Through a glass, darkly

When people look at themselves in the mirror, it seems that most would prefer to be looking at something else.

Pointing to a woman in a poster wearing a black headband with her hair slightly curled up on both sides, Zhao Qing, 28, asks her stylist to shape her hair into that very retro look: shorn to less than the width of a penny on the sides, parted far to the side on top. The new hairstyle unveils her exquisite face with emphasis on her superior jaw line and tall nose, all basking in the spotlight.

Only a short while ago the woman in the chair was obsessed with the typical Korean drama woman look and style－small face with the help of heavy hair volume, elk-like eye makeup, and milk-texture delicate pale skin tone. But with a natural light yellowish skin, she can always sense that something does not feel right, and she feels anxious that she will be ridiculed for looking like a bleached orange.

However, much to her relief, she has found a cure. By accident she used a tanning filter to take selfies and found that her skin turned darker, and it was not bad at all. In fact the darker skin tone enhanced her cosmopolitan feel and cubic quality for facial contour.