Trendy beauty is always "fickle".
Cat's eye makeup, sequin makeup, boiled water makeup, after looking at it in the past few years, the only thing that remains unchanged and can insist on becoming the aesthetic vane of girls' makeup is probably only the smiling lips that are smiling or not.
Yui Aragaki has a classic smile lip.
Whenever you open the social posts that teach dress-up, no matter what kind of era, mood, and style of makeup the East Asian bloggers are interpreting, the outline of the lip shape is almost inseparable from the steps of creating a "sweet arc".
YouTuber @sayi Makeup
The so-called smiling lips refer to the shape of the lips that are still upturned at the corners of the mouth in a calm state, and even if there is no expression, they are soft, docile, and kind enough.
It has nothing to do with lip color, but if you pair it with a sparkling lady lip gloss, it's even more effective.
"Sole Leader**" online aesthetics divides the lips into no less than 5 "good-looking classifications", petal lips, M lips, Barbie lips, cherry lips, peach heart lips ......The differences may be only subtle differences in the lip edges, lip beads, and the size and position of the lips, but the only aesthetic point in common is the curve that rises up on both sides like a smile lip.
Smiling lips have become the epitome of lip aesthetics. Social** is saying that having it can be regarded as having the basic skills to enter the ranks of beauty, after all, a girl who is always smiling makes people feel good, feels "harmless", and can be loved more.
As a result, there is Angelababy inside, and there is Korean girl group idol Zhang Yuanying outside, and their outstanding smiling lips are used as lip templates and models for beautiful scales.
Angelababy (left); Zhang Yuanying (right).
In contrast, it is another wave of female stars with different tones, who were forced to "roll over" because they did not have enough "good-looking" lip shapes.
For example, since a while ago, Xin Zhilei has been brought up several times to tease her thick lips, as well as Liu Yifei, who has been archaeologically and judged. Someone dug out a screenshot of her when she participated in "The Family of Gold Powder" at the age of 15, saying that she had not fully grown at that time, and her lips were still slightly pouted, and her mouth was too "dull", which was really not enough to meet the threshold of a naturally beautiful beauty.
Xin Zhilei (Picture 1); Liu Yifei (picture 2).
Aesthetics itself is free and unimpeded, and what kind of beauty view to seek is a person's preferred choice. But now the single, harsh and blind praise of the lips all over the social ** was once suspected of falling into a stubborn aesthetic fanaticism. On the social search page, you can often see entries such as "which mouth shape is the most annoying".
Aesthetics are installed with a social function. They seem to be thinking about women, but the subtext is framed by "women's expectations". The flattering color attached to the lip shape actually points to the anxiety of popularity - if you can't meet the standard of brilliance, then at least you must have a beautiful foundation.
Setting standards for the facial features is strange in itself. In fact, from the perspective of genes, most Asians have small mouths, which are easy to be flattened when they laugh, and their daily state tends to be smoother.
Photogenic face" Zhang Ziyi, movie beauty Maggie Cheung.
and Zhong Chuhong do not have a perfect lip shape.
Exaggerating the meaning of the facial features, the subtext is a kind of "control". There is a lot of attenuation of value to the eyes, nose, and forehead, and a mouth that is not pleasing enough is often a sin.
Lan Yingying, who acted in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" back then, was once ridiculed as a representative of "bitter face" because of the downward lips at the corners of her mouth.
Lan Yingying. And the sad lips of the Japanese singer Nakamori Mingcai "fulfilled" her prophecy of being cheated on by a scumbag, having a bumpy love road, and being unmarried and childless.
Nakamori's famous dish. But is it true that a girl with smiling lips must have a death-free talisman? I don't think so.
The popularity of smiling lips is a kind of aesthetic discipline that has been dismantled and put into the flow pool, although it has historical and cultural causes, but it is also inseparable from the social business concept in pinching people.
Fashions are cunning, and they always create order – telling girls what rules they need to meet in order to be safe. Many girls are busy saving money and using cosmetic surgery interventions, not to necessarily become beautiful, but just to have a normal, lucky look.
Wu Xiaochen has undergone plastic surgery 20 times in "Unspeakable", and he chose plastic surgery because he didn't want to live an ordinary life.
Linguist Bernard Wittgenstein described in "The Gaze of Beauty" that physiognomy in modern beauty is more like an existence that is optimized to complete the "gaze of others".
Everyone is "repairing themselves", but what they repair is shaped by capital and fashion. Most of the girls who have plastic surgery today only seek a sense of security for anxiety.
This sense of security and discipline of the five senses has never been a symptom of East Asia. Western girls' obsession with lip augmentation is even more dreamy. Since the beginning of the millennium, Angelina Jolie has become popular on the world screen with her plump lips.
Angelina jolie.
If the birth of Julie does provide a possibility for thick-liped beauties all over the world, then more and more actresses in the later period have fallen into bad roots due to their addiction to lip augmentation, but it cannot be said that it is completely free from the influence of aesthetic gaze and consumerism.
For example, Megan Fox, who has been ridiculed over the years for her thicker and thicker lips, more and more like Kardashian, has lost her original charm. She was once named "the most ** woman in the 21st century" for her role as "Michaela" in "Transformers", and her thin lips have a natural coldness, but she admitted that she "has never loved her body".
Megan Fox.
Fuller lips are seen there as a sign of youthfulness, vitality and charm. Megan, who has been used as a vase since acting in "Transformers", may have also fallen into a panic in the face of age and stagnation of her career. And what handed her a life-saving straw was the fashionable identity symbolized behind the plump lips, a kind of "glamorous insurance".
Megan Fox has appeared in the public eye in recent years.
Some bloggers also teach "home remedies" for lip augmentation on social platforms. In order to plump the lips, it even reached the point of doing everything at one point, and it always looks like a fantasy.
They use eyelash curlers to clip the upper lip, glue the upper lip to turn the mouth outward, or apply cinnamon powder to the lips, all with the ultimate goal of making the mouth look fuller after being stimulated.
YouTuber @tina Yong explains how to glue her upper lip.
Bloomberg in the fashion industry, the trend predictor agency WGSN, once said: "Lips are big business", in addition to the huge industry of beauty, not only gave birth to artificial smile lips, lip plumping, new lip plastic surgery and a magic called "upper lip lift".
It can "cut" the flesh at the junction between the nose and the philtrum to achieve a slightly toothy lip effect. Not only can a girl's mouth have a perfect shape like Cupid's bow, but it can also add an innocent, playful, and youthful look.
The effect is similar.
Julie slightly toothy lips shape, but they are at their most normal.
It remains that way as well.
The girls are struggling to digest these "pioneers", not only need to endure great pain, but also have to face the *** that may be ushered in after the transformation
watched a variety show called "The Four Famous Assistants", in which the mother came to ask for help because of her addicted daughter, but when she was sad and crying, the daughter on the other side of the camera always kept smiling.
The host couldn't stand it anymore, and asked his daughter: "I don't know where your smile comes from?" As a result, she said, "It's not that I'm not sad, I just made smiling lips." ”
However, even though her expression has been destroyed, the subtext in her words still says "It's better to always be ugly", "Except for plastic surgery, everything else can listen to your mother, but you can't be beautiful".
The once popular plump apple skin also left traces on her face, but the capital ran back and forth with the trend of popularity, but she never had time to take care of the girl's body scars, leaving them to continue to search for new beautiful parts.
Asteroid City: We are indeed already in an era of second-hand aesthetics.
Even Li Jiaxin, who is "beautiful", has been ridiculed for cheekbone valgus. is as beautiful as Wang Zuxian, and it is indispensable to passively have the regret of slightly exposed nostrils and buckteeth on social platforms, and Qiu Shuzhen, who once won the title of "Goddess of the Screen", is often used as a negative teaching material for the proportion of "three courts and five eyes".
Li Jiaxin (picture 1) and Wang Zuxian (picture 2).
I always feel that beauty should be the embodiment of real pleasure, and the standard brings rational judgment and can be quantified by the selection of capital, but beauty is always unreasonable, abrupt, and sensual charm.
* The shape of the lips is not fine. Since her debut, her facial features have always been taken out for scrutiny, not beautiful enough, not advanced enough, especially the mouth, according to the current aesthetics, almost all the characteristics of "earth" are gathered - thick, blunt, and the upper lip even has a slight valgus.
*。But looking back at her **, you will find that in her unique sense of coquettishness, stubbornness, and detachment, the less flattering lip shape is the facial features that account for most of the credit.
If there is no resistance and restraint, then the depraved girls and prostitutes she plays in the ups and downs of the world will lack the maximum tension to compete with fate.
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Popular online aesthetics hate nonsensual, slightly "mean" lips, and they also hate stingy pouting lips.
But in the 1987 version of "Dream of Red Mansions", there are many beauty models with small lips. Chen Xiaoxu, who played Daiyu, was in a dilemma when casting because her facial features were not marked enough, but at the end of the filming, she found that no one could reproduce her stubborn bookish spirit.
Chen Xiaoxu. The smiling lips that are popular all over East Asia are certainly beautiful, but don't give them the value of the old flat personality.
Content Editor: Nico