Jaejoong in Elle, as beautiful as he was, puzzled a few people. The reason for the puzzlement is apparent when you contrast JJ in Thailand today with JJ in Elle:
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Dun Dun Dun~~
Sigh. This makeup method, which one’s skin tone is made darker than one’s real skin tone, is called “tone-down makeup” in Korea.
“Tone-down makeup” happens a lot to JJ and we really wish that it would stop! We love JJ as he is, without artificial color obscuring his real one!
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he’s mine… other fans.. please back off 😛 jae.. you make hyung want to chu~ in 2nd pic 😛
“hyung”? By that you mean you’re a male older than Jae? :O 😀
yup.. i belong to “we have elephant” gender and im 30 😛
aha.. you have to try push harder, when the girls in love they are really strong..LOL!!!
when this guy is in love, he’s exceptionally strong too 😛
OMG!!! I knew males would fall for him….
dont be so surprised hun~~ 😛
lol Your name doesn’t make it obvious at all. But be it male or female, we’re all nothing but plankton in JYJ’s eyes. Small…numerous…desperate(hor..n..y) plankton ㅠㅠㅠ
if we’re plankton.. im the biggest plankton among you girls 😛
Ahjussi I amazed your courage. This is my first time seeing an older man who confesses his love.
He is an oppa not an ahjusshi
thanx rose.. im oppa.. not uncle k.. call me uncle when i reach 40 😛
Hahaha, I have to LOL when I read you called gogaeforjae “Ahjussi” ^^
I love JYJ’s fans and love to read all the comments here~~
you are so cute
im a lil bit hairy in real life.. no one would ever call me cute.. 😛 but thanks for calling me cute 😛
Go go gogaeforjae!
But no bb, you have to stand behind the line… and it’s pretty long. lol
dont want~~~ 😛
*push all the fans who line up in the front and hug jae tight… 😛
just plainly curious.. did Jae made you gay or is that something going on pre-Jae period??
Why am I asking.. I scared for my guy friend dude..
He is manly-man (with a girlfriend) but he stares at Jae’s picture too long and I once caught him looking at the picture on my desktop then caught surprise when I asked him what he was doing as if something fishy going with that head of his.. line is already long.. I dont want to muscle my way against more fanboys.. (ahahaha no offense to Yunjae shippers.. but I think it is leader-shii who is going gay for JJ not the other way around) ^^,
will Jaejoong have a sleepless night if i tell him your story? :))))))))))
jae doesnt make me gay.. i already gay before i know him. but jae does make me want to gay for him only.. 🙂
about your friend.. humm.. i dunno~ coz i never in love with girl 😛
but maybe he feel attracted to jae… 😛
I have the same feeling regading yunjae, hehe
@ngoc ha
ahahaha maybe he will.. there is no safe place anymore for him.. if he can turn guys into gays .. then it is not impossible for him to turn on even his own bodyguards.. i wouldn’t mind that job though.. embracing JJ through the crowd of screaming fans and pushing them all off so that my baby and I can pass
@gogaeforjae.. thanks for telling.. i find his attraction for Jae okay as long as he just wanted to look as cool as him.. but liking him to a point where he’ll squeaal his name out at a concert or stalk at sites like this and drool too.. man that would suck big time.. :))
@jenknight18
I say YES!!! to the last part of comment!
lols
hi there, oppa~! ^^
@jenknight18
lol…
*your comment*
Oppa!!!! I see you lurking in every JJ article. You sure are a dedicated fanboy, 😉
you rock the world…oppa
his skin is awesome!!!! no make up pleeeaaaseee!!!!
JJ is better with out make up!!
agree…mayb next time jae will replace edward cullen…heheheh
I’m sorry, this child needs some sun!! Being this pale, makes him look like there is something wrong with him. It doesn’t look healthy.
lol, i agree. but winter is almost ending, I’m sure his skin will become a tad darker. I always find tanned men really hot.
I personally prefer them pale than tanned
LOL that’s the relentless Western media promotion of tanning (which is actually very unhealthy for skin) as a sign of health & status speaking to you. Healthy skin tone is whatever your natural color is. As is clear enough from his baby photos, Jae’s is quite pale.
oh god it reminds me of jersey shore. Yeah i think for that elle photoshoot they just used a darker foundation (I wonder why though, his pale skin would look more cohesive with his killer character), and you can see the line his profile, his neck area was untouched XD.
If it’s spray tanning, I am totally against it. Reminds me of mirotic days when they actually went to a spray tanning salon -____-
Maybe for effect in the black & white photos or something with the clothes.
LOL Jersey Shore…now that is too tanned.
Indeed, the sun (and the artificial tanning too) is unhealthy and causes premature aging. If it’s so necessary for JJ to look tanned for this work projects, then I rather him to be covered in toning cremes, than going out into the sun or visiting tanning centres >_<
And I prefer pale skin myself, well if it's looks healthy pale, not sickly pale 🙂 JJ's complexion is enviable.
i saw him in person and his skin is not really that white but it’s really beautiful..
i think it’s just the camera..
I’m not talking about ‘Jersey Shore’ tanning. That nonsense is beyond ridiculous. The body needs vitamin D for strong bones. The fact that he still smokes, makes that a double whammny. As he ages, the loss of bone mass is going to become a factor in his stature.
As for ‘spray tanning’, I understand that is healthier than tanning beds. But still, natural sunlight is better in moderation.
Quite frankly, I’m grateful for the little tan color the sun has given me, cause those areas that don’t see a lot of sun, look way too washed out. I just don’t like a lot heat, so I don’t spend a great deal of time out in the sun.
I’m sorry, but being that pale, doesn’t look healthy, especially when it’s due to avoiding sunlight. He almost looks like an albino. Which we know he isn’t.
The baby picture (in the first BD photo) is not necessarily a good comparison, because you wouldn’t want a baby that young out in the sun too long. There’s another one where he’s outside and looks quite healthy.
When you look at Junsu and Yoochun, they don’t look anywhere an unhealthy as Jaejoong.
Um, it’s no secret that Jaejoong eats healthy and exercises and I don’t think he actively avoids sunlight just so he can stay pale. It’s kind of a lot to judge someone’s habits and health just from one factor.
That *white* color is the result of the stage lighting in the KBS pic and the camera flash at the airport. Look at the hands in the foreground. Jaejoong is fair, but he’s not 3/4 dead.
there are people born with that type of skin .. I have a friend.. here at the office and he is milky white.. exposed him to the sun.. he’ll just turn reddish then count few days and he’ll be back to his milky white skin.. maybe for JJ it’s genes.. depends on his childhood pics..
He has always been very pale plus it’s still winter in Korea and if it’s anything similar to winters in other countries there isn’t much sun out there for a person to get colour or to even receive enough vitamin D in. It doesn’t help much that the camera flash washes him out a little bit. You can tell by the hands in front of him being just as white as he is.
Sufficient exposure in order to maintain Vitamin D levels does not require developing a tan. Tanning is an indicator that your skin is being damaged by UV rays, which puts you at greater risk for developing premature aging signs and skin cancer. It is not an indicator of good health and if you believe that then you are simply believing, as I said before, a cultural myth.
Also second what Eliza and others said about the flash making him look somewhat lighter than he actually is.
@telia
“Sufficient exposure in order to maintain Vitamin D levels does not require developing a tan. Tanning is an indicator that your skin is being damaged by UV rays, which puts you at greater risk for developing premature aging signs and skin cancer. It is not an indicator of good health and if you believe that then you are simply believing, as I said before, a cultural myth.”
Getting natural tanning from the sun over a period of time through daily exposure does not necessarily age your skin or give you skin cancer. And I spent gobs of time playing outdoors when I was a kid.
I should know, as a fair-skinned person, I’ve received natural tanning on those parts of my body that see the sun. My legs, eh, not so much over the years. There is a marked difference in the colors with other parts of my body. Also, at my age, I have fewer wrinkles (actually none, for my age) than many who are younger than I am, who have spent years tanning every summer. Good genes I guess.
So no, I’m not buying into anything about cultural myths. Just speaking from personal experience. All this means is…
We are going to agree to disagree.
I think it’s the lighting too. But yea, don’t really care for his skin tone as long as he eats more! EAT MORE JJ. YOU’RE SKIN AND BONES ToT
sii jae , igual sale genial.. pero un poco más bronceado le quedaria mejor
Estoy de acuerdo 🙂
A mi me gusta mucho asi ^^
Pero no hay que exagerar tanto, lo mas seguro es que se vea asi de blanco por la camara, el no es TAN blanco ^^
Asi qee si esta muy bien, y yo no le veo la necesidad de que lo maquillen… Su piel es hermosa ^^
Si, si. La verdad es que me asusté demasiado cuando vi la foto del aeropuerto… Su piel es tan blanca y parece ser tan fina y suave al tacto que me hace babear cada vez que la veo! Esa piel es envidia de toda chica.
JJ is perfect as JJ is~
At first, I thought it was just the flash that makes him chalk-white ~ but looking at the other people in the picture, their skin tone looks normal ke ke….i love his milky silky skin =).
I love his natural skin tone.
this is offtopic but…damn, he was sexier with black hair =_= wae does he dyed his hair again? >< Jae return to black! ;_____;
is tone down make up the same as tanning? the first pic remind me of Edward Cullen lol
i just think the same thing..
For this particular case, I think it’s both the makeup and lightening for both pictures.
I will never understand the beauty business.
They never can make up their minds.
They brighten skin, tan skin Photo shop, airbrush just to achieve this ‘ideal’.
People to me are fine the way they are (sans unhealthiness).
Jae is beautiful tanned, chalked, blue (omg Avatar)…glittered (Edward much LOL). I’m silly.
Anyway, I really don’t care.
Rofl, in the second picture you can tell that they didn’t apply the makeup onto the side of his neck so you can tell where his real skin tone starts and the makeup begins. xDD When I saw him, he was definitely paler than an average person, but he wasn’t as white as he is now (at least in his recent pictures) He looks amazing with that glowing aura around him but it might do him some good to catch a tiny bit of sun during summer. It will help him in his disguise as a human being on earth……=PP
maybe JJ is a real life vampire?? kekekeke.. He doesn’t seems to be aging in looks.. he is pale.. and has a deep,mysterious wisdom behind his smirk.. he can make all of us drool and bleed by just looking in to his eyes..Edward Cullen is a faker.. JJ is the real deal !! wahahahahaha.. he needs to do something like a Korean version of True Blood or Vampire Diaries.. that would be jjang!!
or maybe Angel (without Buffy of course)
LOL…
yeah!
i want jae and hyde of l’arc~en~ciel in one pic… THEY look like vampires!!!
KKrr, totally my thoughts!!
I want to see Jae as a vampire~~
Oh, where did I read about him saying he wanted to act as one? He should star in a vampire series. *-*
I’m thinking vampire movies or drama. He’ll be pretty be a shoe in for that role. Just imagining it, darn! he’ll make one hot vampire.
man~!!! he’s…… white~!!!!!
goodness gracious, HE’S GLOWING! O_O
Jae has that enviable translucent white skin that so many Asian women hanker after and spend thousands of dollars on skincare products just to attain. His complexion is not unnatural for most northeast Asians, in fact in the 3rd pix, his female stylist has the same white skin. It’s very common skin tone among Asians in Japan and northern China too. It’s a kind of translucent whiteness whiter than the Caucasian white. Very common for me to see.
Agreed ^^ it’s pretty common here in my country too.
Although have to say, the pictures aren’t the best example to show his skin tone due to the lighting/flashes.
i think the reasons why he looks much paler than usual in the pic is becoz it’s still winter time in Korea and Koreans are famous for their beautiful fair skin.
i still like him with his pale skin eventho i’ve never like fair guys.
and i like that hair color on Jae.just perfect with his pale winter look..
I LOOOVE his white pale skin as it is. I love JJ as he is: Talented, intelligent, gorgeous and very hot. No more make-ups to darken his beautiful and silky skin, please.
He looks like a vampire for he is so pale but we love him all the same^^