The batle of the orange- Guidos vs Ganguro-

All through history, fashion had different groups of distinguished people that wore all-inclusive the same. Like emo saying they are distinct from everyone but dress the same, and get the same hairdo than everyone else. Or hipster being not mainstream but wearing the must mainstream  glasses than everyone else is outfitting. We had the punks, the Goth, and everything in Japan. Speaking of Japan, a lot of human beings remarked that Ganguros are the Jersey Shore from the land of the rising sun. I don`t affirm that completelly. Undeniably, there are some similarities, however as much as I despise the esthetics of this peculiar group of individuals, they are far better and more interesting than guidos. Right now, I introduce you to the my least favebourite fashion species in the entire world, and I feel the need to justify why ganguro is the least worst. The battle of the orange has begun!

	Ooops, that`s Victoria Beckham. The parody boobs, along with the fake tan confused me and I believed it was a guido with an slutty secretary outfit.

First of all, Guidos have no reason of being. Sure, a lot of fashion styles had no justification at all; except being amusing, make you feel powerful, sweet, elegant, rebellions, or any feeling you crave. Guidos look the way they display ... due to?eum... They get their skin orange oompa-loompa style, waste a whole jar of gel and an customary of 30 minutes is needed to make their hair look spiky. Girls add some artificial boobs that looks like a  basketball cut in a half and kneeted to their chest like victoria Beckham. I personally think that if you have to assault the laws of nature to get a look, you automatically   are inelegant. If you do not look like a healthy human from this earth, you are not eye-filling anymore. Besides, if you are going to spend money and time getting skin cancer to look like a pumpkin , at least go the full theatrical way , fabricate me some chocolate and wear a green wig. Certain, your super tight t-shirts have so many logos and elements going on, that looks like if I've taken some hallucinative drugs while watching transformers 2 and 3. Wearing mini tight skirts only makes you look like you got dress in the dark in three minutes and put on a belt and forgot the skirt. That only looks well if you are athletic, which for some reason guidettes are not. Enormous muscles made out of steroids just looks unpalatable. No bright girl would go for that. You know there is a problem when black metal people with panda make up look more natural than you without make  up.

 

Guido girl thinking she looks awesome looking like a brainless drunk duck. Or is a dude without the spikes?

As for ganguros, they also dress in displeasing bright-hued attires that looks like underage raccoon hookers, although they have a justification. More importantly, they have balls. They are Asian girls with bleached hair, and no Asian ( Indian, Italian,black and some latinas) cannot pull out white hair.Their skin is freakishly orange and sometimes brown like poop brownies. Their clothes are so shiny that makes it look like you are on a LSD trip in a flour color factory and they get stickers on their face. But they had the balls to go full theatrical, not give a fuck and get panda white make up.

White concealer, white lips, white nose tip. It's all wrong. But you have to have balls to carry that style . And if you are going to get orange and give yourself skin cancer, go the whole theatrical way. Besides this girls have a reason to be the way they are:Rebellion. Kawaii is too mainstream and accepted to be uprising anymore. But ganguro is a kick in the balls to Japanese customs and rules. Teenage girls trying to be punk sounds more cliche than rebellious nowadays, so i guess this chicks are rocking the " scaring the shit out of parent and society" phase. Ganguro girls don't care about getting guys with this look. They feel, smart and original and ,unlike guidos, they have the decency to keep this look only during  their youth and they stop being ganguros after high school. Basically, they are teenager having fun, Guidos are adults with bad fashion taste. Guidos are ganguros that just gave up.

 

Kawaii - meanwhile in japan

You might have heard this word from the world's must  famous wapanese person, Gwen Stefany. Or may be some crazy anime fans? Or those crazy-about-japan- type of people that you can find at every school in the world .But what is Kawaii? Where did this magical style came from? What does it mean?   Let's start with the basics. According to the first definition on Urban Dictionary :"An adjective in Japanese meaning " pretty; cute; lovely; charming; dear; darling; pet" It's stem is two kanji meaning "can love".  Kawaii has been strong in Japan since the 1970. The cuteness not only took place in fashion, but in mannerisms, behaviors, food, basically  the every day life of young women and men and even adults. Japan adores Kawaii more than a gossip magazine worships idiotic blonde celebrities with lazy eyes and sex tapes.   Does hello kitty ring a bell? Japan take the cuteness so seriously that they even have  ambassadors of cute. The ministry of foreign affairs hired this remarkable three  ladies ,that are notorious for being super Kawaii, to travel around the world and spread the cute. Sounds like the best job ever.

 

Ambassadors of cute(lef6t to right) Misako Aoki,Yu Kimura and ShizukaFujioka

Look at the picture. The girls look so graceful and polished that i want to hug them and name my adopted kittens like them . But how a country with the scariest  pornography in the world can have such a strong adorable movement? Your western mind might find this bizarre, but it was rebellion.       In the 70's young girls started writing in a child-like manner, in a westernized way and decorating with hearts or flowers. School banned this calligraphy method because it was infantile and did not respect traditional Japanese writing. But the movement developed even more. Teenagers  thought  that adulthood was harsh, difficult and hostile, so they rebelled by acting like kids.Not annoying screaming kids, but adorable sweet girls with rainbows and kittens kind of thing. It didn't took a second for companies to create cute items like hello kitty and for  musicians to start acting that way ( notable example: Seiko Matsuda) . The style is well alive today and even police offices have cute mascots.

Seiko Matsuda wearing lovelly child like clothes. 

And how does this movement translate to fashion? well.... it's just everywhere in the streets of Japan. As you can see in the picture with the ambassadors of cute, they don't have an specific fashion style. The only rule of kawaii, i would say, it's to be cute. School girl uniform, sweet lolita style, 50's dresses with cupcakes,  pink outfits full of cute accessories. It can be simple to over the top. After all, it's a movement that was born from a polite rebellion to be free from the adult world, so kawaii  shouldn't have rules.

 All types of kawaii

This is over the top cute. You might find it crazier that cute, but think with you inner kid and look at all those pom-poms,pink puddle and stuffed animals.This particular style is called Decora and it's considered kawaii.

shouldn't have rules.

On a different note: Misako Aoki  wearing a very simple yet really cute dress. We are talking about the ambassador of cute in here.

Here is Aoki and a famous japanese model dressing with typical lolita dresses

Another day without make up and reaction around the globe

I went to a Goth club last night, the perfect occasion to rock some dark colored make up... it was hard not to do it. I felt a bit insecure on my way there, but after a couple of minutes i totally forgot about it and nobody seemed to mind. My friend didn't say anything at least. Today i visited the horrendous little town i used to live in. I saw a lot of people i haven't seen in a while, with that face you witness in the picture and really messy hair even if i did brushed. They didn't seem to care neither. If they do, they won't say a thing, ever.

(meanwhile in the world...)

the populace says that PEOPLE IN MONTREAL ARE critical, which let me tell you: if you grew up in Argentina, IT'S TOTALLY NOT TRUE. people in Canada will stare at you ugly if they dislike how you look, that's it ( i did got a lot of ugly looks last night, my friend said it was my Goth-ish dress)(not fuck was given about those looks) but they won't say a thing,in the meantime in Argentina they will let you know when you don't arrange like everyone else. 

I say fuck it! I remember getting my make up done when i was in Argentina and my cousin being like " we don't wear it like that here" and i replied " i don't wanna wear it like everyone else" she didn't got why i would do such a thing...

all this make up thing and going back to that town is making me think about people in my past a lot....not always a good concept. But that was the point, think on how they respond and get some refelxion on humanity.
Only reaction i got so far it's people not reacting in front of my face and reliving how my cousin did a couple of years ago.... So far it's a cultural matter

Here I introduce you to Lena Fujii and Vivi magazine

Good night my fellow humanoids. Tonight with a simple post to start with, I introduce yoU guy with my favorite model in the cover of my favorite magazine. I'm a big sucker for Japanese fashion and this magazine has not many ads and a lot, and i mean a LOT of awesome fashion. This a very trendy magazine for girls in their 20s early 30s. So if yoU were expecting for some Lolita action and hideous exotic gyaru stuff u better stick to the Internet :P  No idea what the hell it's gyaru and lolita no worries, Belu to the rescue will educate yoU in the arts of fucked up Japanese fashion. I don't know any other country with such a big fashion industry that goes to such a big variety of fashionable extremes. If u guys know any country that's it's crazier than Japan, please let me know. I'll be exited to explore that. In fact, i dare u guys to find a country with very crazy fashion subcultures...not even, just any subculture that you think i should know about, let me know.