Himegyaru often wore hairstyles with bangs, so some girls didn't place much importance on the finish of their eyebrows because they could cover it up with bangs!
What is Himegyaru makeup?
- Base makeup is matte porcelain skin
- Apply a deep bluish pink color to your cheeks.
- Eyebrows are thin and thin (lose their presence)
- Make your nose look taller with nose shadow/highlight
- Color contact lenses have a large diameter
- False eyelashes and colored contact lenses are important for eye makeup!
- Lips are shiny pink
Base makeup
When it comes to base makeup, "matte skin" is the norm.
After applying foundation all over her face and smoothing it out with a sponge, she created a doll-like porcelain skin.
Popular foundations are
- MAC Studio Fix
- RMK Creamy Foundation
- Revlon Color Stay Makeup
Popular face powder
- Chacot finishing powder clear
- Palgantong Theatrical Powder
- MAC Select Sheer Loose
- CHANEL Poudre Universelive
White skin is absolutely essential!
Some gals even ignored their own skin color and chose the lightest skin tone when choosing foundation!
Unlike today's natural-oriented world, base makeup needed to be applied thickly.
Cheek makeup
Pink cheeks are popular among Himegyaru!
Even among pinks, pinks with a bluish tone are popular.
In particular, Candy Doll's strawberry pink blush, a cosmetic produced by charismatic gal Tsubasa Masuwaka, was an item that many gals loved!
Back then, the darker the cheek, the better! The key was to apply it generously using a brush.
Eyebrow makeup
Parallel or slightly curved eyebrows are popular!
List of items commonly used when drawing eyebrows
- Bibo Eyeful Mayuzumi light brown
- KATE Designing eyebrow N EX-4
- KISSME Heavy Rotation Colored Eyebrow
The key was to keep the eyebrows thin and thin to emphasize the eyes.
First, draw your eyebrows thinly with a pencil or powder type, and then erase the color of your eyebrows with a coloring eyebrow to complete your look.
At that time, thin eyebrows were the norm, so there were many gals who shaved their eyebrows or bleached them.
As a result, the position of her eyebrows was sometimes different every time she applied makeup...lol
Nose shadow & Highlight
Once the eyebrows are completed, next we will add nose shadow and highlights to the nose.
The popular nose shadow
- KATE Designing eyebrow 3D EX-4 light brown
Popular highlights are
- Canmake Highlighter 01
- DiamondLash highlight №5 creamy pearl
- Daiso Hanataka Powder
First, use eyebrow powder to apply nose shadow from the inner corner of the eyebrow to the inner corner of the eye to the side of the nostril. Too much! I'm going to add it as thickly as I can think of.
Next, add highlights from the bridge of your nose to the tip of your nose to complete your look.
Applying highlights and lowlights made the nose look taller, so it was an essential process for Himegyaru at the time.
Color contact lenses
Colored contact lenses with large diameters, such as the "Candy Magic KING Series" and the "Rodeo Pinky Devil Series," were popular.
The colors of colored contact lenses were classic brown and pink, and colored contact lenses with good color were preferred.
Eye makeup
The most important part of Himegyaru makeup was the eye makeup.
Makeup that made the eyes look bigger was popular, and was called "big eye makeup" or "plastic surgery-level fraud makeup."
False eyelashes and colored contact lenses are indispensable for such "big eye makeup"!
Choose colored contact lenses with a large diameter to make the iris look bigger! It was said.
I was also able to disguise the size of my eyes by applying fluffy false eyelashes on the top and bottom.
Lip makeup
The lip color that was popular among Himegyaru was pink.
Before 2010, Himegyaru had light pink lips, and after 2010, Himegyaru had dark pink lips or gloss to give them glossy, plump lips.
With or without lipstick, the appearance changes completely! It was said that lip makeup was an essential process for Himegyaru.
Eye makeup procedure for Himegyaru
This time, we will introduce the makeup of A-chan, who was a princess-type gal around 2011.
Widen double width
In those days, wide parallel double eyelids is trending!
This was an important process for creating large eyes, so both single-sized children and those who originally had double-fold eyes used techniques such as mesaic to widen their double-fold width.
Apply eye shadow
Brown eyeshadow is the standard color.
What princess gals often used around 2010 was
- Kate brown eyeshadow (Example, Gradical Eyes)
- Dolly Wink Eyeshadow II 01 Brown
- MAC small eyeshadow
Basically, I used 2 to 3 colors to create a gradation.
First, apply the lightest brown of the three colors to the entire eyehole, and then apply a medium brown to about half of the eyehole (double width). Finally, apply a thin layer of dark brown to create a gradation.
The key is to use a dark color throughout to make the eye tape as inconspicuous as possible!
Draw a double line using a dark shadow on the double width (the part where the eye tape is applied).
The double line was essential because it makes it look more clearly double!
Emphasize the eye bags
In recent years, plump tear bag makeup has become mainstream, but back then, there wasn't that much focus on eye bag.
Therefore, added glitter to the inner corner of the eye to make it sparkle and it was completed.
Draw eyeliner
The most important thing I considered when choosing eyeliner was that it was waterproof!
List of popular eyeliners
- K-Palette
- Love liner
- Dolly wink
- How to draw eyeliner back then -
① Draw the upper eyeliner along the shape of your eyes and draw it longer than the outer corner of your eye so that it droops.
② Draw the lower eyeliner along the shape of the eye from the inner corner of the eye to the bottom of the eyelid, and from the bottom of the eye, gradually ignore the shape of the eye and overdraw it.
Finally, connect it with the eyeliner above.
Basically ignore the eye shape! It was standard practice to draw an overline to make the eyes appear larger.
③ Once you are able to draw the eyelids firmly around the top and bottom, fill in the gap at the outer corner of the eye with black eyeshadow.
④Finally, make the incision line firmly at the inner corner of the eye and apply the mucous membrane to complete the process.
Rather than making the entire mucous membrane black, darkening only the area under the eye had the effect of making the pupils larger.
Raise your eyelashes with a curler and apply mascara
Buhler is available in different stores, including 100 yen, Donki, and Shiseido.
List of popular mascara
- Maybelline Turbo Boost
- Maybelline Magnum Waterproof
- Dejavu fiber wig
Before applying false eyelashes, raise your natural eyelashes with an eyelash curler and apply mascara.
If your natural eyelashes recede over time, they will separate from your false eyelashes and become less blendable, so it was important to apply not only eyelash curlers but also mascara.
Attach false eyelashes up and down
False eyelashes that look bunched up are a trend, and it was customary to customize them to match the length of your eyeliner.
A-chan's recommended customization is a combination of Eyemazing 001 produced by Jun Komori and Diamond Rush's cat's eye.
The lower false eyelashes, I added Dolly Wink number 005 along the bottom line, or cut out "Nature is lovely S-2" or "Diamond Rush sweet eye" and glued them at intervals.
The adhesive used to apply false eyelashes is "D-UP Eyelash Fixer EX 552" or Eye Petit.
Many of the adhesives that came with false eyelashes had weak adhesive strength and easily peeled off, so many gals had to prepare them separately.
Customizing several types of false eyelashes to create original false eyelashes that suit your eyes is a technique that was introduced in newspapers such as Koakuma Ageha! Many gals bought many different types of makeup at Donki, SBY, etc. and researched makeup at home!
“Himegyaru”, which have been on the rise since around 2006, are a fashion that was also worn by charismatic gal model Tsubasa Masuwaka.
The main theme of Himegyaru makeup was pink, and many girls used bright pink for their cheeks and lips.
Additionally, there are many children who are very particular about having “big eyes,” so they customize their false eyelashes to suit their own style.
Himegyaru had white porcelain skin and a dolly make-up that made her look like a French doll.
