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PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:15 pm    Post subject: What is considered pretty/beautiful in asia?   Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

I was just wondering...what is considered to be beautiful or pretty in Japan/Korea/Thailand/Phillipines..etc? Because I recently went to a forum where they said Zhang Ziyi isn't pretty Blink ...and I happen to think she's very pretty scratch


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:34 am    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

It depends on the culture and generation...

Traditional Chinese feminine ideal envisions a person with an oval face shaped like a watermelon seed, large eyes, and small mouth. The old cartoon character Betty Boob would be a close western equivalent. Zhang Ziyi certainly doesn’t fit that description. However, she’s extremely beautiful by most people’s standards.

People in Taiwan have a preference to pale skin. It is common to see girls with open umbrellas on sunny days to avoid tans.

Judging from tv and Jpop, I’d say the Japanese are attracted to girls with symmetrical baby-face features. Everything and everyone has to be kawaii, kawaii, kawaii.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:23 am    Post subject: Re: What is considered pretty/beautiful in asia?   Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

babiiekitkat wrote:
I was just wondering...what is considered to be beautiful or pretty in Japan/Korea/Thailand/Phillipines..etc? Because I recently went to a forum where they said Zhang Ziyi isn't pretty Blink ...and I happen to think she's very pretty scratch


Read it from a forum eh? In that case, don't take the comments too seriously. Her beauty may not be to everyone's liking but I think the majority of people (Asian or not) would consider her good-looking.

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People in Taiwan have a preference to pale skin. It is common to see girls with open umbrellas on sunny days to avoid tans.

Girls also wear those sun visors that resemble welding masks. I think they even have a preference for guys with pale skin.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:33 am    Post subject: Re: What is considered pretty/beautiful in asia?   Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

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Girls also wear those sun visors that resemble welding masks. I think they even have a preference for guys with pale skin.


Seriously? Wow people must go to certain extremes to be pale >_< funny how most people in the west would rather be tan and those in the east would rather be pale Tongue
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:17 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder... so i think this topic is a bit on the objective side? no real answers can be found =p haha
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:24 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

Korean people seem to like,

- Kim Tae Hee
- Song Hye Kyo
- Daniel Henney
- Lee Jun Ki
- white people, especially female Russian tennis players, blonde women in general, Jessica Alba (very popular in Korea!) and male models with piercing blue eyes.

This is all judging from the posters and advertisements I saw in Korea.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:05 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

Visors like these? http://www.flickr.com/photos/vonvonvon/250824246/

I'm not a fan of them...

If you ask me what I think of Zhang Ziyi... she is just alright nothing to be fancy about. I think it is just a fact that ppl are just more aware of her since she is in the spotlight.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:56 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

I still agree with chsaf; "beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder" and ofcourse he/she has to have natural beautiful eyebrows, not penciled ones....guys has to be tall, dark and handsome....well, not too many tall asian guys, but as long as they are taller than the girls Laugh....
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:39 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

zhang ziyi isnt that beautiful...that other girl is and shes also chinese...i think her name is crystal lin...for jap. girls, aragaki yui is beautiful...for korean, choi jiwoo and kim tae hee...but ji woo could look way older than she actually does most of the time...

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:58 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

Is this just about women? Many women I've heard from think Tiger Woods is an ugly mo-fo. To me he looks Thai more than anything else, but I don't think he's ugly. His body shape is pretty strange by my own standard. I saw him in-person back in January. He's got very broad, strong shoulders, and a pair of SKINNY pencil-like legs.

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@ groink.... Laugh, that's just so funny....you said pencil legs, but I called them chicken legs Laugh....
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:52 am    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

groink wrote:
Is this just about women? Many women I've heard from think Tiger Woods is an ugly mo-fo. To me he looks Thai more than anything else, but I don't think he's ugly. His body shape is pretty strange by my own standard. I saw him in-person back in January. He's got very broad, strong shoulders, and a pair of SKINNY pencil-like legs.

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I think Tiger has predominantly Asian features except for his lips, hair, and skin-tone. He is actually more Asian than African-American, being 1/4 Thai and 1/4 Chinese (and only 1/4 African-American). When asked by a sports magazine sometime ago what race he bubbles in for those standardized questionnaire forms, etc..., he answered "Asian." It's funny how the Black community always accuses Tiger of shunning them when he identifies more with his Asian roots. His compact, chiseled body shape is perfectly-suited for swinging a golf club. He is also very strong; the guy can bench press 300 lbs.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:02 am    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

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He is also very strong; the guy can bench press 300 lbs.

wtf, I get muscle pains exercising with 4 lbs. dumbbells.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:40 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

chsaf wrote:

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beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder... so i think this topic is a bit on the objective side? no real answers can be found =p haha


And that’s what I tell myself when I see other people's girlfriends & wives Whistling

But seriously, beauty is more than physical. There are many fine-looking Celebrities (names intentionally withheld) that do uncanny impressions of walking mannequins. And there are as many average-looking ones who enhance their beauty with thier playful/loveable persona.

Whether that persona is genuine or not is irrelevant. (People are very different on/off camera.) The important thing is they have the ability to create a unique impression that transcends their visual appearance. It is an important aspect of beauty that shouldn’t be overlooked.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:24 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

i think different people care about different things. its funny my wife never was considered the pretty one of her group, but for me she was easily the first person i gravitated toward. (She has been told she looks like Natsumi Abe...) What the japanese guys i know consider pretty / hot and what i do don't match SO often that its really strange. i guess cultural diferences.

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