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What Harajuku Girls Really Look Like – Neatorama

The Harajuku shopping district in Tokyo gained international notoriety after it became the hip place for fashion forward Japanese youths to hang out, the most famous group being the so-called “Harajuku Girls”.

But what most people don’t realize is these “Harajuku Girls” are from different subculture groups with totally different styles and attitudes, from the romantic and fancy Lolitas to the rough and tumble Bosozoku biker gangs.

And one of the most adorable Harajuku styles is called Decora, characterized by wearing as many cute accessories as possible to in order to decorate your hair and your wardrobe.

What Harajuku Girls Really Look Like – Neatorama

What Teen-Age Girls See When They Look in the Mirror | The New Yorker

In her series “Spitting Image,” which is on display at Crush Curatorial through May 13th, Eva O’Leary photographs teen-age girls examining their own reflections. The mirror they use is a two-way; O’Leary positioned her camera behind it, so that we see the girls caught in the act of looking. The photos are alarmingly intimate, unguarded, and open. Think of them as the anti-selfie, that punishingly idealized form. Here, each sitter’s individuality constitutes her beauty. There are pimples and oily skin, plucked eyebrows and lip fuzz, lipstick and mascara as well as bare faces. Some of O’Leary’s subjects seem intrigued, even excited, by what they see. Others seem distressed, disgusted, perplexed. Childhood has been shed; these are new faces, but they won’t be theirs for long. The photos are shot against a deep-blue backdrop, like that of a yearbook photo, as if to remind the sitters that adolescence, too, is something they’ll graduate from. Get a good look while it lasts.

What Teen-Age Girls See When They Look in the Mirror | The New Yorker

Early Puberty in Girls Is Becoming Epidemic and Getting Worse

Padded bras for kindergarteners with growing breasts to make them more comfortable? Sixteen percent of U.S. girls experiencing breast development by the age of 7? Thirty percent by the age of 8? Clearly something is affecting the hormones of U.S. girls—a phenomenon also seen in other developed countries. Girls in poorer countries seem to be spared—until they move to developed countries.

No scientists dispute that precocious or early-onset puberty is on the rise but they do not agree on the reasons. Is it bad diets and lack of exercise that cause growing obesity? Is it soft drinks themselves, even when not linked to obesity? Is it the common chemicals known as endocrine disrupters that exert estrogen-like effects (and also cause obesity)? Is it the many legal, unlabeled hormones used in the U.S. to fatten livestock? Some researchers even believe precocious puberty could be triggered by sociological factors like having no father in the home or even stress.

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