Shibuhara 2001

Thursday, March 4th, 2010 | 46 Comments

I was going through some older issues of magazines the other day and my ancient and decrepit August 2001 issue of Cawaii caught my eye. Why? SHIBUHARA!

It was amusing so I thought I’d scan in some pages!

Too bad Cawaii is now out of print. It would be fun to compare side-by-side the style differences. I have Popteen in mind for comparison since I feel it was closest matched to Cawaii. Some trends are the same. Black eyeliner, hot pink lips (which have been popular again recently,) and of course nail art. There are color contacts too but they aren’t circle lenses that print the color to the edge. There’s a whole little make section on how to match your eyemake to your colored contacts. Tans were big then. Big, big! Not being tan is a relatively new ideal in the world of “gals.” Some of these girls look older than their ages. Most are 18~22 but it’s such a contrast from how young gals look now. A shift from trying to look older to looking younger maybe.

I did notice an incredible lack of hair extensions. I had my assumptions that hair extensions didn’t really catch on until a few years later. It’s interesting to see the hair arranges using the girls’ thin hair. It’s quite obvious in the bangs! I kinda like it to be honest, LOL as a biased very thinned hair girl, hahahhaaa!

OVERALLS FOREVER PLEASE!