BEAUTY IN JAPAN

All over the world women care about their looks. But it looks like the women in Tokyo really have taken it to the next level. Most of the western women just want to look like a better version of themselves. The women in Tokyo, on the other hand, want to look like someone else. Some sort of combination between a cute, shy Manga girl and a European top model is their dream look. This means they want huge eyes, bigger lips, smaller faces, bigger boobs, a pale skin, blond or light colored hair, preferbly thick and curly ànd they want to be tall with long legs. So basically they want to change everything they're born with. These women want the impossible. Surgeries are an option but for those who can't afford them shops are full of the right make-up, fancy clothes and  adorable accessories to look like the woman of their dreams.

Magazines for teenage girls and young women are filled with tips for the right surgeries, non-surgical treatments or fake attributes that create optical illusions.

This girl on the left is an example of a magazine ad for hair extensions (I think). She doesn't look Japanese anymore at all!

Japanese people are definitely disgusted from fat and fat people are considered lazy pigs.

Here, one of the many weight loss ads. For some reason I feel like they should publish this ad in an American Magazine. Also, this is the first time I travel to a country where I'm considerd fat. The first time I'm being advertised as a "before", usually I'm the "after". The before woman is what the average Japanese woman on the metro looks like though, so I totally fit in.

That girl in the grey bikini isn't even anywhere near fat!

 

And another girl who looked perfectly normal  before her weightloss.

But normal is not at all what the Japanse woman want to look like...

Here some pics I took today in the Japanese shops. 

All the girls are dressed to look cute with lots of make-up, dyed hair and accessories. They all wear super high heels to look taller.

In Tokyo there are a lot of subcultures as well. And of course if everyone tries to go one way, there will be people trying to go the other way.

And what's not cute? Right. Heavy Metal, Punk and Gangsta Rap. Some Japanese women actually try to look African-American... And others just like tanning salons and wearing lots of bling. I guess every country has its Jersey Shore. :-)