The philosophy of Mizuse Niimi

Okinawa city, August 31st, 2024

At Mizuse Niimi Incorporated, a woman with long curly strawberry blonde hair struggled to contain her tears as she watched a video that was posted a month ago on July 31st, 2024.

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"Welcome to the show! I'm Kisha Shinbun joined by the queen of women's beauty, Ms. Peak femininity herself, Mizuse Niimi!"

"My, it is good to be back," Mizuse smiled as she waved to the crowd.

"First off, LOVE the drip. That a new jacket?"

"Why yes, it's leather on the outside, but on the inside it's silk for extra comfort."

"Comfort really is a core tenant of your fashion products."

"My makeup lines too. I don't want women to have skin rashes from my brands, which is why the utmost care is always put into it's production."

"Nice, nice. So gotta ask, what's the best selling product line?"

"Naturally the sneaker line," Mizuse smiled as she gestured towards the white athletic sneakers she was wearing.

"So tell me, what made ya decide to favor sneakers over everything else?"

"Well, sneakers are much more comfortable than heels, that and I believe they are for more feminine than people give them credit for."

"So you think sneakers are girly?"

"As a matter of fact I do. In fact, dare I say sneakers are peak femininity."

"Well we got the shoes down, so how about the apparel?"

"Now that is much harder to pin-point. Though I do think it lies between finding the balance between showing skin and not. Of course, circumstance and occasion should be considered too, not to mention wearing the same outfit can be a bit of a droll."

"Speaking of outfits, you model every single one of yours, right?"

Mizuse giggled as an image of her in skinny capri jeans, navy blue sneakers, bikini top, and fur cuffed jacket was shown on screen. "Why yes. Aftle all, who better to model the garb of women than the most beautiful woman herself?"

"Hey, hey, I know you've swept the world beauty pageant ever since your debut in 2018, but girls like me give ya a run for your money."

"Ara, are you picking a fight with me?"

"You know it, sister!"

The audience burst into laughter as Kisha moved on to the next topic. "So now all that's left is the hair. What's the peak femininity style?"

"Ahaha, much like apparel, it's a bit tricky to pin down, though I imagine it will be much easier to find."

"You've sported a lot of different styles over the years. Let's take a look at some of them..."

Images flashed on screen featuring Mizuse with various hairstyles. A pink bob, a green afro perm, a blonde pixie, a red and white polka dot buzzcut, and a black long side shave were among some of her more avantgarde styles among others.

"My, I certainly sported enough styles to fill a catalog."

"So tell me, of all these styles, which one was your favorite?"

Mizuse thought for a moment before flicking her long magenta hair. "I always come back to long natural magenta, so perhaps that's my preferred style. Though that isn't to devalue any of the styles I've sported over the years. In particular, I'm very fond of the fire geisha style, and the turquoise afro was from a fun collab I did with up and coming entrepreneur, Maria Wykształciuchy. In fact, that was one of the rare times I adopted someone else's signature look to start a trend, though it seems that look didn't become quite as trendy as some of my other looks. Still, I enjoyed the experience very much."

"And now you're back to long n' magenta, but I see ya dyed some of it purple."

"Why indeed I have. I do believe the purple adds a peak femininity flair to the look, don't you think?"

"Well there ya have it! Ladies, grow that hair out nice n' long n dye it magenta with violet highlights to reach peak femininity. Hmm, I might actually look good with that. HEY MAKEUP!"

A Makeup artist quickly entered the stage and began putting a wig on Kisha's head. Once she was done, Kisha gawked at the new look before flicking the hair.

"Well now I'm rockin' the peak femininity look."

"And you most certainly look beautiful."

"Now I gotta ask, of all these looks, which one was the most out of your comfort zone extreme?"

"Hmm, perhaps the goth side shave. Though I feel it was more due to my personality not meshing with the look as well. Although the piercings I got for dread mullet were a little intense too."

"Not into piercings?"

"As shocking as it is, no. Whenever I wear earrings, they're always clip-on. Though for the dread mullet, I decided to get some piercings, and to be honest I did not enjoy the feeling of them in the slightest. My respect goes out to the women and men that can wear pierced jewelry without issue."

"Well that's a revelation in a half. I thought for sure the goth would be the most extreme considering you actually shaved half your head to the skin."

"And I was even considering getting a tattoo, but decided to pass. Though I will say the smooth path of skin was quite blissful to touch, not to mention I had quite a bit of fun adapting my daily beauty regiments to the style. Though speaking of sheved heads, I plan to have my head shaved completely bald."

Audible gasps erupted from the audience as Kisha's wig fell off in shock.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. BALD!? Oh like when you got the polka dot look?"

"Nay, for this time I'll be having ALL hair removed, very much in a similar manner to how some young female streamers have been doing recently.

An image of a complete hairless girl grinning then appeared on screen. The girl was actually a popular streamer known as Leona, who had recently obtained over one million subscribers on Ewetube. However, she lost a subscriber race to fellow streamer and close friend, Astrid, resulting in her being forced to shave her head and get Astrid's logo tattooed on it as a batsu. What nobody expected was for Leona to go all in on the shave and not just shave and wax her head and eyebrows, but also pluck out all her eyelashes and tempt fate by coming dangerously close to permanently destroying all he hair follicles.

The event had occurred on April 1st earlier this year. 7 months prior in August of 2023, Leona had first shaved off all her hair as part of Astrid's legendary Insanity's ballad stream. Said stream saw a massive boost in subscribers for both, which resulted in the two seeing which would reach their next milestone first. Then in March 2024, Astrid reached ten million subscribers before Leona could reach a million, resulting in Leona losing the bet. Since her hair had grown back by that time, she decided that since she had to go bald again, she'd make a spectacle of it. The shave made national and international news, ironically leading Leona to surpass a million subscribers. While her hair had almost grown back since then, her shave quickly sparked a trend among female streamers.

"WHOA, WHOA, WHOA! You're saying you're gonna subject yourself to that!?" Kisha gasped.

"Indeed I am, and naturally I'll have the entire metamorphosis documented from start to finish."

"'Metamorphosis'?"

"Why yes, you are aware I vlog my daily and nightly beauty regiment, yes? Well I believe the metamorphosis of a woman changing up her look with even the smallest tinge of makeup, is part of the greater art of beauty as a whole."

Images then flashed on screen of Mizuse in the middle of various makeovers. One was a simple image of her with her hair pulled back while makeup was applied to her face, while another was one of her in a facial mask and hair mask sitting under a salon hair dryer and smiling.

"Dang, you're bold to post some of this stuff. I'd be redder than a tomato if that was me in those pictures," Kisha nervously smiled.

"Yes, I'm sure many would crack smiles and snickers upon seeing me or any woman for that matter in the middle of a metamorphosis, especially some of the more rigorous ones. However, I believe that a woman embracing her makeover metamorphosis is what brings out her feminine charms. Kisha, I know you're quite the tomboy, but how do you feel when you get your stage makeup put on?"

"Well, as ya said, I'm not really a gal that does makeup, but well ya kinda need stage makeup for filming and lighting reasons. Though I think I see what ya mean. Whenever I'm sittin' pretty n' having the makeup applied, I do feel a bit giddy, sort of like, "Yeah, make me look sexy hot", somethin' like that."

"Indeed, though I can understand perfectly why some women would feel nervous about others seeing them during the metamorphosis," Mizuse giggled as an image of Kisha with her face covered in beauty cream and her hair wrapped up in a towel was shown.

"HEY! Who put that image up!?" Kisha fumed as her face went red."

"I do believe that was from a live broadcast, so why the red face?"

"Uh, cuz me seeing myself like that makes me feel all embarrassed, like if a guy walks in while I'm changin' kind of embarrassed. Come to think of it, you don't even bat an eyelash for stuff like this. Heck, you've even been filmed nude multiple times, yes? And NO don't you dare pull up the images without censoring em first!"

"Why? I have no problem with my nude body being shown to all."

"But I do, cuz I don't wanna go off the air for showing nude women live."

"Oh, but the ratings would go through the roof."

"Yeah, and the producer would cancel my show faster than a cheetah."

"A shame, but nonetheless, the images you were trying to pull up are available to view on my official website. Hmm, could we not show the body paint image?"

"OK, think we're outta time. Nice havin' ya girl, and best of luck going bald."

"They do say baldies bring good luck, and who knows, maybe bald is the key to peak femininity."

"Um, please no."

"Ara? Bald IS beautiful as they say."

"But I don't want it becoming a trend. I like my hair dammit!"

"Ahahaha, if it does become a trend I'm not going to just shave you bald, or are you implying the producer would do something like that?"

Kisha's face went red in embarrassment as she quickly ordered the cameraman to stop filming. Had she known that this would have been the last time she'd ever get to interview Mizuse, she would have continued, and maybe even shown the nude photos uncensored or not.

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The woman sobbed as the video ended. "Mizuse... Streama festivalen was close too, but now, she won't be in attendance. Worse, there's still flames burning online regarding her most recent statements and actions. I hope whoever fucked her up like that is in hell. We lost an icon. It's been two weeks since it happened, but I still can't stop crying!"

Her misery only worsened as a woman with short blonde hair entered the room, trembling as she held a folder.

"Ah, Sandra. my apologies. I was just watching a video."

"Mizuse-sama's final interview, at least the final one when she was still sane, yes?"

"It was the one with Kisha."

Sandra nodded and quickly began to tear up as she placed a folder before the strawberry blonde-haired woman. "Then I feel bad for telling you such bad news, Penny, but that bastard Kugisaki managed to buy out all our stocks thanks to the fallout."