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Monday, December 2, 2013

Ulzzang Make Up Tutorial Series: Natural Looking Aegyo Sal

What is AEGYO SAL?

First thing and foremost, eye bags and aegyo sal are way too different. Eye bags are usually darker than your natural skin tone and their sagging look makes you look tired and older than your actual age. However, aegyo sal or tear bags are the opposite of it as they are commonly found in children so they actually supposed to make you look younger.

Yeah, it is just a small part of your face but you know what? There is a huge difference on having an aegyo sal. It makes you look more innocent and youthful. It also makes your eyes appear brighter and bigger! So this photo that I found somewhere in the internet will show you how these six Korean actresses look if they have no aegyo sal at all. Look how big the difference is!!

How to know if you have aegyo sal?

It is very easy to identify if you have aegyo sal. Just grab a mirror and SMILE. If there’s a little pouch or this layer of skin gathered below your eyelids, LUCKY YOU COZ' YOU HAVE AN AEGYO SAL. However, if you don't have it, you can still achieve it through the use of make up which I will show you how, so please keep scrolling!

Maybe, the technique of putting darker eye shadow under you aegyo sal is the most known steps on how to create aegyo sal but I do not recommend it to you guys if unnatural look is not in your liking. Okay, it  looks good when you're smiling but it looks VERY WEIRD when you're not. It also makes your eyes become dull. Again, I don't recommend it!

Unlike other tutorials that are using lots of shimmery thingy and dark eye shadows, we will only use FOUNDATION or POWDER. This technique is the EASIEST WAY to create a VERY NATURAL LOOKING aegyo sal. Just make sure that the foundation that you will use is lighter than your skin tone. 

One factor why an aegyo sal is commonly mistaken as eye bags because of your eye bags underneath it! So the first thing we have to do to enhance our aegyo sal is conceal your eye bags

So lots of people use  their fingertips in drawing the aegyo sal but since we are all beginners here, it is better if we will use a q-tip so we can control the amount of foundation we will put on our aegyo sal. Plus, it will not be messy! I think I should stop blabbering now, so here are the steps

1. Squint your eyes so your natural aegyo sal will appear. Highlight it all by putting foundation (I repeat, lighter than your skin tone). Do not be afraid to exaggerate it. We can fix it later.

2. If you think it is a bit weird because the foundation is too thick that it tends to give you a creepy look, with the use of your fingertips blend it with your skin.


AND THERE YOU GO!! YOU ALREADY HAVE AEGYO SAL!!



Sunday, December 1, 2013

Ulzzang Make Up Tutorial Series: Korean Straight Brows (No shaving and grooming)

I am sure that you are already familiar with Korean Straight Brows (in the first place, why would you end up in this tutorial if you don't have any idea about it. ^^) wherein the brows are intentionally thick and straight. I've been wanting this brows for so long because it tends to make you look young and innocent. This trend starts from Korea, so you will notice that a lot of actresses in that country have this kind of brows.

There are lots of tutorials all over the net that will help us to achieve this look. However I didn't tried any of them because it all requires an extreme shaving of eyebrows, which my mom will not allows me to do. I am quite afraid also, because there are some cases that after shaving your brows, the hair may not grow again like the way it is supposed to be. So I made my own version of creating this straight brows which do not requires shaving and grooming. This is for those people who are also afraid to shave off their eyebrows but want to achieve this straight brows.


Let's Begin!

 
Try your best to make the lines soft as possible. Well then, I'm sorry for making the strokes a bit dark. I did it on purpose so it be easier for everyone to visualize what exactly I'm doing. ^^~

PS: Sorry for my sleepy eyes!~