"Beauty for Life"
On the day the nominations of the Academy Awards were announced, #Zheng Xiuwen's seventh nomination for the Academy Awards film queen# also appeared on the hot search.
From 22 years ago to the present, with 10 roles and 7 nominations, Zheng Xiuwen's road to the film queen is longer than many actors:
The 20th edition of "Lonely Men and Widows" in 2001;
In 2002, the 21st "Slimming Men and Women", "Live-in Honey Friends" and "Zhong Wuyan";
the 25th "Long Hate Song" in 2006;
"High Altitude Love 2" in the 32nd edition of 2013;
The 33rd edition of "Blind Detective" in 2014;
the 39th "Murder in San Jose" and "Taste of Peppercorns" in 2020;
The 41st edition of "Flowing Water and Falling Flowers" in 2023.
The reason why it is on the hot search is because the audience is looking forward to Zheng Xiuwen being able to hold the trophy this time, and at the same time, because this face has been loved by us for too long.
In 1988, at the age of 16, Cheng Xiuwen stepped into the Hong Kong TVB Rookie Singing Competition, as the youngest contestant, she passed the hurdle, and finally won the third place by singing Yip Qianwen's song "Cheers".
At the age of 18, Zheng Xiuwen Huaxing Record Company officially signed a contract, and two years later released his first Cantonese album: "Zheng Xiuwen", the fourth album "Happy Labyrinth" in 93, which sold more than 100,000 copies just after its release. When he first debuted, Zheng Xiuwen was very popular and had good luck winning awards:
In 1997, she won the "Most Popular Female Singer Award" at the Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Melody Awards for the first time
In 1998, she won the "Most Popular Female Singer Award" at the Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Melody Awards
In 1999, he won the annual Top Ten Golden Melody Award and the Golden Melody Award
In 2001, she won the "Most Popular Female Singer Award" at the Golden Melody Awards Ceremony
Looking at the year, you can know the gold content of the award, and it was not easy to gain a foothold in the Hong Kong music scene at that time.
The development route set by the company for Zheng Xiuwen is not only to stand in one place, at that time she took the three-way route of film and television songs, filming, soaking on the set, at a young age, but had a good audience popularity, once known as "Anita Mui's successor".
Now there are still people who often turn it out and say that the beauty in Leslie Cheung's eyes is only Li Jiaxin and Zheng Xiuwen, one is so beautiful that no one believes in saying "not photogenic"; The other is not the popular mixed-race face of the year, nor is it brilliant with three-dimensional, angular beauty.
Zheng Xiuwen's appearance is very characteristic of oriental beauty, which can be known by looking at her early heavy makeup style.
The eyebrows are handsome, long eyebrows, high eyebrow arches, narrow and long eyes, is a beautiful phoenix eye, whether it is double eyelids or lying silkworms are delicate and neat.
The apple skin is plump, and the nose shape is long, round and thick, which also sets the pattern for her facial atmosphere.
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It is not a broad face, but in the infant fat period, the lower jaw angle is indeed rounded and slightly wider, and the baby fat brings not a juvenile state, but a mature and plump beauty.
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Just like the popular hot girls now, the entertainment companies at that time favored artists who created the image of "jade girl", with docile long hair and light makeup, highlighting the young and immature face; But this style happens to be contrary to Zheng Xiuwen's own temperament, or in other words, her rebellious and flamboyant side is even more eye-catching.
After a period of tempering in the entertainment industry, Sammi has long known the type of actress that the public loves.
Zheng Xiuwen when she first debuted was not at all the "paper man" like the body at this time, and she was even criticized by the Hong Kong media for being too fat at that time, and she was always compared with the slim and thin Zhou Huimin.
So, Zheng Xiuwen began to work hard to lose weight. At its worst, she once tried to eat 2 apples in 7 days. This urgent and crazy determination to lose weight made her bid farewell to the era of baby fat and successfully lose weight.
The fleshy "collagen" on her face disappeared, her bones and edges became tighter and more prominent, her slender and raised eyebrows made her more cold and arrogant, and her eyes became sharper.
As a result, she also won the title of "Skinny Diva".
After that, she also began to boldly try to change her style, choosing Song and Dance as her main hit.
With the "restructuring" of rebellion + change, she changed her previous youthful and lovely appearance and became the first female singer in Hong Kong to dye her full blonde hair. She "worked hard" on her eyebrows, with strange and different shapes and exaggerated and eye-catching makeup, and the colorful and laser eyeshadow eyeliner also set off a wave of ancient Hong Kong-style "excited" wind.
However, due to the conflict between the avant-garde and rebellious style and the jade woman route prescribed by the company, this also led to her being hidden by the brokerage company at the time.
After "re-emergence", Sammi has become a veritable "changeable diva", she not only tried the retro minimalist androgynous Tomboy style, but also played the popular ghostly horse elf, nonsensical, naughty and funny style of the millennial to the fullest, and the strange costume of the eyebrow dancing made the public remember her deeply.
She constantly challenges the aesthetic limits of the world, any exaggerated and bizarre clothing can be "tamed" by her, exaggerated headdresses and unruly "Nike eyebrows" also set off a wave of imitation makeup craze at that time.
In 2000, Zheng Xiuwen's "Fuke" and "Eyebrow Flying Color Dance" were red through the streets and alleys. In the same year, she cooperated with To Qifeng and Andy Lau in the love movie "Lonely Man and Widow", which won the box office champion of Hong Kong local films that year.
Finding the right style can make great strides, and Cheng Xiuwen is the best example.
Sammi, who is tall but not thin, undergoes a series of cyclical pressures of weight loss and weight gain, which eventually led to her overeating and depression outbreaks. It wasn't until 2007 that she announced her comeback.
On stage, she said in person:
"I saw very clearly that the green light of my life was on again, and I saw a road across the street, and a bright road awaited me. So, one night, in my own bedroom, I quietly said to myself, well, I will bravely hold up my only 31A chest and walk this road. In my own life and career, I have regained the courage to start again. ”
She no longer presses herself to pursue her original "skinny" body shape, but builds muscle through self-discipline and fitness. Remember we wrote one:
Zheng Xiuwen's spicy, the whole body is full of traces of self-discipline
When you see her, you will understand what training marks are, and you can see the tight muscle lines when you turn and swing your arms at will.
"Every drop of sweat that has been shed, plain face is real, I am not proud of my youth, but I will feel confident for hard work."
"You don't have to live 18 at 50"
Zheng Xiuwen is not pursuing youth, but herself, she said that she has passed the stage of using "Zheng Xiuwen is very thin" to see life, and her current figure shows confidence and boldness, just like decades ago she "transformed" herself and slashed at the original jade woman.
Nowadays, Zheng Xiuwen's makeup is no longer exaggerated and fancy, but it is still heroic, light-colored long eyebrows, smoky makeup, red lips, bold but not heavy, you can still see delicate and glowing skin. As for the daily selfies posted on social media, sometimes it's just a lipstick.
"Relaxed", these two words are the portrayal of Zheng Xiuwen at the moment, no matter who the Academy Awards go to, we believe that Sammi will still bravely stand up her only 31A chest and walk every road.
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