My inspiration for this makeup look was a Japanese fashion magazine I picked up while in Japan… I loved the styles of makeup in the magazine… lots of bright pink cheeks, pink lips and defined liner around the eyes with lots of lashes on the top lashline and the bottom lashline… White eyeliner to rim [...]
Music by Gwen Stefani – Harajuku Girl This was a look that inspired me when I was visiting my mom’s family in Japan last year. I spent a couple days in Harajuku and I saw 2 girls that dressed up with blue hair and makeup with white faces. I thought it was the craziest thing [...]
I created this Japanimation Anime makeup look for a local Vancouver Photoshoot. I used a Makeup Forever Flash Colour Palette mostly to make up the cartoon like character. I applied the blue with a fine precision brush and left an area clear for the white dots (to make it look glossy). I lined the top [...]
I just got the Harajuku Lovers LOVE perfume by Gwen Stefani and I absolutely love the scent. I stood at the shop sniffing all 5 fragrances Love, Lil’ Angel, Music, Baby, & G… and fell in love with Love, in my opinion the best one by far. It had ylang ylang notes and a seducing sweet [...]
Scary, isn’t it!! (Yes, that’s ME!!!!)
Ganguro (aka Gyaru or Yamanba) Fashions of Japan I just got back from my travels in Japan and these Ganguro girls/boys are definately a dying breed. This Japanese “modern-age fashion/makeup style” became popular in the late 90′s around the Shibuya district of Tokyo. This trend was mostly worn by young girls in their teens to early 20′s (although I did [...]
Friday October 9, 2009 – We left Osaka and got on a shinkansen to Tokyo… This took approximately 3 hours… When we arrived in Tokyo Station, we all went down to the level with a massive area for storage lockers for about 500 yen (or 5 bucks). Each of us left our luggage in our own lockers [...]
Wednesday October 7, 2009 – Woke up early once again so we can go from our Osaka Hotel to Kyoto for a day trip… The rain was pouring down so we each grabbed a giant hotel umbrella for our wet journey. (Later on we learned that the biggest Typhoon in 10 years will be heading our way…) Once [...]
Soooo, since we were in Japan for almost 2 weeks, we managed to travel quite a bit within the country with my unlimited JR train pass. We purchased the pass in Canada before we left for a fantastic deal at $340. I advise anyone going to Japan to buy this rail pass!! (I bought mine from the Flight Centre on [...]
I’m already back from my Japan Travels and I have to say… 12 days just isn’t enough! I already miss my vacation and I wish we had more time in Japan! There is so much to see and do in Japan Land, it’s mindboggling!! I’ve decided to write a blog dedicated to my amazing Japan Trip, called Mika [...]
Yesterday was a pretty interesting day here in Osaka, Japan. We were in the middle of a very strong TYPHOON with heavy rain and strong winds… We still went out on our day trip to Kyoto to see some shrines and temples with our jumbo umbrellas, but it made our trip more exciting. When we [...]
On my current travels to Japan, I have been observing the girls in some of the younger gereration magazines and clothing stores to see what the Japanese Makeup/Fashions are. A lot of the Japanese girls have their hair dyed lighter, much lighter than their natural colour and have a lot of makeup on. The makeup styles that I saw [...]
Ohio Gozaimasu!! We are safe and sound in Japan… I have a daily Japan Trip Blog coming up when I get the first chance… Today we are all on our way to another ONSEN… Ahhhhhhh the feeling of the natural hot springs is sooooo soothing! We are on day 4 of our journey and already [...]
This will be my last blog from Vancouver for… I don’t know how long! I am hoping to find some computers to do a Japan Travel Blog throughout my journey. As some of you may know, I’m half Japanese so I will be visiting a lot of family and friends, as well as relaxing in onsens (public natural baths), and [...]
Just booked a Japan trip for this Autumn, October 1st, 2009 and I am so excited! The round trip tickets were only $560 TOTAL from flightcentre but they are probably sold out!!! My boyfriend, mom, dad, (middle) brother and wife will be travelling for 12 days to visit our family on my mom’s side, as well as [...]
What is a Yamamba/Ganguro Girl? Well, I wanted to know too, so I did some research. I was looking around on the web and saw endless photos of Japanese girls with pounds of bronzer on their face and loads of black AND white eyeliner/eyeshadow with white lipstick. It was almost like the Harajuku Girls but dipped in Malibu. [...]
We went to see the KODO Drummers of Japan show at the beautifully restored Orpheum theatre… It was quite amazing! The deep beating of the Taiko drums were putting me in a trance and I was almost on the edge of my seat at some parts of the show. I was in awe for most [...]