

The exposure of yet another AKB48 member’s “horrible ugliness” when bereft of the beautifying powers of makeup is again causing waves amongst fans of mass manufactured idol groups – the sacrificial member this time being 22-year-old Team B member Shizuka Ohya.
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The latest World Bodypainting Festival has yet again paraded around some attractive ladies artistically smattered head to toe in paint – as usual posing the question of whether it is their artistic paintwork or the paint covering itself which distinguishes them from those who merely cavort toplessly in public.
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Comparisons of the same Chinese belle in 2012 and 2014 have been causing waves in China and beyond, with many wondering just what happened and how it ever came to this…
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The Korean answer to “the girl of your dreams” has been causing the usual stir online, whether by dint of surgical skill or makeup trickery…
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Typhoon photos posted by SKE48 idol Kaori Matsumura have been causing a storm of their own after the gulf between them and her official appearances became too obvious for AKB48 watchers to ignore.
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The latest masterful makeup-related travesty to be doing the rounds online has plenty wondering how they can possibly all be the same person, as is claimed.
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The latest egregiously skilful use of makeup to be terrifying Japanese men has been unveiled in a recent mook, and is proving as upsetting as ever to those who would rather wake up next to the same person they bedded.
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The latest celebrity to be making news in Japan with her makeup and Photoshop skills
is no less than mother monster Lady Gaga herself, although she is clearly a rare example of an idol who is entirely unabashed about how she looks prior to the attentions of her retinue of beauticians…
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Photos of a “90kg fatty” benefiting from the wonders of makeup have been held up as proof of the art’s uncanny powers of deception – although there are still plenty who deny it can possibly be the same person…
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AKB48 idol Haruka Shimazaki‘s efforts to emulate the virtual beauty of holographic princess Hatsune Miku with some rather unflattering makeup and cosplay have been less than well received by Miku fans, so much so that some have been given to wonder if it is not a deliberate ploy…
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Elaborate nail art may be a staple of girly Japanese fashion, but that has not stopped the vast majority of men quizzed about it reporting that they actually hate it – much to the consternation of nail salons throughout the land.
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The latest video exposé of the power of makeup in the hands of Japanese women has been circulating online to the usual howls of terror…
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