Japanese Women Going for Long Lashes!

Working Women in Japan
Focusing on Their Eyes!

Boyé Lafayette De Mente

Back in the 1950s young Japanese women fell under the spell of American film and fashion magazines and many of them became entranced with the big “round” eyes of Caucasian movie stars and fashion models.

This led to a fad among some girls and women to have the epicanthic fold that gave their eyes a “slanted” appearance surgically removed so they would have “rounder” eyes.

As the decades went by this fad became a common practice among a growing number of girls and women, reducing the number of females with eyelids that left only a narrow slit for them to see though.

Now there is a new “eye phenomenon” in Japan that is giving girls and women a new look that is ostensibly designed to help them save time in getting ready to go to work in the morning, but is also having an impact on their impact on men.

This new phenomenon consists of having eyelash extensions made of silk or nylon attached to their natural eyelashes with a special kind of adhesive.

In one typical case, a girl who works in the famous Ginza shopping and entertainment district of Tokyo had 360 11mm extensions added to her eyelashes at a cost of $140.

The old saying that your eyes are the windows to your soul has taken on new dimensions with this new phenomenon, as big eyes and long eyelashes have a subliminal sexual influence on men.

When a girl or woman has both big eyes and long eyelashes and flutters the latter at a man it sends a powerful signal…!

Copyright © 2007 by Boyé Lafayette De Mente
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Boyé Lafayette De Mente is the author of more than 40 business, culture and language books on Japan, including The Sensual Side of Japan. To see a list and descriptions of his books go to http://www.phoenixbookspublishers.com/, or key his full name into Amazon.com’s book search window.