My friend Pepino (cucumber) and Micaela are participating in the second video contest organized by Korean company Lotte in where they dance to promote the chewing gum brand Fit’s.
The contest will run until the 16th of November at 16:59 (Japan time), and the results will be online the 20th. The more times you see the video the better! You can also share the video in your blog, in your Twitter, Facebook… to help them win.
On this occasion, instead of Sailor Moon make-up, I came across this cool video showing the whole process that a Geisha goes through when putting on make-up. Geishas and maikos have been putting on make-up the same way for over four hundred years. However not only geishas take make-up so seriously; the make-up culture is really instilled into Japanese society. In fact, it is very difficult to see a woman without make-up on the streets of Japanese cities. Make-up is also present in many Japanese historic novels, like for example Mushashi Miyamoto (which takes place at the end of XVI century), where I can recall many passages that illustrate woman putting on make-up.
The video gets interesting at about 3:30
Geisha without make-up.
The same woman after putting on make-up!
Which one do you prefer? the first version before putting on make-up or the second one after doing it?
One of my favorite ramen restaurant in Shijuku is Kamukura (exact location in Google Maps). The other day, at the entrance of the restaurant, I bumped into this photo of Wentworth Miller, the actor that plays Michael Scofield in Prison Break. I asked one of the cooks about it and he told me that Wentworth Miller had just been eating ramen in the restaurant the day before. I wonder if after being for so long on the run he finally ended up in Japan… π
