I don’t know if you have noticed it, it seems that every few days, there will be a new aesthetic craze that will quickly sweep all major social media platforms.
Not long ago, Dr. V talked about the BM style with everyone. They encouraged to wear "small sizes", while promoting "fashionable and practical" while flaunting "beauty" and quickly captured a large number of girls.
Nowadays, this wind is quietly blowing on the looks, which actually convinced many people that if you want to be naturally fashionable, you must win in looks.
To be more precise, to win is "head height."
Jennie, known as the "Beauty with a High Head", is the most fashionable look model at the moment.
Zhao Lusi, the superior cranial crest also went out of the circle this summer.
And Zhao Xiaotang of THE9 joked in the interview that he was most afraid of others attacking her for "low head".
Meng Meiqi accidentally fell out of the wig piece that raised the top of his skull while dancing; Yang Chaoyue, when recording a variety show, pulled off the wig piece on his head straightforwardly.
Not only celebrities, but on Xiaohongshu and Douyin, a variety of Internet celebrities and amateurs' "low-head self-rescue plan", "the secret of the high-head top of the handicapped party city"... all kinds of advertised The terms "practical" all play tricks.
Coupled with the hype of social media, "Is it a beauty that only depends on this step", "Just look at Jennie to know how important the top of the skull is"...
It seems that in this world, girls are embarrassed to go out without a high head.
However, is "high skull top" really suitable for all girls?
The so-called "cranial crest standard" seems to be more like a grand beauty marketing, and even behind it is related to the harshness of women's aesthetics and freedom.
"High skull top", who has it accomplished?
Let's first take a look at how to define a "high top" beauty.
The top of the skull refers to the distance from the hairline to the top of the head. The longer this distance is, the higher the top of the skull. The high top of the skull we are talking about, the distance from the hairline to the top of the head and the hairline to the eyebrows is about 1:1.
Take Jennie, for the past two years, she has been known as the most iconic beauty with a tall skull.
Originally round and compact face, coupled with a high skull top, with charming right-angled shoulders and enviable hair volume.
——The beauty on the top of the skull was born like this.
Later, people discovered that Jennie could control many hairstyles, and began to give credit to the high head.
As a women's team, Jennie accidentally got out of the circle due to the high skull top, and quickly brought a wave of "cranial top" craze. The appearance based on her model has also gained great attention.
Among domestic actresses, Liu Yifei's cranial crest is round and smooth and is often mentioned.
Those who adhere to the "high cranial crest" aesthetic believe that a high cranial crest shows a small face, which will bring the visual effect of a "head wrapped face". On the contrary, when the top of the head is flat, the face area will be enlarged.
Under this kind of atmosphere marketing, people believe that the "high cranial top" ratio will make the eyebrows, eyes and nose atrium appear more harmonious.
Immediately afterwards, the term "Beauty on the top of the skull" and the excessive attention paid by actresses to the top of the skull were all hyped up by social media. In hot searches, "cranial top" and "fa volume" have become regular entertainment talks.
The girls followed suit and followed suit.
All the best-selling items with elevated cranial tops and nearly homogenous aesthetic suggestions continue to bombard our vision.
To put it lightly, the so-called "high cranial top" aesthetic is just a marketing target that happens to be selected. On a deeper level, this is not just a simple aesthetic deviation, but a real "high top PUA".
From this point of view, does "high skull top" really fulfill us?
The excessively demanded "beauty standard"
I have to admit that in the two years when the "high cranial top" has exploded, new aesthetic trends are slowly taking shape.
But if you really measure "beauties" by this standard "top of skull", it seems that there are very few beauties in the entertainment industry.
You must know that Yui Aragaki, who often reelects the top three most beautiful actresses in Japan, is actually a veritable "low top".
Also in this ranks, there is the highly sought-after sexy Little Mustang Hyuna.
Of course, the strict judgment of actresses goes far beyond this.
Like Zhao Xiaotang’s obsession with “high top of the skull” in his jokes, the representatives behind it more or less reveal his mind about “low top of the skull”.
Since participating in the "Youth Have You 2" audition, she loves to wear a super high ponytail to modify her face.
When stubborn to wear it in private, he has also explored a set of head modification schemes, covering the top of the head with a headband or hat.
This "high cranial top wind" is not the first in China. South Korean singer Jung Soo-yeon once shared with fans her "head height increasing method" on the live broadcast.
The whole process is extremely meticulous, from combing the hair to pinching the hair roots, and then setting the hair roots, the procedures are cumbersome, but it also makes this method popular in Korea to the country.
There are also Red Velvet's Pei Zhuxuan and Ouyang Nana. Their skulls are not very colorful, but the hairstyles that make them out of the circle are also the various hairstyles that lift their skulls.
Stars are like this, but what about ordinary girls?
After the "high cranial top" wind was introduced into China, there was an obvious craze for "low cranial top" correction in the market. For example, the wigs recommended by bloggers on Xiaohongshu are easy to understand and cheap.
Coupled with the brainwashing of slogans such as "the crest of the skull is one inch lower, the face will be bigger", "the crest of the skull can also be increased in seconds" and other slogans. , Weibo and even Zhihu homepage.
Faced with the huge consumption potential of the Chinese market, the capital side certainly will not give up this opportunity to accelerate rendering. So there are the artifacts of increasing hair volume, styling combs, hair fluffers...
When women watch other women, they are actually the process of judge themselves.
In order to make themselves recognized, they did their best to try to fit themselves into this beauty standard.
But I never thought that in this aesthetic storm that is not part of the trend itself, girls are suffering from the invisible "cranial humiliation."
When we talk about the "high cranial top" aesthetic,
What should we talk about?
As we all know, a capital society that advertises self-realization through free consumption does not actually make aesthetics more diverse.
On the contrary, under the wave of consumerism, subjective aesthetics are weakened, coupled with the public effect of social media, only those female images that seem to conform to the mainstream aesthetics will become the standard template for appearance.
Whether the top of the skull is high or low is indeed related to beauty, but it is not necessarily related.
In the past, when we talked about "beauties", we didn't raise the top of the skull as an extremely important consideration. What people pay attention to is the overall atmosphere of the five senses and the personal temperament presented by beauties.
Isn't it beautiful to have a low crest? To give a few examples-
Li Jiaxin, the top of the skull is not high and the cheekbones are slightly high, but she is still the most beautiful Hong Kong sister in people's memory.
Guan Zhilin's facial features are outstanding, but the top of her skull is "peaceful", but when it comes to thousands of styles, who will forget her shadow.
Wang Zuxian, her head is low with her hair flat, but no one can replace her as "Xiao Qian".
And Maggie Cheung, in fact, is not "high top" in the popular sense.
The "high skull top" aesthetic is out of the circle, to a certain extent, because people's aesthetic habits have changed.
The top of the skull is low, and our visual focus is below the face, so the overall temperament will appear more mature.
Like the low-headed beauties we just mentioned, we can more intuitively see that they have a more elegant and intellectual temperament.
After pulling up the top of the skull, our visual focus will be placed on the upper court, which will make the face look small and pretty, and the eyebrows will decrease in age.
If you think about it, isn't it that the "high-headed" beauties who are now following are mostly women's groups? And the beauty they represent is the younger "baby beauty".
In the increasingly narrow living space, the public opinion environment has elevated the top of the skull as a tool to promote aesthetic superiority, allowing some people to show off their "looks".
But what's hidden behind this is just a disguised preaching of "girlishness".
There is no distinction between good and bad aesthetics, so why do we so persistently and deliberately pursue the so-called "high top"?
Either Jennie or Liu Yifei, they just happened to be selected by the trend and labeled "high top".
People seem to forget that the meaning of popular existence is to provide more options for aesthetics and create more possibilities for the audience.
As a result, girls who pursue fashion have begun to fall into some aesthetic misunderstandings. In the changing trend again and again, they tried their best to change themselves-although this "high cranial top aesthetic" does not seem to apply to them.
In the end, the criteria for the "high top" PUA were finally established.
But they seem to be lost in the fashion wave forever.
