Heyaa Bunnies!
I planned this post like MONTHS ago. I first wanted to throw away the draft but since I saw it again on twitter, I want to talk about it.
The future of gyaru.
This is more of a personal opinion than a gathering of facts, so feel free to make your own opinion.
Yes, it's about our lovely tik tok...
the social media platform that I deleted as well.
I can deal with the haters on my profile but I can't deal with the bullshit that's posted on it. The content overweights the fun content, so I decided to delete it.
I don't see a good reason to spend time on an app that isn't fun anymore.
literally anything that is from white people is considered racist on there.
And even if racism towards white people didn't "exist"...now it definitely does.
On this topic something my friend said, he def got a point:
"If you make more terms to define groups of people, you immediately seperate and exclude them"
He never heard about terms like "POC" or "LGBTQ+" before..he didn't even know what "transgender" meant...I was like wtf? but more into the racism topic:
He said those terms are discriminating and the root of racism itself.
He said he doesn't care where you come from, it only matters if you are a good person.
Also he said, it's beautiful when cultures mix (which is also part of the whole racism topic, also considering gyaru).
But enough with this...let's focus more on gyaru.
Because this is indirectly also causing the change of gyaru trends.
i.e. the tanning rule.
God, I hate that it exists.
To "prevent" racism in gyaru, it's never allowed to tan darker than your own skin can achieve.
Which is a very interesting way to define this rule, because I for sure know my skin can go extremely dark, considering I used to be pale white.
Also interesting to see is, this rule doesn't exist.
At least not outside of tik tok it seems.
Especially not in japan.
Japanese gyaru don't participate in gaijin rules and trends.
More importantly gyaru is a japanese style...and considering some gaijins try to change the rules themselves..is ....idk.....ridicilous?
I definitely seperate gaijin gyaru and japanese gyaru.
But now, I even seperate gaijin gyaru into two groups.
I saw it coming about two years ago and it became reality.
The gaijin gyaru community has split into two groups.
Group 1: Those who get to know gyaru as the original and is trying to hang onto it. Usually are into old-school trends and try to revive old styles. Are true to gyaru "core elements" such as tanning, magazines, blogs etc.
Group 2: Trying to "modernize" gyaru. Creating a tanning rule. Mixing e-girl/alt styles with gyaru. Usually can't get recognized as gyaru (from a personal point of view).
I just call group 2 "Tik tok gyaru", even tho it also exists outside of tik tok but that's the root of this development in my opinion.
Before I want to get more into the two groups, I want to talk about the change of gyaru itself.
I want gyaru to change. I want to allow it.
But I also want to keep gyaru at it's roots.
I mean gyaru is a style that is capable of adjusting to newer trends.
otherwise gyaru would have died out years ago.
Compare gyaru from the 90s and then gyaru from early 00s.
They do not look the same at all. Gyaru changed in this period.
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gyaru was adjusting itself to new trends all the time and it kept going...
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| 2012 |
Gyaru is not what it used to be and that is completely fine.
And gyaru is still changing...again.
Tik Tok gyaru is for example one direction of the change.
More focused on western trends obviously.
So, this is how gyaru currently looks like in one of the gaijin gyaru section?
I don't think they all look bad, you can see gyaru influence sometimes.
Some claim they are gyaru, some say they only are gyaru-influenced.
However, you see those kind of pictures under the gyaru tag.
I do like alt-styles, sometimes. I am not against it. You can create something new but I am also not a big fan of it. I think the gyaru influence is too small...there is almost no connection to it despite the top and bottom lash thing with the droop.
Gyaru is changing in japan as well.
We tend to call it "Reiwa" gyaru. It does seem like with the end of heisei, gyaru changed as well.
Not as dramatically as in tik tok gyaru, but tbh sometimes I am not sure wether it's gyaru or some japanese girl with blonde hair...sorry. Or if that is the definition of gyaru in japan nowadays.
I try to get used to how reiwa gyaru looks like.
One thing I noticed for example is that clothings look extremely basic. Natural colours, earth tones or black/white, beige. Usually it's just top and jeans with some sneakers.
There are a few that are fashion-oriented but maybe it's my own impression but I think fashion isn't really a central point anymore.
I don't think it looks bad, it's a lil bit boring to me tbh. I do like some aspects, especially yuuramomo but probably that's the inner black hair lover in me LOL.
Changing gyaru is fine. Letting other styles influence your gyaru style is fine. Letting your style get influenced by gyaru is fine. Being a beginner is fine.
Using gyaru as a way of selfpromotion is not fine.
I think I speak for most people when I say this: I am extremely annoyed having to browse through the gyaru hashtag for HOURS until I finally find a pic of a real gyaru.
I wish people who like to get inspired by gyaru don't hashtag it or claim to be one.
What do you think about this topic?
I want to discuss this with you.
"Using gyaru as a way of selfpromotion is not fine."
返信削除THIS!!!!! THIS SO MUCH!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!
Louder for the people in the back.
I feel like there are a few people who do gyaru just to be popular on tiktok... Or do guides on tiktok to get the views etc but that's just my personal opinion (lol I bet I'm going to get shot for this). And I know this from experience because my posts on tiktok that were guides were waaaay more popular than my other posts.
Idk how I feel about tiktok gyaru. Yeah.
I do like reiwa gyaru though!!!! <3333
I am currently working on a guide to be gyaru where I focus on hime but can be used as other gals as well..stay tuned <3
削除You are completely right about there being 2 different groups of gaijin gyaru now. I just ignore the people who say you can't do tanning or certain makeup looks if you're white. They are often super young and have no research or information to back up what they say; they come from a place of misunderstanding what gyaru even is and always argue based on emotion :') I was talking with another gal that these people try to "fight racism" but end up being super racist themselves by saying "you can't do xyz if you're (insert race here)" and often attack people just for ASSUMING that they're white.
返信削除But anyway, onto the Japanese gyaru... I really like some of the Reiwa gyaru looks - not all of them, but the ones that incorporate a really distinct "gal look" like animal print in their tshirts and fuzzy slides! You can tell by their makeup and deep tans and hair that they're still gyaru. I'm not huge on the Reiwa gyaru that just look like any old Western IG baddie or the Kardashians, even though they seem to be huge influences for them (just as Paris was back in the day!) And I don't like how the trend in Japan now is that everyone has dark, natural colored hair. I guess I'm holding onto the past with the magazines where everyone had colorful, dyed hair :')
I feel this so much. Makes me super happy I don't participate on Tiktok anymore. I tried but like everything else I couldn't get any traction XD But it really sucks when people out there try to stop you from doing things cause it's in the Western "Rulz". I just ignore it all and do my thing. Nobody pays much attention to me so I am left alone XD I am def more Heisei gal tho and will try at least all of the old styles at least once. I was once labeled as an e-girl and I felt like crawling into a hole XD But I'm happy for those that want to do things differently for the new era. I just know it's not for me.
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