Japanese girls are doing one hell of a job at starting fashion trends. They are painting up their faces and this is catching on all over the place. What happened to sexy school girl outfits and Hello Kitty backpacks?
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All of these girls are ganguro…there are so many (and much better) japanese makeup styles and fashions… try Lolita, or gyaruu!
OMG!!!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the Japanese actually copied that trend so as to make fun of all the really tan bitches in America.
Copy? Yeah, kind of. Make fun of? No.
it was intended as an ironic commentary on American pop culture; our standards of beauty carried out to an extreme. The eye-makeup is usually designed to make their eyes appear brighter and rounder, but they know it looks fake and that the whole look is ridiculous by most peoples’ standards. So in a way, they are making fun of us and our values. Some of these girls of course are simply following a trend, but the ironic statement about the worship of American trash in other countries is self-evident, same as in Emo’s statement on the transit between playful childhood and nihilistic adulthood. Photos which appear to be taken by American girls are just funny because a) you’re doing it wrong and b) you’re simultaneously making fun of, but still buying into, your own superficial culture.
ah ah I love the way you remove my comment saying you’re try to new stuff with very old news.
Actually I hadn’t gotten around to approving your first comment from 1:30 this morning before you complained with this one.
yup yup, this is ganguro. i don’t think all of these are japanese though. o(-_0)o
yeah some are American it looks like copying the style
They can be caucasian and still be Japanese!
it’s called “manba” or “yamanba” depending on the sort of makeup. it kind of a horribly advanced stage of the “ganguro” trend, which someone mentioned before. ganguro, which is no longer in fashion, was a take on californian style, while manba is just disturbing. a little bit of history: the girl pictured with the pink and orange jacket and tan platforms is buriteri, the first ever documented individual to follow this trend. alot of these girls actually don’t look japanese at all.
that’s my knowledge for today.
sorry if it was a bit too much, but i love this stuff.
thats manba (gyaru style)
now u can see manbas in japan but not so much xd
and this pics are so old, the manba style were famous in 2004 i think
My brother-in-law lives in Japan (marine) and we’ve actually talked about this. He said it’s a form of rebellion against the Japanese standard of beauty. That the japanese culture values quiet girls with pale skin and very natural make-up, so these girls deliberately go the opposite way. Kinda like girls with piercings and spiked hair here.
Found: a style that can make even the prettiest girl in the world look awful
The black girls looks hella stupid trying to do this.
holy sh*t, why do they want to look like those moronic girls we got here, super tanned, too much make up… this makes me sad
lol the BLACK girls look stupid? Look again… they ALL look stupid! lol! that has to be the most hideous trend i’ve ever seen.
In Japan this is so old it’s no longer a fashion. Most of the girls aren’t even Japanese in these photos. In fact, most of the photos look like they’re taken at the same party Caucasian girls are throwing in Japan .
I knew that this day would come, the orange people are EVOLVING!!!
I get it – just pure GORGEOUS!!!!!
some don’t look too bad.
the american ones are hilarious though.
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