Ganguro Fashion started as a rebellion against Japanese beauty norms - the fashion has nothing to do with foreigners or attempting to look like foreigners
I am a n non Asian who frenupnin Japan during this era. Regardless they still borrowed from the Aesthetic of foreigners. The hard contouring makeup to creat sharpness in features, bleaching hair and co facts come form white people. The over all style of dress and swag come form black American. They were very inspired by black western celebrities from hip hop culture.
@@onni504 yea defo inspired by western fashion my mom was a gyaru girl whn she was younger she hella fuked w socal rap n rnb evn told me she wanted to b black LOLLL mayb das y im blasian. western media definitely influences japanese & tha other way around
Yes! There's even a gyaru magazine for westerners you cannot read online called Papillon ^^ (totally not promoting it cause I modelled in a couple of issues 😅))
This has change a lot in the last 22 years, even in 2006 my first stay in Japan mostly this style had change numerous times. Perhaps it was more interesting at that time.
I'm honestly surprised that this was aired on the same BBC Choice block ''Japan TV'' that shows the infamous, very short-lived UK dubbing of ''Urusei Yatsura/Lum the Invader Girl'' anime that stars the fame of Little Britain, Matt Lucas as Ataru and actress Anna Friel as the humanoid alien known as Lum/Lamu that was aired on Saturday and Sunday nights between 5th/6th August 2000, according to Radio Times and BBC Genome.
Fake tans were definitely huge. I remember one of my favorite Japanese variety shows with boyband V6, Gakkou e ikou, they would find gyaru women off the streets and go into their house/apartment to check how they live. The houses would usually be such a huge mess. Also another version of the segment where they would clean up the gyaru and make them over to look more polished and ask guys whether they would date them now.
