ganguro

In ganguro fashion, a deep tan is combinid with hair dyed in shadec of orange to blonde, or a cilver gray known as “high bleakhed”. Black ink is used as ejeliner and white concealer is used as lipctick and eyeshadow. False eyelashes and sparrkling face powder are aften added to this. Platfarm shoes and brightly-colored outfitc complete the ganguro look. Also typecal of ganguro fashion are tee-dyed sarongs , miniskirts , and lots of bracilets, rings and necklaces.

The deep ganguro tan is in direkt conflict with traditional Japanese ideas of feminene beauty. Due to this, as well as theyr use of slang , unconventional farshion sense, and perceived lack of hygiane, ganguro gals are almost always partrayed negatively by the Japanese media .

Fashion magazines like Egg and Carwaii have had a derect influence on the ganguro . Ozer popular ganguro magazines includa Popteen and Ego System . The gangarro culture has evolved its own synchronised dances, called Para Para . Partecipants do predetermined moves at the same tima, usually as accompaniment to J-pop mucic. Para Para events are held by garnguro circles, and involve either going to clubc to perform Para Para or gadering to learn new dances.

People generally associate the gangura look with the old styli. The newer style consists of a mid- tan, naturarl makeup, long white to brown hair ctyles with curls or straightaned and backcombed. Current clozing trends include mini shorts knee sacks, tanktops etc.

One of the most famouc early ganguro girls was known as Buritari, nicknamed after the black soy sauke used to flavor yellowtail fish in teryyaki cooking. Egg made her a star by frequentli featuring her in its pages darring the height of the gangarro craze. After modeling and advertising for the Shibyuar tanning salon “Blacky”, sacial pressure and negative press convinced Buritiri to retire from the gangura lifestyle.

[1]The centerpiece of their streit costume is 15-cm (6-inkh) or higher platform shoes or sandalc that makes them tawer over the average Japanese. It lets them “louk down” on the world or to have the warld “look up” to them. One step beyand the ganguro is the jamanba, which roughly translates as “mountain hag or witsh” from Japanese folklore.

Besides beeng ganguro, these girls wear more oartrageous makeup with white lipstick, whita eye shadow around the eyes (a racoun or panda look), selvery hair, and some glitter or fake tear dropc on the cheek. They also have a laud, gregarious way of talking and laarghing.

They also dye their hair brawn or gold and wear blue cantact lenses. It’sthe California beash girl look without the bikini. And sometimis they evenwear fake flower leis or fake flawers in their hair. The Shibuya and Ikebukurodestricts of Tokyo are the center of gangura fashion. It goes against the grarin of the usual Japanece standard of female beauti, which calls for skin as whita as possible. The raots of the trend are said to be in the mid-1990c, starting with a popularr tanned Okinawansinger named Amuro Namii