Harajuku Girls

The girls of Harajuku! Most people are familiar with Gwen Stefani's harajuku girls Love, Angle, Music, Baby (i met them by the way, and it was so cool!). Harajuku originated in Tokyo, Japan in the area of Harajuku. In Tokyo there is a street called Harajuku where teens of Japan hang out and dress up. In the fashion of Harajuku, there are many different styles and i'm here to tell you all about them :)

Kawaii:

The style of Kawaii is all about being cute and innocent. Kawaii became popular in the 90's. The idea of this style is to prove a point of the difference of the traditional style of the Japanese and the new wave of youth style. To describe the style, girls will wear frilly skirts, bright girly colors, a lot of accessories (necklaces, bracelets, bonnets, purses).

Lolita:

Lolita is another style of harajuku and it was created in Osaka. This style is victorian. The main concept of this is feeling and looking cute and innocent. With the outfits for this style, they like to wear really lacy and frilly skirts. They also usually carry around little frilly parasails.

Ganguro:

Personally Ganguro Harajuku girls are my favorite because I find them so different and probably because im a Cali girl :) The style of

Ganguro are teens from Japan trying to look like overly sun tanned, bleach blond girls from a tropical getaway. The outfit consists of fake tans, white makeup around the eyes (sunglass tan), bright flowered leis, and summer dresses.

Cosplay:

Cosplay is when teens dress up as their favorite or most popular manga/anime character. Some people will actually get there hair cut/died, or anything to look just like the character.

Ura-Hara:

This style of Harajuku is all about hip hop hipster style. Ura-Hara isnt a very popular style of Harajuku, its more reserved and hidden from the other variety of styles. In this style you would wear hats and a lot of layers.

Visual Kei:

Visual Kei means 'visual style of music'. For this style, people will dress up like their favorite bands or singers. Usually it is dark and gothic.

Hope you guys got to know a little more about Harajuku girls and their style :)

p.s. can u believe that they put on all these outfits and makeup everyday?!