ITZY on Finest Magnificence Moments and Pores and skin-Care Suggestions | Interview

Interviews with Okay-pop group ITZY form of really feel like a giant slumber get together. The comfortable, late night-yet-giddy vibes could also be attributable to the truth that it is 7:30 p.m. on a Monday night time in New York Metropolis, but additionally all six of us are as comfortable as ever with out make-up on and wearing sweats. Or these may be the affable power Yeji, Lia, Ryujin, Chaeryeong, and Yuna deliver to the literal desk as they sit in a convention room in Seoul, South Korea — there, it is Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. — prepared to talk all issues magnificence and ITZY.

Since debuting in February 2019 below the identical leisure firm that introduced us TWICE, GOT7, DAY6, and Stray Children, ITZY has gained over followers in Korea and past with their extremely catchy music, which is 1,000 % the type I’d have blasted once I was youthful throughout dance get together sleepovers in my basement. (I fondly bear in mind creating choreography to Aaron Carter’s “That is How I Beat Shaq” as soon as upon a time.) 

However as an grownup, I nonetheless completely recognize the adages of self-confidence that ring all through ITZY’s discography, like “I do not wanna be anyone. Simply wanna be me” in “Wannabe” and “They maintain talkin’, I maintain walkin'” in “Icy”. Their reputation has unfold globally so rapidly that ITZY simply dropped English variations of all their singles with their new album, Not Shy (English Ver.). 

With every of their music movies, ITZY brings brighter and extra experimental hair and make-up seems. Their distinctive model displays precisely who ITZY is, the group’s youngest member, Yuna, says. “An enormous a part of efficiency is, in fact, the dancing and facial expressions, however the styling can be a really large half as a result of it provides the vibe of the music,” Lia provides in English. The 20-year-old predominant vocalist grew up in Toronto, Canada, and acts as a secondary translator for the group.

I ask the women to interrupt down their favourite seems from every music video, in addition to how they maintain their pores and skin glowing. However earlier than that, ITZY’s chief, Yeji, additionally 20, factors out a selected element of their make-up that I by no means seen: “Our eyeliner is often [drawn] above our [lash line],” she shares. “That time reveals just a little little bit of charisma and the general energy of ITZY.”

“달라달라(Dalla Dalla)”

In Korean, 달라(dalla) means completely different, and the hair and make-up within the group’s debut music video are simply that, Yuna, 17, explains. With inventive, arrow-like bobby pin placements, chunky glitter eye shadow, braided area buns, and washes of vivid shadow, the women proved nothing is refined about their model. It is edgy, effervescent, and unapologetically prismatic.