Japanese Hairstyles

Japanese Hairstyles posts cover both classical and modern styles. Articles look at the elaborate nihongami styles of Edo-period women with combs and lacquered hairpieces, the more recent geisha and maiko hairstyles that still use real hair and tortoiseshell ornaments, the Showa-era schoolboy crew cut, the modern salon styles like the wolf cut, the inner colour technique used by Tokyo students, and the careful precision of a typical Japanese barber’s straight-razor finish. There are also notes on the difference between a Japanese head spa treatment and a Western blow-dry bar, and on the long history of hair dye laws in schools.