Yang Zi's new drama makeup sparks heated discussion

When Yang Zi's face appears on the screen, viewers will feel the visual effect of time interlacing. This makeup challenges the screen's inherent perception of age, neither pursuing eternal youth nor imitating the elderly, but presenting a visual revolution.

The makeup artist skillfully balances naturalness and retouching, with the forehead retaining its youthfulness and the eye sockets appearing deep, like the restoration of an antique book, which preserves the marks of age and fills in the gaps of the historical narrative. The highlights no longer symbolize youth, but are a reflection of time. The cheekbones shine like the strands of a young girl's hair, and the glitter of the lines of the decree resembles the traces of tears. Collagen and fine lines coexist harmoniously, and the side-light blends the looks of twenty and thirty.

The fine lines under the eyes contrast with the tight T-zone, like ice cracks on celadon porcelain, and this “imperfection” builds a more advanced sense of reality. The viewer cannot accurately determine the age, but can feel the state of female existence. The lip color is a low saturation rose-bean sand color, which is mature but still retains a girlish atmosphere. The eyeshadow blends gray powder and golden brown, blurring society's rough categorization of women's age.

Eyebrows find a balance between the classic willow curve and the modern flatness, eyeliner is sharp but blurred at the end, and the jawline is rounded on one side and coldly angular on the other. The language of these contradictory lines is a figurative expression of contemporary women's struggle between girlishness and mature values.

The matte finish of the base makeup looks like an old photo with gray, while the partial highlighting area looks like the glow of age. Oily skin shimmer no longer fights against age, but is a witness to time. The lines challenge the rigidity of hyaluronic acid, and the fine lines under the eyes mock the false perfection of the retouched picture, becoming a symbol of glory.

The makeup refuses to answer the question “how old do I look?” and allows the actress to become a narrator of time instead of choosing between “teenage girl” and “mom role”. The stylist used a visual paradox to prove that the female face should record the multiple segments of life, like a diamond that does not need to choose the “most correct” of the 58 facets. This revolution in makeup is essentially a thought bomb for the industry.