By Chevaun Jackson
The hair and makeup at Tokyo Fashion Week was as diverse as the designers. However, the hair had more variety than the makeup. When it came to the models’ faces, designers either opted for the lips of the models to be a dramatic dark red with simplistic makeup for the rest of the face, or they kept the entire face simple, with a more natural look with blushes, roses—pink based foundations and lips—and natural eyes.
At Fur Fur, designer Aya Furuhashi showed a collection of deconstructed Victorian-style pieces. The hair was large and teased when it could be seen through the lace and ruffle back bustles, and not forced beneath rope and large styled hats. The make up emphasized with the used of hearts, shapes and seeming scars with black eyeliner across eyes and cheeks—giving it some pirate-chic; everyone had dark red lips.
Mint Designs kept the hair slicked down and pulled back into a single French twist due to their use of stylized, artistic, somewhat modern art and architectural head accents—hats and veils.
Aguri Sagimori stayed true to his dark themes and produced a nearly all-black collection. In keeping with the dark and sinister, somewhat assassin look, the hair was slick and pulled back into low ponytails. The lips and face appeared washed and nude, but the eyes had small accents—dark wings, smoky eye lids—which added to the intensity of the collection.
At Tiny Dinosaur everything seemed whimsical and ethereal. The makeup was scarce. The hair was either straight or had slight waves. All the models seemed light like forest nymphs.
Designers Hiroyuki Horihata and Makiko Sekiguchi of Matohu once again brought fresh, modern twists to traditional Japanese silhouettes and design motifs, including hair where they returned to the solid black bob, every now and then mixing it up with some asymmetry, though no side fell past the jaw bone. The make up was simplistic and natural.
Mikio Sakabe and wife Shueh Jen-Fang executed a macabre reinterpretation of heavy metal bands in their collection and their makeup and hair reflected early 90s grunge with dark black-lined eyes that set off pale, plain faces. The hair had a dark, wet, heavy, slightly dirty look to it as it was generally parted down the middle and hung naturally.