In every page of celebrity magazines around the world, you can find these people. Getting good reviews about the way they strut their poise on high end streets—parading their super star designer stuffs.
From Blake, Drew, Ange, SJP, and the Beckhams they are the so called 'Masters'. Their fashion statements attracts Gen Y to Z—an overture that leads to the creation of societies latest show—the 'Disciples’ Tribe'. The disciples’ tribe is the person who wants more than a replica of their idol's style. They are the offspring of the present generation’s pop culture who are adventurous and brave enough to take the challenge of extreme make over—of becoming a total clone of their Masters.
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The Disciples
South Korean entertainment industry is considered the Hollywood of Asia. If you are famous in Korea you are also popular around the Asian continent from China to Middle East up to the South East region. South Koreans have a very unique fashion statement of their own, which is sassy, sweety, cutesy and somewhat quit over the top.
But I do considered them disciples because part of their fashion statement is to overhaul their faces. Genetically speaking, Koreans have big bone structure--big and shapeless legs, forearms and arms. Koreans distinct facial features are having flat faces, long flat foreheads, flat noses, square faces, and small eyes with single eyelids.
If you will be meeting a Korean who doesn't confined with my definitions, most probably (Again, I say most probably) they belong to approximately 76% to 80% of Korean women who underwent cosmetic surgeries (or perhaps they are the crossed-bread ones). Most of these women requested for double eyelid surgery or clinically known as epicanthoplasty. Well, obviously Westerners are the people who naturally have double eyelid. Below are the before and after photos of some famous Korean actresses who underwent the knives to be more beautiful or enhance their beauty.
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| Park Shi Yeon |
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| Kim Ah Joong |
Few years back, I was one of those people who went crazy over Korean pop culture or K-pop for short. And, for me the most beautiful Korean lady that I have ever seen and the most beautiful actress in the entire wide universe is Song Hye Gyo (G pronounce as K). She's real knock off. But I guess even her, had asked the help of a surgeon to make her face transform from a cherub to a real venus. Notice the transformation of her nose in the photos below.
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| She really has a face of an angel |
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| A face of a goddess |
Lee Hyori, another Korean actress-singer is said to be a Jessica Alba look-a-liked. I am not so sure though, if it is true. You'd be the judge.
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| Lee Hyori |
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| Jessica Alba |
Anyways, whatever Koreans do it is the way of their lives and simply part of K-Pop. But come to think of, K-Pop is tantamount to cultural imperialism. This is ironic because South Koreans are known for being homogeneous. They believed that language, appearance, culture and tradition cannot be separated to a person’s ethnicity. This is the reason why they prefer native English speakers (never mind if he or she does not have a university degree) to be their English teachers compared to well-educated and fluent speaker Asian teachers. This is also the reason why they discriminate migrant workers from Third World country (Amnesty International).
Why it is hard for them to accept that we are now living in a globalized culture, wherein my world and their world is everybody’s world? Yet, why it is very easy for them to copy someone’s face and reject their natural facial features? Maybe, I need to be a South Korean to understand South Koreans.
On the other side of the world, there is this tiny archipelago in Southeast Asian known as the Philippines who have experienced three different periods of aesthetic—colonialism, imperialism and globalization—a total opposition to the pseudo homogenous mentality of South Koreans.
Part of the Filipinos appreciation to beauty is the ‘pouty lips craze’, which was spearheaded by the Disciples of Angelina that includes celebrities Gretchen Baretto and Pops Fernandez.
Description to Gretchen beauty is beyond words. She is a very gorgeous woman without an angle—truly impeccable and picture perfect. Right height paired with flawless skin and perfect face. What can you as for? If I am as beautiful as her, I will just enhance my beauty by applying the right make up. But she is no like me. She is not satisfied with the way she looks, that is why she decided to underwent a lip silicone surgery. See the difference.
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| Before the surgery |
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| After the surgery |
Another Filipino celebrity who joined the mega parade of swollen lips is the singer Pops. Look at her photos.
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| After the surgery |
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| Before the surgery |
It seems that Gretchen and Pops are both suffering from Body Integrity Identity Disorder or BIID, formerly known as Amputee Identity Disorder, refers to a neurological and psychological mental disorder implying a psychological feeling that a certain part of their body does not belong to them and one would be happier living life as an amputee and is usually, if not always, accompanied by the desire to amputate one or more healthy limbs in order to enact that desire (Wikipedia. Org). In Gretchen and Pops cases, there were possibility that they felt like BIID people feel; that their lips does not belong to them and the only way to make them feel secure is to figuratively amputate their lips. In our eyes, we can see that they totally ruined their appearances, lip silicone made them look ugly. But for them they might feel the opposite way. Lip silicone is silly but it is probably the only way for them to rebuild their confidence.
Oh world. World. The world is full of craziness yet sparkling with GLITZ.
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