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Originally Posted by Undertoad
throwing their blonde wigs in the air "following a Tokyo promotional event about stereotypes of western beauty". This suggests to me that they are rejecting the stereotypes, not embracing them in some sort of graduation ceremony.
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The meaning to this "promotion" is not nearly as deep as the western media has made out.
This was for a new type of hair dye, usually when Japanese (or any black haired Asian) dyes their hair it never really looks quite right, often streaky or blotchy and if you want red it's never quite red enough. The one colour that does seem to work is blond, bimbo blond, bleach blond etc.
This new dye promises that the Japanese will no longer be stuck with just blond, but will in fact have a whole new line of (good) colours to choose from.
I think the dye is from Europe because there has been a commercial running on Japanese television for the last couple of month in which dark haired European women do the same thing.
If there was any mention of rejecting western stereotypes of beauty, the promotional company certainly weren't pushing the idea of going back to their natural black colour.
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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Do Japanese women want to be western? Most western men would want them to stay Japanese...
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It is a strange duality here, where many Japanese want to be western but at the same time often hate the west, it is hard to explain but if you come here it is something you notice pretty quickly.
However I too would really like them to stay Japanese, black hair can extremely beautiful,
but when you realize how Japanese are controlled when they are young (especially the women), you can kind of see why so many of them colour their hair soon after getting out of high school, I think it is one of the small ways they rebel in a very repressive/conformist society.
This girl was forced to change her NATURALLY reddish hair (yes some Asians don't have pure black hair).
(Same story different article)
So you can imagine that being forced to conform so closely to everyone around them that once they get a chance to express themselves even in a small way they often jump at it.
Sorry this post is soooo long, it is just that I have seen that picture in the western media several times this week, always stating that it was promoting Asian beauty when in fact it was just promoting a "better" brand of hair colour. This was the first chance I had to respond so you guys got both barrels, so to speak.
