| | First Post & Ulzzang | | Hey ladies,
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Ulzzang is a Korean word that means ”best face”, and the term is used to describe people who have become popular for their appearances. The ulzzang craze started in South Korea, where some of the most famous ulzzangs can earn celebrity status.
Many ulzzang wannabes post their pictures on websites, where contests are often held to pick the prettiest faces. While many of these people are natural beauties, many contestants also photoshop their pictures and wear tons of makeup. As a result, some of them do not look anything like their pictures in real life.
Here is a Link of some before/after ulzzang transformations. As you can tell, the changes are quite obvious.
I also found the following thread on Soompi and thought I'd repost it here (quite shocking). These are NOT pictures of me lol.
Tutorial: How To Achieve The Ulzzang Look
~Here's the secret to look like an Ulzzang~
You'll need the following (colors were not specified)
MAC e/s, liquid foundation, and pressed powder
Anna Sui liquid e/l
L'Oreal mascara
Lip gloss
Falsies
Eyelid glue
(Girl in the pictures claims she didn't photoshop her after pictures, but she must've done something to make her chin look so pointy...)
Before:
Instructions:
1. Circle lens + eyelid glue
  
2. Apply liquid foundation
 
3. Glue on falsies and apply mascara
4. Line the lower lashline with liquid e/l
  
5. Apply e/s
a) Brighten up the entire eyelid (between the brow and the eyelashes) using the white shadow.
b) Apply the black shadow as seen in the pic
c) Put on some gloss
AND TADA ~YOU'RE NOW AN ULZZANG~
Posted at 10:21pm on Sun, Jan 20, 2008 - 67 comments - 174520 views -  Message this member
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| Amaaaaaazing! But I also don’t believe that she didn’t photoshop those pictures. I don’t know how else she could have achieved those lighting effects. Those same lighting effects that conceal the broadness of her nose, for example. Plus, I doubt that the sepia tone was not done by photoshop. |
| Smack me, I’m really jonesing for those circle lenses! |
she looks great in the AFTER pictures... but shes got that Anime look in her eyes.. hahah well of course its the eyelid glue..
but for some reason.. the before pictures.. i know she got some waxing done.. lol (sorry to be rude)..and maybe a facial and some photoshoping..
but they look nothing like her.. she must love puttin makeup on though!
but it reminds me of the fresh prince episode where she takes off her lashes and nails.. hahah .. flashback 80’s |
| i agree with lypiphera. those have gotta be photoshopped to at least adjust the contrast/brightness level. the circle lenses look really freaky without the fake lashes. but the transformation is very impressive. i’d say it doesn’t even look like the same person at all! |
this scares me . . but she does look cute in the after pics
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That’s really scary... The fact that people are so concerned about physical appearances and are superficial enough to start such a craze.
Thanks for sharing though (I guess... haha.) You learn something new everyday. |
| And she MUST have photoshopped. |
| ...i actually don’t like the end result very much.. her eyes just became soo huge.. = / I think she would have been fine without the eye-changing (the falsies were nice though). But wow.. that is a huge before and after. the power of makeup.. |
 | 11:46pm, Jan 20 2008 by Yoshi (Banned):
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Mmmm my phone has a sepia option for pictures as well as black and white. My cell pictures always (almost) turn out super contrasty with crazy lighting hence why everyone wants me to take their picture with my phone. I’ve stopped using my phone as much on my entries for that very reason. I have worked on people and really, it can be a 1000% transformation. I wouldn’t mind looking like that though I would obviously do my make-up much less cute and more punky. I’ve seen this story up on Taobao as well along with tonnes of other people and really, they girls can look fantastic! I envy ’em  Cheers |
| 11:51pm, Jan 20 2008 by Yoshi (Banned):
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Geez i’m retarded I can’t type |
 | 12:01am, Jan 21 2008 by Tania:
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well not ’photoshopped’ probably implies that she hasn’t used the warp function/airbrushing to actually change her features. she clearly has changed the lighting and exposure of the photo, which does completely alter the viewer’s perception of her features, but isn’t the same as actually going into photoshop and changing her features.
but anyways... a) circle lenses scare the sh!t out of me because they make people look doll-like (aka dead), b) you can tell she’s raising her eyebrows to help expand her eyes and c) i just wonder about how much she must dislike her physical appearance on a day-to-day basis to warrant this drastic-and fake-transformation.
sigh. this stuff makes me want to forgo makeup altogether... but my undereye circles would make a baby cry. |
| there was no way she didn’t photoshop her picture. the shape of her face COMPLETELY changed! She started out with a ”square” shaped face and ended up with a ”V” shaped face. if you look at Step 1, her lips already changed from full lips to thinner lips and supposedly, all she did was eyelid glue and circle lens. |
 | 1:46am, Jan 21 2008 by FeiFei:
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That’s quite a dramatic transformation. The circle lenses alone make a huge difference, but it looks like she might be using the Barbie ones that make your eyes glassy and dead. I’m getting the lenses myself, but not necessarily to achieve the Ulzzang look. Anyway, she looks cute in the after photos, photoshop or not. I just wouldn’t want to wake up next to her when all that comes off. Oh the mustachioed horror! |
Mustachioed... ROFLMAO...
I didn’t even realize that about her lips... I just realized what she looks like with the circle lens before she put the lashes and mascara on... a gerbil! I’m thinking of experimenting with circle lenses too... but the barbie ones would probably leave no whites in my eyes.  One of the more natural ones, maybe... to make my eye color darker. |
 | 2:58am, Jan 21 2008 by K.k.:
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wowww that is crazy. |
| she really does look like some cartoon character. Could be cute but I hell wouldn’t go through daily life looking like that |
| arggh! she’s cute and all, but those poses freak the hell out of me. especially the the whole tight-lipped,pointed pixie chin, glassy-eyed stare. i guess it’ll look kool temporaily, but permanently....yikes! its kinda like the cute version of a emo pose. |
| 7:12am, Jan 21 2008 by Yoshi (Banned):
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Lypiphera, I agree. I don’t think she has much whites to her eyes if she wasn’t posing and stretching her eyes open that much more. |
whoa this is CRAZYY!! Incredible what makeup and some contacts (and lighting effects in photoshop OR lighting effects in cell phones as yoshi has mentioned) can do. I think it would have been better if that girl didn’t try to open her eyes so wide--it looks CREEPYYY when she does that. If she relaxed her eyes, even with all that stuff on her, I’m sure the pictures wouldn’t look as scary.
and i agree with fei in that, I have to admit, she does look cuter in her after pictures, even if it does have some creepiness to it. maybe if that girl didn’t choose such HUGE contacts, and opted for a medium instead of large, perhaps her appearance would at least look slightly more realistic, or bearable. |
 | 9:25am, Jan 21 2008 by Yumeko:
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I’ve seen the post on other Chinese sites before and the posts are always to the idea of how different a person looks like after makeup application, but that’s a given. On the one hand it’s kind scary to see what ppl are willing to do to look pretty. one the other hand it’d freak me out to have someone looking like that to walk down the street. I’d prob scream. But then, so many Asian, esp those from Korean, China and Japan try so hard to look whiter and ”cute” in the sense of a Barbie. |
 | 9:41am, Jan 21 2008 by Luna:
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I actually quite like the end result. Though, it might look good in pictures but I wonder what it looks like in real life. Since she obviously must have caked on so much make up I’d probably be scared to death :p LOL |
| hmm. i dunno, i thought she looked really cute, kinda like japanese anime, which i loooove! i don’t have ”asian” eyes, but i reeeally want a pair of circle lenses now ’cuz i wanna look like a shark! *giggles wickedly* |
I agree with Revengeofthemisfit... it’s cute emo, Asian-style!
I don’t know about anyone else, but dear lord, the eyes freaked the crap out of me! I keep scrolling back up to make sure that its the same person!
Kudos for the transformation, I suppose. But why would you wanna walk around like that?
You’d get a net thrown over you, then you’d be put into a van where they’d take you to a factory, stuff you in a pink cardboard box with a clear plastic window and sell you for $29.99 as the new Asian Barbie doll *shudders* my worst nightmare |
Frick, seeing this first thing in the morning freaks the HELL out of me. It’s not that I don’t like either the before or after but that fake pucker of the lips and the ridiculously large iris just creeps me out when I’m only half awake.
Otherwise, cool transformation! Too bad all the makeup and circle-lensing in the world won’t make her look anything like that picture in real life.
I do believe her if she says these pictures weren’t photoshopped, though. She’s either using her webcam or her camera phone and the settings of either can easily have been rendered to heighten the contrast and lighting. You should see some of the pictures I took on my friends’ phones in Korea. I look COMPLETELY different. To make the chin pointy, all she had to do was raise the camera angle, lower her own chin and cover her jaws w/her hair. Girl’s a pro.
BTW I’m totally jealous of her skin omg. |
i dunno if i’m the only one who thinks she looks CREEPY AS HELL.
ughh, i really don’t understand asian culture sometimes. |
My god. Ulzzangs alone must keep the entire eyelid glue industry afloat.
It bothers me how ulzzangs all have that same cookie cutter look though - ultra-huge eyes, tiny pointy chin, non-existant nose... it’s like they base their entire standard of beauty on animated characters drawn by sexually repressed men.
(Also, this is really weird, but the girl you have posted looks exactly like one of my male friends, if he were in drag. It’s scary to imagine him ”transforming” himself into an ulzzang. Ugh!”
Gong Li is considered to be one of the most beautiful women in the world, and she certainly doesn’t look like an ulzzang... I think she’d lose her exotic, graceful, and dare I say, mature appeal if she did. |
| i hate girls who dont act like who they are. i definitely do not like girls who act all cute and stuff. it is so fake. i believe that inner beauty counts the most. if ur inner beauty is beautiful it will definitely show. nothing fake about that. and this girl... ew.. she cant look like that after.. im very very surprised... but very impressed with the photoshop skills.. O.O |
OMG! I usually don’t say negative things but THOSE PHOTOS ARE REALLY SCARY!
I’m going to have nightmares tonight  |
that’s a really drastic transformation. hahahahha
her circle lenses looked scary in the beginning |
CHALLENGE! I think this would make a great challenge.  |
 | 7:33pm, Feb 21 2008 by Soi:
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i love the lashes...I can never find lashes that look like that...the ones I see are more.....evenly lengthed.. anyone know where i can get lashes like the ones on the pics? |
| I hate to say this but she is still not very good looking after the pictures are done...that is just my opinion...she looks far to alien and photoshopped. |
| 4:36am, Mar 18 2008 by Olive:
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I don’t understand the appeal of those creepy contacts....in my opnion she whould have looked pretty if she just wore some light make up and waxed her mustache lol... |
| WOW...what a transformation!!!! |
 | 11:31pm, Mar 19 2008 by Lee:
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circle lens..as in contacts..i never new these kind of contacts existed? Is it just me..hehehe
well whatever she did..trust me it was photoshoped cause i photoshop most photos..for better skin..brighter smile..i just wish i had the program shop that can me look slimer..hahahaha |
| THE ONLY WAY HER FACE SLIMED DOWN IS BY THE BANGS AND TAKING PICTURES AT AN ANGLE AND THE HAIR TO THE SIDE. IT DOESN’T TAKE A GENIUS TO FIGURE THAT OUT. BUT I THINK SHE’S CUTE. DESPITE THE TRANSFORMATION...ALL IN ALL IT’S SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT. |
Does the eye glue really work?? anyone know? and for how long? Just curious
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| Yeah, I would definitely hit the end result. That AP needs to be crushed... |
AMAZING !
i still believe she photoshopped them though . |
| Im speechless! Its such a unrealistic transformation. |
 | 1:26am, Jun 21 2008 by MSally:
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Wow, to me every from china/hk girl that try to make themself look ’cute, kawaii, Ulzzang’ looks nearly the same. How did you get those photos step by step if the girl said she didnt photoshoped?
ugh, for a sec I thought she’s a man or something.. |
>.< I JEALOUS OF HER AFTER!!! I dont wanna undergo all that makeup
and eyelid glue to end up looking FAKE!! I dont know about you girls, but
looking natural is a key thing for me. Darn those people who look like that
naturally!! >.< (Im just kidding, Im a lover, not a hater) I really like that last
picture with her and the sunglasses my self-esteem has gone down now DX
..............i DO want her eyes though....but maybe a little bit more...realistic???
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her pupils looks way to big for a normal human being..
and the eyelid glue makes her eye look like crocodile eyes... in a really triangular shape... i think simple and normal is beautiful i mean after all, u DO take that make up and contacts off right??? why lie to everyone? |
| heh heh...this totally threw me off!!!! |
i think its a different girl because her face looks way different!
face shape |
...... thats one ugly girl in the before pic
it really looks like a guy |
 she actually did all of that with make up>? are you serious?! :S:S!!!
I’m so lost...her eyes look massive after that..how is that possible.. |
OMIGOSH! what’s with all that??? She’s cute though,,in after photo.
but heyy, can you really open your eyes THAT BIG even after you glued on your lid??
it looks somewhat scary and unatural for me. |
| i still dont believe that the before and after pics are the same person.. i dont believe! lolz... neway, great transformation.. |
| Umm Would any of you know what kind of foundation she use? PLEASE REPLY |
It’s an interesting ”transformation”, but I don’t necessarily believe that she did or did NOT use Photoshop. Meaning, that she might have used it to adjust picture resolution and light, but I don’t think she has altered her features.
Her lips may look thinner because she has them pursed. I know people who do it, though it makes me laugh when they can’t do it consistently throughout the day and they get frustrated because they don’t think they’re pretty unless.
Also, I believe she probably used her hair to her advantage and found poses that slimmed the look of her square face shape.
I like the after pictures and I don’t think I would necessarily scream if I saw her on the street, though I would stare at her for a while. Seriously, I wanna see Eyelid glue in action! Can she blink?! xD |
| Very cute. The lighting changed her nose though, and cleared her blemishes and dark circles. She is raising her eyerows, making her eyes look bigger as well as the glue and falsies. |
| And it isn’t possible for her to be the same person. Her chin is too different. It’s not possible to change that. |
| 2:57pm, Mar 7 2009 by Nomad:
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you can change the chin with angles though . . . also i think the before picture is from when she was younger . . . (btw shaving off that mustache really helped )
mycirclelens.com for circle lens! |
oh my goshers!!!
thats crazy! in a good way! i mean yeah its a bit scary but
wow instant beauty all the way
and i though i was bad haha =)
i love it though! |
| Asian people should stop posting all these tutorials on eye glue/circle lens. It makes non-asian people look down on us and think that we are not naturally beautiful. |
I would like to speak a point here plz! Like the first and second picture under ”Instructions”, you could tell it’s 2 different person.
Diffences” 1. eyebrown thickness
2. darkeye circles
3. shape of the nose
4.shape of the face
5. colour/ kind of shower cap
6. Lip size
*She might have plucked her eyebrowns, put on make-up(Oooo the power of make-up>.<or even photoshopped it...
Please i don’t mean to be mean or anything, just saying what i think... |
| that gurL reaLLy freakin me ouT. hoow coomee??? haizz... |
| She could of lost weight?!?!? |
| 1:53am, Jul 12 2009 by Wtfguy:
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Before photo: chubby cheeks
After photo: cheek bones
Two different people, unless the same person has really good photoshop skills and made her face slimmer.
re #60: I don’t think she ”lost weight” and decided to post two different pictures on two different days. Wouldn’t the point of this ”makeup magic” thing be to show a before and after of the same person with the same face? It seems misleading to post a chubbier before photo and a slimmer after photo when you want to show off the effects of makeup. |
well...if i was a guy...looking for a real asian girl
this would terrify me XD
a little mascara/makeup clothes and a hair cut is one thing
circle lenses eyelid glue and plastic surgery is another (but each to their own)
i hope we asians learn to accept ourselves the way we are so that our beauty is natural and beautiful |
| It is photoshop!!!!!!!!! in the after picture (where she does the peace sign) there is a dent in the cheekbone if you look closely.! |
| i bought geo contacts or what they call big circle lens!!!! it really give a shimmering effect on the eyes!!!!! but im a GUY not a girl and a filipno w/ white fair skin.... but its really good...!!! and i believe in natural beauty circle lens is like an accessory for me!!!.. and now i seLL circle lens in my college university and all of my clasmates wear circle lens BOYS AND GIRLS!!! |
| 10:28am, Dec 9 2009 by Tuan:
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As Korean man, I really scared to girls doing this. I don’t understand. She can’t going around pretending to be pretty because she really not. There are many beautiful Asian woman in this world and they do not have to put super huge lenses into her eyeballs. Who says that big eyes are more beautiful anyway? I hurts me to know that so many Asian (specially Koreans, and Japanese) believe that westerners are the standard of beauty. I believe it is mental illness. I’ve shown this to many of my friends here in U.S. and they all think it is unfortunate, that so many Asians are stricken with this ”body dysmorphia”, and they think that Asian woman is better for they’re exoticness. Why wanna look like white girl? You are more beautiful. |
u guys got it wrong. b/c person who post this forgot to mention about
where they got the pic(all those girls including the link that he or she put up looklike normalperson) n u also need style to become ulzzang, like need
great cloth n yes the make up n yes the photoshop.
the real ulzzang would never put up those kind of pictures.
again they are not the real korean ulzzang b/c i saw all the korean ulzzang in ulzzangs homepage. i think those pics up there is to help people with asian make up...... sorry if i said anything wrong |
 | 7:59am, Dec 26 2009 by Dust:
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wow!! cool!!
how it can be like that?!!!
hahaha..... she change soooo much....
like it anyway.. |
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