Ulzzang.

Pinc.Stuff's new video opened my eyes (literally?) to something called Ulzzang which seems to be some kind of Korean fad where girls make themselves look as doll-like as possible and take photos in certain poses/positions which are then photoshopped to glory so that they go from this..

To this..

YES that is the same girl. She is wearing contacts which make your iris appear much larger, pale face foundation (possibly some kind of white powder), thick eyeliner on the top of her eye, thick white on the bottom water-line, white pigment on her eyelid and brow-bone. She has darkened her eyebrows and extended them slightly/neatened them up, and put pale/pinky lipstick and gloss on. Fake eyelashes also. Then with a fair amount of photoshop and posing you get this! Apparently it helps to say 'Chuuuuuu' when you pose to get a good pout. It is important to pose correctly to make it appear that your eyes are larger, to conceal the 'wide-set' nose and to get a good overall face shape.

Here is my attempt following Pinc.Stuff's tutorial!

I'm not using fake eyelashes, even though I have some, they're not really the right 'style' for this. I wore black eyeliner on top, silver for my water-line and around my eyes and used a jumbo eye-cream stick for highlight at my brow bone, and I used normal foundation as my skin is damn pale anyway. Photoshop is great.. i basically exaggerated the black on top of my eye, as well as the white, lightened the entire image to make my skin appear fairer and blemish-free and also played with colour balance on the shadows (made them darker) and colour balance on the mid-tones (made those darker also). My hair is naturally red, but you can see here it looks almost dark brown to add to the Ulzzang effect! Strike a pose!

Me before .. ;)

Emma.