


As if it were not distressingly well established enough already, yet more evidence of the incredible transformative power of makeup has surfaced, and looks sure to distress anyone on the receiving end.
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China’s latest pork-barrel prestige project will reportedly take the form of a giant ring, but so pointless is the project that it soon found itself the butt of mass Photoshop mockery.
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Ero-cosplayer Hanamura Misaki delivers a tasteful bikini cosplay of Touhou maiden Kochiya Sanae, ranging from fully dressed to slime only…
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The latest showing of eastern Europe’s premier human Barbie dolls – together, this time – has seen them bewilder the online multitudes with the question of just where photoshop, makeup, surgery and plain freakishness begin and end, some even going so far as to comment that they “have actually regressed into the uncanny valley…”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Sep 28, 2012 00:33 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Comparison, Cosplay, Exhibitionism, Idol, Internet, Makeup, Photoshop, Ushijima


The latest princess of Photoshop to be causing controversy is none other than top ero-cosplayer Ushijima Iiniku, whom detractors decry as “nothing but a Photoshop dependent old hag in her forties” – though for once, the not inconsiderable discrepancies between some of her photographs are hard to ignore.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Sep 25, 2012 19:06 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Comparison, Fashion, Gravure, Idol, Makeup, Marketing, Otaku, Photoshop



Yet another of AKB48’s endless ranks of identikit idols is courting controversy – this time by daring to appear without makeup, with 21-year-old Atsuko Maeda’s natural appearance brutally distressing fans with her “ugly” and “below average” looks.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Sep 12, 2012 03:12 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Cosplay, Dolls, Guro, Image Gallery, Makeup, Photoshop, Plastic Surgery, Romania

The latest creepy Barbie cosplay to distress cosplay fans online yet again comes from eastern Europe, although the lady responsible claims she is actually portraying “an anime character” rather a mere doll.
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AKB48’s latest marketing antics have earned yet more condemnation, with their transformation into kindergarteners being widely denounced as “sick,” “creepy” and “psychologically unsettling” – to say nothing of the obvious sop to their creepy lolicon fans.
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Cosplay fans have been impressed by the quality of some of the cosplay on display at China’s “ComicDay 10” event, with the those in attendance giving most international and Japanese cosplayers quite a run for their money.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jul 13, 2012 10:33 JST
- Tags: China, Chongqing, Events, Guro, Idol, Made in China, Makeup, Miss Universe, Photoshop

Chinese are aghast at the quality of their candidates for the Chongqing qualifier of the “Miss International” beauty pageant.
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The cosplay queen Kanda Midori returns with a pouting cosplay of Kise Yayoi from Smile Pretty Cure, including the obligatory double peace…
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Cosplay fans have been marvelling at how the cosplay of recent years just seems to be getting cuter and cuter (and in many cases sexier and sexier), a happy state of affairs which seems to be continuing apace…
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