Acid's Make over!

My friend is an apprentice at a hair salon, and she had a test yesterday and I was the model! 

It was a complete make over, with

• Dyeing hair with two colors
• Dyeing eyelashes and eyebrows
• Haircut
• Styling

It was a tough process, because my hair was still pink under the black hair! I haven't had pink hair in.. a year and a half, more like two years..  

The process

 No make up :x

 Dyeing lashes'n'brows

It's so hard to sit absolutely still for 15 minutes, not opening your eyes.. I'm so easily distracted!

The result!

I think the braiding looks really cool, I was I had the patience to do them myself some time!

I think it's a bit too short though, but it'll always grow longer ;D

Intro - Vikingfaen

Name/Nick: Vikingfaen

Age: 21

Inspiration: Monica, Pin, Frida, Ida, Sakurina, Aina, random gyarus from street snaps

Style: Rokku, general gyaru

Favourite brand: Gina Tricot, GILFY, GLAD NEWS, GOLDS infinity, EMODA, MONKI,
H&M, Alice Auaa, Vivienne Westwood, Chanel

Interests: Biology, gyaru, friends, history, movies, food, clothes

Hobbies: Eating, shopping, running, drawing, friends

Who do you wanna get down and dirty with?: Santa

How you got into gyaru: 

I first became interested in Lolita fashion. I tried that for a while, but the style never felt right for me. I discovered gyaru through other j-fashion interested girls in Norway and now I love the style!

Intro - Oda R/Java

Name/Nick: Oda R/Java

Age: 21 (soon 22)

Inspiration: Rohimi, Kanako, Nonoka, Sakurina, Wakatsuki Chinatsu,

Style: Rokku/ame-kaji/general gyaru

Favourite brand: COCOLULU, w<3c, GLAD NEWS, Vivienne Westwood, GILFY, MA*RS, tutuHA, Justin Davis,

Interests: Languages, music, movies, shopping, travelling, makeup

Hobbies: Shopping, learning languages, gaming, listening to music, playing the violin, going to concerts,

Who do you wanna get down and dirty with?: Gene Simmons :P


How I got into gyaru:

My first encounter with gyaru was with the old-school manba and kogals. I thought it was very cool and daring, but not something I would look good in. So I got into visual kei & oshare-kei, or at least I tried. With all the Sex Pot and multiple facial piercings that usually follows. Then I found Frida and started paying attenton to her. I joined the Norwegian JFashion community and there I learned alot about the different styles in Japanese street fashion. I was then introduced to the "mordern" version of gyaru. And little by little I fell in love with it.

Intro - Anja/dokiri

 

 

Name/Nick: Anja/dokiri

Age: 19

Inspiration: Kawabata Kanako, Romihi, Sakurina, Minemura Yui, Mipo, Saito Natsumi, Rumika, streetsnaps, Angeleek+Kleak gals, Pin, Valentine and other foreign gals~

Style: Rokku, but I tend to do b-gal sometimes and manba/banba.

Favourite brand: Gina Tricot, Vivienne Westwood, GILFY, GLAD NEWS, Lip Service, w♥c, BAPE.

Interests: music, food, gaming, make-up, fashion(mainly korean and japanese), friends, drawing, deco-den.

Hobbies: drawing, gaming, shopping, PS-ing, deco-den-ing.

Who do you wanna get down and dirty with?: Sheldon Cooper.

 

How I got into gyaru:

I don't remember actually when(year) but from what I DO remember the first time I heard of "gyaru" was when I was a visual kei kid and saw one of Koda Kumi's PVs. I did not like it and I thought she was a bit slutty. After a couple of years being in the visual kei scene I saw a picture of Kaoru Watanabe and thought she was creepy and weird looking, and well the style itself didn't appeal to me. I thought to myself "I'll never dress like that,not in a million years",well I didn't really like those type of girls.

Few years later I kind of grew out of visual kei and started going for korean street style. And at the same time I started liking gyaru more and more(yeah I know...after saying I disliked that kind of fashion). I saw pictures of Rumi Ringo with her black hair and I thought to myself that style isn't so bad afterall,it can actually be an edgy and rock-ish look. So I ended up searching for gyaru on google images,doing research on how they dress, if there were girls in the west doing the style, also girls in Norway and I ended up finding several communities on LJ and different forums. 

Got to mention her name because she kind of inspired me to keep being a gyaru, Kristiina(keikk). I got tons of help from her. But also Monica Tang. Following her on LJ was really fun, because I got to see how a norwegian gyaru is doing the style. And well after that I kind of went to try it myself. I have to admit I have been going back and forth with gyaru and korean street style before 2-3 years ago. But now I'm dedicated to gyaru to the fullest~

Intro - Frida/kaninmelodi

Name/Nick: Frida/kaninmelodi

Age: 19

Inspiration: Sakurina, Maya Mori, Nonoka Iwata, Monica Tang, Ida, Hiromi Hosoi, Kanako Kawabata, Tsubasa Masuwaka, Aina Tanaka, Viivi, Ashley ++ Street snaps!!!

Style: Rokku, sometimes serebu, on a rare occasion hime

Favourite brand: GILFY, Vivienne Westwood, GLAD NEWS, BACKS, EGOIST, LIP SERVICE, w<3c, GOLDS infinity, XOXOkisskiss, TRALALA, CECIL McBEE, Gina Tricot ++

Interests: Japanese fashion, clothing, make-up, music, movies, games, food, friends

Hobbies: Gaming, shopping

Who do you wanna get down and dirty with?: A wookie


How I got into gyaru:
My first encounter with gyaru was through a Norwegian magazine dedicated to manga and japanese pop culture; they had an article about Ganguro and kogyaru. 
At first glance I did not like what I saw, it was during a period which I drew conclutions fast and associated them with the valley girl type - which I despised back then. I was really into j-rock bands and visual kei though, and through it I started getting into japanese street styles. I fell in love with lolita and j-punk and started trying to dress in those styles. I still disliked gyaru, and when I say dislike I actually mean HATE. Yes, I despised gyaru with all my heart's content, for some stupid reason. 


After a year or so I started to open my mind a bit more, and after some lurking and glaring at gyaru images started really liking gyaru, but it was with my encounter with a particular GIF-animation of Tsubasa Masuwaka that I truly fell in love with gyaru. I was mesmerized by her perfect curly light hair, make-up, style, everything. 
Through a Norwegian internet society and Livejournal I met Monica Tang. She made me even more interested in gyaru, and I learned a lot from her.


Buuut it was still not the kind of style I would dress in - I was still too much into punk and rock-styles, and at the time I didn't know rokku existed. But at last I saw some Egg scans of girls dressed in - gasp - punkish rock outfits. I was growing tired of visual kei, I didn't like the negative attention it got, I decided to be more inspired by rokku gyaru, but in the end I went over to "the dark side" completely. I've had some weird fallbacks, but I am now 100% gyaruwashed.

Intro - Ingvild/Zora

Name/Nick: Ingvild/Zora

Age: 17

Inspiration: Kumicky, Aina and Monica Tang, but I usually get inspiration from many different magazines, brands and pictures.

Style: Gyaru-kei and mori-gyaru.

Favourite brand: Liz Lisa, Tralala, Vivienne Westwood.

Interests: Hair, clothes, traveling, food and decoden.

Hobbies: Shopping, partying, exercising, creating stuff.

Who do you wanna get down and dirty with?: Your mom.

 
How I got into gyaru:

It started some years ago when I found a manba profile at Myspace, and I instantly fell in love with the style because I have allways been fascinated by crazy hair. I used to be cybergoth at that time, so things have changed alot XD After a while I got more interested in japanese pop-culture and other styles. Then I got into the norwegian J-fashion community trough a norwegian internet society, and learned a lot. I allways loved gyaru, and even though I wasent gyaru and I got inspiration from many different styles, I kinda ended up with Gyaru.

Intro - Christine/Acidcandy

Name/Nick: Christine/Acidcandy

Age: 20-something

Inspiration: Emika, Tsubasa, Romihi & Kanako + various streetsnaps!

Style: Gyaru-kei (mostly rokku & haady, maybe ame-kaji in the future?)

Favourite brand: GLAD NEWS, Vivienne Westwood, Co&Lu, Alexander McQueen, w♥c, GILFY, GOLDS infinity, XOXOkisskiss, Blue Moon Blue, Esperanza, H&M

Interests: Money, success, fame, glamour ♪♫♪

Hobbies: Partying, shopping, playing the piano, sewing, going to concerts

Who do you wanna get down and dirty with?: Jesus and Chuck Norris at the same time

 
How I got into gyaru:

I don't really remember, haha. I originally got into Lolita six-seven years ago, and knew already then that gyaru was the counterpart of the style I loved so much. Years on, I realize that gyaru is awesome and a lot more appropriate for my behaviour. Lolita and drinking, vulgar behaviour and stuff like that doesn't really go together ;) 

Lolita is also way too expensive for me, and gyaru clothing is to be found everywhere, in all price ranges :) I love the make up illusions gyarus pull off, it's mezmerizing on some :)