New HairStyle ニューヘアスタイル

Tonight we're invited to Yuunyan's special party at Atom and Saturday
it's time for Double Heart which lots of Egg models including
Kanako Kawabata is going to, so had to style my hair a bit to prepare...

My friend Masshu to the left, working at Daisy and as a Men's Egg Youth model, had booked a time for me with the best Gyaru-hair stylist in Japan.

His name is Kazu and he has styled all the most famous Gyaru-O. He is called "The Shibuya God Hand". He works at the most hip salon right now, Rizel.

Everybody in the hair salon Rizel were super styled and looked like models.

They seemed to be chocked that a foreigner had found it. Video from inside:

 

Seems like everybody that comes to this salon are introduced to it by a fashion magazine model, since you had to fill out a form first about which model that recommended you the salon.

Kazu was a super nice guy that had been working at hair salons for 10 years. When he cut or styled hair it really seemed like he was born to do it... Here he is attaching extensions to my hair.

Here is a video from the styling:

Masshu and his hairstyle info was in one of the salon's magazine.
When I talked with Kazu about writing Japanese and Kanji(Chinese characters in Japanese) he said that Masshu and Yuunyan probably don't know many Kanji... ;D  

Thanks to everybody at Rizel!!! Everybody was extremley nice and polite! Whenever you wanted to go to the toliet they came with you to show you the way and light it up for you. 
When I was going back they came with me to the elevator and they were asking questions about what Im doing here and my home country sweden all the time.


Something I love about Japan is that, even though somebody look really cool, they don't need to have an attitude. They can still be nice humble people.

In the stores in Sweden where people are very styled, the staff won't even say hello or look at you when you come into their store. So much to learn from Japan!!

Before styling at Rizel:

After styling at Rizel:

When I came out from the salon I got photographed by a camera team from
a web site called SnapWalker that takes street snaps of people in Shibuya.
Then everybody get ranked by how many points the web site visitors give them.


Now me and Jenny are ready to go to Yuunyan's party tonight!!^^
Let's see if the hair style have any effect... ;D

Much more pictures coming soon!!

Sorry for not updating yesterday!(>_<) It will come lots of pictures from the biggest Gyaru-parties and events the coming days though!! ^^


For now, two Shibuya street snaps and some purikura...

 

Street Snap of the Day 今日のストリートスナップ #6

Me and some friends were walking the small narrow streets of Harajuku when
this super cute girl came walking by. Felt like being in an anime.
How can Japanese people manage to look so perfect...? So jealous!!

原宿の狭い道を歩きながら、このすごく可愛い女性が見た。その時、「私アニメに
いるかなあ」と思った。
日本人はどうすれば、こんなに完璧顔と洋服コーディネト！？ 羨ましい！！

When I came out of Shibuay 109-2 it was pictures of Takkezou, Minorun and Chiibo everywhere. Then I saw this guy standing next to one of the posters and thought he looked like Chiibo so I asked if it was him but I was wrong.
Very nice guy though, that liked soccer and mentioned "Henrik Larsson"(famous soccer player) when I said I'm from Sweden.

モデルのちーぼか？」と思った。間違ったけど、かれ優しくて、サッカーの興味
がある。

Cool people so far, but promised to show some strange people today too!
So here we go...

This guy was making commercial for the Game Center in Ikebukuro.

Who came up with the idea to hang a pig on his back!? 

Girl giving out free schampoo samples from Lóreal at Shinjuku station.

The French Revolution! フランス革命!

Today I was going to experience a lot of French culture!!

今日、たくさんフランス文化の経験があった!!

Preparing to go out...

Yellow long sleeve shirt from Daisy in Shibuya 109-2 and blue west from somewhere in Harajuku. Really cheap!^^

My room is sooo messy by the way... Please don't look!! Even the mirror is dirty!>_< Sagepoyo!!↓↓ If only I spent as much time on cleaning my room as I do on my hair...

準備中ね。ロングスリーブシャツはShibuya109-2のDaisyから。青いベストは原宿で買った。安い！！^^

ところで、私の部屋はめちゃめちゃ汚い！！鏡も...
見ないで下さい！！ヘアスタイルをセットするは時間がかかるから、掃除の時間が
ない... サゲポヨ!!↓↓ (笑)

The red "hang-belt" is also from Daisy in Shibuya 109-2. Love that store!!^^

The shoes and pants are from Vice Fairy. Another one of my favorite 109-2 stores. 

The One Piece* watch I'm wearing is also from there. Bracelets from "OIOI"(Prounanced Marui).

*One Piece is the most popular Anime in Japan right now.

 

The french people had found a long French street in the middle of Tokyo... It was located in Ikebukuro train station underground and sold all kinds of French things!

フランス達は池袋駅でフランス道が見つかった！いっぱいフランス店があった！！

It's so funny with Japanese people because when they do something they do it 110%! If you go into a store selling French bread for example, they're going to be playing French music, have French paintings on the walls and everybody working in the store are wearing French suits trying to live a French lifestyle and go visit France once in a while...

 

Then we went to a special French bar full of French people!! Hahaha the French people rule... They are in Tokyo for one week and find French things everywhere!!^^ Thanks to the bar owner Anthony(middle) for giving us free French wine!! 

Of course Erwan was wearing his tail, like everybody else in Tokyo right now. :P

Makes me think about my big blue tail which I loved so much but lost at the last Men's Egg Night at Atom. =(

 

A Japanese guy in the bar starting asking Erwan questions about his hair and styel so he had some Facebook pictures to show him!

This is actually Erwan's friends in Paris. The Japanese guy couldn't belive his eyes... He said things like: -"No this must be Tokyo!"

Then we had planned to go clubbing but they had problems with the ATM so we decided to go to their Hotel room and just chill.

On the way to the hotel I saw these people at the train station. The girl is from germany and had seen me at club Atom. I've been to much to Atom...

We bought something to drink at a Konbini(small convenient store in Japanese). The robot cat Doraemon and Minney was there greeting us! What a nice suprise!! Mickey would not be happy to see this picture! ;D Haha I'm soo boring... :P

I might sound crazy now, but another nice suprise was that the French people's toilet had some incredible light settings! =D So I just had to take some ego pictures... What I mean is that in some rooms you look bad when you look yourself in the mirror and in some rooms you don't look as bad, depending on the light settings.

Thumbs up for hotel bathrooms with great light settings! Agepoyo!!↑ ↑

After abusing their bathroom I fell asleep while they watched the Anime Great Teacher Onizuka.

Erwan and Mathylda went home to France today but they said that they would not be able to be there for long until they have to come back here! Merci!!

On Erwan's Facebook status it said: "Back to Reality".

I'm not going back to reality! That's for sure!! ;D

Street Snap of the Day 今日のストリートスナップ #5

In today's edition of "Street Snap of the Day" there's a lot of different styles...
Tokyo is pure dream for Fashion Fanatics!! My camera's battery keep running out...

今日、色んなファッション系が入ってる。
東京のおしゃれは多過ぎる！！！ 私のカメラのバッテリーは全然足りない！

One of the guys got spikes on his head, and the other one got his spikes on the back...

The more I look at the guy with the back pack, I find more and more similarities with Bower from the Super Mario games.

I want that back pack sooo bad...

Super Mario was nowhere to be seen though, maybe he was hanging out in the Super Mario Bar in Tokyo.
I heard they have a real goat there too!! ^^

Talking about spikes...

Nice Korean guy I met six in the morning.
Tokyo never sleeps so anytime is good for photo-hunting here!

In school Joel and Sofia was dressed in black and white!
I don't think it was planned, so that makes it even cooler!! =D
They are also from Sweden like me. Soo many Swedish people in our school!

Met the Egg-model couple Abebe-ken(right) and Aa-chan(left) in Shibuya.


Want every single thing that Abebe-ken is wearing!
He's so smartly dressed I think.


I think they are married or at least engaged now.


They look so good together!^^

To the right is a picture from an article about their love in the Egg magazine.




Aa-chan has a twin that looks almost exactly the same as her by the way.

 

Three cool people I met in Korea town. The guy to the right look like a Korean boyband-star I think. They usually have that kind of hair cut.

The girl in the middle are using sunglasses without glasses in them. They are super popular right now.


The third girl's pink leopard hood with that bag, and not to mention the hanging bear, looks cool together!


一番右の男性は韓国アイドルみたいだと思う。ヘアスタイルとか。
となりの女性の掛けている眼鏡は今めちゃ人気だね。ポイントはグラスが入っていない。

一番左の女性のコーディネートが超カラフル！(^_^)
三人の優しいおしゃれ！！↑ ↑



Next time on "Street Snap of the Day" there will be some very strange ones...
今度の「今日のストリートスナップ」でとても変なコーディネトが出るよ! 

Street Snap of the Day 今日のストリートスナップ #4

I was going to meet some people in front of Studio ALTA in Shinjuku
when we saw this girl walking around in circles, looking very scared of the world.

She didn't say anything when I asked her about taking a picture. Just nodded her head to show it was ok. Then she continued to walk in circles again...

When I meet this kind of special people, I feel like watching a movie about their life. Somebody please make that movie now, or I will have to do it!! ;D

The Studio ALTA area on the picture. ALTA is, together with Hachiko I mentioned in the last blog entry, the most common meeting point in Tokyo.

ALTA is very close to Shinjuku station which is the world's most populated train station! It has lots of department centers, restaurants, way too many train- and subway lines and a singing icecream bar!! You could seriously spend years only in this station without getting bored... 

On the picture is my english friend Kristian, who used to work as a Host, and his girlfriend. Now he works as a English teacher and also in a "Butler-Cafe".

To the right, a small part of the gigantic Shinjuku station. 

Every day 3 398 006 people walk inside this station!!!! That's almost 3,4 million people!!!! :O

I know it's a lot of people there, but I didn't know it was that many before I checked Wikipedia today...

The picture on the building comes from one of the most popular Anime series in Japan ever. Neon Genesis Evangelion.


It is known for making you crazy, if you watch it too much. :/












Just watch the Opening Song from it, and you will understand why :P




Don't watch it too much!! One time is Agepoyo↑ ↑, but more than that is Sagepoyo!!↓↓

Egg Models Everywhere!! どこでもエッグモデル！！

Three french Gyaru contacted me on facebook and we decided to meet in Shibuya.
I had no idea that it was going to be a really crazy day and meet about 10 super famous Egg models...

3人のフランス人ギャルはFacebookで私を連絡した。Facebookは日本以外のみたいなコミュ。
渋谷で会うと決めた。今日、10人の有名なエッグモデルは偶然で会った！！ビックリ！！

 

Today's outfit. T-shirt from ZARA in Roppongi Hills. Pants from Vice Fairy in Shibuya 109-2.

今日のコーディネート。シャツは六本木ヒルスのZARA。パンツはShibuya109-2のVice Fairy。

The blue sunglass key chain is from Daisy in Shibuya 109-2 and the wallet is a gift from Leon. And the socks... ;D

青いめがねキーシェインはShibuya 109のDaisy。財布はレオンからもらったギフト。

I went to Hachiko to meet the three gyarus from France. Hachiko is the most famous meeting point in Tokyo. 

While I was waiting I started talking with Priyanka on the photo which turned out to speak fluent english because she had been living in America. I was sooo suprised when I heard she was not only fluent, but had an american accent...  First time I meet a gyaru that speak fluent English.

She really looks like a Hollywood-star with that "StarBucks-looking" coffe cup.
Priyanka is half Japanese and half Indian. She was actually scouting for Hosts
around Hachiko, but said that it was a lot of other people doing the same thing so it wasn't very easy.


While we were talking, the most famous Gyaru-O right now, Tanaka Daichi came walking by...

     He is on almost every picture in Shibuya 109-2 and everybody are just crazy about him.
He was wearing black glasses to not get recongnized... but I guess he was not succesful since everybody wanted a picture with him! ;D 


I met him once before at the Men's Egg Night Party in Club Atom and he said that he remembered me. Seems like a really nice person!

Priyanka thought he was really good looking but she already know a regular guy that looks like him so she don't need him. ;)

Tanaka Daichi on the latest Men's Egg Magazine. He was on last months cover too... The text on the cover is pretty funny by the way...
モテるための答えがココにあるッ！！= Moteru Tame No Kotae ga Koko ni Aru =
"We got the answers on how to get popular!!"

Then the three french Gyaru came, and also some other Swedish and Japanese friends joined.

And then it was time to meet Egg model number 2... Genpon!! (Middle of picture)

It was pretty fun because just before I went to Shibuya I read on his Mixi that he was starting to work extra at inviting people to an Izakaya and then I meet him doing that 1 hour later. And of course he wanted us to come to his Izakaya, and it looked like a really nice place so I wanted to go. Izakaya is a mix of Bar/Restaurant that is very common in Japan.

But before that I wanted to bring the french people to meet Jenny who is the only non-Japanese person working at Shibuya 109 and actually french too. I said we would come back, but our Japanese friends said his place was too expensive so we ended up going to another Izakaya. Later I saw he had sent me a message on Mixi saying that he was waiting for us, so I got pretty bad conciousness for that. :(

Genpon, that we just met, to the right, and Naokyun to the left who we were going to meet later this evening and have a pretty interesting conversation with...

Before going to the Izakaya, Me and the french people went to Burger King.

Rémy to the left is living in Japan studying Japanese and Mathylda and Erwan are here visiting him. All three of them were really cool and super nice!
I'm so happy they sent me a message on Facebook and wanted to meet!! ^^

Burger King was packed with gyarus and a lot of people started staring at us when we came in, one girl even stood up and started waving at us. I guess since it's still so rare to see foreigners in gyaru style.

Then we were going to meet the others at an Izakaya.
On the way to the Izakaya we saw Takkezou,

one of the most popular Mens Egg Youth Models now and my friend Masshu's "nakama"/"homie". 


He was so suprised that foreigners recognized him and that we had gyaru-style. He said -"sugoi!! sugoi!! sugoi!!"(cool, great, awesome) all the time and stared at everybody.

He asked where everybody was from and said he heard that Gyaru-style are getting popular outside Japan too recently. His girlfriend(to the left) looked like a barbie doll.

 Takkezou on the cover of Men's Egg Youth. Love both of the model's hair styles on this picture. This was actually the picture I showed to tell my hair stylist what color on my hair I wanted.

Everybody together at the Izakaya. You order food and drinks from the hand-held screens like the one I'm holding. High-Tech Izakaya!! =D

The french people were really suprised that Amadeus(cool guy in the back with long hair) could speak good french with them. They didn't know he can not only speak Swedish, Japanese, English(with a very brittish accent) and French but also Latin!! Creds!

His father came up with the two most famous commercials ever in Sweden. 
"Ipren-mannen" and "Behöver du hjälp? Ring Poolia". More info about this guy later in the blog!!

Amadeus is a big fan of the "Imma firing mah Lazer!!!!" videos at Youtube.
Here you can see him fire his Zebra. Watch out!! :O

 

 
















Most people went home after the Izakaya but Leon joined the group and we took Purikura-pictures with Erwan, Remy and Mathylda. It was their first time so it was a lot of fun!! ^^

Here is a video of the editing part!!






The French language is soooo beautiful!! ^^
And Leon is just too funny... Just seeing his smile makes me laugh!! :D
レオン、楽しい人！！

Then we were going to Karaoke but on the way I saw Naokyun(to the left) and Shouya(to the right) and their friend Bataason which is not in this picture.
Shouya is the guy Im standing next to in the Blog banner by the way.

Shouya and Bataason screamed "Hey Rikku!!"(My Japanese nickname) when they saw me and High Five me but Naokyun just stood there quiet and didn't say anything. Then I tried to shake hands with him but he just kept being quiet staring at me with a scary look. Like some kinda joke I hope ;D

Then he say: -"Do you remember me??"

Me: -Yes of course!! Are you going to Double Heart next week?? 
(Double Heart is a "secret" club event for Egg-models and people working in Shibuya 109)

Shouya: -Yeeesssssss!!!!!
Naokyun: -Yes next week my friend Akki have a special party there so I will go.

Me: -Oh I look forward to it!! Are you still working as a Host, Naokyun?

Naokyun: -No I quit. ...eh wait, how did you know I worked as a Host!!???? 

Me: -Masshu told me. He said he used to work as a Host too, long ago.


Naokyun: -Hahahahahaha... Masshu....


Me: -He said the salary is really high, is that true?


Naokyun: -Nah.. it's not that high.

*Then Naokyun pulls up my wallet all of a sudden from my pocket and opens it and starts to look if I have any money, but it's empty!! XD*


Naokyun: -What!? You don't have any money here..


Me: I have money on the card..


I know Shouya likes Anime a lot so I ask if Naokyun does it too.

Naokyun: No I don't watch Anime, I like to watch soccer.


Me: Ah, do you know Zlatan Ibrahimovic? (Swedens most famous soccer player)


Naokyun: Yes I know him!




This picture was taken at the last Men's Egg Youth Party where Naokyun was one of the biggest stars. Even though he just need to walk around in a club and all the girls scream hysterically and almost pass out, he allways seem a bit depressed. Very interesting but mysterious personality...

Some gyarus walk by and Naokyun say something to them, and I ask:
-"Are you going to look for some girls?"

Naokyun: No I don't need to look for girls, they come up to me.

It sounds like he is bragging but it's true. Everytime I talk to him in club Atom lots of girls come up to him and start whisper things in his ear or want to introduce friends to him. Or sometimes the model agent comes up, and says that he need to go back to the main table and sit there to make the club look good, I think.

It's so funny because Naokyun and Shouya are almost allways together. Shouya is allways super happy and Naokyun allways seem to be down.

I ask him: -What's your dream for the future?


Naokyun: -I don't have one. Life is boring.


Me: ...

Three gyaru girls come out from the store they are standing next to and say that they are drunk.
Then they walk away with Shouya and Naokyun.


I just turn my head and then see Yuunyan and Chiibo come walking down the street. Yuunyan works at Daisy in Shibuya 109-2 and are Masshu's best friend.
He starts waving to me and are really nice as allways.


I say that it's Egg-models everywhere today and ask if Masshu's eye is okey now. He says that it's fully recovered.
(Masshu used color contact lenses too much so he had to go to the hospital for his eye)

Masshu is to the left on the picture and Yuunyan to the right. In the background you can see some of their fans that come visit them in their store Daisy in Shibuya 109-2.


I ask some people that walk by if they could take a photo of us but a lot of people ignore me or say "Dame!" which means "No no no!!!"


-"Hahah I get ignored" I say.


Yuunyan: -"They are so cold."


And I agree, sometimes Japanese people are really cold. But most of the people you ask about things are very helpful and nice. And I can understand that some people become cold by living in the Japanese society and working so extremley much as everybody does here. And on top of that lots of pressure.

Finally we get our picture, and Yuunyan says that he and Masshu will be working at Daisy tomorrow so he asks us to come visit if we have time.


Yuunyan allways takes time to talk with you even if he has 20 fans standing waiting for him and just seem like a super nice positive person!! ^^

He is also the inventor of the word "Agepon" which become more and more popular in the gyaru world now. 
 
"Agepon" has the same meaning as "Agepoyo" but if you use it, you probably like Yuunyan and Daisy. 


The famous store CocoLulu in Shibuya 109 also have it's own "Agepoyo-word": "AgeLulu"... =D

When Yuunyan is not modeling or working at Daisy, he saves girls from big scary bugs!! Go Yuunyan!!! Agepon!!!!!  超アゲポン!!

Then we finish the day with singing some Karaoke. We also meet Masshu there who shows his eye, which is ok now.
Our french friends don't read so much Kanji (Chinese characters used in Japanese) but they can sing Japanese songs anyway because they remember them so well!! Amazing! :)

 

I also see a girl with different colors on her shoes and a big tail.Tokyo is soo full of cool, strange, intresting and fun people!! AGEPOYO!!!↑ ↑ 

AGEPON!!!!!!! ↑ ↑↑ ↑↑ ↑   (^_^)