

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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The latest controversy to erupt from the bizarre parallel universe of Miss contests is the Miss Japan line-up being criticised as as “too ugly” and “just natural” by Korean detractors, being almost the polar opposite of their recent showing…
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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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The all but indistinguishable contestants of a “Miss Korea” contest have been the subject of considerable attention online, in no small part thanks to Korea’s reputation as a powerhouse of plastic surgery.
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The disturbingly impressive results of South Korea’s notorious love of plastic surgery (most statistics have the nation as the most intensively enhanced on earth) have yet again surfaced, with the comparison imagery provided by various clinics proving especially controversial in Japan amongst those less than enamoured with the “Korean wave.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: Feb 21, 2013 20:24 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Fashion, Idol, Makeup, Marketing, Music, Photoshop, Plastic Surgery

AKB48’s much put upon Mariko Shinoda has been the subject of considerable praise after some rare shots of her without an outer hull of makeup applied emerged – admirers maintain she may even be naturally pretty.
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Famed “Real Barbie” Valeria Lukyanova has been posing with her family, revealing that her claim that her striking resemblance to a plastic doll is down to “good DNA” may be true after all – although others merely marvel at the quantity of makeup and Photoshop the tribe seemingly has access to…
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Yet another precipitous celebrity decline has been exciting online interest – this time that of Uno Kanda, formerly widely recognised the very model of an elegant fashionista.
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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 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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Scandal seiyuu Aya Hirano may yet return to form, having recently been exciting the attention of fans by rather cryptically remarking that her breasts “suddenly get bigger once a year,” exposing them on her site to illustrate the fact.
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