[teens stories] WHY WERE THEY SO INSISTENT IN GIVING GAEUL SHORT HAIR?

She looks f*cking pretty with long hair

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When she had long hair, she was plainly pretty but with short hair, she had that character vibe. It's the same with Minnie and her bangs. When she doesn't have them, she looked innocently pretty but with bangs, she has that hip image. I think that's why. IVE are all pretty but I feel like they gave her short hair so she can have a clearer character. Also, put this post in enter-talkㅎ

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During ELEVEN, a lot of people said that she looked like Leeseo so they made this character for her with short hair. But I also think that she looks better with long hair

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She had long hair at her debut though? Also, after the short hair, she was able to become more popular because of her image. Now that she has long hair, she looks relatively prettier so I think that's why people are reacting this way

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I saved this picture because of how pretty she looked

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The reason why short hair didn't look good on her was because they always gave her hair color that was too bright and that the length was just not pretty. I think that she would've suit a longer bob with toned down hair. But f*ck, they just got it off as soon as it grew a bit longer

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No one paid attention to her when she had long hair.

They kept comparing her to Leeseo and saying Leeseo was prettier, and making it seem like Gaeul wasn't needed in the group since she didn't stand out.

But, now, she is more known, so I don't think it would make much of a difference if she went back to long hair.

Agree. She used to be the least popular member then after she cut her hair it created a lot of buzz. But I was never a fan of her haircut. Imo there was a lot of prettier haircuts for short hair and Gaeul's luck is that she's so pretty it wasn't an issue that the haircut wasn't very flattering.

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I'm saying that based on what I remembered the articles about her and IVE saying back then.

Even someone in the K-netz commented about it too, so I don't think I'm misremembering it.

I don't think it's a coincidence that Gaeul started getting more attention once she cut her hair, but it is also true that she was able to get more lines during Love Dive. It can be a combination of both things. Not one or the other.

We won't know if she would have gotten that attention if she kept the long hair and gotten the lines as well since Starship already made the decision to change her styling then. We can only speculate.

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Actually she only had more lines in After Like when she went viral, iirc in Love Dive she was still the one with least lines so you're correct about the short hair making a difference, though I agree with the othee user that the lack of lines put her at the bottom of the popularity of ive members during Eleven era.

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Now I'm wondering if Leeseo could pull off short hair?

all of ive would

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