Sunday 26 October 2014

Contemorary Elizabethan Look - Kim TaeYeon in SNSD 'The Boys' Music Video

Girls Generation (SNSD) 'The Boys' music video

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Kim Taeyeon
Kim Taeyeon is one of the members in a Korean girl group call Girls Generation (SNSD) and Taeyeon's look on 'The boys' music video in 2011 reminds me of the Elizabethans. Byung Ok Seo, Gang Mi Kim, Hyun Jung Ryu, Ji Young Lee and Soonsoo Kyoung Mee Shin are responsible for the makeup. Soo Koung Suh is the stylist and Ji Young Choi, Soonsoo a Reum Kim, Yoo Da Soonsoo Heewon and Young En Kweon are the hair stylist of this music video.
For me, the design of the makeup looks like a modern interpretation of the Elizabethan makeup. Although the eyebrows and the lip colour doesn't fit in the ideal beauty of the Elizabethans which is thin, arched eyebrows and rouged lips but the pale complexion, red cheeks that Taeyeon wore in the music video reminds me of the ideal beauty that Elizabethan women thought of. I like the eyeshadows that Taeyeon wore and it has got the colour gold which also links to the Elizabethans because gold colour were only worn by the highest nobility in the land. The dress and the hair accessories are focused on the colour gold and white and pearls are used on the hair accessories that Taeyeon wore. Pearls were used to represent virginity and purity in the Elizabethan era.The middle parting and the frizzy curly hair is one of the features of the Elizabethan women as well.

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