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Japanese fashion trend involvingdyeing thehair andtanning the skin.
Etymologies
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Examples
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They called themselves "ganguro", which literally means black face because they got really tanned or put dark foundation on their face.
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Japan's fashion scene has a record of establishing cult trends that sweep the industry, typically for a few years, such as the "ganguro" look that mixed deep fake tans with white lipstick, brightly colored clothes and orange-to-blond hair.
SFGate: Top News Stories Emi Urabe 2010
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The ensembles of the ganguro clans and their successors flaunt the mien of eroticized Day-Glo Shirley Temple psychopaths.
Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010
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One riff on ganguro fashion is the more darkly tanned Yamanba or “Mountain Hag.”
Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010
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In the moment that this page is being written, the more flashy ganguro styles are yielding to ultrafeminine takes that stress extravagantly expensive clothes and accessories, where the party dress is a symbol against the powers-that-be.
Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010
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The ganguro girls caught pop cultural fire then and spawned pop stars, magazines, and manga that picked up on their look and lifestyles.
Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010
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In a fast-food shop in Shibuya, for instance, two ganguro women offer a picture of their middle age.
Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010
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Also, "Lubna" looked more to me like a kogal/ganguro/manba type--and if you don't know what those are, do a google image search.
Otherwise Engaged 2010
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One is that of the ganguro which connotes “black face” in Japanese, but also sounds close to the English “gang girl”.
Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010
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Egg is the quintessential “deep gyaru” magazine — for the ganguro yankii wing of the fashion movement rather than the part that touches upon middle-class mass style like Popteen.
lampbane commented on the word ganguro
Japanese subculture involving women with deep tans, bleached blonde hair, black eyeliner with white eyeshadow, and white lipstick.
Ganguros are usually perceived as being skanky.
November 10, 2007