In Japan we start applying from the makeup base.
The hair of foreigners from Asian countries are harder to bleach.
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We met a makeup artist and a hair stylist
and they could tell us the difference between dealing with foreign customers...
and Japanese customers. It's quite interesting what they said...
so we turned this into a special video. So let's go and find out what they got to say
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Let's start.
I work in the makeup industry.
Is there a difference between foreign and Japanese makeup.
Their facial features are different.
The way they are made is different.
The hair thickness is different too.
When I went to France, I went to a specialized school.
There I had the chance to apply makeup to foreigner's faces.
The way we apply makeup would actually be painful for them.
The strength we can use as artists, has to be different for foreigners.
Japanese people create their makeup, starting from the base makeup.
Foreign makeup starts from making makeup parts.
Their nose and eyes are more defined than ours...
That's why the order is different too maybe.
What do you mean with "create makeup from parts".
How do I describe it?
Start from the eye makeup or start from the lipstick.
Japanese and others generally start from the makeup foundation base.
And then we layer up from the bottom to the top.
There doesn't seem to be a general set procedure.
As hair stylist, is there a difference between foreign and Japanese hair.
It's harder to bleach the hair of asian foreigners.
They have a different amount of cuticles so it doesn't dye well.
Chinese hair is really thick and strong.
If I use the same things that I use for Japanese customers it won't get as bright.
If I use the same on other asian customers it only gets half as bright.
Won't western hair get too bright then?
Western customers get really nice hair when you just add color to it.
Just bleaching is often enough. Japanese people need to bleach and then add color.
Westerners hair looks good just by bleaching. It gets brighter easily.T
Those were all our questions. Thank you so much.
Doing makeup in parts is different and also the type of hair.
The one thing that I can tell you... I once went to get my hair done here,
just adding highlights, colorful strands, "don't make it blonde, I don't want to have too much a change."
I just wanted to have a couple of light strands in there.
What happened, the guy put on the bleach, walked off. I know how long bleach usually takes for me
and he wouldn't come back and I thought, maybe he used something else...
And the alarm went off, and he still took a lot of time. Then he came slowly over,
a couple of minutes after the alarm went off,
and I can see his face behind me in the mirror going "!!!!".
And I was bleach blonde after that.
even thought I told him "please don't make me blonde"
Bleach blonde completely. I am not sure why he never made highlights,
I was just all blonde. I think he wasn't prepared for my hair being a lot thinner.
than the average Japanese's persons hair.
When you go to your hair dresser in Japan, always check with them if they had foreign customers before
so they know how to deal with your hair. My person said he did...
turned out he didn't. He apologized at the end and said "next time you come we can bleach it darker."
I didn't come again.
My current hairdresser is really good. Helps me a lot, touches up my roots pretty good
if you go to a hair dressers be sure to ask your friends for a good recommendation.
Hope this helped you guys when you come to Japan.
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