Ganguro
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Ganguro is an alternative fashion trend among young Japanese women which peaked in popularity around the year 2000 and evolved from gyaru.
Yamanba, 2006
Yamanba, 2016
Yamanbas in 2006
Two Japanese ganguro girls in the subway, August 2006
Bihaku is a Japanese term coined in the 1990s with the emergence of skin whitening products and cosmetics.
Ganguro
…The ganguro trend started in the mid-1990s and reached its peak by the latter half of the decade; it purportedly became almost obsolete by 2000 when a bihaku (light skin) craze emerged among young women who wanted to imitate the look of their favourite popular singers, specifically Ayumi Hamasaki, who debuted…
Shoulder of a woman from Tokyo, showing her pale skin tone