I liked most of teh PVs shot in LA so i'm pretty excited

I just hope all the new PVs will have cool themes~
I hope ayu went to several nice places all around LA to film haha XDD

I hope the covers won't be overphotoshoped like Rock 'n' Roll Circus ones..

all you have to do is turn the lighting down in ayu's photoshoots and you can see that they're not over-photoshopped.
-about the pvs: as long as they're not one-scene stereotypical-ayu-in-LA pvs, then i'll be happy.

are you kidding? Ayu's pictures, like 99% of all celeb-pictures and modeling-shots, are overphotoshopped.. nobody looks like that ;p

^^I disagree.

OMG, so my Evo just froze, which has never happened before, and I took the battery out, revealing a MICROSD card. lmao...I never knew it was there.

I can't wait to put ayu's MicroSD in there and see what happens...haha.

Celebrity photos are less photoshoped than most people make it seens... You can get tons of different effects only with good make-up, light and angles.... Even some of the "eeew!1! too much photoshop!1!" ayu pics...

But since the begining of the last decade everything is either photoshop or playback to general public :P

I agree :yes and its so true lol. I mean for some reson its always so heavily assumed.

Just use a pause on any HD video (face close-up), she really does look flawless, it really not always photoshop, besides, when I've been to Japan, I strolled through Shibuya and had a closer look at girls there and their skin, they use lots of highlighters so their skin has a lovely shine and it's stunnigly beautiful. I even bought one myself, from Rimmel (I read in ViVi that she used it for the commercial photo shoot) and it's awesome. Add to that a healthy lifestyle, good diet and you won't be wondering why Japanese girls are that pretty in real life.

i don't even care if she looks like total plastic as long as it looks nice or has a nice theme! photoshop away and slather on the makeup, its fine with me!

actually, i don't even want to see her looking "real" on the covers of her albums. give me the "image" of ayumi hamasaki any day. if i want to see her looking real, i'll look at her TA pictures, which are also wonderful.

Me too! I don't care what the Japanese say! I will find a way >=D

It`s normal that celebs use so much make up they could cut it with a knife xD If she was going to photoshop everything anyway, wasting time and money on make-up would be pretty dumb...

I'm hoping for another (miss) understood CD only cover.
Or maybe another Sunrise!

^we all are. or what would be more amazing is another a best 2 cover. Only that this time they don't photoshop her eyes to look so small.

:roflmao

Lmfao.

But you know I don't think they photoshopped her eyes really at all. Ayu just has large eyes, combined with the makeup style and her O_O expression - it really creates that effect.

OMG LOL! You made my day.

Oh, I followed your advice. Here are some close-ups....

a forgiveness performance from 2002-2003 ish? how about something more recent...lol

No one has perfect skin 100% of the time, and makeup can just make it worse, cakey etc....But in general Ayu's skin looks really healthy and smooth. I'd kill for her complexion honestly.