Comments on: Ulzzang: Photo Makeover Booths in Harajuku

By: Christine Ka'aloa

Christine Ka'aloa — Mon, 13 May 2013 06:27:55 +0000

In reply to Chris. @Chris: ha ha...hey haven't gotten to the level of Korea yet, so no advert on the back. ;-)

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 08 May 2013 02:46:53 +0000

I love reading your posts on Japan. Now a little less baby-faced than when I went there 5 years ago I think there’d be a lot more for me to take note of.

This looks mad. On a side note it’s quite alarming how popular surgery is rumoured to be in Korea especially. Is there an advert to a plastic magician on the back of the photos!?

By: Christine Ka'aloa

Christine Ka'aloa — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:18:13 +0000

In reply to jill.

@Jill: You’d have fun– you should take Jack with you. I’d be curious as to what the anime modification for men would be. 😉

By: jill

jill — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:37:31 +0000

Hahaa… this looks like fun! As long as no knives or anything permanent involved, I can totally see myself and some girlfriends having tons of fun with these booths.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:49:29 +0000

The SegaWorld in our town has a bunch of these booths. We spent a while editing our photos and being totally amazed at the effects, and then realized there was a huge line of girls waiting for their turn. It’s seriously popular.

By: Christine Ka'aloa

Christine Ka'aloa — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:24:32 +0000

In reply to Gray. @Gray: I think this surpasses photoshop. As for dissatisfaction with my looks, I think I hit that one in high school. ;-)

By: Christine Ka'aloa

Christine Ka'aloa — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:46:43 +0000

In reply to Mary {The World Is A Book}. @Mary: It's easy to miss noticing these shops and assume they're just regular photo booths. But if you get out to Tokyo again, take your daughter! =)

By: Gray

Gray — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 01:46:18 +0000

Wow, I’ve never heard of this phenomenon. So that’s probably the same technology they use when they take photos of celebrities for magazine covers, right? Because clearly a lot of those are airbrushed….I think the curiosity factor might convince me to try it once. But then it would probably freak me out a little. I mean, that’s the kind of thing that can contribute to a woman’s sense of dissatisfaction with her own looks and the next thing you know….Botox Land.

By: Mary {The World Is A Book}

Mary {The World Is A Book} — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 07:05:51 +0000

This looks so much fun! I love the pictures you got. It’s a great souvenir too. We were in the Harajuku area a couple of years ago but I guess we weren’t paying much attention to have found these. My daughter would have loved these booths.