I Love Japanese Fashion Mags!!

The title says it all. You all know how I love Japanese Vogue but its not the only Japanese magazine that I love so today i’m going to introduce you to 3 other Japanese magazines that I love – Kera, Blenda and Ageha.

Kera is less mainstream and more of an alternative type magazine which includes quite a lot of lolita fashion and visual kei. It also features hairstyles, makeup and streetstyle photos.










Blenda is a magazine more aimed at oneegyaru or older sister gal. Its well liked by women in their twenties as the fashion is a bit more sophisicated and grown up. It also features hair and makeup tips.









Lastly we have Ageha which as you can tell by the sparkly girly cover it has a younger audience than Blenda. Hime Gyarus (princess gal) love this magazine and it too has a lot of makeup and hair tutorials too. That’s a common theme in Japanese mags aimed at young women. The thing i love about their hair and makeup tutorials are that they are very clearly illustrated so even If you can’t read Japanese you’ll be able to follow them.









So there you have it 3 of my favorite Japanese mags. But there is one thing I despise about Japanese mags and its this :



Japanese magazines are obsessed with weight. As you can see from the before pictures the girls were already slim but now they look anorexic. Every Japanese mag i’ve read has a feature like this and its rather sickening. If you thought western magazines were size focused that’s nothing compared to Japanese magazines. For more info on Japanese womens obsession with skinnyness read here.

i love japanese fashion magazines :-)

Konnichiwa!! Hey guys. how are you all?Well as usual i've been shopping again I ordered some kawaii paper, memo sheets, letter sets etc its all so cute. Ebay is a godsend. I also ordered some circle lenses from tokyo toys (http://www.tokyotoys.com/). Can't wait till they arrive.  I'll do a review once i've tried them out :) I also ordered Ageha from the Japan centre i love Japanese magzines of al different types. I love looking at all types of Japanese fashions even the ones with fashion that i would never wear. So today i thought i'd give you an insight into some of the most popular ones:)

So here goes

The first one i'm going to examine is Kera. This is one of the most popula magazines in Japan. It looks at real people on the street in all different kinds of styles. Some real fashion leading people off the street in all manners of different styles. Creativity is the key. It also provides make up tutorials as well as film and music news and examining the style of celebrities.

As you can probably tell by the front cover this magazine covers gyaru style mostly gangura. It has been very important in the rise of the ganguro movement. The current version of the magazine shows a more toned down version of ganguro. It covers make up tutorials, fashion and covers every aspect of ganguro.

 

Gothic lolita bible focuses on the different subcultures within lolita. Advising how to ormulate a good lolita outfit complete with sections on accessories, bags and shoes. And shows pics of real girls wearing Lolita on the streets are at huge Tokyo club nights.

And now to my favorit of the bunch.

AGEHA

This magazine is fab and oh so pretty. It focuses on hime fashion. Yay!! It shows various different type of hime hair. Every page is sparkly and princess like and it features fashion and make up and a section on caring for wigs unusually. The hair tutorials are amazing and you dont even need to be able to read japanese as every step has a photo attached and they do the same for the make up tutorials :)

So there you have it :) the world of Japanese fashion mags.

Now im off to the land of nod its 11.30 pm and very hot so i'm seriously tired. Nite nite!

Fuyume