Lol at her waist/stomach. I mean, women body is not shaped like that and its ugly. I liked pics during the shooting and the final work is horrible lol.

To be honest, I like her hair and contact lenses too. The pics wouldn't be that bad, if they didn't been so retouched. Don't know if it's made on purpose, like a alien-siren as someone said. So it would make perfect sense imo.

The idea is great, but I don't like how her body looks on the 2nd pic.

I've edited both pictures with her natural eyes color and smaller lips (and the body on the second picture):

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz...eokpo1_500.jpg http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz...eokpo2_500.jpg

THIS.

I REALLY like them. :heart I love the styling, and how 'fantasy' they are supposed to look, you know, not completely real, it's more of a concept, a fantasy concept. I love them. :D I love the pink hair and I think the blue contacts look cool. I would say they make her look very spaced and give her the zombie look, although I think that is meant to add to the 'surreal' look of it? I do prefer the edits of her natural eyes though, although it depends what look you're going for.

I will admit though the photoshopping could have been toned down on the second picture. I like they effect they have placed on her skin to make it look almost reflective and smooth, but you can tell they have overworked it quite a bit, and even cinched her waist in it looks like to me, to give her a curvier waist...but it just makes her look a little dis-proportioned. Her wait and hips look smaller than her upper body.

Still love them though. :) I like how different they are. I really want to see the pictures with the short hair!! :love

I second the Sunrise/Sunset cover comments. That would have been brilliant, this exact look but with a (real) beach background. Who want to make fake Sunrise/Sunset covers for iTunes?! LOL

:laugh Dear Ayu's stylist for lands of eden,

Remember to book Miliyah Kato or Rinka for next shoot.

Remember that turning Ayu into them via photoshop makes her look like she should be covered in green blood.

Okaaayyy, bye~

and yey for @kaled's edit. That looks so great :heart

I agree with Ayu Love, I really like the "fantasy" look of the pics but I hate what they've done to her waist in the second pic. I know she's been working out and all but that just looks so unnatural!

EDIT: The contact lenses have really grown on me!

mi|kshake~

those for the covers would of been amazing...
I think just fixing the hair would of made those covers 100x better, but oh well!

Also, the second picture where you can see her stomach really well, it looks like some fan boy had way to much time on his hands! lol

@emi♡: Thanks :3

Here it go the covers XD
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz...eokpo1_250.jpg http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz...eokpo2_250.jpg

^ These covers are so many times better than the real covers. I remember how awful the real Sunrise / Sunset covers were. :/

I don't really understand the fairytale-concept so many people here talk about. I mean, come on, she is dress in jeans, t-shirts and a bikini.

The "forgiveness"-PV was fairytale-like.

These pics look like every other magazine-shooting in an exotic place to me. I don't see anything "magical" about them.

It's more like a tropical fantasy land than "Sci-Fi/whimsy" fantasy land. It looks like 'paradise'.

LOL THESE ARE AWESOME! Thank you!

100x better! :D

I miss natural Ayu so much

I much prefer the original >.<

The first one is beautifully done, but I really don't like the second one. I mean, I know the backgrounds are fake or whatever, but in the first picture it looks a lot more natural...the second one looks strange. I wish I could see the REAL pictures before retouching happens. I bet Ayu didn't even need as much as they did.
Thanks for sharing these, though. :)

LOVEEEE HER Hair color! :D

Join the club! :(

I agree that the second picture doesn't look as good, I don't really like the contacts, maybe if they were a bit darker blue it would look more natural, but I love them as the Sunrise/Sunset covers! lol

these are amazing! :luv2

going to itunes to change it now!

If the covers are anything like these photos I'm gonna be one happy fan!

wow these pics really look better as a single covers!!

i love her hair color and blue contacts. the first pic is pure awesome. so summerish. the second one her facial expression is so so. but i love the styling and her flying skirt. at least its not the short hair again :p

i love the shoot, but I don't like light in green one - cause it covers ayu too much.

I don't know if anyone's posted these or not, but I took the HQ versions from the website's background...

they look so absolutely scary & horrible:thud

Really? I actually like the one in the jungle. Allthough it looks like she is fading away in there.

1st pic: just okay... :|
2nd pic: she looks okay, but i just don't like the way they make her not to look like a Japanese. :|

Why well done you! :D I like them!

OMG!!! o__O!!
ayu..??!! looks not like ayu ToT

She does look slightly different...
I just realized in a lot of her photo shoots she really doesn't smile, does she!
It seems in this in all the photos she is smiling and happy...

Jungle picture is good but the second picture is.. awful.. (Her breasts look sooo weird)..

new picture http://lockerz.com/s/186448160

everything seems fine except her body & face in every picture

Sexy!

ok now this is so much better than the other one. not as much photoshop abuse here. she's so gorgeous

I love how toned her body is nowadays.

yeah..her body is a BOMB!

"Swing and a miss."

Love her hair and body! #drool

I don't think they were trying to make her look alien. I think she looks very European and exotic

OMGness GORGEOUSSS..PERFECT BODY! :love

This is the thing, I don't get why Ayu is obsessed with looking caucasian...she looks most gorgeous with dark long hair and tan skin like Arena tour 2006.

This version of the promo looks better.

I like both, I kinda like how weird her eyes looks with blue lenses. I dont like her hairstyle a bit, but I adore the color.

I think I like this picture better than the other two we've seen. :love

Ayu with the smaller mouth works so much better LOL
her body does look really incredible

(@beffi..the ayu in ur ava and sig's very nostalgic hahha)

i don't see that ayu is so obsessed to look like caucasian.

mte.

actually it could have been an absolutelly stunning photoshoot... i'm kinda sad they wasted the opportunity...

wow the new one really looks better!!! great promo!

I love to see her body :luv2

hair & makeup = good...I love the blue contacts actually. She's beautiful as usual! :)
. but wtf stop photoshopping her so much!!!!! It's what makes her facial expressions look unnatural!!
she's in reallly good shape. I'm envious.
I need to go workout!!!!


If you look at page 2 of deji deji, and see the group picture, she looks absolutely stunning and cute. But the photoshop turns her into looking plastic occasionally...

+1 Agreed..

well guys i'm not sure she's obsessed with looking caucasian...she just seems obsessed with blond/light hair this past year or two or three....getting your hair dirty pinkish isn;t really much of a change. If she really would want to change, and be noticed she's go dark...i think....*shrugs*

fixed

sometimes I blame the photographer's more than ayu.
But if I was her I would put my foot down and tell them to stop doing all of this crap to her.

Ayu has had blonde hair for pretty much 12 years now, with a few exceptions...IMO Ayu goes out of her way to look the way she does, although she probably didn't sit down one day and decide "I'm going to look as caucasian as possible". I guess it's just the fashion/style she likes.

^ lol ok when i typed the years I thought it's a little too little .... But I really wasn't trying to say she is looking Caucasian, i'm not sure where people get that from. Blond hair is usually always on the fashion stage...tho i don't think she really goes for major changes, she still sitting on her safe boat of blond hair and mainstream fashion style. So far it just got more mainstream than it was during FIVE.....

She is probably going to go back to dark hair soon, but she changes her mind a LOT so we can't really assume it's automatically going to happen just because she said she plans on it in the future. (From a magazine interview)

Here's the quote [thanks to Misa-chan!]:
Of course, since then all she's done is cut it some more but maybe when she stops doing that, things will be different?

I don't mind her blonde hair, most American artists are fake blonde anyway.

that PINK wig is ridiculous.. too katy perry-ish..

is a NO!

From Misa-chan's blog. She translated LoE's blog entry.
http://ameblo.jp/lands-of-eden/entry-11172640407.html

*It's the one OyTony posted, right?

I wonder where that photo came from originally...

I do want to see more photos from this shoot so I can't wait for the end of April~

^
^
yea i saw lands of eden RT-ed someone's tweet with the pic of the store..and it's the same pic that OyTony posted~

omg i love these c'mon, they are amazing!

I am depressed about this. Her body isn't that tiny. She doesn't need to be airbrushed like that. She is already thin. Her shoots are starting to get medically impossible and they're sending out the complete wrong messages.

^this

Hm, another photoshoot destroyed by retouching. The wig looks horrible in all three pics as well and those contacts are bad.
The one with the jungle background looks the best to me, but overall bad again. >_<

m.... not this?
she has different outfit
http://s018.radikal.ru/i520/1202/96/e46a08860afb.jpg

That's probably the spoilers that they're talking about.

I hope they'll choose this photo
with beautiful, real, smiling Ayu

Agreed! This picture is probably the best of the entire lot. Ayu that looks like Ayu.

I got my issue of ViVi in the mail and got to see these real close up and I'm starting to like them both a lot more. She looks great. The photoshop looks good, too.

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k1...ij6o1_1280.jpg
http://isaxlove.tumblr.com/

^it does look much better up on display~~

^her eyes here more alive, i think

I actually really like it! I've been longing for her to go back to her long hair and it definitely looks great!

^ that one looks so good on display!

i love ayumi with her long hair!

it looks very colorful!<3

http://i.imgur.com/CKeSD.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/xpcGT.jpg

so gorgeous on the white horse

she looks so beautiful on the first pic..
but 2nd pic..too much PS on her face but she looks so gorgeous..

too much photoshop. me eyes are bleeding :thud

That just looks absurd. No one sits that far back on a horse. That horses anatomy is so ****ed up that it baffles me. Also the photoshoping with her hair against that blue sky is horrendous.

Well, Ayu have a nice smile at least on that superduper fake horsie.

:thumbsup

:friends

I agree %) when I saw photos on tumblr I thought that is not oficial, just someone's graphic

the previews look better :) although the left pic is unf :(

http://i.imgur.com/tyY9Y.jpg

cool~~

I wonder why they decided they needed to clone stamp the horses ass and smudge all the ocean back there lol funny.

I like her clothes.

I didn't notice it's ocean xD I thought it's snow/ice

this is not Ayu :thud

What about the horse mane (hair).. Every part of this picture screams "too much ps" :laugh

bad white horse, inconsequential! unnaturally! not logic!

She looks to have big teeths XDDDDD

she does have big teeth if you look at pics in the early stage of her career… she started doing something to make them look less smaller from 2001...

Haha! didn't notice. She seems to be quite high on the close-up.
I wonder if they tried so hard to make the most horrendous ad ever or if it's a mere coincidence.

I think I like it. Lol

Ilove the latest land of eden shoot !

http://pic.pimg.tw/yuki19820713/1324...-239797935.jpg

someone have it on high quality? plese share~ sankyuu