Scawaii! April 2012 cover
 

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source: Amazon.jp

I like the style, just not her mouth. Usually I'm not too bothered by the things she does with her lips but here they just look damn weird O_o

OMG! She looks like Shirota Yu! :smitten

Weird expression, but this is that lovely hairstyle that even made me want to dye my hair pink.

lol, Im a fan of pouty and 'fishy' lips but this is just gone wrong, other than that I like it

i think she's exaggerating her mouth on purpose. :laugh
i like her expression for some reason though. :D

better than Vivi inside pics

..And as always her mouth looks weird.

I do love the hair color though.

Eeeeew

this is weird.. but... I... like it.

What the **** is wrong with her lips?

her mouth looks weird but i like the picture and the style!

Thx for sharing!! Everything looks fine but her liPs lolssssss...

Still better than the CD+2DVD cover xD

I like the clothes she's wearing, although her mouth looks hella strange in this...what is wrong with smiling on a magazine cover? >_<

just no. lol still thnx 4 sharin'.

Her lips look terrible, but the rest is nice!

Mouth is nothing new haha.
She looks cool :)

No. :no

Ummm wtf...

Glad not the fish lips though haha. This looks kinda OK.
Waiting for inside pics!

Rinka is that juuu?!

Cute but her lips look like she blew them up again.

very nice cover!
love her style, she looks so cute ..
thanx for sharing

Love the style and all!

Minus the lips.... and just what happened with the mascara??

Love it! She looks damn cool!

I like it. Love the lips.

Those lips .... X__X

I'm really hating her lashes these days. It just makes her whole face look bad. I bet if you put that mouth with her other lashes, it wouldn't look as bad.

Yeeey! I like it more than ViVi cover. But I don't think such long bangs suit her. If her eyebrows would be seen she'd look better and her mouth not so weird perhaps. Dunno.

this is ugly and cheap!!!!!! i think she's going to show a variety of style for this round of magazines...

The cover is bad but still better than the album CD+2DVD cover

oh my... ayu, what's wrong with you?.. :shakehead

Love the hair...! If my hair was a little longer, I would definitely get it cut like that! I love it.
However... the mouth... awful >_<

Maybe she just got some plastic surgery injection in her lips and wants to tell us "OMG it freaking hurts >___<"

GLAMOROUS is out on the same day, I hope it will be amazing, is one of my favorite japanese magz. So I am waiting for the cover :>

The hairstyle is cute :)

idk why she likes to make her lips look like she's had injections.
if i hadn't seen her lips look normal outside of shoots i'd definitely think she had injections. anyway, not cute.

Hmm a style that ... I think a HQ picture will be better

her lip and mouth expression is quite unnatural lol..

Ayu, please stop it... i mean it...
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c7...yavicrying.gif

Dunno why she's doing such massive lip injection. I'd rather prefer her lips on PQ covers instead.
She looks so gorgeous :/ but lips ruin everything. I'm looking forward inside pics though, might be better than cover lol.

Thanks for sharing though.

The only thing I can handle in this photo is her hair and eyes.

i love her hair color!! but not a fan of her lips..

Yay, pink hair! But I don't like the style of the cut. The look she has going on though it cool... minus those lips.

What face is she even trying to pull? Even if she did the same expression, including her mouth open, but without pouting her lips way beyond duck level, it would look... acceptable. Guess it's because her eyes look expressionless, which is weird, it's Ayu :/

OH MY GOD I LOVE IT!!!

I want this magazine so bad!!

thanks!

she should throw those horrible lenses away...

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/4938/lipsv2.jpg

I'm kind of confused about where Leslie's photography is going. It's not as polished as it usually always is for Ayu. Is he experimenting with some sort of new style or is this Ryan?

^ Whatever it is I rather like it. I think she looks cute. Looks like she's casually dressed, too.

i like the young and spunky image she has been going for, i definitely love the strawberry hair... but those lips... eeesh i understand maintaining them, but don't inflate them.

I think the shadows from the flash make her lips look a bit more pronounced than usual, but I don't think she had anything 'injected'. We saw her during this shoot when she first showed us her pink hair after all.

Nooooooooooooo :no

Oh.. the lips looks really bad. Well.. let's wait for the inside-pics.

I'm sorry but she really is just not pretty anymore...

da fuq with her lips?
open a mouth vide like supa porno ready position?
oh. my. God.
I am killed :thud

& THIS

RINKA?


No Ayu...stop. Just be yourself. Stop being trendy. **** my life. omg. You can't pull off the mouth, so dont try.

I love everything else though, so soooo excited for the inside.

edit:omg just saw this :shughug

Not her best but most certainly not her worst either. And people need to calm down with the plastic surgery crap...

I really like her hair color.

Her lips look slightly bigger than usual in a photoshopped pic of her with make-up on having her mouth open in a position that will make her lips appear bigger...OMG PLASTIC SURGERY!

weird....but I like it....haha... Love the styling, outfit, pose, just not the crazy fishy mouth thing.. but I somehow still like it

I agree 100%! She looks really pretty & I love the style but it's just what's she doing with her mouth :no...Ugh.

I like this cover. It's different from the usual fish lips crap that I really hate. That's one of those things that I can't stand anymore. I'm happy she threw that to the garbage can for a while. :yes

Odd lips as always, but the pic is kawaii

I think this is one of her worst covers ever. :< Hopefully the inside is nice.

It's nice she's not doing pouty, squished fish lips, but that doesn't mean I have to prefer this alternative.

She's gorgeous, but needs to get a different photographer. Problem, mainly, is the photo itself. Different lighting would make this sooo much better, and the pout may have been do-able, but this? No.

Hmmm, I think ViVi will remain my favourite...I really normally don't mind the pouty/fish lips, but really..?!

her expression is a bit strange here, but I love the hairstyle <3

I love the hair and styling but I wish she had a mischievous smirk instead of her current expression.

Too bad I love the styling, she looks like a blow up doll (°o°).

Usually Leslie's much more on point but recently he's had very "candid" looking photos instead of the usual glam editorial-style shots. I don't know why he changed his style but I wish he hadn't.

yuck!

No doubt the inside pictures will be beautiful, but the cover is kind of tarnished by her weird lip pose. Not sure why Scawaii! would choose that picture for the cover.

... Am I see Utada on the cover? O__Oa

LOL OMG UR SIGNATURE! i looooove it!

my hair is that color!! lol don't really like the cover or the style but I'm hoping the photos inside will be good

everything is so cute and cool and i dont mind her lips.

but... her bottom fake eyelashes.makes her eyes look .... weird

thx ^^

people can't be perfect forever, I've been his fan since 2001, along with Ayu, but now his works look really badly-made.FIVE looked professional & expensive, but other than that - so cheap looking. and very bad Ayu face featuring...:(

Picture had great potential but the lips ruined it =/

The lips, Ayu, WHY?

whoaaa!!She looks gorgeous!!I don't understand why so many people don't like the lips...they're Seeeeeeeeexy

U know... maybe ayu ASKED for him to shot her like that :B maybe ayu AKED Shimoko to shot her the way he did... Maybe this has less to do with who is shoting and more to do with who is paying for the photos and what this person is asking for....

What's that? Really, her lips are horrible.

the lightning,photography & production are lately poorly made. cutting costs on them maybe?

This open mouth trend in photographs reminds me of something I read about Victorian women being told to have their lips parted and a dreamy expression on their faces because it made them seem more docile and doll-like o_o;

I like it. I do admit the expression with her mouth open is a bit strange, but it somehow looks good, at least to me it does. :P

Too plain for a magazine cover...not an eye catchy.

I love her hair and the styling!
But her lips and expression destroy it somehow for me.
Overall still ok.

The lips... dont like it

I hate her DUCK FACE! I really can't stand it... I don't get how she put so many amazin' covers and pictures.. and NOW THIS??? it's just INSANE!

Shinoda Mariko from AKB48???

o3o

Other than that, I like it~

:roflmao

Not a fan of her expression...

Second that - except Ayu's older than Mariko, and Ayu's not AKB48...

Oh how I wish she'd stop the pouting.

I think she looks good really, I actually like this cover, don't see whats so bad about it really, she had worse than this :shrug

Her...her lips.

Why..........?

from fb

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Erm not sure if they are her tweets photos or from the mag?