What is Beauty???

What is Beauty??

Everyone has their own standard of beauty. It's hard to say what really is beauty. Beauty depends on where you're from, your culture, and most important YOURSELF.

Koreans have the most beautiful skin ever. When you touch their skin, it's smooth as a baby's butt. I have never felt skin so smooth, I just want to keep on touching it. I crave for their very smooth skin. Whenever I see female idols and Korean actresses,  I wonder how they keep their skin looking so white and flawless.  

 Besides the amount of make up they put on, which Brandice will talk about in a blog later, what else do they do to have wonderful skin.

Korea's beauty standard is white porcelain skin, double eyelids, and v-line face. Having a pale complexion represents that you are more luxurious than a tan skin, which assumes that you're a poor peasant, having to work out in the sun all day. For people who want to get the v-line face, it's kinda nasty...they would shave off their jaw bone to get that structure. The double eyelid is the most common plastic surgery done. Females and males both get this surgery to get a more Westernized look. Korea is ranked #1 for plastic surgery. Most idols have done plastic surgery to get to where they are today. Sometimes looks are everything and would do a lot to get the attention they want. I always get surprised when high school girls even get plastic surgery. They're tooooo young ><


Of course, not all idols want to go through that road, but are forced by their company to do it. Like Jessi (on the right), her company wanted to change her image to a more sexy, mature, and charismatic than a cute and girly look.

Of course I'm not into all of that. It's dangerous, unnatural, and really expensive (no offense to those who have done it). I'm all about being natural and healthy. I know many people aren't satisfied with their looks and body. I am too and it's because of the media that puts up gorgeous pictures of celebrities, making everyone feel that this is how they should look. We are too focused on how everyone would look at us, we get too distracted on the things that are more important than looks. It's ok to change how you look, but do it in a safe way like eating healthier and working out more. Surgery isn't the answer to your issues. And to those who like the way they are, kudos to y'all. I wish I had that confidence. In the end, it's your own decision on what to do to your body.

Be proud in the skin you're in

"Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self"

-Priscilla Presley  

KDrama Review: Blood: "Not Enough Blood"

Second kdrama review on lock! 

So... Blood. It's a vampire Korean drama. I'll be honest there was way too much dialogue when it was supposedly an action, thriller, fantasy drama. For every 1 action scene, there were like... 5 dialogue scene. However it was pretty good, had situational irony, a lot of it actually, but, YES BUT, the objective of the antagonist wasn't super clear and neither was the end for that matter. 

Let me be the first to say that American vampires are cooler than Korean ones-- excluding Twilight of course. Maybe their concept of vampires are just... not good. By their I mean the writers, and producers and directors. The drama starred Ahn Jae Hyun who played Park Ji Sang and Koo Hye Sun who was in Boys Over Flowers. I liked her in that drama, Boys Over Flowers I mean, but in this drama she was annoying as all hell. I hated her character. Well, okay hate is a strong word, I strongly disliked her character. She was selfish and self entitled, whined a lot and very arrogant. If that was their goal, bravo. 

Ahn Jae Hyun's character was also a bit arrogant, not as self entitled and not as whiny. I felt like both of their characters were pretty three dimensional. Their background story, although it could have been explained more, it gave them a good amount of depth. For a vampire drama there weren't a lot of vampires. I mean there were, but there was a lot lacking. They were more human than vampire, yeah they had the super human strength, and the quick agility, but they didn't really drink blood. It was pretty darn rare, and isn't that like the one thing that vampires are known for, their love of the red drink? 

Blood is about Park Ji Sang who was born a vampire. For a while he grew up with his mother and even though when he's around blood he changes, he decides to be a surgeon and help people instead of killing them, so he gets a job at a hospital. Ji Sang is quickly accepted by the other doctors excluding Yoo Ri Ta( Koo Hye Sun). A new director is employed at the hospital and with the "help" of him Ji Sang starts to uncover truths and secrets about his past. 

So overall it was good, there were plenty of deaths, and you know it was satisfying. I just wish the antagonist had a better reason for doing what he did. He personally didn't have a good story line. Or maybe I just didn't understand, but I doubt it. He seemed one dimensional even though I knew he really wasn't supposed to be. On top of that the things he did to get his way didn't really add up. Perhaps if they did more flashbacks for him or something. The ending was also pretty confusing in itself. Like, is there going to be a second season? The ending (***no spoilers***) was way too simple when obviously, it didn't make sense! If there is going to be another season then it makes sense, but with an ending like that if they don't have a second season it just set people up for disappointment. Especially if they really liked this drama. 

The drama had a few characters that, if anything, weren't needed. They were probably like "Oh shit, we hired too many people. Let's kill 'em off." Kim Yu Seok, that played Doctor Jung Ji Tae; his character was lacking so much. He had what seemed like an interesting childhood, but because he wasn't the focus, they didn't talk about him much. All the humans that found out Ji Sang was a vampire were way too cool about it. WAY TOO COOL. 

Some parts of this drama were too slow and others too fast, but if you've watched Vampire Prosecutor and want move vampire dramas watch Blood because it wasn't horrible. No matter the faults, I really liked it. I'm giving it 3.5 G-Dragon heads out of 5.  

Seriously though, there was not enough blood. 

Check out Blood on DramaFever!! >>>>> Blood on DramaFever

Do You Even Watch Korean Dramas?

Wait a minute, hold up! Do you not know what a Korean Drama is? 

Oh you do? 

Never mind. I was worried for a second. In all seriousness, if you don't know what a Korean drama is, it's a basically a soap opera in Korean. Except they are way better than American soap operas, and tv novelas. Of course this statement will differ depending on who you're talking to, but right now you're talking to me and I'm telling you, they are amazing. 

All of my last post were talking about kpop and this blog is "My Korean Drama Life" and not once have I talked about a drama. 

I'll be honest, my Korean addiction didn't officially start until freshman year of college and I'm a junior right now, so it hasn't been long like some others. (Sorry if use the term addiction too loosely) 

My first Korean drama was also freshman year of college, it was called "Bel Ami" also known as the 

"Pretty Man." Let me sum up this drama for you. It was about this man, who had was given the task to "conquer" women, it was really just learning certain skills from them and climb the corporate and social ladder in life. Making a name for himself, he soon finds himself tangled up with a poor dorky girl he met years ago who is in love with him, he now finds himself also starting to fall for her and thus, climbing the ladder becomes more of a game of chutes and ladders. I think I summed it up quite nicely. From there I watched other dramas like "Coffee Prince," "To The Beautiful You," "The Flower Boy Next Door," "Secret Garden," and my personal favorite "Mary Stayed Out All Night." The list goes on and on but I think I'll just stop here. 

If you're thinking about watching a Korean drama and you're on the fence I'm here to push you off the fence and onto the side of the drama. You're going to thank me later, and then you're going to hate me and then you're going to wish you never listened to me, because now you're addicted. It's the truth.

  So far I haven't really said what makes a kdrama so good. Well, one day for my Japanese pop culture class I talked about Japanese Cool vs. The Korean Wave and the differences in the drama. I stated that a Korean drama has great quality and the acting, although the writing is corny sometimes, the acting is pretty on par. Although it's not often easy to relate to, compared to a Japanese drama, they are a little more grown up and have a wider rage of audience, but that was based on other things. I like them, because they aren't your average drama, they aren't SUPER dramatic and they open one up to a new culture, because you know certain aspects of dramas, just like anime have real things about them, like food, and customs ect. I like them also because they are freaking hilarious, and they always hit you right in the god damned feels. You get second lead syndrome almost every time and kills you when the female lead doesn't realize she should be with guy #2 not #1.
Kdramas are everything man. That's all I'm saying. Do you even watch Korean dramas?

Watch it here! >>>> Pretty Man on DramaFever

How I Wish My Life Was A K-Drama

To all you crazy K-Drama fans, you would want your life to be like a K-Drama. The drama, the love, the power, etc, you want it all. Although k-dramas may look ridiculous at times, but in the end you'll be laughing your butt off and question WTF just happened. It's so entertaining to watch, you question what the director was thinking when he/she was writing the script. In every drama, these are the most typical characters you will see:

#1 The Chaebol

The rich, snobby, cocky, bad playboy that every girl wants to be with. They're super good looking and have a super big ego. But whatever gesture they do like waving their hands like celebrities or just a simple wink, the girls will fall on their feet. They may look like selfish bastards, but deep down they have a soft side they don't want to show anyone.

#2 The female lead who gets a Cinderella ending

There's almost always a female lead who gets a fairy tale ending. They start off as peasant, taking the burden on their shoulder to go out and be the breadwinner for whatever. The viewers sympathize them and hope their future will be better.

#3 The best friend/rival

Every male lead gotta have a best friend or rival. The best friend is always by the male lead's side. His right hand man, sidekick, VP, whatever. As for the rival, well he and the male lead are rivals. They compete in everything they do; proving who's the best. But they both have one thing in common, they both have a crush on the female lead. Although the best friend doesn't want to admit it as it would put their friendship in jeopardy. But for the rival, he doesn't care and will take what he deserves.

#4 The crazy, controlling mothers who really needs to learn how to chill

The Chaebol's mother. The mother every child wants to have...right...She's the control freak of her son who 'wants the best'. They like to show off their fur coats and want to look the best to show everyone who's the boss. They're very sensitive and very dramatic. You just want to give them a slap sometimes...all the time...

If I could have my life like a k-drama, I would never get bored. I could have a two sexy, lovely men chasing after me, fighting for my love, The chaebol going after the poor, ordinary girl, trying to win her heart. A typical element in a k-drama. We could be stuck in a hotel room because of an unforeseen situation, but nothing helps which makes the fans go crazy. The chaebol (main lead) gives me a hug or the best friend (2nd lead) kisses me, the counter parts go crazy and be like 'WTF. She's mine!!' The feeling of having men chasing after me is a dream, but having to pass Momma bear is a challenge. Just imagining having a mother-in-law like that would be a nightmare. Having to deal with her harsh criticisms on everything is gonna be something I have to learn to endure or I can just secretly kill her and everything will be alright...Nahhh, wouldn't want to get in trouble with the popo. But in the end, it all works out. I get the male lead and we get married while be friends with the 2nd lead. Happily Ever After~~

Dramas that exemplifies this are:

 
I WANT TO BE IN A K-DRAMA~~~ T_T

It All Started With Bi...

Um...hi. So...I've never really written a blog. But yeah, I like K-POP. Well, not like, more like a love thirsting hunger for K-POP which sounds weird, but to all you K-poppers, you get my feels. I listen to K-POP and watch K-Dramas all day everyday. I started getting into K-POP when I was in middle school. So young~~~ What got me into Korean culture was watching Bi (Rain) in the drama Full House (Not the American TV show with Mary-Kate and Ashley). After seeing how beautiful and muscular Bi was, I had to find more information on him.

As I continued searching him like a stalker...I encountered many other K-POP idols. My next obsession was Super Junior, the K-POP group that started out with 13 members when Hangeng and Kibum were still in the group. After listening to their hit song "Sorry Sorry", which became such a hit song, I see Hong Kong actors parody this song. It stuck with me for so long because of their catchy chorus and easy dance. I challenged myself to know all 13 members. I always asked myself, why have 13 members. Some members aren't going to get a lot of singing time. 

And so the list can go on and on as more newcomers are debuting from hundreds of entertainment companies. But my ultimate bias are Big Bang and 2PM. Big Bang with their hip hop groove and 2PM's beastly body. They're the real MVP (at least to me...). I don't mind the Engrish these K-POP say, it's always funny to hear. Although, it would be nice if there was an English expert to help them, but they're still good looking and I love them <3 <3 <3 FOREVER K-POP~~~

KDrama Review: Dream Knights: "What Is A Dream Knight"

So this is my first first review ever. Before you read this just remember that a review is often just an opinion piece. So before you chop my head off if you disagree, keep in mind we are all entitled to out own opinion, but we aren't entitled to murder. 

Dream Knights starred, Song Ha Yoon and all of the GOT7 members. If you don't know GOT7 they are a 7 member boy group that started in JYP entertainment company. If you really want to know all about the beautiful members of GOT7 I'll throw a link somewhere. 

This was more of a web series drama and every episode ranged from 12- 20 minutes depending on what the focus was in that episode. There were only 12 episodes, so you could probably watch it in a day if it wasn't SO BAD. Okay, it wasn't downright atrocious or anything. The drama was about these four boys that were guardians/protectors of this girl who had "a lot of pain." These boys were supposed to be mysterious because they appeared out of nowhere. 

Let's be honest, if this drama didn't have the cute and talented GOT7 in it, it would be trash, but because it was CLEARLY made to benefit their music careers and make a larger name for themselves it got a lot of good feedback and publicity. I'll give props where it's due, they had some good songs put in there. They were stuck in my head even after I finished the drama. So I went out and bought them. If that was their goal, congratulations you freaking succeeded. 

When watching this drama, all I could think about was anime. With these powers they had, yeah I said it, they had powers. Like, excuse me what? 

Jackson from GOT7 with fire powers.

The concept was also kind of corny, like random hot guys appear out of nowhere and this girl lets them live with her? Then the ending was kind of like what? Dance competition? Childish is a good term to describe this drama. Everything was anti climatic in my opinion. The character that Song Ha Yoon played irked me because she just seemed to lack everything, she was totally one dimensional. If anything the only one that seem to have some kind of depth to them was Junior, and he played... himself? 

His character had an interesting background story, and I really wished that it was developed more. I'm just saying The Bravest Warriors has a better plot than this drama and it's a cartoon. (Ah that sounded like a backhanded compliment, but I really meant it with the utmost respect, I honestly like The Bravest Warriors). 

If you're looking for a short, quirky, and funny romantic comedy, then you should check this out? I give is 2.5 G-Dragon heads out of 5, but I mean it's probably because I went in looking for a real drama and came out with a web series. Whatever y'all! It was cute even though it wasn't amazing! Good job GOT7 and JYP. 

Check out Dream Knight >>>>> Dream Knights on DramaFever

But I mean really, what is a Dream Knight? 

If I Was Korean I Would

"WOW FANTASTIC BABY" 

What the hell was I listening to, my friend had sat me down at a computer to watch something called Korean Pop. At the time was really into metal and punk music this obviously wasn't my scene. I didn't do pop music, no matter what language it was. I wasn't feeling it so I quickly paused it. He looked at me and I explained I didn't like it, how trashy it was, how "Boom Shakalaka" wasn't even a real phrase. I wanted lyrics with heart, with feeling not mainstream garbage from another country. Although I did dig some of their hair colors. Stumped, he assumed I wanted something with an edgy feel so he turned to Girls' Generation "Run Devil Run" ha, yeah, super edgy. Okay I lied, it wasn't even a little edgy. I was going around listing to Memphis Mayfire, Black Veil Brides, August Burns Red, Asking Alexandria and so on and he thought this was edgy. He couldn't be any more incorrect. I got up and left. 

That's how I got into kpop. Okay well I obviously wan't into it.. but don't worry I do... OBVIOUSLY.

"HER WHISPER IS THE LUCIFER"
What the hell was I now watching. My friend from band had explained that he wished he could dance like the guys in SHINee. Whoever they were, one more Korean pop group I didn't care about, but I had to admit... they had some serious dancing skills.
That night I had gone home and watched he video again. No these guys were freaking amazing, of course I was disregarding the whole Taemin had hair extensions in. YouTube with all their recommended videos led me to more. "Ring Ding Dong" and "Hello" they were cute, but they were no match to my Black Veil Brides. Slowly one video became two which became three, and soon I was on a whole new group. B1A4. I didn't even understand their name, it made no sense, but they took me on a whole new journey, with their song, "O.K" and "Beautiful Target."

  Beautiful Target was the song that really got me. Their quirky behavior and their cute dancing, especially the way they said rocket. At the time I couldn't really explain my fascination. From there, it was back to the notorious BIGBANG. 

By the time I watched another BIGBANG video I had completely forgotten my first encounter with them. I was now a graduating senior in high school and most of this I thought was in the past. All the cute Kpop stuff. Boy was I wrong. Every once in a while I would listen to the B1A4 videos, but I didn't like them enough to illegally download the song onto my iPod. Under the videos that were recommended for me was BAD BOY by BIGBANG.  Their style was so different from B1A4, granted they were cute, but they reminded me of western music in another language. Their style was something that resembled my own and they were singing what...? R&B? I could fuck with this. The singing was amazing and their hair colors were outrageous. I fell in love. The guy with the blue hair,-who I later found out was T.O.P-- had deep alluring voice. It was strangely soothing and so was this song. It was also pretty damn catchy. But what was this? In the videos off to the side was something that looked oddly familiar, I clicked it. The beginning was vaguely familiar. I've seen this before. "WOW FANTASTIC BABY"  

Are you shitting me it was that song again? That song that I had shut down from the moment I heard it. This song was sung, by these beautiful guys who sung BAD BOY? No freaking way. There was no way. But it was true. Soon just like B1A4 one song became two, which became three and so on and so forth, but only this was worse. I had to know who they were. I had to know their names. Who was the one with the icy blue hair, and who was the one with the pink hair. I had to know these guys. What was kpop?
If I was Korean I would definitely be a sasaeng fan.

Fantastic Baby by Big Bang

Lucifer by SHINee

I'm Not Korean But..

I'm not Korean but, I love Korean dramas, Korean music, Korean fashion, Korean movies, and Korean food. 

My father calls me his "Asian Daughter" a name funny to him, annoying to me, but I take it with great pride. I like the Korean culture that is not my own. Well, I like learning about it I should say. Just like most things, you get a small taste of it and then it just goes from there. It get's larger than life and soon becomes you life and swallows you whole. I have a tumbler blog, an instagram, a million pintrest boards and a twitter dedicated to my addiction. I don't even think it can reach anymore levels. 

If you're not Korean but... you still like Korean pop, here are some things you should know about me. I am a #VIP all the way, BIGBANG until the day I die and when I do may I rest in peace... right next to them. Thanks feature children. I know you'll do your mother proud. I'm not Korean but, I'm also a huge SHINee fan. Don't know SHINee or BIGBANG, well this is them. And this is where the obsession began. These 10 gorgeous Korean men are the ones that got me to the level I'm currently at. Keeping up to date with all things Korean pop related. My knowledge about the music grew and so  did my love of them and their music. I became

SHINee

BIGBANG

so invested in them that it consumed my daily activities. I went from learning their stage names, to learning their real names. From there it moved on to date of birth, and height, and weight and ideal type of girl as if.. I was going to ever meet them and they were going to fall for me. Yeah, as if. I'm not Korean, but I disregarded the level of racism that stemmed in the country they came from because I so desperately wanted them (when the time came) see me as a potential person to be friends with or date. Like I said as if. 

I did more research, about their upbringing the companies in which they came from and more. The diversity in their companies looking from a silver lining in all the clouds, but this was only the middle of my addiction. My life wasn't topsy turvy like this all the time. I used to be normal, I was a normal girl with more realistic goals and dreams, and I liked American music. The day I met my friend Castle and the day he introduced me to this world was when my life really hit the fan. But that's a whole other story. 

I'm not Korean, but I really like Kpop.