on beauty (and the lack thereof)

Well, my impressions on beauty, anyways.

I always feel weird when I see people praising another blogger about her looks and I can't see anything special about them. 

I was scrolling down my tumblr dash and saw a certain blogger that I follow get several compliments on her looks and how 'gorgeous' she is, so naturally I go to her blog and look at her selcas. I don't know if it's just me, but I personally don't see anything that  stands out. She looks like any other teenage Asian girl, with some mascara+eyeliner on and curled, medium-length hair. Her features/face shape are perfectly ordinary, and I believe if I saw her in real life I wouldn't look/think twice about her looks or anything else.
However, clearly by the number of notes on her photo posted not too long ago (36 at last count), other people don't think the same way that I do.
(One, or three, or even five could simply be 'sucking up' to tumblr-famous people by sending them messages, but not 36???)

Is it because I've seen so many pictures of exceptionally 'cute' or 'pretty' ulzzangs/models/people in general that I can't see what other people see?????????????????

...Is there something wrong with my brain? Have I been so brainwashed by the (mostly) Asian stereotype of beauty (large, almost creepy doll-ish eyes; perfect blemish-free skin; slim v-shape jawline) that I can't tell if someone normal's considered 'pretty' anymore?

Song Ah Ri, female ulzzang

Lee Chi Hoon, male ulzzang

Lee Chi Hoon (with a different hair color lol)

I know a lot of people that find this norm of beauty really creepy (I think it's the very large eyes that throw them off?) but to me, these two represent basically the ultimate standard of 'beauty' in both genders.
I know people have different tastes but the problem right now is that I've been so acclimatized (is that the right use of the word???) to ulzzangs' looks that I can't see/find other people as attractive unless their features match those of an ulzzang????????

This is probably not a very good thing.
But I guess it's not too bad yet. I'm glad I'm not completely shallow because when it comes down to it, personality really does matter most to me.
When I get attracted to a pretty boy with a personality of shit, I'll give one of you permission to slap me in the face to bring me to my senses.
Until then, I think I'm going to continue being attracted to flower boys prettier (and skinnier) than I am, and keep tagging them under the "people whom I want to be loved by (ie hot people)" tag on my tumblr.

(And there are those Korean pop stars that many, many people find utterly beautiful/attractive/whatever and I don't, i.e. Jessica of SNSD, Yoona of SNSD, and Krystal of f(x). I don't know why. I mean, sure they're pretty, with nice features and large eyes but I don't find them the least bit pretty or attractive????????)

Jessica of SNSD (I dislike it when people try to be cute/act cute???)

Yoona of SNSD (sorry I just can't find her attractive at all)

Yoona of SNSD (I just-- no????)

Krystal of f(x). I'm sorry but no

Let me get this straight.

I can see how they could be attractive--they have perfect skin, large eyes, wonderful facial features (augmented by plastic surgery, but wonderful facial features nonetheless) and so on and so forth. (Let me get this straight, I have no problem with plastic surgery. The reason I don't like their looks is NOT bc they had plastic surgery. When it comes down to it, most Korean idols had plastic surgery. I'm just saying there's something in their looks/behavior that many fans find cute/appealing/nice and I don't. Which is weird??????)

There's other people whose looks are almost the same, that I find totally attractive/pretty. Like Taeyeon of SNSD.

Taeyeon of SNSD (hello, bias!)

They finally put Taeyeon in the front. Werk it.

Okay I feel my post descending into a kpop spiral... I'm going to stop now.
Basically the point of this post was to wonder whether ulzzangs are twisting my standards so that I can only feel that someone is attractive if they look like an ulzzang/have the same facial features of one. Also I'm weird and don't think that someone that everyone else loves is attractive????
And I love Taeyeon bye