Dark hair gyaru scanspam, 2 week hiatus notice.

OHAI, this is a filler post, so if you want to read something with more substance, or a cool ass clothes customization tutorial, head over to my friend's blog ( http://bryangohey.wordpress.com/ ). Awesome Alternative fashion posts, and extremely fun to read.

Moving on,

Casually flip through any Gyaru magazine, Egg, Ranzuki, Popteen; you'll almost never see dark haired gyaru. As a dark haired individual, the constant barrage of light hair shades makes it difficult to emulate hairstyles in these magazines. And most of the time brings about an irrepressible urge to run out to a hair salon and wave a page in the stylist's face, demanding the exact shades of brown as Kumikki.

Unfortunately my hair's chemically straightened, because if left untreated, it becomes this unmanageable mass of frizz that resembles fairy floss after it starts melting.

If i should lighten/dye/bleach it, the main worries would be :
1. would the dye screw around with the straightening chemicals?
2. will my hair just fry from overprocessing then all fall out leaving me like one of those hairless chinese crested dogs?

Then October's popteen had a dark haired gyaru feature. Most of them were wearing wigs, but still.

The styles, honestly, aren't as bold, and if coordinated with the wrong clothes will come off more girl than gyaru. Nonetheless, a dark haired feature is better than none. And it does seem like warmer hair colours are coming back for fall.

More warm coloured hair scans from Popsister:

The cover of Popteen nov 2010

Love Hikari Shina's new hair colour!

While models are starting to sport darker hair colours and such, lightened hair is a fundamental part of gyaru style. Light hair is what usually distinguishes gyaru from the common girl, other than dress sense and makeup. It's the cherry on top of parfait of sorts.

I'll elaborate more on this in another post sometime in the future.

The next 2 weeks will be essay rush, which means i have a pile of assignments to complete and will be unable to blog coherently or at all. So i'll be taking a 2 week hiatus from blogging to write essays like a mad dog.

-edit- FORGOT TO POST MSS OTL. was off doing some work. i guess that means a total hiatus then. sorry!

There will be a barrage of tweets about how much my life sucks and why can't my assignments do themselves though. hahah.

So, i'll be back, and hopefully still alive in 2 weeks!~

Gonna get some sleep now. I feel like i just wrestled a bear and got mauled.