lol i would SLAP myself if I say Ayu is f*ugly now:innocent
She's simply gorgeous

YEAp

somewhat.. it entirely depends on her style, hair, and makeup , etc..
i would say.. very few of her shoots are "stunning" or stuff like that..

I've always thought Ayu looked best in the period between A-nation 02 and the limited TA Live Tour in 03. The latter concert was in my opinion, her best performing concert.
Minimum dancers and backup singers, just Ayu, her band and the crowd rocking the place down to her performance.

This.

she looks better every year xDD

i never considered her pretty

Same here, I've always considered her cute and caring on the inside while elegantly appealing on her natural outside since just saying "pretty" is too dull and not expressive enough. Ok, I know that's not what you meant. :D

she is definitely at her most beautifully amazingness!!!!

I actually thought she looked better when she put on weight. Just a little, enough to make her look "fuller," and really healthy.

Hmmm, Ayu just looks better sometimes when she's a certain figure and with a certain haircut and makeup that suits her. Ayu definitely looks better when she's not too chubby but not too thin. Like during the 2001-2002 era... I think it was when she had that short evolution hair, she was REALLY thin in some of her performances. I almost thought she was going to snap in half! But then during Ayu's t2m performances... I think it's cos' the extra weight makes her face shape go rounder or something. I think she looks more elegant without it.

There are just instances where she might look prettier than others. XD

I cant say that Ayu looked better when she was younger or older. Cuz she is growing. I wouldnt ever say if I looked better for 5 years or now. Cuz you will always change in your look and such.

According to her age, I think she always looks stunning. When she was younger she looked more childish, natural and fresh. Now she looks mature, stunning and pretty. :)

mmmh..i think she gets always more beautiful but in an adult way.
Now she is and maybe she feels herself a real diva, a rich woman who gained her success with her talent, intelligence and beauty.
I think she is more conscious of that.
She is adorable, always changing her look and styles, always researching something new and glamorous. Anyway i prefer her Rainbow/A Ballads era..she were more natural.
Now i feel in her something artificial i cannot explain.
Maybe now she is more mature and confident and she lost her "naive" sense

Ayu is a pretty girl woman, but there are women more beautiful.
She has charisma :yes and I prefer charisma than beauty.
Charisma don't disappear during ages :D

Now she's and adult woman, her 'beauty' is changed. I don't know if she looks prettier from time to time, she just change and she looks the same for me ^^'

Well, Ayu is a gorgeous woman to me.

Of course, there were moments where I think she looks really fugly like during her evolution days... bad hair and a stick-thin body... gosh.

To me, her best 'short-hair' period was the CDL 07-08... it looks really cute!

And whenever she has long hair, she looks elegant and gorgeous.

Oh yeah, her current hair in NEXT LEVEL PV is pretty gross as well... and the 'Ayumi Hamasaki Republic' hair... omg.

haha, i just dont like big eyes, and especially when someone's trying too hard to be something she's not. i like her music very much, but i never used her image as a poster or something. im sure poster of her would freak me out everytime i see it. and i think she's not good rolemodel to asian girls, in my opinion natural asian eyes are so beautiful, and when i see girls trying SO HARD to have BIG eyes is so sad.

^ To be honest though, although it's stereotypical for east asians to have smaller eyes, a lot of us still have big eyes. 0_o Ayu is one of those people.

yes, she is, i cant deny that (considering her early pictures) but you cant tell me that she doesnt expand (i dont know the right word in english, so i will explain cuz expand may be the wrong word, trying hard to make your eyes look bigger, not with make up, pulling them out and make them all BIG and SCARY) them in a lot of her pics.

i totally agree. i LOVED when she put a few kilos in her t2m PV and at other times.
she's mostly very skinny, even now she's lost some weight and i don't like it too much.

at first i didn't think she's really THAT pretty. sure she was good looking good, but nothing too special.
i really got into her looks in the GUILTY era. :P