WHITE STUDIO - Korea

I came to Korea on a C4 visa in October of last year. It was a long process and I had t work hard on lots of different aspect of the seemingly easy day to day life. Visa stuff, apartment stuff, phone stuff, banking stuff etc. It took me a long time to settle down and as a result, it also took me a long time to get the money ready for official profile pictures. I had taken nice pictures in Taiwan in 2013, but they were not pictures that really showed my face well, and they were more of the artsy type of pictures.

If I was going to work in Korea, I needed new pictures, and I needed them made in a style that would make them favorable in a Korean beauty standard kind of style. I got the reference from a Korean actor I was introduced to, and set up a meeting to take picture. I was actually super sick in the stomach that morning and went to the hospital clinic to get medicine right before the shoot, so I was really happy the pictures turned out well - I had to sit and rest a few times during the shooting, too.

WHITE STUDIO was, as the name lets you guess, a completely white studio in the basement of a building in the hot area of APGUJEONG (rich kids date spots, plastic surgery paradise). There were two people. An amazing make up artist - former make up srtist for dramas and TV shoots - and the photographer. The make up took over an hour. I wish I could do half as well. The pictures took 5. I have over a thousand and 500 pictures now, and I got a selection of them that had basic retouching.

Now, you be the judge. I am really happy with the pictures, and they make me happy. I like that they are precisely the style of make up and poses clichés that all Korean actors and models use: since I am using them here, in Korea, they are what I need.

They also used my pictures for they site's promotion as well :) HERE.

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