With Japan’s innate fashionable culture, something like this shouldn’t be a surprise. But it is. This software lets you see what you look like with various hairstyles and face paints in REAL TIME. I imagine this would be a staple in beauty salons in the near future.
Yamanbas move over, here come the Kegadoru girls. What can old mountain hags do against vulnerable, injured girls?
Indeed, Japanese fashion doesn’t fail to amuse me. The diversity in taste and genre simply blows my mind away. To those who don’t have a predilection for heavy make-up, if you think the Ganguro trend is over the top, then you’ve got to see the Yamanba girls. Considered a spin-off of the ganguro trend yet a statement in itself, the eponym of the trend is the “yama-uba” — a character in old Japanese ghost stories.
Yamanba’s primary fashion monikers are 4-6 inch platform boots, micro-mini skirts and tops in vivid hues of yellow, pink, purple, blue, green and orange. Their unique style of make-up and hair, however, is what really sets them apart from the crowd. Deep, artificial-looking tanned faces are offset with white eye shadow, white lipstick and bleached white hair. (Imagine a negative image on a roll of film.)
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A Bathing Ape or BABE is one of Japan’s most famous clothing companies, founded by Tomoaki Nagao (called “Nigo”) in 1993 who is also the DJ of the j-hip hop group Teriyaki Boyz.
During the mid-90’s, one of Japan’s main controversies involved a group of young girls who would cause trouble around the country. These teenagers would usually do radical things such as skip classes, smoke in public, pollute the environment by throwing their cigarette butts everywhere and even seduce middle-aged men into financing for their whimsical expenses. Subsequently, they also had their own unique and scandalous fashion sense that distinguished them from the rest of the youth. These kinds of girls are known as Kogals.
Kogals are known to be the first kind of gal (or gyaru) that scaled Japan. They are the ones who have paved way for other kinds of gals now, such as the Ganguro Gal and Hime Gal, to enter the Japanese fashion scene. The clothes and the characteristics of the Kogals have been the basis for these new subcategories that is why Kogals are hard to obliterate from the minds of the Japanese until today.
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No Japanese company has taken the world by storm like BAPE and its playful Hip-Hop clothes. Nigo’s company, which started in 1993, already has shops in many of the world’s major cities, including New York, London, Los Angeles, and, of course, Tokyo. But Nigo doesn’t plan to stop there. “BAPE is a lifestyle company, including music, hair, even food. Everything you need to live,” says the fashion guru. He has already started his spread of the brand with a record label, a salon, and even a cafe, but Nigo has more in store for his Planet of the Apes inspired brand.
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The combination of rice and miso soup is a common Japanese breakfast menu. I could just imagine men walking into the kitchen, tousle-haired and half-awake, gobbling down their food without much thought. These, however, could produce the opposite effect.
Introducing “My Chopsticks Bra” by Triumph Japan.
The fashion trends in Japan are almost changing daily: New clothes are combined with older ones; the same goes for accessories and other decorations. But if you always want to be up-to-date there’s one website that can help you with the newest fashion styles in Tokyo’s biggest districts.
Tokyo Street Style - Style-Arena
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The girl’s fluttering her long eyelashes when she stares into the mirror in front of her. She combs through her dyed brown hair with one hand; her fake nails are coloured in a bright pink, with pearls and diamonds on top of them. After the girl stands up, she grabs her pink handbag and her glittering cell phone, takes one last look into the mirror and leaves the room.
The Harajuku district comprises of a variety of teenagers whose styles of fashion are anything but boring. Every weekend the vicinity would be filled with girls and boys clad in frilly, colorful layered outfits that may sometimes be an eyesore but are cute and creative most of the time. Yet out of all the fashion trends that can be seen in this microcosm of Japan, one of them stands out, mostly because of the lack of any other color but black. This trend is called the Gothic Lolita look.
The Gothic Lolita fashion is most popular among women, and females who like to abide by this sense of style would often go out in dark layered outfits that look like they were just imported from the era of the 1920’s in the West. This look is often described as one that would often be seen in old vampire movies for corsets and long frilly dresses are the staples to a Lolita closet. Headdresses are also essential to the Lolita wardrobe, and the only thing needed to complete the whole look is a pair of black platform shoes.
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