True Beauty 💄 | Red Velvet - Dumb Dumb |FMV

There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.

hello, hello. here the anon that once gave you some recommendations of kdramas. how have you been doing?

I saw some gifs you reblogged of see you in my 19th life and I couldn’t help to come ask you. what do you think of it? I have a bit of a conflict on how easy things turned out after ji-eum found ae-gyeong. but aside from that, I’m very excited and looking forward to it.

there’s something so heartwarming about this kdrama and I’m loving it.

— ☕️! anon

omg hi anon !!! i've been doing well, thank you!! what about you? sadly i have not gotten around to your recommendations from last time yet, but ive noted them down so i will watch at some point haha

but yes i'm loving this kdrama too, i love the cinematography and the dialogue in it, i already knew i was in love with ahn bohyun but oh my god im discovering shin hye-sun with this one and i love her so so much shes such a good actress!! i just love it when fls arent afraid to shower the ml with love, even though hes not reciprocating it rn 😭 i love their dynamic so far!! and tbh i hadnt even noticed how easy things had gone for ji-eum, i think after watching so many kdramas i dont even clock that sorta stuff because it always happens 😭 like everything just coincides in the most perfect way possible for them lol, it is kind of annoying thats true, i guess the writers just wanted to show the beginning of how she'd found her "niece" and seo-ha again, then have a time skip so that the romance was actually age appropriate lol. i think what i have a conflict with is that it'd probably make more sense for her to just tell them who she is, but of course that would make the drama a lot shorter so they can't have that haha, i'm sure they would believe her because in her 18th life as ju-won she was already saying things about having past lives etc. but i also like this thing shes got going on of making him fall for her as ji-eum and not ju-won. im excited to see him heal, im also excited to cry more about her and cho-won because they are cute, and i swear cho-won deserves the world i dont trust the assistant friend guy yet (cant even rmb his name) but we'll see if he steps up. so yes sorry this ended up getting long haha but im really looking forward to this weekend for the new eps, waiting is torture and i really hope they will continue with the high quality bc this is such a strong start for me !! thank u for the ask anon!!!

[skips thru the first 20 minutes of the true beauty drama because im so uncomfortable watching how ju gyeong gets treated]

horror movie date (interrupted).

They didn't even give her time to develop feelings for Seo Jun.

im so tired of the writers making seojun fix suho and ju kyung’s problems. poor seojun. he’s too good for this world.

여신강림 – 임주경

[Im Ju Gyeong from True Beauty]

reference photo credit @autumnstarsworld

I chose this photo cause I wanted to try out a different kind of “pose” since I realized most of the portraits I made were just of the characters facing forward into the camera and it’s mostly from shoulder up. So this photo looked like a nice different pose that I wanted to try out. I really put in a lot of effort into the details in this one. I think it turned out quite nice?! the school logo though haha it had a lot more words but I couldn’t make out what most of them were apart from the school name at the top so I just sort of left them out.

This drama, oh, this drama. It’s literally a drama on crack, oh God. I don’t know how else to describe it. It’s hilarious. But I kinda found the story line to be a bit draggy and frustrating because of all the misunderstandings around episode 7 / 8. But the comedy kept me interested. I just– HAN SEO JUN! He’s the most legit second male lead I’ve ever seen in any drama ever, and like sorry but Su Ho’s character literally has zero personality, I don’t really see the appeal. Making Suho get the girl literally makes no sense because the second male lead is more legit and overall just a more solid character. But he’s the second male lead so obviously he won’t get the girl. I usually pretty much never get second lead syndrome but for this drama I got it so bad.

Another thing, someone commented that the side characters were the ones who carried the show, and I really have to agree. I think the side characters were the ones who made the drama a lot more wholesome, and on the whole, a lot more enjoyable? If I had to watch Im Ju Gyeong and Suho together throughout the entire thing I might have just died of boredom. Sorry, but they’re just a really boring couple. In a way, I’m glad Seo Jun wasn’t endgame because frankly speaking, he can do better. yikes. I also did not like how they extended the drama when they could have just ended it at episode 13 after Im Ju Gyeong is finally able to overcome....her problems lol how do I say it. Anyway you get the point. The break up and everything was just really unnecessary and all it did was give Seo Jun another heartbreak. It just made me feel for Seo Jun even more than before.

And this drama was supposed to be about girl who struggled with bullying and her self-esteem. But this drama didn’t even focus on that aspect all the much? It was pretty just a high school love triangle story. It was pretty much Ju Gyeong with make up vs Ju Gyeong without make up, and her trying not to get caught. They didn’t really go in depth about her sort of inner struggles? Trying to regain her self-esteem and stand up to her bullies. The drama just focused mainly on the love story so that made the story line a bit shallow. It did probably have a bit more of a meaningful character development compared to in My ID is Gangnam Beauty but as a whole I think, they could have focused a bit more on this aspect apart from the love story.

Also, I know there are plenty of people who think Cha Eun Woo can’t act and honestly, I agree. Lol but even so I think his acting in here improved? By maybe like 0.5% or something but I think there were some really minor improvements. it’s just a bit hard to tell because his character here is pretty much a carbon copy of his character in My ID is Gangnam Beauty just with an addition of a love for reading comic books lmao. But personally for me, I think even though his acting still needs a lot of improvement, at least his crying scenes are...MORE BELIEVABLE THAN MOON GA YOUNG’S??? I see people bashing his acting but why is nobody talking about how Moon Ga Young’s crying scenes are so fake? They’re so fake I can’t even take it seriously. And the way she talks with like a babyish voice. Did the director make her do that because her character is supposed to be childish or is her acting...? I mean I watched her in Waikiki 2 and it wasn’t that bad. But in here her crying is the fakest crying I’ve ever seen. And her voice is just. No. Surely I’m not the only one who thinks this way.

Overall, though, this was my very first high school kdrama and I guess I enjoyed it! Will i be watching more high school kdramas though? probably not. I actually used to read the webtoon back in like 2019 but stopped after around 30 chapters or so. And since many people say the drama didn’t really follow the webtoon, I’m tempted to go back and start reading the webtoon again to see if it ends differently because I just wasn’t really a huge fan of the ending in the drama. Maybe I’ll get around to reading it, maybe I won’t. We’ll see.

Oh, and another thing. Before I forget. The fact that they got a beautiful looking actress to play an ugly character? uhhhhhhhhh. I know looks are important in dramas but it’s just very unconvincing. VERY UNBELIEVABLE. Moon Ga Young with fake pimples is ugly? What am I then, extremely hideous? The dirt under your shoe? Please don’t do this.

// 21 April 2021

Han Seojun Social Media AU: Dear Friend,...

Almost a year an half has passed since Han Seojun's debut and everything has been going solid. He has been distracted by work to get over his one sided love with his high school friend, Im Ju Gyeong. Only problem is he can't seem to move on just entirely yet and it frustrates him. When music a popular anonymous no-face music producer ,Jojo, is set to work on the new album with Seojun's band,"CHAOS", and he finds himself learning more about himself, friendship, and a little thing or two about what real true love is.

True Beauty. Episode Thirteen.

Im Ju Gyeong is the sweetest and the ABSOLUTE bravest! Love her.

it’s odd since i do like the main couple and most of the characters in true beauty, but at the same time i’m super frustrated with im ju gyeong. it’s been 12 episodes and she shows no signs of overcoming her tendency to run and hide her barefaced self to the point that she’s blatantly lying to her friends. i had hoped the message of true beauty would be something along the lines of her kindness or compassion making her truly beautiful and her learning to see that, but 12 episodes in and it’s still about superficial beauty.

True Beauty - Episode 4

So here we go for episode 4 of True Beauty! So many things happened in the last weeks so I couldn’t really sit down to watch k-dramas. Or any dramas at all. But I’m now back and with a very nice new device so I can watch and make these recaps in my living room, well sited on my couch. Isn’t it amazing? Well I think so.

The episode starts with Seojun riding his motorcycle and it’s a flashback of when his friend Se Yeon died. The poor boy was accused of being a bully and he wanted to seek help from Su Ho to clear his name. But obviously it didn’t work out as Se Yeon ended dying. So it seems that’s why Seo Jun blames Su Ho for it. And there we are back in the cafeteria, when Seo Jun sits to eat with Jugyeong. Which angers Su Ho. They kind of start getting in a fight, but they are stopped by a teacher. The teacher blames it all on Seo Jun even though Su Ho claims he was the one to start the fight. They end up out of trouble because Su Ho is a good student.

The female friend, the black haired girl that his friend with both Su Ho and Ju Gyeong - I can’t remember her name right now - talks all little with Su Ho about it and wonders if things went bad between him and Seo Jun because of Se Yeon. But he only answers with a glare, so she just gives him soin ointment.

The girls are all excited about a potential love triangle between Ju Gyeong, Su Ho and Seo Jun. Ju Gyeong gets surrounded and people ask her who’s she’s going to chose ans she’s like... what chosing? She says they don’t like her, they just don’t get along well. They don’t agree but her other friend dismisses them all. Then Su Ho comes back to class but before they can ask anything, Seo Jun’s friend come over to have a talk with Su Ho. They want to defend Seo Jun, but end up almost getting in trouble. They get punished by having to clean the gym. Su Ho tries to say something about the day Se Yeon died, but Seo Jun doesn’t want to hear him making excuses. Poor Su Ho. It seems he feels really bad himself about it.

Later at night, Su Ho has a flashback of Seo Jun telling him to bring Se Yeon back. So he goes to the manga store and has another flashback of baby Ju Gyeong. She was trying to make him smile. While she’s passing by, Ju Gyeong sees Su Ho and bring him a drink. She scolds him a little for getting into a fight. Once again though, she comforts him a little, he even smiles. He asks her if it’s really important for her that people don’t wee her without make up and she says of course, because maybe others look different, but she’s extremely different without make up. And he says he can’t see the difference so much. So cute <3 Then their faces are close and she sees his lip got a cut and she touches it. Then they are interrupted by the shop owner and he sends her home to study. I guess he was shook.

The next morning, Seojun asks her if she’s dating Su Ho, but she says she doesn’t.

Big sister is still hoping to see the teacher to meet her for a meal. I love the eldest sister. She’s so dorky in her own way.

Ju Gyeong is called to solve a math problem on the board, along with Su Ho and the other smart girl. She’s having much trouble, Su Ho helps a little, but then when Seo Jun laughs, he has to take Ju Gyeong’s place. Then the girls invite Ju Gyeong to join their study group. Lon haired girl tells Su Ho to join too, but he doesn’t want to. Then short haired friend wants to set her on a blind date.

Later that day, when she goes back home taking the bus, Su Ho follows her. She gives him a chocolate bar for his math contest the next day. He says he doesn’t like sweets but takes it anyways. Then he asks her about maths and stuff, she can’t answer anything. And right then she receives a message from her blind date, which seems to upset poor Su Ho. He makes her meet the guy during day time the next day, cause she was considering night time. But he tells her not to meet the guy if she doesn’t want to. She says it’s not that she doesn’t want to, more that she’s nervous meeting a guy outside of school. Wooooups. Poor Su Ho. He’s no more a guy then? But before she can say anything, the bus stops abruptly and he prevents her face from falling. Then some other guy come to sit between the two of them and then she’s happy about the movie she’s going to see with the blind date, so Su Ho gets upset and gets down of the bus.

Seo Jun’s mom is getting out of the hospital. And she goes to pay a visit to Ju Gyeong’s mom along with Seo Jun. So Ju Gyeong tries to hide her bare face with a mask, but it’s a little bit... catastrophic. She has to put on make up again once she washes off the mask so Seo Jun won’t know. When she’s about to leave, her mom invites Seo Jun to eat over at their place the next day and he snitches on her having a date. So she snitches on him riding the bike.

While she gets ready for her date, Ju Gyeong realizes she has no pretty clothes, so she goes into her sister’s wardroom, but she finds nothing until she sees a Jingdonc package with a cute dress in it. She really doesn’t look like a teenager wearing that. The guy is so greasy though, beeeh. Lol, Su Ho went to see the movie too and he’s getting mad when he sees a boy kissing a girl. But it’s not her. Seems it’s a cameo from another drama? I haven’t seen it. But the boy looks like Eun Taek from Cheese in the Trap though. Well the cameo is not from Cheese in the Trap, I know that, but just. Hahaha. Bear with me. Always. At the end of the date, she doesn’t seem to thrilled at the idea of seeing him again though. Then after she left, Su Ho sees that the guy is meeting another girl. BAD BOY. I remember that from the Webtoon now haha. I forgot about it, but now, I remember.

When she’s back home, her mom scolds her from dating and says she would rather ship her with someone like Seojun. But Ju Gyeong is like, hell no, he’s a délinquant. And then mommy goes on explaining how much he took care of his mom while she was sick. Sweet boy Seo Jun <3 He even worked to pay his tuition and his mom’s hospital’s bill.

Then later while she’s washing up for the night, she receives a text from her date saying he’s a bad guy as he already has a girlfriend. She only remembers he rejected her. Not that he was trying to two-time. Even the big sis doesn’t notice the most important part hahaha. They’re from another world, totally. The next day Seo Jun makes fun of her for getting rejected. Such a meanie. It’s so weird though, knowing how the stories unravel, I didn’t remember him being so mean xD

Of course, Su Ho made him move away. The saviour. Later that day, it seems like Seo Jun is showing the pictures he has of Ju Gyeong with a face mask, so she steals his moto keys and he goes chasing after her. When he catches up to her, Su Ho comes in, knight in shining armour. And he joins the study group. He teaches her maths, so it makes Kang Su (is that her name) wondering how come they got so close. Then they go KTV and he covers her legs with a cushion hahaha. Su Ho ma boy <3 While she goes to the bathroom, she hears someone singing pretty well. Woooo, who is that?? WHO IS IT? Hahaha! As if I don’t know hihi! It’s Seo Jun, yep yep! She doesn’t seem him though, she just notices the motorcycle. He comes out right then and since Su Ho is about to see them, she pulls him away, but then they bump into the thugs from a few episodes back. And Su Ho sees that, so he goes running after them. Of course, since he likes our Ju Gyeong. But when they trick them, Su Ho ends up being dragged into this and he gets in trouble. But then, hello jujitsu skills. But when it’s five against one, how could he win? Fortunately the cops come over.

Seo Jun takes Ju Gyeong home on his motorcycle, since the others left with her bag. Su Ho is at the comic book when she comes home with Seo Jun. So they end up fighting, once again, so she tries to send them on their way home, but her sister is going back home drunk and she drags both of them. And she ends up throwing up on Su Ho. Poor baby boy. Ju Gyeong is super embarrassed and sorry. Definitely not how they expected to end the night.

On their way back, Seo Jun asks Su Ho if he likes Ju Gyeong, so Su Ho asks him if he does, so Seo Jun is like, maybe I should. No don’t pretend to like the girl just to piss your ex-friend. Ju Gyeong is annoying, like really, especially in the drama even more than in the webtoon. But still. Oh, Su Ho left the competition for her. Of course he likes her. My baby. I’m crushing real hard on Su Ho. I was in the Webtoon, I am still in the live action. Even though Seo Jun is a little more handsome.

Next day at school, Seo Jun hands the key to his motorbike to Ju Gyeong, saying that since she says not to ride it, he won’t and that from now on, he’ll listen to her. Of course, in front of Su Ho. That’s so mean. Fight all you want with the guy, but don’t involve an innocent girl in your fights. She wants to follow him, but Su Ho grabs her wrist and tells her not to go. And it’s the end of the episode.

I love the ending song for this. I’m in the mood for dancing, I feel like chancing~ It’s so weird because I know how the story goes, but then I also don’t because I don’t remember? So far I am still enjoying this. It might not win an award for my favorite drama of all times, but it’s a good series to change my mood and forget about stuff that upsets me. I recommend it, without having too high expectations. Watch it just to see something light and relax. That’s my advice on that! And it’s enough for today, time to turn in! Goodbye! See you soon. We’re back in full lockdown with a curfew, I’m going to have plenty of time for my beloved dramas.

*SPOILERS* All of us are dead rant

- suhyeok, cheongsan, and gyeong su had the cutest friendship ever

- i-sak and onjo also had the cutest friendship as well.

- lee nayeon and yoon gwinam lasted way too fucking long and them bitches had me about to jump the TV and fighting their shit

- namra is the best girl and she is absolutely probably my favorite character ever

- kim chaelsoo is the biggest snake bitch on the damn show.

- mijin and hari were the OT ship deadass

- the parents d*ing honestly hit me harder than anything

- park heesu story, although short, honestly had me so sad she did everything to protect her baby

- ig i understand whyhe did it but what science teacher byeongchan did was unacceptable

- gyeong su’s death was the saddest death ive seen in tv history stfu im still not over it

- jae-il and hocheol needed to be a bigger part of the storytbh them and the kids

- did we ever see what happened to cheongsan’s father or do we assume he d*ed????

- the assembly woman and her group had me mad af initially like so ju had to go save his daughter, that was his priority.

- u sin was kinda fine bye

- gwinam did not need to last that long that bitch was too indestructible so annoying

- that blogger was funny lol the fucking childcare infant zombies chasing after him lol

- their english teacher kinda got me mad defending nayeon after what she did although i get she was trying to have them stick together.

- their whole classroom was so good together (after nayeon left) i like that they stuck by eachothers side (although jimin not helping hyo ryung was definitely fucked up)

- cheongsan is still alive

please even for someone with no clear preference in terms of ships on the show, having suho basically stalk ju gyeong repeatedly and framing it as cute concern from a crush is really so annoying and makes me dislike them together. its 2021 im not going to swoon over his possessive behavior and him trying to man handle her at the mall its WEIRD

i know?? when they were at the study group and were looking at each other lying on the table but as soon as people walked in he started berating her, acting like he’s annoyed with her which she had no way of knowing why he was doing so she probably just took that at face value, he could’ve just stood up and pretended to look around or something. then he kept acting cold to her for no reason like not letting her in the taxi and saying he likes someone else in front of ju kyung. but that elevator thing really pissed me off. seojun didn’t even invite her with an ulterior motive, they were there to shop for his sister and as soon as suho heard she was with seojun, he went to the mall and tried to drag her away from him with no explanation, just forcefully removing her when she was just hanging out with seojun as a friend??? no??? that is a big no no. 

not to mention i’ve had issues with him from the start, he was and still is outright mean to the other kids at school, even violent when he knocked that book or idk what it was out of some girl’s hand?? he’s supposed to be this tortured genius kid but seojun has it as hard as him and he’s still kind or at least doesn’t bother people?? and suho knew soojin’s dad was hitting her because she can’t beat suho’s grades and didn’t try to help her or purposefully get some answers wrong so she could come in first?? like i’m sorry but he’s a typical tsundere male lead and not even the good kind. hurts to see the love of my life cha eunwoo having to play this guy when he’s the pinnacle of good boyness