My Jessica and AOA Albums Arrive!!

Whoo! Got a wonderful present waiting for me in the mail today- my order of former Girls' Generation chanteuse Jessica's First Solo Mini-Album "With Love, J" and the latest offering from AOA "Good Luck" came in today, and they are both as nifty as can be, ESPECIALLY the Jessica one, which was a hardcover photobook housed in a pretty stationary box...just beautiful!

Looking over the wonderful photos in the Jessica book, it's been so long since I"ve seen her and realize how much i've missed her! So great to hear her sweet voice again and hope someday for a full-length release from her!
The AOA album comes in a standard hardcover photobooklet and the girls have never looked and sounded better! AOA are one of the groups that release albums where I always love 100% of the tracks and this one is no exception! 

My favorite pic in the book is this one of them crossing the street... kind of blurry so you can't really tell, but each girl is clearly showing off her own personal style, playful mina, childish Chanmi, Sexy Selyhyun and Hyejeong and at the very end, the composed and sensible Choa talking up the rear! SO cute! The card I got with this release was Mina, BTW!
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Zdorama's Fun With Photoshop!

Nanao gets the Photoshop Treatment

Some of you may not know it, but each and every picture and screencap I post on my blog gets edited in Photoshop; cropped, brightened, color-corrected, and sharpened, before I paste ‘em up into my entries. Even when I share magazine scans that I’ve acquired from other sources, I usually take the time to perk them up before I post them, and though this is meticulous and sometimes very draining, I love seeing the scans at their very  best!

Age Harassment

Riso No Musuko

Sometimes when I’ve done a editing job that I’m particularly happy with, I save both the edited picture AND the un-edited one, and today I thought I’d share some that I’ve saved over the past few months!

Zenkai Girl

Kekkon Dekinai Otoko

Asuko March

Higanbana

Siren

Oishii Gohan

Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai

Long Vacation

Underwear (Atelier)

Yokai Ningen Bem

Mirai Nikki

Mirai Nikki

Renai Jidai 1

Renai Jidai

Renai Jidai

Renai Jidai

Rich Man, Poor Woman

Rich Man, Poor Woman

Rich Man, Poor Woman 

Summer Nude

Summer Nude

Summer Nude

Even the scans I’ve shared of K-pop beauties like f(x)’s Sulli and AOA’s Seolhyun have been slightly(or massively, depending on the pic) tweaked to get my desired effect, and some have even told me that my edited photos look more like the original source scan than the REAL scan!

Sulli, Cosmopolitan

Sulli, Cosmopolitan

Sulli, Cosmopolitan

f(x), High Cut

Seolhyun, Marie Claire

Seolhyun, Marie Claire

A couple of friends have told me they don’t like my photoshopping style, saying I make the photos look over-contrasted and un-natural looking, but when I post the images to accompany my blog entries, I want them to look as much like magazine pictorial captures as possible, so if they appear too saturated, so be it...As for me, I like how they look and since it’s my blog and the pics are accompanying MY writing, that’s how it’s going to stay, LOL!

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AOA Have Been Really Selling Seolhyun During Their “Good Luck” Promotions (And I’ve Been Buying!)

As I mentioned multiple times here, Choa has always been my AOA bias, with Hyejeong following a close second, but with Seolhyun’s surge in popularity in scene-stealing shows like Laws Of The Jungle, they’ve really dialed up her overall AOA presence and I’ve developed a newfound appreciation for her!

Besides all her CM and magazine pictorials (some of which I've talked about here), I knew she was really making her mark on the world when they made her the center of the “Good Luck” Video and Dance Choreography, and she’s even the very first image you see in the MV!

 True, even back in the day there were an awful lot of Seolhyun aficionados among us Ace Of Angels fans (or, ELVIS, as the fanbase is called) but back then I never really saw what they were gushing about. But now I can really see how pretty she is, and in the girls’ latest appearance on the awesome variety show “Weekly Idol (still, in my opinion, one of the VERY BEST ways to “get to know’ your favorite artists) it seemed to me that they’re grooming her to become the “Yoona” of the group, the gamine, doe-eyed and uber-feminine member of AOA. 

Just look at how she’s presented here and how she carries herself, VERY much in line with the way Miss Im always has…though of course, NO ONE can duplicate Yoona and her adorably goofy ways, but I like the way there are so many different personas in AOA and I'm totally on board the Seolhyun fan train now!

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Hyeri Still My Girl's Day Bias

Hyeri on this past week's RUNNING MAN

There was a brief time when Hyeri was Korea's "it" girl and out there stealing everybody's hearts, but inevitably there came the backlash where people were tired of her cutesy antics, and I wasn't surprised when I saw a recent popularity poll ranking Girls Day biases and Hyeri came out dead last.

But ya know, I just caught Hyeri in a recent RUNNING MAN from a few weeks back, and I mean to tell you, she is STILL as freaking adorable as ever! 

She is still the giggly and squeaky girl that won my heart over all those years ago and still such a  joy to watch in action!From her Opening interactions with Jaesuk and Sukjin (where Jaesuk convinces Hyeri to pretend Sukjin came in first place), that patented eye-smile was simply beaming...

To her befuddled attempts at trying to navigate the journey using a map book (until Jaesuk laughed and said, "You'd better let me look at that, Hyeri, LOL"..

Her nailbiting moments at the brain-quiz up against a computer...

...and most hilariously, watching Hyeri trying to beat an automated machine trying to see who could pop the most balloons faster, oh my GOSH was this FUN to watch!

Yeah, Hyeri may have dropped out of the public's conscious as the gal of the moment, but for me she will always be the reason to keep up with Girl's Day! You GO, Girl!

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