Talk:Ladybug (episode)/@comment-24850954-20190911175518/@comment-43502131-20190911184650

Once the akuma touches someone, they are immediately under Hawk Moth's control, then Hawk Moth tells them stuff, and then Hawk Moth transforms them. Though Marinette didn't get the chance to transform into Princess Justice (since Nathalie interrupted the whole thing), Marinette was Princess Justice (mentally) because she was touched by an akuma and was under Hawk Moth's control. So Princess Justice wanted to remove the earrings and give them to Hawk Moth.

So I guess akumatized doesn't mean transformed necessarily, it at least means to be touched by an akuma (and then usually to be transformed to be useful to Hawk Moth).