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Face off with two of the horror world’s most terrifying characters as they make you look both shocking and beautiful at the very same time.

Entertainment, Japan, Lifestyle
(beauty • cool • face mask • face pack • horror movies • Japanese movies • Ju-on • Kayako • Sadako • Sadako vs Kayako • The Ring • weird)

Set your hair with the awesome new Cardcaptor Sakura Sealing Wand anime hair dryer

Casey Baseel
Apr 18, 2016

Who needs the magic of the Windy card when you’ve got this handy grooming aid?

Anime & Manga, Japan
(anime • beauty • Cardcaptor Sakura • fashion • hair • Sealing Wand)

Japanese men describe their ideal female body type【Video】

Evie Nyan
Apr 7, 2016

Spoiler alert: the words “small” and “skinny” come up A LOT.

Japan
(beauty • body type • Japanese men • Japanese women • street interview • video)

Japanese women setting a tough goal for themselves as they try to reach their “Cinderella weight”

Casey Baseel
Mar 24, 2016

Mathematical formula being used by young women in recent diet trend.

Japan
(beauty • body weight • diets • health)

Homemade seaweed & milk face packs—the secret to healthier skin?【Video】

Jamie Koide
Mar 16, 2016

Whip up a homemade face pack with this Korean recipe that only requires two common ingredients you’ll find in many Asian kitchens: seaweed and milk.

Korea
(beauty • face mask • face pack • health • seaweed • video • videos)

In Japan, skip the makeup counter and head to the convenience store for these 5 great cosmetics

Jamie Koide
Mar 9, 2016

Here are five of the best, high quality cosmetics that line the shelves at Japanese convenience stores, according to one of our Japanese reporters.

Japan
(7-Eleven • beauty • combini • Familymart • Japanese cosmetics • Kanebo • Kose • make-up • tips)

The eyes have it — do Japanese girls’ makeup skills hinge on one essential feature?

Evie Nyan
Feb 28, 2016

Japanese makeup aficionados are all about the eyes, but do they really make such a big difference to your look? Let’s see what Twitter says!

Japan
(beauty • eyes • makeup • twitter)

Wearing a white mask will make you less attractive, according to Japanese researchers’ experiment

Casey Baseel
Feb 23, 2016

Experiments’ results found similar effects for men and women.

Japan
(beauty • culture • experiment • health • masks • romance)

Hairdresser creates unique formulations to match clients’ hair colour with their favourite anime star

Oona McGee
Feb 10, 2016

One of the most popular colours is called “Kotori Beige”, based on the character from Love Live!

Japan
(anime • anime hair • beauty • cool • cosplay • cute • hair • love live • manga)

Popular impersonator and makeup magician shows off his Miss Universe makeovers

Jamie Koide
Jan 23, 2016

Filipino impersonator Paolo Ballesteros works his make-up magic yet again, this time transforming himself into the ladies of Miss Universe.

SE Asia
(beauty • celebrities • impersonators • make-up • Miss Universe • Paolo Ballesteros • Philippines)

Miss Universe contestants promote inner beauty with no-make-up selfies

Jamie Koide
Jan 15, 2016

Participants from the recent Miss Universe pageant tweeted photos of themselves au naturale to encourage women everywhere to love the skin they’re in.

Global
(beauty • beauty pageant • campaign • hashtags • Miss Universe • twitter)

“Best Body Japan” winners are in just in time to make us ashamed of our holiday gorgefest

Mike
Dec 26, 2015

Model Saya Kagawa takes the women’s crown, distracts everyone from a bunch of ripped dudes flexing in the background.

Japan
(beauty • bodybuilding • contests • fitness • modeling • Saya Kagawa)

“Once-in-a-millenium beauty” dominates Tokyo Halloween event

Mike
Nov 1, 2015

The last couple of years have been benchmark ones for Halloween in Japan. What was once a holiday marked mostly by the infrequent sighting of a handful of mildly embarrassed-looking, costumed foreigners on the Yamanote Line train has grown into a massive industry.

In fact, Halloween has become just as much a holiday about 20 and 30-somethings dressing up as sexy nurses, sexy zombies, sexy superheroes, and other sexy-choose-a-nouns as its American counterpart. But while those costumes were no doubt getting plenty of attention on Shibuya Crossing last night, the Japanese Internet had already decided the undisputed Queen of Halloween was this far more conservatively dressed “once-in-millenium beauty”.

Internet, Japan
(beauty • halloween • Kanna Hashimoto • odaiba • parties • Tokyo)

Tokyo clinic’s Cinderella Breast Augmentation will boost your bust, but only for a single day

Casey Baseel
Oct 31, 2015

Everyone knows the story of Cinderella, right? It’s a classic tale of a young woman who’s transformed into the most enchanting lady in the kingdom when her fairy godmother shows up and gives her a beautiful dress, loose-fitting footwear, and a pair of shapely, ample breasts.

Wait, that last part actually isn’t in the traditional version of the fairy tale. Nevertheless, one Tokyo-based cosmetic surgery clinic is offering something it calls the Cinderella Breast Augmentation procedure, which can increase your bust size by up to one and a half cups. But just like Cinderella’s magic ended at the stroke of midnight, so too do your breasts return to their normal size the next day.

Japan
(beauty • cosmetic surgery • science)

Amazing tool fixes ingrown nails, looks like a torture device

Mike
Oct 21, 2015

The somewhat euphemistically named process of “denailing” has remained a popular torture method since medieval times and, according to the sort of creepily detailed Wikipedia page for the method, it remains in use today.

There are a few good reasons for that. It apparently leaves no permanent marks or injury – after the nail grows back, of course – and requires only the most basic of tools to pull off. It also objectively hurts like hell and there’s something about the tips of the toes and fingers being manipulated that leaves a person feeling unbearably vulnerable.

All of which has us wondering why anyone would voluntarily use this tool, which is clearly just a re-purposed torture device, to fix their ingrown toenails, regardless of how amazingly well it supposedly works.