/g/ - girl talk

I miss seeing sujimori. I wish it would come back. What trends/styles do you all want to see make a comeback?

I miss 2010 gyaru style. it was so over the top and fun. I keep waiting for you younger Generation to bring back gyaru like they did with Y2K

I have such a weak spot for Gyaru especially himegyaru.

>>557732
Me too. Yumetenbo era (now DreamV I guess) was pretty peak. GALstar was also pretty good, I got my first pair of thigh high platforms from there. I admired Sakurina so much and the GAL blogs from back then were really inspiring and informative, and I especially liked Sara Mari's blog. AGEHA and ViVi inspired me with so many makeup and hairstyles, and I really owe myself getting decent at makeup to them. My heart will always yearn for that era fondly. The cheesiness, the cattiness, and even if people were strict about following the trends, I prefer that to the state of things now. Modern gyaru just doesn't have that magic.

I know nothing about this subculture but I've always found the looks so cool and pretty.

to me this is just the asian equivalent of those ghetto white girls with fake tans and balayage hair

I still have a ton of yumetenbo heels and bags i hoarded from about 13-15 years ago. sadly despise being stored in a climate controlled closet, a lot of them are flaking and splitting or have discolored with time. dreamv clothes from those times were gorgeous but sadly, pretty shitty quality long term.

>>557871
Isn't it quite literally based on that though?

>>557883
pretty much. 90s ganguro was trying to emulate the blonde tan surfer/baywatch look, with bleach blond or white/silver hair, deep dark tans, and white makeup meant to look like highlights or sunblock smears that surfer girls wore. a few years later like the very early 2000s, it became more cutesy and more colorful, featuring cute characters like stitch and hello kitty, and going for a relaxed, loungey, hawaiian look (including literally wearing bikinis and beach towels in public, as well as the standard school uniform with skirt tucked extra short)

after a while it became less silly/cute and more sexy and glamorous and mature, because a lot of hostesses started wearing the more refined version of gyaru to attract customers by looking expensive and well groomed.

ganguro fell out of favor because it became associated with school delinquency, not bathing (to preserve tans), using weird shit like paint markers and sequins for makeup, and generally being slutty or engaging in enjo-kosai which was looked down on but some ganguro girls did indeed do (as many were from lower income or troubled backgrounds and ganguro was seen as a complete rejection and inversion of japanese traditional beauty and feminity: dark skin, crazy hair colors, loud and obnoxious personalities, promiscuity etc).

a lot of the older gen 90s ganguro girls talked about being spat at, yelled at and called things like cockroaches while hanging out on the streets of tokyo, which eventually made them give up the style and become normal. it also attracted a lot of creepy men who thought it meant these girls would be easy or sleep with them for money.
i think the reason gyaru dwindled in popularity is because it also became associated with porn, hostessing and JAV titles. i guess a lot of gyarus just didnt want the stigma that came with looking too sexy in public anymore.

>>557895
Thanks for the additional context!

britaboos

>>557910
KEK.

>>557895
Iirc it became associated with prostitution because designer goods were always getting featured in gyaru magazines and most of the girls reading those magazines were 16-22 year old broke high school/college students. So in order to afford an LV or Chanel bag or whatever I guess some of them had to resort to 'compensated dating' with older men. And because of that gyaru got a bad reputation, same as Essex girls in the UK. Also pretty sure ganguro and gyaru were also an offshoot of the yankii subculture, but became less about being tough or getting respect, and more about just being sexy and getting wild (as the theme of Egg magazine came to be).

>>557732
It might be coming back, not in the same way but regardless its kind of trendy, I keep seeing gyaruo guys on social media.

What do you nonnies think of d.i.a's new revival??

>>557930
unpopular opinion but i think full on gyaru makeup looks pretty awful most of the time on non-japanese girls. it's supposed to look quirky and cute but on gaijin gyaru often veers into straight up monstrous or uncanny valley territory. if you already have big eyes, doing huge gyaru eye makeup with your bottom lashline redrawn 3cm under your natural lashline is just gonna look crazy, especially when paired with the fake tan and venus flytrap lashes and white lips. if you want to go down the trashy route as foreigner, its probably best to go for the instathottie or jersey shore girl look, that does actually suit foreigners. and maybe add some gyaru clothing and accessories if you want.

>>557956
I agree nonna, I also think ''chinese gal'' makeup could suit non-japanese girls more as its more cutesy and non-exaggerated

>>557963
gyaru makeup is specifically made for chinese and japanese girls with tiny eyes, flat noses and big lips. thats why they redraw their eyes so huge, put pale lipstick on to make their lips look smaller, put a shit ton of highlight down their nose bridge to make it look higher etc. when caucasian women try to do it, it just looks nutty usually imo because (most) white women already have those features and it exaggerates them too much. like i said, caucasian people should follow makeup tips for caucasian features, and asians should follow asian makeup. there are some douyin looks that look really nice on caucasians, but they tend to be the more natural and subtle looks. gyaru makeup often looks whacky on non asian faces, but if thats the style theyre going for i wont stop them.

>>557895
it also has to do with the internet in the 90s the internet was closed off af so emulating a style exactly was harder. gyaru in the late 2010s looked like instathots and who was all over insta? japanese girls.

t. himegyaru for 15+ years

>>558183
You're talking about eye and nose shape which isn't exclusive to east asians.

>>557895
I think most of this post is just generalizations but there was no single gal style that took over another substyle. The magazines exploited things like ganguro when they were trendy, at one point popteen had amone! The style just stopped being trendy eventually like a lot of these fads do. gals were definitely trashy though regardless of the association w porn. you couldn't have a regular job while looking like this so you were left with poorly compensated part-time work or modeling. The lucky ones sold crappy fast fashion online. I think a lot of the Japanese women attracted to sexier gyaru styles were shayna-adjacent and their behavior in videos kind of confirms it.

>>558341
I miss fashion from back then. It was more fun to experiment. Trying to recreate the closest adaption of a style from a small magazine picture with friends. It was better than recreating an exact YouTube tutorial with no personal touch. This goes for all styles, not just gyaru.

>>561087
it's lucky that japanese toilets spray your asshole after pooping because i cant imagine wiping with those things

>>561081
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>>561087
Would never get any of these myself but I love how OTT they are, clearly these women had no fucks to give and I love that for them.

>>561087
I feel like these would be way more convenient as press ons but i don’t know if glue would hold them on

>>561097
you use your nails to wipe your ass?

>>564162
Ntayrt but you’re being dense on purpose.

I was so fascinated with gyaru culture in the mid-2000s when it was already going "out of style" but I always hoped it would make a comeback. I feel like I've seen more references to it recently and aesthetic choices like the 3D kawaii nails, animal prints, etc coming back, do you think it's finally "back" as an alt style in 2025?

>>564193
Are you not on tiktok at all?

>>564193
It never went away

>>564217
I am not

>>564465
it's blowing up on tiktok right now. ma*rs brought back old prints (albeit on boring designs) and d.i.a is coming back as a brand. egg magazine came back and there's controversial chibigyaru which are very upsetting, considering chibigyaru were just like gal mama's kids wearing a cute matching set up with no makeup, now they're sexed up to hell.