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Infinitely Creepy

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Written by On December 22, 2011

Even us cynical writers at SeoulBeats have our biases. Subi is married to Yunho and Ree loves her some Big Bang. I, on the other hand, love Infinite. They’re my babies, my hubbies, my bias group. I will use whatever excuse I can to fangirl about them. I want the best for them, always.

But then, I saw this monstrosity in the latest issue of W Korea:

What did they do to my Hobaby?!?! And Dong-woo looks like a very creepy butler. My little biased heart can’t take this. I love my boys and I am strongly against them being dressed up to look like David Bowie or Lady Gaga. The hair, the makeup, the setting, the poses – it’s all wrong. Rather than capture my preciouses as the sexy beasts that they are, this photo shoot captured the essence of their inner creepers.

I believe the stylists were going for a robotic look by smothering Infinite’s faces with black and blue makeup, tricking out their eyebrows, and overdoing the smoky makeup and shadows. Myung-soo normally has a fabulous, heart-stopping smolder (a result of his inability to express emotions properly) that would make any girl’s heart flutter but here the boy looks predatory. Sung-jong‘s photos are even less flattering. In one, he looks like an overly serious businessman with rape-face. In the other, he looks like a freaky nun out to steal your children and eat their souls. I find this especially unfair because Sung-jong is one of the prettiest people in K-pop and shouldn’t be made to look like a creeper.

The styling itself is OK but the boy’s bodies look a little weird, but that could be because of the poor scans. They all wear layers of dark clothing and occasionally some shin and arm pads as worn by Sung-gyu, Sung-yeol, Myung-soo, and Sung-jong. Infinite isn’t new to guy-liner, they’re actually quite familar with it, but in this instance it’s used in excess. In one picture, Myung-soo’s face has the frozen look a person gets after being outside in sub-zero temperatures for too long. I just can’t get over Sung-gyu’s hair. He has a pumpkin on his head, I’m sure of it. Most of the other hairstyles are fine for me, however.

I find this shoot gaudy, overly serious, and the posing a little awkward. I love Infinite but not so much that I can be ignorant over mistakes and mishaps. This photo shoot was an unfortunate mishap. Though they’ve been sweet and cutesy before, Infinite has never been as disgustingly adorable as, say, Boyfriend, with overloads of aegyo (excluding Woohyun), so I can’t say that they’re at least becoming more mature. I just know that I’m going to be seeing Sung-jong and Hoya in my nightmares.

What do you think of this photo shoot?

(W Magazine)

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  • aravisalice

    Thanks to your article I will now have Lonely Island’s “The Creep” song stuck in my head all day because that HAD to be the song playing at that photo shoot!

    • Anonymous

      Are you serious? Lmao xD

      • aravisalice

        Now that the day has come and gone I can safely say yes, sadly, I was serious. I had the image of those Infinite boys poppin’ their peepers and their arms T-Rex’in in my head all day :P  (I’m now off to watch Dirty Eyed Girls “Abracadabra” to get it out of my head once and for all… because everyone should have Jokwon gyrating in their mind’s eye before they go to sleep)

  • Flickaddi

    I agree not a flattering photoshoot for them who are all very attractive

  • http://twitter.com/Chouchou103 Michele

    I totaly love the coat that the guy in the middle(Sungjong?)  is wearing on the last picture. I would totaly wear it… And I always feel weird when I look at clothes that male idols wear and want them for myself…

  • Anima

    I love these boys so much. The editor was apparently impressed with them and this shoot lol… don’t know what she was seeing tbh. Something I noticed about them though is that they all have a good knack for modelling (Sungyeol especially, and Sungjong) maybe it’s because of their unconventional good looks or their group dynamic but their shoots always manage to work somehow. Although their vogue girl shoot will forever be my favorite, I like this one in some way too, it has a nice feeling like a futuristic russian lost orphan concept in Asia- Infinite style… to me it works somehow. Although I do agree some of the make-up is questionable like Hoya and the angles are awkward in some some shots. Sungjong looks beautiful in his coat though, like a girl almost.

  • Issy

    Some of those pictures make then look extra short and/or oddly proportioned because the cut of the clothing is off as well.  Most of the clothing is too big for them.  The make-up is awful.  A little color on the lips and less weird eyeliner and they wouldn’t looked corpses.  

  • Anonymous

    Poor Natalie. Nothing is worse than seeing your biases/life partners be at the receiving end of an angry stylist. I would like to sympathise with you but your comments on these boys made me laugh, ”
    he looks like an overly serious businessman with rape-face.” Don’t worry, you’ll recover…someday. 

  • Anonymous

    no way! my hobaby! what happened with him?!!!! o.O

  • http://www.twitter.com/veiledheart VeiledHeart

    This is going right alongside JYJ’s Ayy Girl video on the list of things I’m gonna pretend didn’t happen.

    I can’t and I won’t with these pictures.

  • Anonymous

    I did not recognize the first guy in the picture is. I still don’t know to this hour. This is  frightening because Infinite is my go to group. The only group I actually strive to know their names and not just because i stumbled upon the spelling. It’s like SUJU’s Mr. Simple all over again but devoid of color. I didn’t think it possible D: 

    Lols “their inner creepers” made me chuckle :’ )

  • Anonymous

    Looks just fine to me. Fashion shoots are always weird to begin with.

  • Anon

    Taemin is cuter than Sung-Jong.
    Boyfriend and SHINee are just cuter than these guys in general.
    They don’t look much different from their regular make-up or whatever.

  • jess1

    This look would have looked good on some other groups. Sorry. I’ve seen some groups rocked this kind of concept, make-up, everything and it turned out fine. Not on Infinite, though. It’s okay.

  • Anonymous

    This whole article: hahahahaha. Sorry you have to see your biases this way. They must’ve had an intern doing this shoot, for a reality show. That first pic is just awful.

  • Gabrielafb

    I definitely agree with you!
    Infinite members have a lot of strong point when we talk about beauty, fashion, looks etc but in this photo shoot… when I first saw it I though “who are they?!” and then I realize they were my Infinite boys, the ones I love <3 but I really hate this this concept of make-up / Style does not match them. The outfits are Ok but the make up makes them look just awful (and I'm a HUGE fan of Infinite!) maybe  with a different group it will turned out fine but no with them!
    I really hope this don't happen again because Infinite is one of the groups with the most beautiful members in K Pop but this time that was not show…
    I was scared when i saw the photos of MyungSoo, Hoya and SungJong, my "Beautiful Man" was transformed into a creepy thing!

  • http://twitter.com/AzieraMir Nurul Aziera

    This is fashion.