The Terrifying Danger Of Wearing Makeup In North Korea | Shady | Refinery29
On this episode of Shady, our host Lexy Lebsack travels to Korea to uncover the reason behind the danger of wearing makeup in North Korea. An underground network of women are smuggling beauty products into the country as an act of rebellion. Press play to watch this week’s Shady!
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Comments (49)
We believe that all beauty products should be readily available to who ever wants them. What do you believe?
It's all because of d dictator who thinks he's a badman๐๐
The blonde girl in this reminds me so much of Whitney Powell from the Hills. I could also see her with a job like this too
I wish that the citizens of North Korea could rise up, and topple that nutjob dictator. I wish someone would be brave enough to get them to fight. It breaks my heart to see how completely oppressed they are, and western countries donโt do a damn thing, because there is no financial benefit to it. I can guarantee you that if they found oil/ natural gas underground in North Korea, they powerful western nations would do an โoperation freedomโ the way they have done in Middle Eastern countries. Those people donโt have any rights. Kim Jong Un, and his father before him imprison generations of family members, theyโll imprison a son who is innocent, for what a father or even grandfather has done. It is just heartbreaking.
We just need a good CIA government toppling
i laugh and cry when i see situations of women in and around world even in 2019………….prayers from india
Well I guess BTS is gonna follow me everywhere….
Hard to believe she was smuggling.. Sorry i dont buy this made up story. Make a video for 250 k homeless women in Usa. They cant even reach period pads, not only cosmetics
North Korea is the same as Adolf Hitler regime . Hello, these people need help
WHO ELSE SCREAMED COS JOHNNY SHOWED UP
sum ting wong wit nord koryeaaahhh
I don't understand how wearing make up is freedom for a woman… really… we are beautiful just natural already there are major problems to fight for in regards to freedom and justice.
Clickbait
Omg i saw bts in there ๐๐
But really though
North Korea isn't a country
Its second hand hell
Ummm is it safe to be broadcasting her sounds like this on YouTube???? Next thing we know she is murdered
soft power/hard power talk rly taking me back to apush in high school ๐ค
EXCELLENT EPISODE I MUST SAY… Just excellent
North Korea's leader is another millennial giving millenials a bad name. We are seen as lazy, disrectful, and want everything handed to us, when in reality, it's totally the opposite. This guy now adds power hungry to the ever growing list of millennial negatives.
Make-up is shit. Ruins your skin. Beauty literally is fucking pain.
PEEP NCT
Is nobody going to mention how gorgeous those two women are???
Its worse than they let on. You cant have your own religion, your children are tricked to inform higher authorities if your parents are doing something illegal, you are always aware because one mistake you make, isnt just going to be fucking hell for you, its going to effect your family, your friends, neighbors, anyone. It's terrible, and it NEEDS to be stopped.
Omg I noticed her name sounds like mine
She has such an amazing brother, taking is life to save his familyโs
It is almost 2020. Depressing to see countries at much lower levels than the rest of the modern world. They deserve much, much more freedom.
I was just watching this and @ 4:30 I just screamed JOHNNY! by accident. But oh man wow, this is so sad to see a whole country with no freedom at all. Like they don't have some of the basic things like Makeup and the internet. I really do hope that N-Korea will become more open country that let's people live like how they want.
The pretty lady: โHundreds of orders is smallโ
Me: good god
North korea is earthโs hell
Pervertion getting tainted getting bad influence. Make up is like worldly sins compared to a natural woman. Imagine the woman there are natural beauty.
I suddenly see Johnny and Taeyong
this series is amazing
when she got happy they were both neutral skin tones it made me so sad that a young beautiful woman like her had to go through all of that just to enjoy something she likes
I don't really care about make-up and passed on this video a couple of times when it popped up. I'm SO GLAD I finally watched it! What an interestingly powerful tool, subversive and rebellious. I never would have known. Thank you for this insight.
These are the women modern feminists should be defending. Women who are actually oppressed and/or in danger.
Makeup?…I don't know whether to laugh or feel sad…
I'm using Dr.Jardt's ceramide cream. One of the few things my skin likes.
How can people dislike this video?
Someone please explain… You name a group and show faces of people who are going against the iron fist rule, WHY? They're probably all dead now.
This video is here to take advantage of the state of North Korea to promote their business… make up doesnโt encourage self-expression, it encourages everyone to look the same as everyone else… make up doesnโt define who u r…. and beauty being used an weapon is a very bad thing… cause it makes the people who are not pretty feel worse… there are more better ways to express individuality and even more ways to fight the system… this is not it.. donโt be fooled by a product advertisement
bruh im korean and like its ridiculous how kim jung eun tortures these ppl… like this isnt abt beauty, goverments of north korea, u gotta understand if u wanna control them, u dont use HARD POWER u use SOFT POWER. and even if u do no ones gonna like u cuz every single person hates kim jung eun (except for trump) and ive heard from ppl that many ppl who fled r still scared to speak up because theyre scared they might b punished by north korea.
thatโs actually disgusting. everyone has a right to expression themselves and just rights in general. i really hope changes are made.
It's 2019, we should not n3ed to have resistanse of any kind. If the rest of the world know's that this is what's happening in North Korea, why arent we doing anything?!
More shady videos please๐
That woman needs a whole movie on her. ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
I have NOTHING to complain about living in America.
North-Korea is
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It's like a mixture between the holocaust and the underground railroad. As Americans we really do take our freedom for granted sometimes.
Christian fundimentalist would love this!
they included clc SO PROUD