Ganguro

Ganguro (Japanese颜 黒) is the name for most adolescent girls, the first one to follow in Shibuya, a youth district in Tokyo, Trend onset. The word is composed of manganese, the Japanese word for " face", and kuro, which in Japanese means "black".

This also Orange Girls or Girls Egg mentioned girls are characterized by heavily tanned skin and to be prominent bright eye makeup and pastel colors rouged lips, enhanced by the light bleached hair. The name Orange Girls refers to the orange hue assumed by the skin frequently after excessive use of self and beta -carotene tablets. Egg Girls comes from the Japanese girls magazine Egg, in which all the tips to find out how to be the fastest to a real Ganguro.

Similarities exist with the Kogals belonging to the common Gyaru subculture.

Yamamba

There are also Japanese Ganguros that exaggerate the look even more by using more and more eye-catching make-up and dye their hair yellow instead of blonde. They call themselves Yamamba, which means "mountain witch ".

Bibliography

• Kate clip Steen, Everett Kennedy Brown ( photos): Ganguro Girls. The Japanese "Black Face". Könemann, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-8290-7926-5
• Sharon Kinsella: Black Faces, Witches, and Racism Against Girls. In: Laura Miller on Jan Bardsley ( Eds.): Bad Girls of Japan. Palgrave, 2005

• Culture ( Japan)
• Company ( Japan)
• Subculture
• Fashion Style