Purikura comes from the word Purinto Kurabu (Print club). This Purikura is basically a photo booth or photo sticker booth, a machine that is popular among Asia, especially Japan. In SagiPuri, Sagi means 'to trick' or 'a fraud'. This SagiPuro machine is also a photo booth, but it has a function that manipulates faces to trick people. After you take a picture from the SagiPuri, you will not look like yourself, therefore tricking people with a photo that does not resemble you at all.
In a SagiPuri, the machine targets your eyes and automatically make them bigger through the photo. If you can find the correct angle, the machine also slims down your chin to make you look skinnier. After they manipulate and alter your face, you will most likely look different. By making your eyes extremely big and slimming down your chin, you can then trick people with this photo you took from a SagiPuri.
I think the Japanese are really creative for coming up with such an idea, but I also think that this concept is leading more people into the stereotypical subject where 'Asians have small eyes'. With all those new inventions like SagiPuri and circle lenses to trick people into thinking one has big eyes, people will be constantly reminded that 'Asians have small eyes', so that is why we have so many inventions to make our eyes seem bigger.
In my opinion, this machine manipulates too much with one's eyes. I admit that some people will look better with the effects of SagiPuri, but I've seen photos were people look absolutely freaky in their SagiPuri photos. Truth is, people who have big eyes originally will look disgusting in SagiPuri photos. Sometimes, going with your natural look will be better.
Example of which the effects will make a person look kind of disgusting or alien-like:
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