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| Ok Se-ra, who has a New Zealand father and Korean mother, sought beauty creator Holy on the YouTube beauty consulting show 'Perfect Pouch.' Photos screen capture from YouTube |
By Ko Dong-hwan
A popular Korean beauty creator on YouTube has sympathized with her verbally abused client after the client told her how she had suffered misogynistic abuse.
Lee Joo-young, who goes by the social network nickname Holy, met Ok Se-ra, who has a Korean mother and New Zealand father, on her beauty consulting show "Perfect Pouch" on YouTube Channel "tvN D."
Posted online Feb. 15, the third episode of the show's second season shows Holy and Ok sitting before a table and discussing how to make Ok look gorgeous.
Before Holy began beautifying her client, Ok told her how humiliated she felt when she trained under a show business agency to be part of a K-pop girl band. The agency president said Ok's eyes were "critically wrong and unsuitable for her to be a girl band star," according to Ok.
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| Holy, left, and Ok Se-ra discuss how to make Ok look more like her idol Ariana Grande. |
"It might be I'm not a camera person but he told me I looked like a gorilla," Ok told Holy.
Ok said that because of the finger-pointing she couldn't walk tall and feared meeting people.
Ok's revelation prompted Holy to talk about her own bitter experience of being subject to abusive comments online. Some haters told the obese YouTube celebrity she must show her real face to her future fiancee or must be taken to a sauna to expose her before-make-up visage.
"I at first tried to take into account what my online followers advised or insulted me about in my videos," Holy told Ok. "But I still couldn't be free from being a subject of abuse, with some calling me a cake face. Then I started not caring about those comments and faithfully stuck to my way. Thick make-up is now my signature beauty."
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| Ok Se-ra shows her new Ariana Grande look, thanks to Holy's real-time make-up treatment. |
During the show, some people left comments encouraging Ok, saying things like, "Nobody has the right to judge other people's looks." Some condemned "Koreans' stereotypical gender views when it comes to make-up."
"I think your mixed ethnicity is so attractive you don't need a band because you should just go for a solo act," Holy told a smiling Ok.
The beauty guru with more than 430,000 subscribers to her YouTube channel "Bass Boosted Sensei" worked her magic on the Ariana Grande fan. With newly added coal-black eyelashes, whitened skin and trimmed eyebrows, Ok changed into a red tank-top and was given a touch to her hairdo. Ok praised Holy for giving her the "Ariana Serande look."
The celebrity, who on Feb. 14 had her YouTube and Instagram pages hacked and lost almost all her videos on YouTube, lampooned Ok's former agency president for calling her a gorilla.
