All-time Favorite Photos of Sandara (Photoshoot Edition)

Not long ago, Koreaboo provided us their own list of Sandara Park's stunning photos and this blog post is obviously inspired by that. A lot of us disagreed with their choices so here I am posting my own version of that list. As a devoted daraling, I know Koreaboo failed to show what I think are earth-shatteringly gorgeous photos of Sandara Park. None of my favorites even made their list. So to appease my disappointed heart (hopefully yours too!) here goes my absolute favorite photos of Sandara Park.

1. "Classic Beauty"

I'll go ahead and assume that most of us will choose this as a top favorite. When this photo was revealed, it's safe to say that many were left dumbfounded--including me. Seeing this photo for the first time is a mixture of awe and disbelief. As 2NE1's fashion risk taker, we never thought we'll see Dara styled like this: so simple yet so elegant. This photo drips of innocence. She exudes an ethereal and refreshing aura. In fact, she resembles women from the 60s who wear their hair big but go for nude tones for their lips and make up. A classic look for a classic beauty. After a year since its release, I find myself still captivated by the magic this photo brings.

 2. "Enchanting Fairy"

Nothing screams "Goddess" more than this photo. The bold contrasts of the pink flowers, fantasy make up and glowing skin worked well on Sandara. She looked absolutely breath taking. The childlike look in her eyes and the lushness of her lips further emphasize her lethal charm that she can be innocent and seductive at the same time. As if that's not enough to send us all crazy, there she goes flashing her sexy collarbones that rarely see the light of day. To say we're enchanted by this is an understatement, to be honest. We're more like, enraptured more than anything else.

Dara Graces ELLE Magazine; 'Sophisticatedly Elegant'

Dara never fails to surprise us every time. Her recent participation in ELLE's Share Happiness campaign proved that she is as versatile as a chameleon when she appeared in a photoshoot that showed a different side of her we don't often get. We normally see her in outrageous styles befitting her image as a 2NE1 member but this time, she's decked in glamorous ensemble and classic make up that showed off her natural beauty and charm.

Here are her ELLE photos and the corresponding interview.

SANDARA PARK: A 21st Century Heroine

When we were young, we believed in super heroes and mythical creatures who possess amazing abilities and otherworldly powers. Then we grew up. The magic slowly faded. Our make-believe world no longer existed. But as we matured, we also learned that heroes are real (albeit less magical but just as powerful) even in this day and age where people are more practical, more cynical and less faithful.

I, myself, have known a 21st century heroine whose abilities match that of a Phoenix--she rose from her own ashes and grew into an even more beautiful, stronger creature. She is none other than the precious, life-changing idol, Sandara Park.

I found this post on tumblr summarizing how she dealt with her downfall and pain; how she managed to come out even better and much tougher. She's a woman of steel, a lady of great principles and virtue and most of all, a girl who harbors such enormous love for the people around her. A heroine through and through, that's who she is.

Timeless Beauty

There are girls that look incredibly stunning only at first sight but when you get used to seeing it, it's as if their beauty isn't so remarkable anymore. And then there are those who are beautiful but not as striking when you see them for the first time but then as you look at them longer, you gradually fall helplessly captivated by it. Such is the beauty of Sandara Park.

At first glance, you wouldn't really see something special that puts her above the other faces in showbiz but the longer you look at her, the older she gets, the more beautiful she becomes. And what's even more amazing is the fact that it's all natural. Sandara Park fans are well aware of how Dara likes to present herself. In a sea of surgically enhanced celebrities, she stays natural. When everyone is adamant to wearing colored circle lenses, she chooses to show her true eye color which is beautifully brown. Many are obsessed with dark and thick eyeliners to alter their eye shape but Dara opts for minimal application. Sexy is what others strive to become so to further achieve it, they use lipsticks in a variety of red shades but Dara is unlike any other so she opts for a more nude tone. Performance or not, celebrities wear their fake lashes as much as they please, as thick as they want but again Dara would wear it only when she's working. And most of all, what really amazed me is that she chose to keep her birthmark on her right calf. Celebrities nowadays want every blemish removed, every scar erased, every flaw gone.

Simply put, Dara is proud of her god given looks, she embraces her natural gifts and that is what marks her above others.

In her latest shoot with Cosmopolitan for CLIO cosmetics, Sandara proves that natural is indeed the best. She showcased a total of five different looks from innocent woman to sultry biker chick to edgy fashionista. And what lovely transformation each look was.

[REPOST] Sandara and CLIO

originally posted: 09/14/2013

Well, hello there! It's been a while since I last posted. Been busy with school and thee have been a lot of happenings in my fan girl world which I haven't shared with you all. It's such a pity because I wanted this blog to be so active and updated but real life got in the way so yeah.

Anyway..... I am so not over CLIO's LipNiCure products and Sandara!!!!!

Those lipstick concepts were one of my dreams that came true! Thank you CLIO, for that wonderful wonderful campaign.

The thing is I've been wanting to see my goddess model striking lip colors like that of CLIO's. Damn, Sandara Park just killed it. I swear, where in the world can you find a beauty so dazzling as her. She is pure per-fec-tion!

Also, I want to see her in a CF selling red lipsticks and seducing a man. Hahahaha! I wonder when that will happen. I can bet CLIO's red lipsticks would run out once the CF airs. Oh please CLIO, make it happen. Your promotion sucks, by the way. LMAO. Great thing Sandara Park is your main endorser.

Moving on, my favortie look would be Guilty Pink. She rocked that look beyond anything supreme. Goddess indeed.

I just wish the next CLIO campaign would be something like the four elemental goddesses then my Dara would totally make them other models run for their money.

Here are the gorgeous gorgeous photos:

 

[REPOST] Falling In Love With Sandara

originally posted: 07/09/2013

OMG OMG OMG Guys! Falling in Love MV is finally out and holy guacamole Dara was absolutely stunning! I kid you not! After their so long hiatus, we can now see them back in Music Programs and other shows. Oh my Dara. T_T How I've missed you. Now I can spazz everyday with something new and exciting to look forward for!

Here's the MV. Check it out!

And see these Dara screencaps from Oh Dara! It's not enough to just watch the MV. We need still cuts for Dara's illegal beauty! Spazz spazz away!

Are you still breathing? Haha! You might need more oxygen for the following GIFs from fresh vocal! Dara was really ethereal in this Egyptian Goddess inspired look. I mean, hello! Dara was born a goddess of course it will suit her naturally. Anyway, enough blah, drool over the awesome GIFs:

Dear reader, you will be missed.

Hahahahaa! Kidding! I died a little with those GIFs. I was actually pissed off with YG because the teaser photos honestly looked cheap. Can't they even make it more classy or something? It didn't even reach the supposed "YG Quality" for me. I even thought I wouldn't like their song but all my apprehensions vanished the moment I saw the MV. I was like a lunatic fan girling over Dara's perfection. Come on people, we all melted at her "touch me over here, touch me over there" part right? She totally emitted that Goddess aura effortlessly. She was heavenly! And her dancing, OH MY GOSH. The choreo suited her skills well. She was so sexy and flirtatious! She was really good at dancing, bias aside. I mean, look at those body waves and twists. Damn, if I do that, I'd look like a constipated penguin but our Sandara killed it and she looked perfectly awesome while doing it. Who says she can't dance? Haters, go back to your caves and meditate. Hahaha. Lol. Her part was the most reaggae-ish actually. The song was a mix of hip-hop and reggae and I think that her lines embodied the reggae feel of the song plus her voice sounded great in this kind of genre.

Well, that's all for now. Their first live performance will be on Thursday in M-Countdown! Stay tuned! ^^

xoxo

Photo credits to: http://oh-dara.com/ and http://fresh-vocal.tumblr.com/

[REPOST] B-cut Photos of Dara on ELLE Magazine

originally posted: 03/03/2013

Looks like our pleas reached ELLE for they released another batch of Dara's perfect photos for 'Say My Name'. ELLE released additional B-cut web photos and they are just as gorgeous as the pictures that made it to the cut. OHMYGOSH I can't think of a better word to describe these pictures. THEY ARE ALL BEYOND BEAUTIFUL.

See for yourself.

The last one was my favorite! Dara looks so innocent and young in that photo! <3 I am sure a lot of fanboys and even fangirls swooned over her pictures. Truly, a GODDESS! :)

I wish her comeback hairstyle would be just like this, simple and so girly-girly. ^^ Girly Dara for the win! And I just hope Clio styles her more like this too. And more gorgeous photoshoots for our Dara Jjang! :)

Ciao~
xoxo

[REPOST] Web Photos of Stunning Dara for ELLE

 originally posted: 02/25/2013

Remember my post where I was ranting so much about how ELLE did not even upload web photos of Dara? Because the other girls uploaded theirs even before the release of their respective magazine covers. Well now, ELLE must have heard my pleas so they recently uploaded the web photos of Dara all in HQ in their website. Her interview was also included. THANK YOU ELLE FOR THE AMAZING PHOTOS. <3

PS.
ELLE, PLEASE RELEASE MORE HQ PHOTOS. <3

LOVE,
DARALINGS




Source: ELLE WEBSITE

[REPOST] [Magazine Scans] Ethereal Goddess Dara for ELLE

 originally posted: 02/23/2013

Pa-ra-bam! Dara's photos from her Elle cover had been released! Finally! You get to see her gorgeousness. This is actually a late post already but heck, I should still post this. :)

Here are the photos. A bit of warning though: PREPARE YOUR HEARTS FOR WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE IS A CREATURE WITH BEAUTY THAT IS BEYOND COMPARE.

Isn't she gorgeous? TT TT I literally wanted to smash my laptop after seeing her photos and I actually got spasms from too much spazzing. I am not even kidding you. I swear I had a hard time breathing because of this pain in my abdomen! That was the effect she had on me. -___-

Le, look at this edit! It's so awesome. This is actually may favorite shot of her!

I know you haven't had enough of her beauty so you can continue spazzing by watching ELLE's BTS video footage of her photoshoot! Yay! Thanks ELLE for the wonderful video! ^^ Though, I am still mad at you guys for not releasing web photos or even wallpapers! TSK. I'm on the brink of worshipping ELLE actually for the amazing styling they did on Dara but web photos are so damn important and they didn't give us anymore than that cover photo. Aigoo. Anyway, I love how they captured Dara's natural beauty! She barely had any make up on but dang, she looks so damn fine! Okay. Done spazzing. Here's the video:

Spazz away! Wooooosh!

[REPOST] Elegant Dara for ELLE

The girls had an individual photoshoot for 4 different fashion magazines. And mind you, the magazines I'm telling you about are the four major magazines in K-O-R-E-A eh eh eh eh eh. Lol. Haha.

Bom shot for Allure with a Spring theme; Minzy for Marie Claire showing off her sexy side now that she's 20 and CL for Bazaar sporting her edgy fashion sense. And of course, our dear Dara posed for the best one among the four, the world's largest fashion magazine, none other than, ELLE.

The four girls made yet another history in Korea as they are the first group to individually cover for four different bigtime magazines simultaneously. Their covers are set to be released in March.

 

Now, going back to the gorgeousness that is of Sandara Park.

I've always dreamt of seeing her in a photoshoot where she sports a normal look and ELLE just made it come true. Goddess Dee is looking oh-so-perfect in her photo! I can't wait to see her other photos. I'm sure she looks even more gorgeous in those. (Dara Unnie, stop being a tease and post a BTS photo already!) And I remember her Starcall last Lunar New Year. She  was wearing a white dress and her hair was curled to perfection. I'm betting that was for ELLE! When I first saw the video, I thought maybe she was shooting another ad for Clio. But then YG gave us this news earlier that made the netizen world spazz like mad men.

I wanna give the ELLE staff a pat in the back for an incredibly job well done! Years of waiting for the unleashing of Inner Goddess Within Dara has finally ended! Hooray!

And thank you for dressing her in pretty immaculate white clothes! Gosh! Dara should have all the white dresses in the world because she fits those types of clothes like its invented for her alone. I wish I could always see her like this. Looking gorgeous while sporting a normal hair, wearing simple clothes and having less make up. This way, her beauty shines even more.

And oh by the way, the dress Goddess Dee is wearing is from Gucci and her shoes are from Chanel. (Credit to Sandara Park Fashion Blog.) ^^

 

Isn't she perfect? I so want to cry right now! T_T

GORGEOUS!

BEAUTIFUL!

LOVELY!

<3

And here's another beautiful edit from fresh-vocal.tumblr.com :)

Aaaaaaah~ Angel Dara is soooo pretty~ <3

Alright! Spazz away!

Ciao

xoxo