NEXT LEVEL cover is tattooless?
 

Could anyone explain to me why the NEXT LEVEL cover is tattooless? why would they edit it out? I thought she was proud of her tattoo. Was it so it would flow better with the rest of the album?

http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/6363/normal23qn4.jpg

http://www.asiancelebrities.net/wp-c...asaki-news.jpg

Because her tattoo doesn't make sense in some situations.

It would draw attention to her tattoo rather than her face and the concept of the album cover

oh just noticed how her hair is rather photoshop blurry around there~

I'm gonna take a stab at this and say:
In Japan tattoos are heavily linked with delinquency and the Yakuza, and although a lot of younger Japanese don't actually mind tattoos, it would create a bad image in Ayumi showed her tattoos in official photo-shoots, well, except for Secret, but that's an exception.

Now I know that Namie and Mika show of their tattoos a lot, but I know that Namie seems to have that bad girl image imo, whereas Ayumi doesn't have a bad girl image.

That's what I think anyway. :)

I don't think namie is that bad girlish. -now adays- today she seems to be sexy and classy. also they photoshopped out namie's tattoo in the 60s70s80s cover too. I guess for visual purposes too.

lol her tattoo is a cute heart with a wing & an A, i doubt it'd give her a bad girl image.

it'd look worse with her tattoo and even more tackier than it already is, that's probably why they airbrushed it out.

^ True! But I don't think that the Yakuza tattoos are bad boy tattoos, they're actually really hawt. xD

i guess the only exception is Secret, since she was really trying to show off her tattoo XD

think the main points of NL's cover is the hair, the colors, the TVs, and her yellow dish washing gloves :D

Yeah, if she was posing like that and obviously showing the tattoo, people would say how uncreative it was because she was showing it the same way she did on "Secret." They just retouched it out to change it up a li'l bit.

Photoshop. That's why it's tattooless.

But tattoos are really so cool, but again she looks with the tattoo photoshopped off in this case, no?

maybe her tatoo is fake? liek a paste on, like on secret.

^ Why should it be? We've seen it since she was with Nagase, about the release of "A", as it's the old A logo. Well, I haven't really checked, but I'm sure, if you see papparazzi shoots and so, you will see either the half heart, the 10th anniversary heart, or a bad layer of make-up.

Her black, deform tatoo wouldn't fit her dolly-look-alike on the cover!
And yes, I really think her tatoo is deform.

photoshopped..it could have been wird there.. I have one on my left foot and often, when I have special work meeting, i cover it with foundation.
Not always a tattoo is polite and senseful

the magic of photo shop did it...@_@

:yes

if you're lucky & sharp enough , you can steal glances of it when you watch 1 LOVE's PV too

No doubt its Photoshopped. :)

Yeah! I've noticed it too! If you look close, it looks a little weird, they way they photoshopped it.

i agree with pompster... the hair part was very blurry~

hmm,i think it will be nicer without her tatoo...nice and 'clean'
so it won't be to eye catching,IMO

would you wash dishes with gloves that have fingernails? xD

^ that would be easier to scratch of those stains on plates... but not on pots and pans... no good~

^ :roflmao:roflmao:roflmao:roflmao

Speaking of hair, yeah, I've noticed the blurry parts on my CD+DVD version. O_O

It doesn't look that blurry on my desktop, just kinda blended in with the skin tone.

they do this all the time, see: namie amuro :P

I just noticed that it doesnt even show in her Next Level pv:
http://eneabba.net/ayu/video/videocl...XT_LEVEL06.jpg
Credicts of the pic : eneabba

edit:
Or in her (don't) Leave me alone pv:
http://eneabba.net/ayu/video/videocl...me_alone22.jpg

I wonder if she spend so much time to cover it for photoshots and pvs why doesnt she just has it removed.
Maybe it hold sentimental value to her. The world may never know.....

^yea...

i agree it have to be photoshoop . i dont think ayu would do a tatoo and than do laser few years later ( +laser is painfull, expensive and sometimes leave scar )

^yea, a singer doesnt like scars~

haha I didn't even notice any of does..

I'm such a bad fan :(

;)

I agree :yes

*cough*

don't you think that's obvious o_O .... god ... it's just for an aesthetic question -_- no but honestly it would be so ugly to have the tattoo on the pic that would pop up violently .... and it doesn't fit the picture either .... that's not because you are proud of something that it can fit every situation .....

Her tattoo is real, real do you know what it means ????? It is there since many years now, that's funny and almost scary that a few still think she use sharpie to draw it everyday lol Ayu isn't a little princess and yes she has a tattoo, that has been disguise for Secret because they had to hide it/show it, because it has been leaked in some newspaper, tabloid ...., it was the big deal then they added the horse yes this time they painted a part of the tattoo!, now she showed to everyone the tattoo is real and she changed it to a love tattoo to her own tattoo.

As Karenpang said, watch 1LOVE PV u_u

Now if you still think it is fake .....

Me too! Her tattoo is real, of course, but in some situations it simply doesn't look good or make sense to be showing it off. She's been covering it up with foundation/airbrushing for years now guys.

Yeah you're right! We don't want bad image of Ayu.