulging eyes. You end up looking like anidiotinnocent little angel. - Kill the blemishes and whiten up:
Open your photo in Photoshop. Since you never discovered the Healing Brush Tool, airbrush over your countless bursting pimples and hairy moles. And oops your face is now a terrible blur, but don't panic. Duplicate the layer, do a lovely Gaussian Blur and set the Blend Mode to "Overlay". You end up withghastlybeautiful and dreamy. - "Decorate" your plain face:
This is when you get out your Photoshop maple-leaf brush and "spice up" your dead face. Alternatively, draw some sweet hearts and a little crown above your head. Make sure the colour of these decorations clash with your photo so they stand out! Oh look at themonsterumm... princess! - So what happens if you're still not cute enough?
Retake another photo with your tongue stuck out or lips puckered up. But remember girls, must hold your camera up high!
Sarcasm aside, all these different girls end up looking exactly the same in their photos. When you meet one of them in real life, the contrast between her photo and person now becomes superficial ugliness. Because the truth is, her eyes aren't that big, her skin isn't that blemish-free, her face is only as plain as they really are and you can't expect her to stick her tongue out and pucker up her lips the whole time.
They just killed the whole natural beauty thing. But even unprocessed ancient black-and-white photography managed to preserve my beauty:
That's what you call big eyes, blemish-free, cute face and most important of all—natural beauty.
Call me jealous for being too lazy to do make-up and Photoshop my face, but I'd much rather spend my money on food and contribute my time to drawing more appealing works of art.
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I would probably look more intimidating if I didn't have big brown eyes.
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I'm personally not fond of the "intimidating" looking down at the camera from a higher angle look... helloooo nostrils!
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http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/2812/leixk0.gif
That's what my Chinese name looks like. It looks pretty messy because I was using the pencil in Photoshop, but you get the outline. I'm pretty sure it means strong though, since that's what everyone has been telling me. Either that, or I'm being brainwashed...
A lot of my friends who have Myspace's are doing the whole 'gaussian blur' thing as well. Another thing that they do is that the make their picture all pop-artesque. It looks nice... until everyone else starts doing it as well. -
I have seen plenty of those pictures it's easy to tell when they have been photoshopped. I don't mind people who use their own photo for making artsy stuff but at profile pages and such where they wish to give us the impression that they actually look like that is pathetic.
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Hm. It really doesn't bother me at all; mainly because it's even more amusing when you meet them!
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Aww...the baby pic is adorable. Women have always been insecure about their looks. Personally I have always thought that it was stupid, but I am not like most women. I have never wore makeup unless I was going to a very fancy event or if I was taking a picture and my face was horrible broke out and I was just healing from being sick. Even when I wore makeup I never piled it on. No one ever could tell when I wore makeup unless they were within inches of my face. My view of makeup is that it is there to accent the face not make it look entirely different.
As for the computer generated fixing of the images, I find it very funny. All I ever do with my images is add image brushes (scroll, swirls, etc.) or make the images smaller.
I have always found Asian women to be very beautiful. The shape & color of their eyes always intrigued me. When I was little I always wished I had the almond shaped eyes and the brown colored eyes of the Asian women. It wasn't until I was about seven that I realized that I wasn't ever going to get that look. I was forever going to have my Irish round green eyes.
I do think it is sad that women have to still be insecure about their looks. But then it isn't completely the women's fault. Some is but not all of it. -
*hides in shame* I'm assuming you wouldn't want to know how much I spent taking pictures of my charming self. The only reason I didn't try to edit them was because I have no idea how to use Photoshop for it
You're definitely a really cutie in that picture. No need for make up indeed :-) -
@Hev: Trade! I want Irish round green eyes I've always wanted green eyes but it wouldn't fit my Asian look.
@Vera: Hey taking photos is perfectly fine. I just don't like how they all come out looking exactly the same with the same pose. -
My friend showed me this scary Japanese thing to make their eyes larger. In involved poking your eye or something, it was scary x_x;
What a cute picture! Hahaha, I love the doodled-version, third eye, zomgz.
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All of the "ulzzang" netizens (beautiful face people) post pictures like that on their sites. They even photoshop their eyes bigger. The alien look is in, I guess. O.O
Natural beauty is overrated though because someone naturally beautiful isn't necessarily any more or less superficial or any more or less deserving of their beauty than an ugly person who primps a bit, you know? It's like... people who are born rich shouldn't look down on those who work for hard their money.
Regardless, your baby picture is adorable! You have the best eyes!
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Ha ha, I do pics like that. But, none of my friends know how to do any of that, so I still look cool.
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lmmfao! Your best blog post yet. I love it all, a masterpiece!
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Haha, I love this post. It's absolutely hilarious. What I "love" is that lip pucker look, I mean it always make girls look so beautiful and totally unfish-like.
You were such a gorgeous baby! Awww! -
Aww, you were an adorable baby! What happened? ;)
I find this post extremely funny as all my asian friends do it. One even tried to explain to me how she angles her face a certain way so it doesn't look too wide... -
@Kaylee: the baby grew up into an irresistible beauty.
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It's the ingredients for every myspace picture! Downpat.
You look so worried/terrified in your picture! -
I've actually seen lots of non-Asians do this...the ones with access to Photoshop, anyway...and the blondes who have figured it out *cough*. All the girls at my school who post 50 pictures on Facebook a day would probably love the Gaussian Blur overlay method if they ever found out about it.
Babies are always cute though. Would you believe that instead of cuting themselves up, people use kid pictures as their defaults on Facebook too? My boyfriend's roommate does that to good effect; you think he's cute until you find out he looks Neanderthalic in all of his other, more recent, photos.
Gah, I sound like a crazy Facebook addict now... -
Lolz, that's true.
I have to admit, I did attempt that look once, but it just did NOT work out for me, so I used a picture of me and my friends in a water fight, and everyone commented and said it looked really great and 'natural'.
I hate seeing the same style photo splashed across everyone's page, it's so...bleh. -
I was watching on Opera where the former MTV VJ (whose asian) came in to talk about how she use to open her eyes really big when she took pictures. She also went on to discuss about how she would create folds in her eye. It was very interesting.
Personally, I'm more in awe of someone who is confident about their natural beauty. What saddens and frustrates me is when you encounter those people who are beautiful (naturally) and just done see it themselves. -
well, i've seen plenty of those pictures in facebook. believe me, the time my friend spend perfecting a webcam shot with them glaring emo-like at a camera.
on the other hand, that picture of you: you look shocked n scared >
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I think everyone is a bit weary of posting photos of themselves online. In being a bit nervous about doing so, there's a tendency to "adjust" the photos so that they look better. I agree that the "adjusting" has gotten a bit out of hand, however.
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@Rilla: Ok you figure out how we are going to manage the trade & you can have my round green Irish eye & I will take your dark almond shaped eyes. I will really throw my other friends for a loop, lol. Just kidding, Rilla. Honestly, I think you are just fine. I wouldn't listen to the little boys & girls that rib you about your looks. They are just jealous.
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Thank you for your comment.
The font is called Jenny Pea Script. It's adorable, isn't it? -
True, the baby photo is the cutest after all =)
but then being vain is good too =p
and so far my face is kinda blemish free, so I don't do the 'healing' lol and people always think I've done something that made it this way, and the only answer I gave them is, I don't use cosmetics ;p -
Awww you were such an adorable natural beauty. I enjoyed reading this, its so true, I thought the "gaussian blur overlay" trend had died years ago but now I see it popping everywhere again.
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that ... edit of yours... really made you ... pretty ... ... ...
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You know, there's a reason why it's called "baby soft skin".