Japanese butterfly eyelashes
We’re so accustomed to seeing arty forms of self-expression these days that the sight of this Japanese girl walking around the bustling streets of Tokyo wearing tiny butterflies attached to her eyes barely raises an eyebrow. [photo via WackyArchives]
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Sphinx said | 11 December, 2009
What butterflies?
All I can see are pink guineafowl feathers