Case study: LengYein (A famous model for many men's periodical magazine such as FHM, W&HM (Wheel and Heel magazine), Hypertune, etc.
FHM Magazine
Hypertune Magazine
As you can see that, she was obviously presented in a very sexy appearance and very seductive posture for men and car magazines. Her first impression for the public audience is SEXY, "HOT", and maybe COOL?. She gives me a feeling that she has the power that lead her followers/supporters to fully support her and to "die" for . So, is her role inside those men's magazine is to become some kind of sexual obsession for the audience? or Is she playing the role as a playmate? What is her real identity in the reality?
After I had done my analysis on photo albums in her Facebook page, I found that her model private life is like an intersection between her jobs and daily life activities. Most of the albums are related to modeling, magazine cover shoot, travel, events, and self-shoot. She travels a lot, but most of the time is to accomplish her photo shooting job overseas. Although it is not a photo shooting for the job, it is just like a random photo, she will automatically posed her figure that what she will normally do for her job. Besides that, the way that she dress up is slightly represented it is related to her job as a model. Super low cut design singlet, bikini, super short pants, corset, mini dress, etc is what she wear for photo shooting. I believe that, she was already get used to this kind of fashion and she applied on her everyday apparel.
In addition, her plastic surgery features has become a gaze for the audience (it is as same as the photoshop that usually used by photographer to touch up models' photos before published )
Photo album: 3 Months Holiday Getaways
Photo album: Philippines Vacation with Brother Nelson
Photo album: Philippines Vacation with Brother Nelson
Research & References:
Pickofpenang. (2012) FHM Magazine: Congrats Leng Yein !!! [Images online] Available at:http://pickofpenang.blogspot.com/2012/09/fhm-magazine-congrats-leng-yein.html [Accesed at: 2 August 2013]
LengYein. (n.d.) 3 Months Holiday Getaways. [Images online] Available at:https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151636645359341.1073741856.74485364340&type=3 [Accessed at: 2 August 2013]
LengYein. (n.d.) Philippines Vacation with Brother Nelson. [Images online] Available at:https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151792868169341&set=a.10151787998344341.1073741884.74485364340&type=3&theater [Accessed at:2 August 2013]
I had another consultation with lecturer Daniel to check whether I'm on the right track for my essay question.
Here are some answer from him.
1)How women are represented?
For example:
Guy can be represented as brave, muscular, power, strong, work hard for the family, independent,....etc.
Women are represented as feminine, pretty, gentle, nuture, caring,....etc.
2)Which kind of fashion-based media?
Might be one Fashion Models Facebook page. (analyse the album inside)
Analyse the comment and likes. (especially for the album that model shows about her plastic surgery)
Discussion point:
-Body figure is exaggerated.
-Why she does plastic surgery? Is it for guys? for herself? for her job?
-How women are presented?(in entertainment magazine)
Sexy in men magazine....etc.
Fake in physical? Boobs- entertainment industry- vulgar
High end fashion (has no affect the chest)
Industry/market attitude- the prize
Examples: Women can be as a "prize" for a racing competition. Take photos - prize giving (women might think they have some kind of power to let guys to fight for them)
-How women are presented in reality?
Authentic? Self-character
Her fashion picture and her personal life picture is close to each other. (Her work is an intersection?)
(Their pose, dress up, attitude)
Is they are really an attention seeker in personal life which is same with the one inside magazine pictures?
-Differences between Malaysia Top Models and Entertainment world.
This blog is about 4 famous people as role model of plastic surgery in Malaysia and Singapore.
LengYein, Malaysia famous people which community involvement in different kinds of careers such as model, actress, host, pianist, dancer, tattoo artist, beautician, makeup artist, manicurist and also businesswoman. She owns her boutique, fashion accessories shop, nail&beauty salon, tattoo parlour, magazine and also a mamak which is named as Taj Corner Restaurant. She has almost 284k followers in her Facebook fan page. Places that she did her surgery is at her nose, lips, chin and eyes.
Kinki Ryusaki, Malaysia famous female tattoo artist which owns her tattoo studio in Kuala Lumpur, Sungei Wang Plaza. She had been tattooing since she was 16 years old. She treated and believed the art of tattoo just like the art of life. She has mostly 588k followers in her Facebook fan page. She went Korea with Leng Yein and she had her eyelid surgery.
(Here's another proof on Leng Yein and Kinki Ryusaki had did plastic surgery at the same time)
XiaXue, Singapore famous blogger who always post about her lifestyle, fashion, makeup and local issue. Her main blog could reach 50,000 reader daily. She is also a host for a TV show (Guide To Life). She has 184k followers in her Facebook fan page. What she did is her nose. She often injected botox to her face to maintain her face condition. (chin, cheeks, lips)
QiuQiu, Singapore famous blogger who also a host for her TV show Budget Barbie. She usually blogs about her lifestyle, fashion stuff, makeup, travel and etc. She has 15k followers on her Facebook fan page. She did breast implant, her nose, and forehead implant. One of the episode from budget Barbie, its about the process she did her breast implant surgery. The reasons she did is because she has flat boobs and she felt that she is lack of confident when she went to the beach with her friends and she choose to wait them on the shoreside.
In my conclusion, people has their own reasons to choose to do plastic surgery . For example, the blogger Qiuqiu from Singapore, She did it just because she want to get her confidence back. There is nothing wrong with people who did plastic surgery. I understand that natural beauty is the gift from the god but sometimes people might still want to stand it out in a different ways to overcome their desire to become prettier.
Research & References: LengYein. (2011) Plastic Surgery Journey in Korea. [online] Available at:https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150274330399341.352629.74485364340 [Accessed at: 31 July 2013] Sumi.net (2013) Perfect Body Shape II. [Images online] Available at:http://sumi-connie.blogspot.com/2013_03_22_archive.html [Accessed at:31 July 2013] Harrison.(2008) Leng Yein Jie. [online] Available at:http://www.popularasians.com/forum/f83/leng-yein-jie-35537/ [Accessed at:31 July 2013] Kinki Ryusaki. (n.d.) Kinki Ryusaki. [online] Available at:https://www.facebook.com/KinkiRyusakiTattoo [Accessed at:31 July 2013] Xiaxue. (n.d) Everyone's reading it. [online] Available at:http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/ [Accessed at:31 July 2013] Bongqiuqiu. (n.d.) Qiu Qiu. [online] Available at:http://bongqiuqiu.blogspot.com/ [Accessed at:31 July 2013]
Plastic surgery are very common among the women nowadays. From the video above, the doctor said:"good looking people have more fun, and have more looking good friends." After that there are two women talked about how plastic surgery influence their life, their opportunity to get work, mate and etc. Does plastic surgery really helps? How does plastic surgery influences women? Why women are getting plastic surgery?
Women nowadays have more opportunity to play in different types of role such as politician, actress, singer, model, host, reporter, ...etc. People that are act in these role are usually get in touch with the society such as, television, newspaper, magazine, advertisement, poster and so on. Usually these jobs required people with good looking since they are presented to to society and public. In that way, common people are gradually impressed by the good appearance of those role of women. Some of them will started to feel that they are not satisfied what as they are and plastic surgery provides them choices/effects that are efficient and lasting.
There are two types of plastics surgery which is cosmetic surgery and reconstructive surgery.
Based on my experience, my aunty has "botox" injection on her face and around eyes. She told me that the reason why she did this is to prevent sagging and stay young. She was recommend by her friend, who also did double eye lid surgery. I believe that she is influenced by her friend. Moreover, my cousin had her nose job(silicon injection) just because she wants to look as pretty as caucasian celebrities’ features she liked. I can conclude that media has somehow influence some people to go for it. Research & References: PlasticSurgery. (2013) Common procedure performed by Experience Cosmetics Surgeons. [Images online] Available at:http://www.istard.org/common-procedures-performed-by-experienced-cosmetic-surgeons/ [Accessed at:1 August 2013] McManus. (1994) Demand for Cosmetic Surgery Rises, and With it, Abuses. [online] Available at:Dhttp://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/24/news/24iht-face.html [Accessed at: 1 August 2013] TheStarOnline. (2013) Malaysia among popular countries for plastic surgeries.[online] Available at:http://www.thestar.com.my/story.aspx?file=%2f2013%2f5%2f7%2fasia%2f13075661&sec=asia [Accessed at:1 August 2013]
This is a South Korea TV Program "Let Me In"(translated as "Let women be beautiful") which invited Korean women with an "abnormal" facial or body features to undergo surgical procedures to enhance their appearance and increase their confident to the public. Some of them had went through people's sarcastic on how their appearance look like before they applied for the TV show.
Yang Jae-jin, the psychiatrist for the TV program said that, "It's easy to say the standards of beauty are unfair or wrong, but if you havent's been in their shoes and couldn't carry on a normal life because of your looks, you shouldn't judge."
I agreed with his statement because some of the people has their own reason to undergo this surgical procedures, its just like they have their story behind. We shouldn't judge a book by its cover.
Research & References: Kwaak.J.S. (2013) Making a Case for Cosmetic Surgery. [online] Available at: http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2013/06/05/making-a-case-for-cosmetic-surgery/ [Accessed at:24 July 2013] Cruz.J.D. (2012) The magic of plastic surgery in korea. [online] Available at:https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FiGEI_2wYjc [Accessed at:24 July 2013]
Regenglobal.(2012) Korea cable program Let Me In 2 - Transgender. [online] Available at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6RVqZUsdXw [Accessed at:24 July 2013]
Plastic Surgery has only grown over the past 20 years and has become so popular now since like everyone is getting it. It has become a trend and it could be symbolize as "the permanent makeup".
But how does this happen? I believe that one of the reason is people could get pretty in an easier and faster ways. There is also another reason to prove that why plastic surgery is getting famous now. Based on an article that wrote by Ahmad.M, 'What K-Pop has to do with South Korea's Plastic Surgery Obsession', he said that the western beauty (caucasian) has permeated across virtually all international beauty market, through advertisement, pop star, hollywood, and movie. That's mean "western" equals to the word "beautiful". Western face feature are usually with long sharp nose, eyes with double eye lids, prominent jaws and high cheek bones. In addition, as the technology has getting improve, the price of plastic surgery is getting cheaper, safer, better, recovery faster had increase the its popularity to the world. The rise of K-pop can also consider as another reason people will go through plastic surgery.
Girls Generation.
Before & After
The most requested face at plastic surgery offices.
Actress/Model Kim Tae-Hee
Even some part of South Korea parents encourage their children to get plastic surgery. Based on an interview article 'South Korean Parents Are Making Their Kids Get Plastic Surgery' by Standen.C, I found that some of the mother will pay for their daughter to get for a surgery. Eyes and nose job are the most common part that people will probably do and it's consider as the "basics". They do believe the prettier person will get more benefit. Even some jobs are only required for people who did plastic surgery. Everyone seems like want to get benefit by using their appearance and this is how the culture has made it to normal.
There's a case study to proof that most of the women in korea has probably had their face done. South Korea has the highest rate of people has gone through plastic surgery compare to others country. The average years is among 19 to 49 years old. According to the article, Koreans complain about picture of 20 Miss Korea 2013 finalist were posted on Reddit was a encouragement for user to go under the knife as Asian nation's growing trend. 20 beauty queens almost have the same feature such as big eyes, small face, tiny button noses, pointed chin, same hair colour, and etc. As you can see that, these 20 pageants were looking so familiar with each other.
20 Miss Korea 2013 finalist
In my conclusion, plastic surgery has become very common nowadays and women has the choice to get what they want. Not to say plastic surgery is a bad thing but is good if there is a way to make yourself more confident and attractive. Everyone can be beautiful.
Research & References: Ahmad.M. (2013) What K-Pop Has To Do With South Korea's Plastic Surgery Obsession. [online] Available at:http://jezebel.com/what-k-pop-has-to-do-with-south-koreas-plastic-surgery-573424674 [Accessed at:30 July 2013] Willet.M. (2013) Korea's Plastic Surgery Obsession Is A Glimpse Into The Future [Photos]. [online] Available at:http://www.businessinsider.com/korea-is-obsessed-with-plastic-surgery-2013-5?op=1 [Accessed at: 30 July 2013] Standen,C. (2013) South Korean Parents Are Making Their Kids Get Plastic Surgery. [online] Available at:http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/south-korean-parents-are-making-their-kids-get-plastic-surgery [Accessed at:30 July 2013] Nolan.S. (2013) Has plastic surgery made these beauty queens all look the same? Koreans complain about pageant 'clones' . [online] Available at:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2314647/Has-plastic-surgery-20-Korean-beauty-pageant-contestants-look-Pictures-contest-hopefuls-goes-viral.html [Accessed at:30 July 2013] Femalewallpaper. (2013) Kim Tae-Hee. [Images online] Available at:http://femalewallpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/kim-tae-hee.html [Accessed at:30 July 2013] Olddoobybrain. (2013) Korean Plastic Surgery Before and After. [Images online] Available at:http://www.doobybrain.com/2013/01/12/korean-plastic-surgery-before-and-afters/ [Accessed at:30 July 2013] Joonle4ever. (2012) SNSD Jenie Japanese ver. [Images online] Available at:http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/girls-generation-snsd/images/15368247/title/snsd-genie-japanese-ver-photo [Accessed at:30 July 2013]
