ViVi cover April 2012

[AyumiAi]

she looks so young and energetic :3 loving it!

[cosmicfirefly]

Love the cover overall, though I agree her eyes/eyelashes are a bit odd. I'm glad she has a more fun image here, she's still young and can pull it off, it would be boring if she was only in "classy" or "mature" magazines/photoshoots all the time.

[zellyx]

WOW

what an interesting style concept.............again reminds me of 'early era' (because of the crazy hair + americana)...
Her outfit is smashing.
^ and I agree, I think she's modeling her own falsies for promotion~



**This shoot fits the concept of a fun album (party queen)!! finally!!

[JackieRos]

I love her face and nails other than that is just a hot mess.
I want those contacts.

Originally Posted by Heavenly

Dudes, she's 33 now !

She should look like this :
http://zyrex.org/gallery/Ayumi1/Ayumi-mags/Sweet/24/
http://zyrex.org/gallery/Ayumi1/Ayumi-mags/ViVi/36/

like a wannabe cute girl

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

It brings me back to the NEXT LEVEL era. That era was fun, to me at least. And all the colours and stuff, loving it.

We just can't get an album loaded with mid-tempo and ballads after covers like this one



I love the plastic doll looking ayu, don't care how many people hate it, I looooove ittt.

[George]

I really don't like it. I mean it's a nice change of style, but it was poorly executed. The only good thing about the picture is that her lips look gorgeous.

I don't agree that she shouldn't do pictures like this anymore, she's 33 not 60. She can wear what she wants.

[truehappiness]

The Deji Deji Diary this time appears to be LANDS of Eden stuff along with mainly album-recording shots.

[ayu_ready?]

Originally Posted by pepper

they aren't teen, I would call them "young adult magazine" or sth, it's mostly about fashion/cosmetics. (but for casual people, not like VOGUE/Harper's Bazar stuff) I am creeped out about the last pages of these magazines though, surgery agencies advertisements... But they are mostly in the Popteen/EGG (breast surgery, lips ><)

I would love Ayumi in VOGUE or Harper's Bazar ;[ her body is amazing for that stuff. Or in GLAMOROUS, I LOVE this magazine, very good style/touch (very classy shoots)

I am for Harper's Bazaar!

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Well, she's previously sported some very odd looks in ViVi. IIRC, in 2007 she did a plastic-outfit shoot with a top hat.

About the granny thing, it's weird but that style is kind of "in" at the moment with a lot of youths dressing like old women, haha.

this ViVi shoot is still much much better, you know

[love in music]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Well, she's previously sported some very odd looks in ViVi. IIRC, in 2007 she did a plastic-outfit shoot with a top hat.

About the granny thing, it's weird but that style is kind of "in" at the moment with a lot of youths dressing like old women, haha.

god that shoot was awful. i hope this one isn't anywhere near as bad.

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

I love that shoot XD

[sugarbasil]

That's actually my favorite photo shoot of all time of hers...

[Lady_Eowyn]

Horrible. I don't like it. And the photoshop makes her look she only has a shadow of a nose.

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

Originally Posted by Lady_Eowyn

Horrible. I don't like it. And the photoshop makes her look she only has a shadow of a nose.

I think that's the lightening

[truehappiness]

Yeah, it's the intense flash. Leslie shouldn't use this kind of effect in his photos, it never really works

[Aditmi Krisnasaki ~II~]

pretty good!

[pepper]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Well, she's previously sported some very odd looks in ViVi. IIRC, in 2007 she did a plastic-outfit shoot with a top hat.

About the granny thing, it's weird but that style is kind of "in" at the moment with a lot of youths dressing like old women, haha.

1) I LOVE this PLASTIC photoshoot. It's crazy, very VOGUE'esque in fact. Very weird, my thing.

2) Ayu is that kind of a star that she should change her image often, and that's why I love her, lol

In fact, from the recent photoshoots, I disliked her curly hair the most, with these pink-peachy lighting and these granny-cute clothes and HATS. ugh. And her lips was disgusting back then (I love personally "peachy skin lipstick" but Ayu looks like an alien with em) She looked like 16yo teen-wannabe. This kind of session (ViVi 4,12) looks purely fun, it's nothing bad with "fun/cool/urban" in her age. I just think that "cute Ayu" (like in shoots back then or RnRC cover) doesn't work for her anymore.

and the last thing about lightning - yeah, Leslie uses the strong light a lot, it's not very fine for me cause Ayu look a little manequinesque.

[BlackSilence]

Originally Posted by sugarbasil

If I said what I thought she looked like...I'd have to give myself an infraction.

Regardless, I'll look forward to the inside pages.

this made me laugh lol
Ayu, what are you doing to our poor mods

[truehappiness]

From http://ameblo.jp/kencam/image-111722...809824578.html.

Looks like this is going to be a male model shoot too, haha. Her earrings are so interesting. "??/!!"

[noola chan]

just dont like her upper lashes ..
but everything else is beautiful
Thanx for sharing

[freedreamer]

wow..it looks so fun!!! it's been so long since we seen this side of Ayu. It's just so wacky and fun. the pink lipstick works well imo