
Japanese Internet denizens have been left gob-smacked by some of the avant-garde hairstyles the nation’s more extreme fashionistas have been sporting of late.
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Japanese TV’s loving coverage of these charming 11-year-old fashionistas has been doing the rounds, with their precocious looks astonishing, and delighting, many – not least the TV station.
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Even purported heterosexuals are busily singing the praises of a crossdressing model who has not unjustifiably been dubbed “prettiest boy in the world.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Galleries, Japan
- Date: May 12, 2012 11:09 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Fashion, Gravure, Idol, Image Gallery, Mizugi, Oppai, Oshiri, Photoshop

AKB48 idol Mariko Shinoda latest gravure posing spree has been attracting not onanistic approval for its sexiness but instead ridicule for its unusually dreadful choice of fashion.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 3, 2012 06:13 JST
- Tags: Anime Goods, Fashion, Hatsune Miku, Image Gallery, K-ON!, Moe, Otaku, Touhou, Weather

Wet weather has prompted otaku to consider the merits of ita-umbrellas (“ita-kasa” or “ita-gasa”), which as their name suggests are umbrellas with anime designs, though as with other public displays of otaku identity there is some resistance.
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Harajuku’s latest and most extreme fashion tribes have been causing a stir online after recently being featured on Japanese TV.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Apr 24, 2012 03:29 JST
- Tags: Brazil, Comparison, Fashion, Greece, Korea, Plastic Surgery, Rankings, Statistics, USA

Statistics showing just which nations engage in the most cosmetic surgery demonstrate the rather impressive lead the likes of South Korea, Brazil and the US have over everyone else – something admittedly evident from looking at the less than natural wonders each of these nations is so blessed with.
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Not to be outdone by actual superpowers, Russia is fighting back with yet another mindbending fusion of what it can only be hoped is mostly Photoshop and makeup, all for the dubious cause of looking more plastic than plastic.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Apr 16, 2012 11:26 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Fashion, Feet, Fetish, Image Gallery, Makeup, Oppai, Oshiri, Rankings

Which of part of the female body a man most favours determines his entire personality – or so a much circulated list of 9 of those parts and their respective fancying personalities alleges, much to the aggravation of many men – most of whom are written off as “infantile simpletons”…
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Japanese men asked how even the cutest girls can ruin their chances with the unfairer sex reveal some some surprising sensitivity (or possibly merely pickiness) when it comes to the finer points of decorum, as well as some rather less surprising concern about the basics of fashion and personal hygiene…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Apr 8, 2012 05:55 JST
- Tags: 2D vs 3D, Bizarre, China, Comparison, Dolls, Fashion, Image Gallery, Makeup, Photoshop

Competition for the distinction of most resembling the freakish proportions of a Barbie doll is heating up – both China and the USA now have convincing candidates whose inscrutable blend of makeup, Photoshop and “natural beauty” makes for quite the spectacle.
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Lightning and company have ditched their futuristic threads in favour of Prada’s 2012 line-up, with Lighting in particular looking very stylish indeed in her new outfit, whilst some of her companions look almost normal.
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