A man wearing make-up in the city may inspire unwelcome glares, inquiries regarding his manliness and even his sexuality. In any case, in South Korea, thoughts regarding what to look like great as a man are changing demeanors and affecting the world, as the BBC's Saira Asher reports.
At the point when the BBC posted a video about the make-up routine of a 16-year-old YouTuber in Seoul on Facebook, the responses extended from interested to absolute disdainful.
Some accepted this implied he was gay, while others reprimanded him for his decision saying "genuine men don't wear make-up". There were, obviously, those that contended for his opportunity to live anyway he satisfied and against the "delicate masculinities" on appear.
In any case, Kim Seung-hwan is utilized to it. He says he's been called gay by a few Koreans online for whatever length of time that he's been doing make-up instructional exercises.
At the point when gotten some information about whether he thought he looked ladylike after he put on make-up, he was befuddled by the inquiry as though he had never at any point considered it.
"No I don't. I don't consider this being a girly look," he says. "It's tied in with looking great."
Inside a male wonder salon
For those awkward with men who wear make-up, the scene at a top of the line salon for men in Seoul's Gangnam area would have been very something. In any case, it focuses to a critical move in social desires.
Senior make-up craftsman Han Hyun-jae expertly applies establishment, eyeliner and lipstick on a man. He browses a variety of items and brands that will be well-known to most ladies, and goes in for the last contacts of what he calls the K-pop (short for Korean pop) look . It's a scene that rehashes itself for a long time.
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Packs of certain young fellows walk into the salon and after that leave with culminate skin and hair. A large number of them are artists or on-screen characters on their approach to limited time occasions.
"I utilize toner and salve, at that point CC cream (shading amendment cream). I will utilize facial pack after facial shedding."
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One man is there for his wedding make-up, a typical practice for men in South Korea. He gets red lips for his exceptional day.
"We make their composition cleaner, eyebrows darker, shape their appearances and draw out their manliness in a way they can't do themselves," says Mr Han. He says men come in needing to resemble their most loved K-pop icons.
Over the most recent couple of years, K-pop groups and Korean shows have turned into the significant effect on youngsters in the nation and a year ago K-pop broke into the standard US and UK music scenes.
"I think Korea is a pioneer in men's excellence culture, certainly in Asia right now, if not the world," says Joanna Elfving-Hwang from the University of Western Australia, who has done broad research on magnificence and picture in South Korea.
"The way they (K-pop stars) play with manliness, being a lovely man in a hetero or non-hetero way, it opens up potential outcomes for men in the city and in the long run makes it more worthy."
This doesn't mean each man in Seoul strolls around with a full face of make-up.
In any case, in youthful and chic neighborhoods like Myeung-dong it's basic to see men strolling around with establishment or BB cream (flaw ointment) - a lotion and light establishment half and half.
All the more significantly it has took into account a substantially looser translation of what's adequate for men with regards to excellence.
What's more, some youthful Korean men are proud in regards to the drive to improve their look.
From intense person to pretty kid
That wasn't generally the case. In the 90s the salaryman was the predominant male stylish. Suits, extravagance watches and a conventional solid male look were the standard. Korea has required national administration and that shaped and characterized what men thought would look engaging.
"In the 90s, men in Korean pop substance were to a great extent depicted as extreme folks in hoodlum and analyst films, and insubordinate young fellows in some TV dramatizations," says Sun Jung, the creator of Korean Masculinities and Transcultural Consumption.
Yet, all that changed in the mid-1990s when music aggregate Seo Taeji and The Boys went onto the scene, says Prof Elfving-Hwang. They utilized rap, shake and techno impacts and consolidated English dialect into their music.
They kick-began fan culture which has now turned into a noteworthy power in the music business, she says.
At that point took after the huge amusement organizations producing K-pop young lady groups and kid groups, and their impact has been similar to nothing before it.
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"Contrasted with the 90s, now there are significantly more delicate masculinities - lovely kid pictures and delicate male pictures - spoke to in media, and purchasers welcome and broadly expend them," says Dr Sun Jung.
They came to be known as Khonminam - joining the words for blossom and a wonderful man. She says it takes motivation from comparative ideas in Japan of bishonen or delightful young men and Shojo manga - young ladies funnies.
In any case, it's not ladylike.
"I figure the marvel ought to rather be clarified through the thought of half and half or flexible manliness - delicate yet masculine in the meantime - which is not quite the same as effeminised," says Dr Jung.
She refers to Song Joong-ki, the star of tremendously well known Korean dramatization "Relatives of the Sun" as the encapsulation of this. He might be a khonminam in his look, yet as an extraordinary powers chief in the military he is additionally an intense person.
Tune Joong-ki is viewed as the average Korean male interest
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Relatives of the Sun and other Korean shows have helped spread the South Korean check out Asia and now the world. What's more, that implies the approaches to accomplish that look are popular.
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Male symbols are put on boards in Seoul selling items like face covers and lotions. Organizations are currently employing men to offer ladies make-up items.
Their being a fan in places like China, Thailand and Singapore isn't to be expelled either. Enormous groups appear to their exhibitions and item dispatches.
"Men in China and South East Asia tend to surmise that Korean men are the run of the mill excellence," says Lee Gung-min, an advisor to South Korean magnificence organizations.
"That is hugy affecting male customers in Asia."
Korean magnificence blast
Past Asia, mark Korea is beginning to offer well in the US and Europe.
Walmart and Sephora currently have K-magnificence (Korean excellence) marks on their racks and excellence bloggers are gushing the ideals of the 10-step K-excellence routine for sparkling skin. American and European make-up aficionados are quick getting to be familiar with brands that were already just well known in Asia like TonyMoly, Innisfree and Etude House.
Most strangely, settled magnificence brands are making their own renditions of items that started in South Korea - like Clinique, Lancome and L'oreal presenting pad compacts.
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Make-up in a salon
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The drive for the ideal face has without a doubt additionally added to a very much detailed ascent in restorative medical procedures in South Korea to accomplish the coveted jawline or nose. Be that as it may, it likewise comes from a profoundly instilled distraction with how you introduce yourself to others.
That is a typical feeling crosswise over Seoul. Individuals here truly think about what they look like and how they fall off to the world - the two people.
You can't walk a couple of ventures without going over a beautifying agents or skincare shop with a sales representative outside attempting to draw you in with a free face veil, and organizations are certainly exploiting that self-mind culture to offer items.
However, men are currently as much at the less than desirable end of that drive - or maybe weight - for self improvement that ladies have felt for ages.
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