We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is 红妞美发 - 化妆参考的最美发型讲解、发型化妆技巧 censored by Apple?

Gone.

红妞美发 - 化妆参考的最美发型讲解、发型化妆技巧 is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Mar 5, 2019.

632 tests on record·⚠ last verified 16 months ago — treat as historical

Why it is unavailable

Five things can put an app out of one App Store. Each is weighed below against what can be seen from outside — open a card for the reasoning.

  • A government or a court demanded itPossible

    and Apple complied. Apple publishes a count of these per country each year and never says which apps they were. Apple's 2025 App Store Transparency Report

    • 34% of Lifestyle apps are unavailable in Latvia — 166 of 495 — against 18% of everything we test there.
    • Apple reports 1,213 government-ordered removals in Russia for 2025, naming none of them.
  • Apple applied a rule, unaskedPossible

    either its own review guidelines, or its own reading of a local law, with nobody having demanded anything. This is the largest category in Apple's own removal figures by a wide margin, and it covers distribution permits as well as content — Apple kept a free Bible app out of mainland China in 2021 for want of one. Apple's 2025 App Store Transparency Report

    • 34% of Lifestyle apps are unavailable in Latvia — 166 of 495 — against 18% of everything we test there.
  • The developer withheld itPossible

    freely, or under legal advice of their own, or because Apple's guidelines require that kind of app to be limited to certain countries. Switching a country off is easy for a developer to do in Apple's own tools: it needs no new version of the app, and it leaves no public trace other than the app being unavailable.

    • 34% of Lifestyle apps are unavailable in Latvia — 166 of 495 — against 18% of everything we test there.
  • Something brokeUnlikely

    a rejected update, a lapsed certificate, a payment or licensing problem, a mistake nobody has got round to noticing.

    • 34% of Lifestyle apps are unavailable in Latvia — 166 of 495 — against 18% of everything we test there.
    • Gone for 7 years.
  • A local rule about paying for itRuled out

    gambling licences, financial rules, tax — the kind of law that governs a transaction. Apple can obey every one of them by refusing the payment, which is why this is the only restriction we would accept and the only one that cannot touch a free app.

    • It is free, so Apple sells nothing here.
How this is weighed, and what it cannot tell you

Weighed from the evidence under each card, not from a model. There is no published figure for how Apple's removals divide up, so these are ordered words rather than percentages. For scale on the same-day counts: across the whole record an app leaves a storefront with fewer than two others, so a dozen at once is not a dozen coincidences.

None of this is certain, and a citation does not make it so: Apple naming a Chinese agency tells you what Apple said, not everything that happened. What can be said is that the readings alone cannot separate these five — a developer switching off a country and a government ordering it removed arrive at Apple's catalogue looking identical — and that nobody has ever measured how they divide across the App Store. The one careful study of the question was done on Google's store, using an error message Apple does not emit.

Apple publishes no record of which apps are unavailable in which of its App Stores. For the removals it makes on a government's demand it publishes the agency and the law behind every one — 2,045 of the 166,899 apps it removed during 2025 — and never which app. Where a reason reaches the public at all, it is usually because a developer chose to say so. Apple's App Store Transparency Report

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红妞美发 - 化妆参考的最美发型讲解、发型化妆技巧

Developer: huaquan lu · Category: Lifestyle · Released: May 28, 2013 · Rating: 4.0★

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0stores where available
102stores where blocked
4.05Bpeople behind the block
102of 175 stores tested
632tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. May 28, 2013Released on the App Store
  2. Mar 5, 2019First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Mar 5, 2019Last seen available anywhere
  4. May 11, 2021Gone from 102 storefronts
  5. May 20, 2025Most recent test

Testing history

One column per month, every month from the first reading to the last. Height follows how many readings we took that month; red is the share of them that found the app unavailable. An empty month is one nobody tested.

2019-032025-05

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Availability by storefront

Every storefront we test, current status first. Data is a measurement, not a promise: each row carries its own date.

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AlgeriaDZUnavailableAug 31, 20242 years ago
ArgentinaARUnavailableFeb 3, 20202 years ago
ArmeniaAMUnavailableNov 28, 20202 years ago
AzerbaijanAZUnavailableJun 15, 20204 years ago
BahrainBHUnavailableNov 4, 20192 years ago
BarbadosBBUnavailableOct 16, 20204 years ago
BelizeBZUnavailableAug 12, 20194 years ago
BeninBJUnavailableAug 6, 20192 years ago
BermudaBMUnavailableJul 21, 20224 years ago
BhutanBTUnavailableJan 15, 20202 years ago
BotswanaBWUnavailableJun 5, 20204 years ago
BrazilBRUnavailableAug 12, 20194 years ago
British Virgin IslandsVGUnavailableMar 1, 20212 years ago
BruneiBNUnavailableMar 1, 20212 years ago
CambodiaKHUnavailableSep 12, 20233 years ago
CameroonCMUnavailableMay 17, 20242 years ago
CanadaCAUnavailableNov 14, 20233 years ago
Cape VerdeCVUnavailableMar 1, 20213 years ago
ChadTDUnavailableNov 26, 20204 years ago
ChileCLUnavailableJan 31, 20202 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableAug 1, 201916 months ago
Costa RicaCRUnavailableNov 8, 20192 years ago
Côte d’IvoireCIUnavailableNov 15, 20232 years ago
CzechiaCZUnavailableOct 29, 20192 years ago
DenmarkDKUnavailableApr 26, 20214 years ago
DominicaDMUnavailableNov 22, 20203 years ago
DR CongoCDUnavailableJul 8, 20223 years ago
EcuadorECUnavailableNov 21, 20213 years ago
EstoniaEEUnavailableNov 27, 20224 years ago
FinlandFIUnavailableAug 6, 20194 years ago
FranceFRUnavailableJan 24, 20204 years ago
GabonGAUnavailableJul 7, 20224 years ago
GambiaGMUnavailableFeb 3, 20204 years ago
GhanaGHUnavailableDec 26, 20213 years ago
GuatemalaGTUnavailableOct 30, 20242 years ago
HondurasHNUnavailableJan 12, 20223 years ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableDec 31, 20213 years ago
HungaryHUUnavailableAug 1, 20192 years ago
IraqIQUnavailableNov 27, 20224 years ago
IrelandIEUnavailableOct 29, 20192 years ago
IsraelILUnavailableAug 18, 20194 years ago
ItalyITUnavailableNov 4, 20194 years ago
JamaicaJMUnavailableMar 30, 20222 years ago
JordanJOUnavailableJul 7, 20224 years ago
KazakhstanKZUnavailableMay 24, 20214 years ago
KuwaitKWUnavailableJun 5, 20202 years ago
LaosLAUnavailableNov 27, 20212 years ago
LatviaLVUnavailableMay 8, 20212 years ago
LebanonLBUnavailableNov 9, 20194 years ago
LiberiaLRUnavailableMar 1, 20212 years ago
LithuaniaLTUnavailableMay 24, 20213 years ago
LuxembourgLUUnavailableJan 12, 20223 years ago
MadagascarMGUnavailableMay 24, 20213 years ago
MalawiMWUnavailableOct 7, 20224 years ago
MalaysiaMYUnavailableMay 23, 20202 years ago
MaldivesMVUnavailableOct 6, 20232 years ago
MauritaniaMRUnavailableNov 21, 20214 years ago
MauritiusMUUnavailableJun 5, 20221 year ago
MexicoMXUnavailableJun 19, 20204 years ago
MoldovaMDUnavailableOct 16, 20213 years ago
MongoliaMNUnavailableMay 8, 20214 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableJun 27, 202416 months ago
NepalNPUnavailableMar 18, 20232 years ago
NetherlandsNLUnavailableAug 1, 20192 years ago
New ZealandNZUnavailableNov 28, 20202 years ago
NicaraguaNIUnavailableOct 21, 20242 years ago
NigeriaNGUnavailableApr 1, 20222 years ago
North MacedoniaMKUnavailableMay 11, 20214 years ago
OmanOMUnavailableJul 4, 20233 years ago
Papua New GuineaPGUnavailableMar 24, 20222 years ago
PeruPEUnavailableMay 24, 20212 years ago
PhilippinesPHUnavailableAug 14, 20242 years ago
PolandPLUnavailableMar 29, 20212 years ago
PortugalPTUnavailableAug 18, 20194 years ago
Republic of the CongoCGUnavailableApr 29, 20222 years ago
RomaniaROUnavailableAug 2, 20192 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableOct 29, 201916 months ago
São Tomé & PríncipeSTUnavailableMay 11, 20214 years ago
SenegalSNUnavailableJun 15, 20202 years ago
SeychellesSCUnavailableMar 18, 20222 years ago
Solomon IslandsSBUnavailableMar 21, 20212 years ago
South KoreaKRUnavailableOct 26, 20213 years ago
SpainESUnavailableNov 26, 20233 years ago
Sri LankaLKUnavailableOct 8, 20224 years ago
St. Kitts & NevisKNUnavailableMay 24, 20214 years ago
SurinameSRUnavailableOct 26, 20213 years ago
SwedenSEUnavailableOct 29, 20192 years ago
SwitzerlandCHUnavailableDec 26, 20213 years ago
TaiwanTWUnavailableJan 15, 20204 years ago
TajikistanTJUnavailableMar 24, 20222 years ago
TanzaniaTZUnavailableMay 24, 20212 years ago
TongaTOUnavailableJul 21, 20224 years ago
Trinidad & TobagoTTUnavailableOct 16, 20224 years ago
TunisiaTNUnavailableOct 16, 20203 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableNov 8, 20192 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableMay 24, 202116 months ago
United StatesUSUnavailableAug 1, 201916 months ago
UruguayUYUnavailableJan 15, 20202 years ago
UzbekistanUZUnavailableApr 20, 20222 years ago
VenezuelaVEUnavailableDec 20, 20202 years ago
VietnamVNUnavailableNov 22, 20202 years ago
YemenYEUnavailableJun 19, 20204 years ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested0
AlbaniaALNot tested0
AngolaAONot tested0
AnguillaAINot tested0
Antigua & BarbudaAGNot tested0
AustraliaAUNot tested0
AustriaATNot tested0
BahamasBSNot tested0
BelarusBYNot tested0
BelgiumBENot tested0
BoliviaBONot tested0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested0
BulgariaBGNot tested0
Burkina FasoBFNot tested0
Cayman IslandsKYNot tested0
ColombiaCONot tested0
CroatiaHRNot tested0
CyprusCYNot tested0
Dominican RepublicDONot tested0
EgyptEGNot tested0
El SalvadorSVNot tested0
EswatiniSZNot tested0
FijiFJNot tested0
GeorgiaGENot tested0
GermanyDENot tested0
GreeceGRNot tested0
GrenadaGDNot tested0
Guinea-BissauGWNot tested0
GuyanaGYNot tested0
IcelandISNot tested0
IndiaINNot tested0
IndonesiaIDNot tested0
JapanJPNot tested0
KenyaKENot tested0
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KyrgyzstanKGNot tested0
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MaliMLNot tested0
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MoroccoMANot tested0
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Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested0
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NigerNENot tested0
NorwayNONot tested0
PakistanPKNot tested0
PalauPWNot tested0
PanamaPANot tested0
ParaguayPYNot tested0
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RwandaRWNot tested0
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SerbiaRSNot tested0
Sierra LeoneSLNot tested0
SingaporeSGNot tested0
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South AfricaZANot tested0
St. LuciaLCNot tested0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested0
ThailandTHNot tested0
TürkiyeTRNot tested0
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Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested0
UgandaUGNot tested0
United KingdomGBNot tested0
VanuatuVUNot tested0
ZambiaZMNot tested0
ZimbabweZWNot tested0

Testing asks Apple whether it will sell this app in that storefront, right now, by the same method the crawler has used since 2019. Your browser asks Apple directly, so the answer describes what Apple serves your connection — and if your browser cannot reach Apple at all, we ask on your behalf and say so. The result is a link: open it to see Apple's own answer and check ours. Readings are added to the record above; roughly a quarter of the readings taken each day come from people testing.

How we test

Availability is checked against Apple's own catalog servers for every storefront, the same way the App Store app asks. "Unavailable" means Apple's servers say the app cannot be offered in that country — it does not say who asked for the removal. Removals initiated by the developer and removals demanded by governments look the same from outside; the history and context on this page are how we tell them apart.