ViVi Sept 2012 - Cover

[ayumisrael]

Gorgeous!!

[ayu_ready?]

Originally Posted by IYFreak

A little editing goes a long way


Credits: outsidefishbowl @ Tumblr

kaled_kalil always makes it better

[jang-kun]

Originally Posted by IYFreak

A little editing goes a long way


Credits: outsidefishbowl @ Tumblr

This is pretty good! Her nose and eyes are fine now!


But still, natural Ayu is the most beautiful I could swear my life to it. I hope A BEST 3 covers will do just like that

[Evolution7/4]

"Lets complain about too much photoshop and then use more to make it better"
I kid, I kid.

[jang-kun]

Well there's no prob in using PS, but her editing staff (or maybe even her) really don't know when to stop. I mean, can't they tell if it's weird or what? Hello quality check :/

I actually really like it
The smile looks lovely, and her hair is amazing <3 Excited to see the rest of the pics

[kimmeh]

Beautiful makeup and all, love the hair. Smile is okay, but nose&cheeks = SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG HERE.

PLEASE ayu, don't tell me you've done another nose job. Please, please let it be photoshop.

[AyuHamasaki01]

She looks really weird...

[Didz-19]

"i want this..i want that" again?????...Hahahah!!!

[BlackSilence]

Originally Posted by jbrat2219

That may be so but doesn't photoshopping her more to fix it to what the individual likes further deviate from the reality of what she actually looks like. I'm not saying fans can't photoshop or that they don't look good or better. But it seems a little hypocritical to me to complain about the photshop making her look bad or unnatural and then photoshop her even more to the point the photos don't even look the same anymore and calling it "better" when it looks nothing like her actual self (as when she took the photo). I'm not criticizing. I'm just wondering, what if the pic is a result of ayu looking like ayu and not too much photoshop? If we do little fixes and edits, are we saying ayu isn't pretty enough? Doesn't look good enough?

she is pretty enough, just for gods sake tone down the tan that's all that actually bugs me lol she looks way older. well in my point of view she looked freaky in the original, maynly because of bad make-up, so I fixed that. I've not touched her face shape her eye shape or her smile i only fixed the colors. And honestly if she wants to look like overburned cookie, alright, if that's supposedly in fashion right now xD even in the pic with Leslie she looked awfully bad because of the fake tan and that lisptic. The photoshopped version of mine is just my basic view of what I call a "fresh face" that's all, and we all know that she had this face in millions of covers.
And one more thing, the potos of the original and the edit do look the same, just tonned down a lot, that's all.
Plus i dunno why girls think that eavilly tanned skin and pink pale lipstic is a good combination. Many make-up artists will tell you that if you want to look fresh, don't use that. Everyone knows that verry ill people have pale colorless lips, and that heavilly tanned skin eventually makes you look way older than you are, so add these two and you get an ill person with too much tan.

Maybe i did went overboard with retouching that pic now when i tried differently, but really all they need to do was to get her face match the body skin tone and don't use that pale pink lisptic and she instantly looks more fresh.

also on the pic someone posted here, the nose is visibly altered so are the lips.......they kinda look squeezed *shrugs*

I dunno...Maybe i'm like that because tanning is not healthy for skin whatsoever, and seeing Ayu like that, knowing she is looked at as an icon for fashionistas and giving this heavilly tanned look as a "good looking, healthy" thing is a bit scarry, knowing how many girls will follow that trend. i dunno....
Sorry everyone if it looks like i'm overreacting....

[relmy]

I'm not seeing this nose problem, I'm just freaked out by the fact that her eyes seem to be totally out of perspective with her face D:

I love the styling though, she looks soooo summery. I love the contacts and the tan, especially with the messy curls. ♥

Who photoshops these images for Vivi? Ayu's team or the magazine? If she's looking weird (the random white line on her face lol) on everything, it's not photoshop, it's bad make-up. Maybe she should replace them before a photoshop team. It's like they wiped vaseline over her face or something to make her super shiny.

[YUKARI]

Originally Posted by IYFreak

A little editing goes a long way


Credits: outsidefishbowl @ Tumblr

this is how the real cover should looke like...

[PoetGirl]

if little kid would go through this thread it would really affect their self-esteem.

[IYFreak]

Why would there self esteem be affected celebrities come out looking weird in pictures with bad photoshop, angles, and lighting all the time, it just means the picture is bad. No that the celeb is ugly. Theres a BIG difference....

[primavera♥]

Originally Posted by IYFreak

Yea that's what I'm trying to say it looks a little Awkward. (I mean I dont know anyone that I would say that has a beautiful nose) but her nose looks a little weird here

And I was saying, sometimes her nose looks weird anyway lol

[Maemi]

She looks... weird?

[cosmicfirefly]

Nice, but would like it better without the contacts, they seem to be in every photo of hers lately

[Evolution7/4]

^ As I said, that is because she is the spokesperson for Sweet Days color contacts. She is wearing them everywhere because she is endorsing the product. Thats what she is getting paid for. Not to mention its just the trend now. Every female star here is wearing them nowadays

[ayu_ready?]

ppl been saying that she's just in the gyaru trend. well, FYI, much tan is not that popular among gyaru like in 2006-2008, okay Ayu you're a bit late here...

[mizuki-7]

It's possible for you to imagine that she wants just to be tan regardless of the trend ? if she want to be tan i don't see where is the problem ?