Okay-Pop Star Jessica Jung on Revlon, No-Make-up Make-up Necessities — Interview

Jessica Jung is lastly a butterfly.

These are her phrases she tells me over the cellphone, not mine. It is 9 a.m. for me in New York Metropolis, 10 p.m. for Jung in Seoul, South Korea — not that point issues nowadays as we’re each navigating a COVID-19 world from our respective nations. (Extra on that later.)

“I used to be like a bit of caterpillar again then,” Jung shares. “Now, I do know who I’m. I discovered my consolation zone, so I am like a butterfly.” Her reference to “again then” began round 2007, when she was identified merely as Jessica. The California native debuted with the beloved Korean group Women’ Era at age 18. Her presence within the Okay-pop world for the subsequent seven years was so main {that a} character within the Oscar-winning film Parasite was named after her. In 2014, Jung left the group to concentrate on her solo ventures, specifically her trend and skin-care model Blanc & Eclare.

Since then, Jung has appeared in Korean and Chinese language motion pictures and TV exhibits, dropped music of her personal, starred in a musical, and opened up Blanc & Eclare shops around the globe. On prime of all that, she’s even popping out with a younger grownup novel referred to as Shine in September 2020. The newest addition to Jung’s spectacular resume: Revlon’s latest world model ambassador.

Over the previous 13 years, Jung been the face of many magnificence manufacturers, however she says she’s extra than simply the face of this one. Throughout our interview, she let it slip that she’s growing a line with Revlon, so the model has been open to her suggestions and imaginative and prescient.

“Working with Revlon has been wonderful,” Jung says. “They actually accepted me as who I’m and how much particular person I’m now. I can categorical myself, and I could be myself and be comfy…They ask for my opinion, which by no means actually occurred previously.”

Jessica Jung’s No-Make-up Make-up Necessities

Throughout her “caterpillar” days as an idol, Jung says magnificence was all about trial and error. She always tried new hair colours (at one level, she was blonde with blunt bangs) and make-up kinds with every Women’ Era period. Round age 19, Jung remembers counting on make-up to assist her look older. “I wished to look sexier and attempt to change into an grownup,” she shares. “I wished to look like a working girl, however that is not what folks wished. At the moment, folks wished one thing contemporary and [youthful]. However I did quite a lot of cat eyes and smoky eyes. I felt like doing a no-makeup make-up was not fairly. I believed placing quite a lot of make-up was fairly.”