The revenge of SM ugly duklings

The Untouchable SM with their sea of pretty faces. It is widely knows that their main criteria when choosing group members or artists in general is that looks are extremely important to them. But there are always exceptions.

I do not buy into the popular belief that all the people coming out of SM are gorgeous human beings. Several of them are just not all that. And there are several examples of this. However it is always nice to see girls who have been overlooked for so long being more and more appreciated by the general public.

Here are some girls who I think have overcome their ugly-duckling syndrome and have finally seen the spring in their lives :D

SNSD - Hyoyeon

Probably from the get go Hyeoeon was the most overlooked member in all of SNSD. Although possessing a charming fun personality, her looks were not noticed or as highly regarded as any of the other girls in the group. Her height wasn't the best, and if she had a cute look like Sunny's at the very least, she could have pulled in more fans. However her looks were always not so popular with Korean fans (Although she had quite a few international fans).

For a long time she was the ugly duckling of SNSD. Although she hasn't isn't the most good looking member I always liked her personality so I truly wish that her popularity would increase. This girl was funny and easy going and I always feel for the not-so-popular girl in a group (Probably my own liking for underdogs).

Fast Forward to 2013 and you can see a shift in her looks. I'm going to say that the main features that seems to have changed in her are her brows, weight and nose, Some are saying that she has had lots of plastic surgery but I disagree. I think it is mainly a different styling from hair, clothes and make-up. Her brows have become more Korean-like with the ever so popular straight/thick eyebrows.


You go girl. You keep looking better and better every year. Go get those fans and those solo pictorials :)

FX - Luna

I think the biggest jaw-dropping transformation has been that of Luna from F(x). She went from being totally rough, dark, thick looking paired with the worst hair color ever to actually really good looking.

I think her diet has impacted her new look the most. I know most people think that she has undergone plastic surgery all over her face but I think the most dramatic changes have definitely come from her drastic lost of weight. Perhaps some procedures have happened like Botox, or other injections but I don't think there is any other major procedures to her. Her legs might be a different story as like many people have mentioned, even with weight lost, its very hard to lose muscles in your legs. I guess in Korea there are shots that have become popular for leg muscles (Even Sulli was accused of using it) and if any procedures have been done on Luna, then these shots are most likely true.

Maybe I'm just not good at detecting plastic surgery, but I've always felt that when plastic surgery has been done in a lot of areas in one's face it's obvious and end up looking unnatural (Park Bom, Boram, Seo Woo). 

Her styling and choice of hair color has definitely improved as well and this has elevated her look.

I'm glad that she is gaining positive attention since the girl is talented and seems very sweet, so good going girl.








I think the good transformation brings hope to other ugly-duckling hopefuls.

Don't lose hope:

Amber
Ryehyok

SM is for pretty people only?!!

SM is known in the Korean entertainment industry as the agency of 'pretty people'

According to most citizens in Korea SM contains some of the most beautiful idols and singers from all of the three major agencies......

Even people like IU who has become the favorite little sister in Korea confessed to not daring to try out for the SM auditions because she wasn't pretty enough (WTF!!)

Just look at her she is extremely pretty











 She doesn't even lose when compared to the "most beautiful face" from SM





I feel she wasn't confident enough to try out at the time since she was so young back then. And if SM had turned her down then they sure are idiots given that IU has pretty much everything to offer





Anyways let's go back to the topic at hand.....


SM's 'only beautiful'  members


But I come to bring the truth to everyone that this idea of SME only being for pretty people to be untrue when looking at the evidence I have today.

Let's look at some of the members from SM that fall short on the looks department but have still been able to debut successfully.

First we've got Shinee's Jonghyun 

(This is NOT his worst photo OK)

To be honest Jonghyun is my favorite Shinee member BUT I am not a delusional crazy fan so I can be honest for one minute here. He is not the best looking from the group. AT ALL

He is my favorite for many other reasons but it was not love at first sight. When first looking at a new group I'm sure most girls just go for the best looking one right away. Then we might change our mind on who our favorite member is based on voice, variety skills, dance skills, cute acts, etc, etc, ETC

Jonghyun might be hot at times but he looks old and his face is far from perfect (I still love him though, old-looking and all) I get why SM needed him in the group though. He might not be the best looking one BUT he does have an awesome voice (for an idol that is) and they are a singing group after all soooooooo his voice compensates for the rest 

plus he's funny.

OK, he is a good start on proving one of SM's myths wrong.

Then we have SNSD's Yuri

(NOT her worst photo EITHER) 

 Yuri is the male fantasy of many guys (That's what I've heard at least) and I do have to admit I  can see why. She is tall and has a woman's body with some curves and all. And her legs look meaty compared to all the other members who seem to have chopsticks hanging from their shorts.

But she is not pretty in the face department. All her sex appeal comes directly from her Body.

But she compensates for her lack of face appeal with her height and this makes her stand out in the group.

She has other appeals I'm sure (like being funny perhaps) but since I don't really watch that many shows with her on I can't really say anything about that.

Ok OK, moving on.....

Let's get to Fx Amber

I think it is obvious why Amber is on this list. She does not look like a pretty girl. 

Even if she was a guy she would be considered a hot guy or an attractive guy but not a pretty guy. She seems nice enough though don't get me wrong and I know it is SM who is pushing her to the  

tomboy look even more than what she was used to. I think SM's main reason to make her debut with Fx is that they needed more Chinese members out there to help promote their fairness with the Chinese public (See Super Junior's Hangeng scandal) since they were thinking on promoting there anyways.

I do want to see her with long hair and a more feminine look just to see how she would look like that. I'm not sure if we will ever get to see that though.....

Now let's move on to another 

SNSD's member, Hyoyeon

She is my favorite member from this over-rated group because she seems the most down to earth and genuinely funny from them all. She seems to be sincere in her actions and isn't hanged up on keeping up an image all the time. Plus she is the only one who can decently dance in the group. 

But then again we are here to discuss looks and not anything else. And sadly she loses in this aspect compared to the other girls. She is by far the least attractive from SNSD. She is short and has a very unusual face. It is obvious that she has had surgery, and her smile makes her have a scrunched face.

It is not secret that she gets the least amount of CF's or advertorials compared to the other girls and I think we all know why this is.  Still I'm glad that she was able to debut in SNSD because she does add a sense of keeping-it-real~ness to the group (My black girl voice was used here)

Let's continue with Super Junior's 

Leetuk and Ryeowook

They are definitely on my botton 3 from Super Junior when it comes to looks. I've already explained the details in another post about SJ's best face ranking So I'm, just going to leave it at that.

Like I said before, based on look these two lose, but Leetuk is quite hilarious and is climbing up really quickly on all sorts of variety shows. He probably will be the next great MC in Korea.

As to Ryeowook.........................

well, are you guys sure he isn't Lee Soo-Man's son?  XD

I'm not kidding you guys

And let's end this with Fx's Luna

 (Whenever she smiles I feel her face is going to melt)

Ok, for this part I must gather all my meanness and just let it all out. 

Luna is one of the least pretty members in all of SM. There I said it. 

She has very few physical characteristics that would land her in a girl group. She is quite short (which wouldn't really be a problem But...) she has a very bulky build and this makes her look very rough. Her extremities (arms and legs) are not quite proportional to her petite frame. She looks to me like a walking radish. I also don't understand why her stylists giver her that awful orange-blond hair. She is dark enough to almost blend with that tone of blond. Please stylists, just stop!

But God is not so unfair as to not give her anything in return. She has the best voice in the group and obviously she was picked for her real talent as opposed to her looks. 

Next time you see an idol that doesn't quite look like an idol, you can bet they have something that makes up for it.