The Fairest of the Fair, Lee Young-Ae
絶世美女, 이영애
From Leeyounae.net
For more than 10 years, Lee Young-Ae has maintained her position as a cosmetics model, an ultimate dream for any female actress. What is the secret behind her unchanging beauty?
The silken black dress is from Stella McCartney, the elliptical diamond ring from Fred, and the starfish-shaped ring from Boucheron.
Recently, pretty faces have become so common that people even say young kids these days have different physique from older generations. However, around the time when Lee Young-Ae debuted as a charming detective in a cosmetics commercial under the ad copy of 'Oxygen Lady', her beauty was literally breathtaking. Has her beauty faded since then? Far from it. With the charisma of a mature actress added to her handsome face, she is still the leading beauty easily surpassing numerous artificial-looking new pretty faces.
As a long-time cosmetics model from 'Mamonde' at the begining of her career to the recent 'Iope', she is an eye-witness to the various issues that have come and gone in the cosmetics world. "When I first debuted, fair skin and large eyes characterized a woman's beauty, which I was also led to believe. These days, on the other hand, the essence of beauty is being natural and not artificial. I also think that the real beauty comes from your individual behaviors and attitudes."
A person's behaviors and attitudes are manifest through everyday habits. To prevent her skin from sagging, she rubs her skin up when washing her face, and always uses cold water for final rinsing to keep her skin resilient. She also makes a point of drinking 10 glasses of water everyday along with some vitamin, which helps maintain her thin skin moisturized. Most of all, she says, sound sleep is important, so she recommends meditation and yoga. Yoga, in particular, which she started 2 years ago, is effective for relieving both physical and mental fatigue.
In addition to yoga, she goes on 'one-food diet' whenever her body feels heavy and swollen, where she only relies on grape and water until the body feels refreshed again. To avoid harming her health, she limits it up to 2 weeks, and gradually returns to regular diet, beginning with light food such as broth. After 'Daejanggeum', she also tried a new diet where she drank a cup of walnut, chestnut, black bean, brown rice, Job's tears and pumpkin mixed in milk and honey whenever her stomach feels empty.
Could it be the result of her diet? In the recently released teaser poster of 'Sympathy for Lady Vengeance', Lee Young-Ae's facial contour had become noticeably slimmer than that at the time of 'Daejanggeum'. In this movie, her character is largely divided into Keum-Ja of the past and present, where the past version is similar to the usual Lee Young-Ae with long hair and light makeup, while the present version is starkly different. Her hair will change to a wavy style, and while the basic makeup and lipstick will be light and transparent as before, her change will be emphasized by red eye makeup, a very rare color for eyes.
In the poster, Lee Young-Ae looks extremely pale, giving the obsever an almost eerie feeling. Such a dramatic expression was possible because her actual skin is so fair and transparent. Despite her naturally light skin, she alwyas makes sure to keep it that way by using skin whitening products and sun screens. She also regularly uses her own methods such as rubbing her face with milk-soaked cotton or potato-ground juice.
For her lips, she put on Iope Glossy Lipstick Shine Orange Color, then added moisture with Iope Lip Magic Gloss Orange Color. To produce simple and clean-looking eyes, she only wore the white-silver color of Iope Palette 3 Eyes Pink B505.
We met Lee Young-Ae during the production of Iope Whitegen MS135 Intensive commercial. Her skin looked even more lucid and transparent. Although her skin is quite fair, persistent whitening care is necessary to prevent blemishes, she said.
While her skin is fair, it's thinner and drier than that of average people, so wrinkles are formed easily. Therefore she takes special care of eye wrinkles with anti-aging products, such as Iope's Active Firming Eyecream and Retinol 2500. For her body skin which is also dry, she mostly uses L'Occitane products, and in particular their hand cream is a must. She doesn't wear makeup too often, but when she does, her favorites are Iope Truestyle Eyeshadow R101, which softens the eye shape, and Soft Blusher Creamy Orange and Lip Magic Gloss Orange, which give a vivid look to pale skin.
Lee Young-Ae is pretty, in anyone's eyes, at any time. Unlike others who started with the dream of becoming an actor and went through a long training period, she began her acting career somewhat accidentally thanks to her good looks. For a long time, her acting has always been underestimated due to her outward beauty and people's prejudice about it. However, she worked steadily through numerous TV dramas and films, and finally she is being reevaluated as an actress in the past few years.
"Personally I felt the real atttraction of acting through 'One Fine Spring Day', and my selection standards has changed since then. I believe 'Sympathy for Lady Vengeance' will be yet another turning point in my acting career." She is currently busy visiting the factory of a confectionery company and learning baking skills, in preparation for the movie where she will perform as a baker. Unfazed by the press hype on Lee Young-Ae being the leader of Japan's Korean culture wave in 2005, she says "for now, I'm focusing on shooting the film and nothing else." We, as the audience, are already looking forward to the gruesome revenge by the fairest of the fair.
From Leeyounae.net
For more than 10 years, Lee Young-Ae has maintained her position as a cosmetics model, an ultimate dream for any female actress. What is the secret behind her unchanging beauty?
The silken black dress is from Stella McCartney, the elliptical diamond ring from Fred, and the starfish-shaped ring from Boucheron.Recently, pretty faces have become so common that people even say young kids these days have different physique from older generations. However, around the time when Lee Young-Ae debuted as a charming detective in a cosmetics commercial under the ad copy of 'Oxygen Lady', her beauty was literally breathtaking. Has her beauty faded since then? Far from it. With the charisma of a mature actress added to her handsome face, she is still the leading beauty easily surpassing numerous artificial-looking new pretty faces.
As a long-time cosmetics model from 'Mamonde' at the begining of her career to the recent 'Iope', she is an eye-witness to the various issues that have come and gone in the cosmetics world. "When I first debuted, fair skin and large eyes characterized a woman's beauty, which I was also led to believe. These days, on the other hand, the essence of beauty is being natural and not artificial. I also think that the real beauty comes from your individual behaviors and attitudes."
A person's behaviors and attitudes are manifest through everyday habits. To prevent her skin from sagging, she rubs her skin up when washing her face, and always uses cold water for final rinsing to keep her skin resilient. She also makes a point of drinking 10 glasses of water everyday along with some vitamin, which helps maintain her thin skin moisturized. Most of all, she says, sound sleep is important, so she recommends meditation and yoga. Yoga, in particular, which she started 2 years ago, is effective for relieving both physical and mental fatigue.
In addition to yoga, she goes on 'one-food diet' whenever her body feels heavy and swollen, where she only relies on grape and water until the body feels refreshed again. To avoid harming her health, she limits it up to 2 weeks, and gradually returns to regular diet, beginning with light food such as broth. After 'Daejanggeum', she also tried a new diet where she drank a cup of walnut, chestnut, black bean, brown rice, Job's tears and pumpkin mixed in milk and honey whenever her stomach feels empty.
Could it be the result of her diet? In the recently released teaser poster of 'Sympathy for Lady Vengeance', Lee Young-Ae's facial contour had become noticeably slimmer than that at the time of 'Daejanggeum'. In this movie, her character is largely divided into Keum-Ja of the past and present, where the past version is similar to the usual Lee Young-Ae with long hair and light makeup, while the present version is starkly different. Her hair will change to a wavy style, and while the basic makeup and lipstick will be light and transparent as before, her change will be emphasized by red eye makeup, a very rare color for eyes.
In the poster, Lee Young-Ae looks extremely pale, giving the obsever an almost eerie feeling. Such a dramatic expression was possible because her actual skin is so fair and transparent. Despite her naturally light skin, she alwyas makes sure to keep it that way by using skin whitening products and sun screens. She also regularly uses her own methods such as rubbing her face with milk-soaked cotton or potato-ground juice.
For her lips, she put on Iope Glossy Lipstick Shine Orange Color, then added moisture with Iope Lip Magic Gloss Orange Color. To produce simple and clean-looking eyes, she only wore the white-silver color of Iope Palette 3 Eyes Pink B505.We met Lee Young-Ae during the production of Iope Whitegen MS135 Intensive commercial. Her skin looked even more lucid and transparent. Although her skin is quite fair, persistent whitening care is necessary to prevent blemishes, she said.
While her skin is fair, it's thinner and drier than that of average people, so wrinkles are formed easily. Therefore she takes special care of eye wrinkles with anti-aging products, such as Iope's Active Firming Eyecream and Retinol 2500. For her body skin which is also dry, she mostly uses L'Occitane products, and in particular their hand cream is a must. She doesn't wear makeup too often, but when she does, her favorites are Iope Truestyle Eyeshadow R101, which softens the eye shape, and Soft Blusher Creamy Orange and Lip Magic Gloss Orange, which give a vivid look to pale skin.
Lee Young-Ae is pretty, in anyone's eyes, at any time. Unlike others who started with the dream of becoming an actor and went through a long training period, she began her acting career somewhat accidentally thanks to her good looks. For a long time, her acting has always been underestimated due to her outward beauty and people's prejudice about it. However, she worked steadily through numerous TV dramas and films, and finally she is being reevaluated as an actress in the past few years.
"Personally I felt the real atttraction of acting through 'One Fine Spring Day', and my selection standards has changed since then. I believe 'Sympathy for Lady Vengeance' will be yet another turning point in my acting career." She is currently busy visiting the factory of a confectionery company and learning baking skills, in preparation for the movie where she will perform as a baker. Unfazed by the press hype on Lee Young-Ae being the leader of Japan's Korean culture wave in 2005, she says "for now, I'm focusing on shooting the film and nothing else." We, as the audience, are already looking forward to the gruesome revenge by the fairest of the fair.
I was inspired by this article about Lee Young Ae. I've decided to follow some of the advices listed in this article such as washing face with cold water, drinking 10 cups of water, and getting enough sleep.
Posted by
Anonymous |
12:45 PM
good for you ^^
i could follow the washing and drinking but sleeping is bit hard to do
Posted by
Miss Cha |
11:50 PM
Post a Comment