Interesting makeup on a young woman in Tokyo's Shibuya district. Link
Reader comment:
Liz Coster says:
This isn't a panda, but a Yamanba lady!
From wikipedia:
Yamanba (ヤマンバ?) sometimes written as "yamamba", is a fashion trend among Japanese young women. Starting with the bleached white hair and heavy tan of the ganguro girl, the yamanba adds white lipstick, white eye makeup, and sometimes brightly colored contacts, plastic clothing, and inappropriate accessories. Some yamanba wear stuffed animals as decorations, talk with a slurred speech, and enjoy shiny neon or dayglo colors. Some say that the result is a caricature of a blond Caucasian woman. The male equivalents are called "Center Guys".
The term yamanba comes from a mountain hag, known as Yama-uba, whom the fashion is thought to resemble.
