JKの流行り (JK no Hayari) – Trend in Japanese high school girls

Posted byayamochiPosted inCulture, May

19th May – 皐月

JK stands for 女子高校生 (Joshi Koukousei), which means high school girls. They are very conscious about the latest trend and even create the new cultures / trends.

In addition, JS is the abbreviation of 女子小学生 (Joshi Shougakusei) = Elementary school girls, JC stands for 女子中学生 (Joshi Chuugakusei)= Junior high school girls, JD as 女子大学生 (Joshi Daigakusei)=University female students.

One Japanese Marketing company did a research about the JK’s coming new trends for 2020. Here are some of the predictions:

-チャイボーグ (Chaibo-gu)

After the huge trend on Korean style makeup オルチャンメイク (Oruchan Meiku) among JK, now another makeup style is called チャイボーグ (Chaibo-gu) – this is the combined words of Chinese and cyborg, meaning of the perfect beautiful Chinese lady style. Since the late 2019, the how-to videos of チャイボーグ has been increased and many JK mimic the style.

-ピープス (Pi-pusu)

This has often used as a hashtag on Instagram, signify the new street fashion. This style is themed as ‘sick / illness’ and is called 病み系 (Yami kei) – Red lips and eye shadow, super white skin and wearing black clothes. Yami kei style use Yami retouching for photos, by using darker filters. For Instagram photos, there are many bright and happy color photos everywhere, however more and more ピープス style photos have posted by JK nowadays.

Published by ayamochi

I started my new project 'Little Japan Dictionary' for the purpose of spreading the Japanese culture to the world. My English could be a bit weird sometimes as I am still learning, also the information I provide here could be wrong and contain my own opinion. Therefore, I would like you to just chill and enjoy gaining some interesting knowledge from here without serious argument. Hope you like it, thank you!

7 thoughts on “JKの流行り (JK no Hayari) – Trend in Japanese high school girls”

  1. Reading this reminds me of my High-school days. Which I finished just one year ago.
    In Nepal there is strict dress codes (School Uniform) and any person who came with heavy makeups were often punished/ Restricted. Specially in elementary and high schools.
    So, Before buying expensive cosmetic products they had to think about the school authorities and their long big punishing sticks.

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    1. Sounds like very similar custom again! My school used to prohibit students to wear Make-ups so teachers strictly checked all students haha (even after school, teachers walked around the city to find students against rules). But you know many students in that age always want to repel adults!

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  2. In my country, this was very different. That’s why i’m happy to learn about Japanese culture too 🙂
    We had no restrictions concerning makeup and styles 😀

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    1. Sounds more free to live in your country! Japanese schools have too much rules that’s why many students want to bite back the teachers I think… I hope you enjoyed reading my blog:)

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