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    Beauty Blogger Claims Skin Care Product Won ‘Nobel Prize for Makeup’

    Mar 11, 2020

    Netizens are rebuking a Chinese beauty blogger after she promoted an Australian skin care product as having won the “Nobel Prize for Makeup” during a livestream Tuesday.

    Mu Yalan is a web celebrity, or wanghong, with over 11 million fans on microblogging platform Weibo. After netizens called her out for inventing a novel Nobel, Mu apologized, explaining that she had meant to say “chemistry,” which in Chinese sounds similar to “makeup.” She also posted a photo of herself writing the Chinese phrase “Nobel Prize for Chemistry” 100 times as a gesture of penance.

    While the product Mu was touting did not win the Nobel for chemistry either, the discovery of one of its purported components — fullerenes — took home the 1996 prize.

    In 2017, Mu was on the receiving end of a barrage of online criticism for a gratuitously patriotic video she had posted of herself in a Chinese soldier’s uniform, standing in front of a Chinese flag, lambasting South Korea with an off-rhythm rap in protest of the country allowing the U.S. to build the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) ballistic missile system on its soil. (Image: From @圈八戒 on Weibo)