Hi, this is Izzy, back again to give you guys a sweet piece of information about K-beauty and fashion. As you remember, last week, we talked about the secret of K-pop stars’ shining eyes. And during the post, there was a sentence that I mentioned that one of the reasons why K-pop stars look young and lively is a color contact lens. Today’s theme is a successive story of this sentence. I know that many foreign fans are curious about how K-pop or K-drama stars look so young and don’t age. So! Today I am going to disclose the top 5 secrets of K-beauty that’ll help you look younger and maintain that feature.
1. Moisturize your skin: use a facial mask
This might sound pretty obvious but you don’t know how crazy Koreans are to keep their skin moisturized. If you enter Olive Young, which is a Korean drugstore – for exact understanding, it’s a mixture of Sephora and Walgreens -, there is a section for facial mask and you would see almost fifty kinds of it having all different function: for pimples, for pore, for wrinkles… However, there is this one function that all of these facial masks have. It is the moisturizing function. And facial mask moisturizes our skin in an intensified version. Moisturizing is the most important and the most basic of K-beauty. Countless K-drama and K-pop stars mentioned using a facial mask as their skincare routine. Even myself, as a beauty guru, use a facial mask at least twice a week.
2. Natural makeup: use light and bright shades
Compared to the United States, Koreans like using bright and light shades when they do makeup. (Of course, some people do smokey makeup in Korea, but I’m talking about the major) Most people don’t favor applying dark shades on their eyes and apply bright brown or light coral shade which is barely noticeable. Also, in the states, MLBB (a.k.a My Lip But Better) shades are popular. In contrast, as I mentioned before, Koreans love applying vivid color on their lips. This difference in makeup style has a credit on Korean celebrities looking young and lively.
3. A straight line eyebrow shape
Now, this would be the thing you weren’t expecting, but it’s pretty crucial: the shape of your eyebrow. If you see some pictures of Korean celebrities, you would easily find out that they all have a straight line eyebrow shape. The exact shape differentiates person by person, such as pure straight line, straight line with arch, but it is the most popular eyebrow shape in Korea. This straight-line shape gives a pure, innocent, and young vibe to a person.
4. Highlight your under-eye flesh
This is also the most common makeup detail Koreans use, and this helps you look lively. There are two ways to emphasize your under-eye flesh. First, you can use a highlight stick or a highlighting powder and apply it under your eyes. Or, you can use a deep brown colored pencil eyeliner and draw a light line on about the point where your under-eye flesh gets folded. If you google ‘애교살(means under-eye flesh in Korean) before and after’, you can see the pictures.
5. Wear the color contact lens
The final tip is wearing a color contact lens. The essence of a color lens is to help your eyes look bigger, and it makes this possible by giving a clear boundary between the pupil and the white part of our eyes. The color of the lens helps our pupil look much bigger and more vividly. If you match your natural eye color and the lens color, you’ll look both natural and young.
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Check out the previous article about the secrets of K-Pop star’s shining eyes.
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