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🇯🇵 Guides of Japan

7 face guides from Japan, best known first.

Eyewear district Barber and beard culture Theatre and dance makeup Living tradition Style capital

Face places in Japan

Kyoto 1 Sabae Tokyo and the Kabuki-za

🇯🇵 Japan and 4 moreTeeth blackening A traditional custom of dyeing teeth black to signify adulthood and beauty.Makeup

🇯🇵 JapanKumadori Theatrical makeup for kabuki actors using coloured stripes to show character traits.Makeup

🇯🇵 JapanOhaguro A Japanese tradition of blackening teeth with iron and tannins.Makeup · 1000

🇯🇵 JapanOshiroi Traditional Japanese white face makeup for kabuki actors and geisha.Makeup · 1934

🇯🇵 JapanHikimayu A pre-modern Japanese practice of removing natural eyebrows and painting new ones on the forehead.Makeup

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Ohaguro: Utagawa Kunisada, Public domain, source
Kumadori: Unknown author, Public domain, source
Hikimayu: Unknown author, Public domain, source
Teeth blackening: momo, CC BY 2.0, source
Oshiroi: Conveyor Belt Sushi, CC BY 2.0, source

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