Recently, I’ve made a video about four idols getting embroiled in big controversies just
because they didn’t look good enough and based on that video alone, I believe you can
already see how extreme netizens could get when it comes to idols’ appearance.
However, such an extreme nature doesn’t necessarily result in dramas all the time
because in today’s video, I will cover some cases where people outright pointed out the
terrible makeup on idols and constantly pushed their management company for a better styling
crew.
IVE’s Wonyoung and Yujin
As these 2 girls have been praised as the princesses of Starship Entertainment and often
given more sophisticated outfits as well as makeup compared to other members, most believed
that they could only get the best of the best treatment for their recent promotion.
Especially since Wonyoung and Yujin are ex-members of IZ*ONE, aka the most popular project girl
group ever, there are even more reasons for the company to ensure they are always at their
finest.
And yes, the girls were indeed at their peak visual throughout the debut era but when they
came back for the second promotion, fans started to realize something weird.
First let’s talk about Yujin:
When appearing at Dream Concert, she was said to make quite a lot of fans startle as they
claimed she look like a 30-year-old lady here with that makeup and outfit.
It seems like the makeup artists had applied ten tons of matte foundation on her face while
barely touching the lip colors and blush.
The contouring was also done at its bare minimum and for such a matte foundation, Yujin’s
face also looked bigger than actual.
Whereas, her eyebrows are painted too dark and thick, making her face become disproportionate
and all that people see when looking at Yujin are her brows.
What’s even funnier was that, instead of doing something to make Yujin’s look less
basic, the stylist threw her the plainest dress and hairstyle ever, along with a pair
of confusingly chunky earrings and an irrelevant Naruto pair of shoes.
After that huge rant on all fronts, fans thought they had successfully made Starship Entertainment
reassess their makeup artists and stylists but no, the nightmare showed no signs of stopping.
When Yujin appeared at GUCCI x Adidas launching event, fans realized their words barely hold
any weight because she literally looked just as bad with the same thick matte foundation,
the same try-hard eyebrows, the bare minimum contouring and worst of all, the non-existent
lipstick that made Yujin look like she had been starved for days.
Meanwhile, the makeup layer that Yujin did herself was said to make her look much brighter
and full of life with natural eyebrows and red lipstick.
What they didn’t expect was that Jang Wonyoung also joined the lists of members done dirty
by makeup artists.
As the most famous visual and also the fan-voted center of IVE, never once did netizens see
this day coming but still, here we are, looking at the visual of Jang Wonyoung destroyed by
so-called professional makeup artists.
While all features on her face were harmonious and technically speaking, that should make
the eyebrow-defining job of her staff easier than ever, somehow she still looked as if
having two black caterpillars stuck onto the face all the time.
Even when she did photoshoots and CFs for big brands, the eyebrows still looked oddly
thick, outdated and disproportionate.
Unfortunately, Starship Entertainment didn’t seem to care about that and even until now,
the black caterpillars were still living happily on Wonyoung’s face.
In fact, the number of occasions Wonyoung had to bring these two “pets” on set has
increased as on music shows, people also saw her take selfies with them.
Some even compared her eyebrows to those of Crayon-Shin Chan and hairy men.
And what makes netizens confused the most is the fact that the stylists team suddenly
decided to give Wonyoung the weirdest baby bangs ever, which was said to look like cut
grass and greatly destroy her facial proportion, making her forehead seem much shorter.
This time, even Wonyoung’s top-notch visual has to give up on saving the look.
Things were so bad that on August 15, fans altogether pushed the hashtag #스타쉽_아이브_샵_바꿔
Starship change the makeup shop for IVE, asking the company to stop making the girls lose
face.
However, this also seemed to be a vain attempt of DIVEs because not only did the company
remain quiet but makeup artists Shim Kyung Mee and Yoon Seoha also blocked all those
people who complained about their work.
Out of desperation, a fan tried removing the cursed bangs from Wonyoung's face and needless
to say, she looks much prettier and brighter.
aespa’s Winter
Since the incident in the States where Winter was accused of having a plastic visual easily
exposed under normal lightning, netizens have been keeping their eyes on her look closer
and closer to see if there were gaps to bash.
However, as time passed, many said they realized Winter legit the visual of aespa and her makeup
artists were all to blame for everytime she looks bad.
Besides that disastrous look when aepsa was performing in the States, Winter has once
again experienced another uncomfortable experience where she looked like a lifeless body at the
YSL Beauty event.
According to netizens, there is a reason why SM Entertainment chose “Winter” as the
stage name of Winter and it had a lot to do with how her skin was as white as snow in
this season.
In aespa, she is also the one with the fairest complexion with a pinkish undertone while
other members’ were more on the yellowish spectrum.
Regardless, the makeup artist still made her wear the fairest of fairest foundation and
as you can see, it looked like her head was a perfectly white oval ball plugged into her
body in this picture.
While her foundation was just as matte and white as Yujin’s, it’s still a bit better
because her contouring was on point and eye makeup was also vibrant enough to add in some
vitality.
Sadly, her lips and eyebrows just ruined it all.
As if it was a huge trend among so-called professional makeup artists in K-Pop, a powdery
white foundation always went hand in hand with a lips color that couldn’t be anymore
pale and for the eyebrows, Winter’s makeup artist didn’t bother to touch up or gave
them any colors to suit her bright orange hair.
While some said that this could have been the effect of extreme flashlight since under
normal lightning, Winter didn’t look that bad, most still disagreed that her makeup
artists did a poor job on Winter since Karina, Giselle and Ningning all looked perfectly
fine under the impacts of flashlight.
Kai When Kai appeared at Blue Dragon Series Awards,
lots of fans were looking forward to seeing him at his finest because this event marked
one of the biggest milestones for his acting career.
However, right at the moment he walked onto the red carpet, all they’d ever felt was
anger and disappointment because his makeup look looked so weird.
There was even a thread on theqoo dedicated only to whining about his makeup and as the
OP said, she had to zoom-in to confirm that Kai’s chopping eyebrows were really done
by a professional makeup artist.
Many complained that his brows looked patchy, uneven, and shaped weirdly.
Some also noticed the woman barely did anything to his eyebrows and because she was a freelancer,
they believed this was the result of her playing too safe, of not being competent enough to
know what would help compliment his features and of wanting to get the job as fast as possible
to yeet away with the money SM Entertainment would pay.
To those who have been following Kai for a long time, the makeup that day could also
be called a product of super lazy makeup artists because his bare face was said to look exactly
the same as the “touched-up” face.
When fans zoomed in, they also noticed the lips color wasn’t applied evenly, making
Kai’s lips corners look as gray as ash.
Seeing these pictures of Kai, some fans even joked that this is actually the transparent
makeup style and only makeup artists with excellent skills could do that.
APINK’s Chorong
With the sub-unit debut most recently, Chorong and Bomi have made headlines for helping many
K-Pop fans, including those that have already had children, relive their youthful days as
supporters of gen2 idols.
Unfortunately, it was also for such a grown-up target market that Chorong’s makeup artist
seemingly misunderstood her fans would love to see something colorful and dated like the
2000s.
Eventually, this ended up creating a hilarious scene where Chorong appeared like Annabell
and considering her age of a bit over 30, this atmosphere became even more awkward.
While female idols often opt for wispy bangs to look younger, the fake blunt bangs given
to Chorong was said to be a mere disaster as it made her look questionably childish
and created the impression of trying hard to not look her age.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, the makeup artists also put tons of kilos of white matte
foundation on her face and literally attached three tomatoes to it: two on the cheeks and
one on the lips.
It was probably a blessing that they didn’t go all in for the 2000s combo where her eye
makeup could have been glittery blue but still, the overall look was a disaster.
Her makeup was so bad that right after the show, she made headlines for showing “severely
downgraded visuals due to horrendous makeup” and based on the photos released, it could
be seen that even her fans gave up editing and just posting whatever available for the
sake of her online presence.
So, do you think the makeup artists weren’t so sober when doing these makeups or did they
deliberately make these idols dirty due to some reason?