I changeย myย hairstyleย just about as often as peopleย change their clothes. I visit the salon just about every month and I always change things up. Over the years, Iโve had everything from long mermaid hair to ear-length bob with a high undercut toย shaggy mullet layers with bangs โ itโs currently a boyish crop.
I always get lots of questions (in real life and online) about hair: which salon or hairstylist do I go to? How do I ask for this haircut? Where do you find hairstyle ideas?ย I have a few friends who are hairstylists, so I โrotateโ between them, and honestly, I wouldnโt be able to really describe most of the cuts.ย I usually bring pictures of hair that Iโve been really liking to give them a general direction, but I do give free rein. Unless youโre truly open to anything, I wouldnโt suggest this approach.
I used to do a lot of hair modelling jobs for Japanese print hair catalogues/magazines โ before smartphones and social media, they were the only accessible source where you can find a wide of rangeย hairstyles for ideas. As a beauty-obsessed girl who loves looking at everything from pretty hair pictures to ingredients in products, Iโm glad I have aย plethora of information available at my fingertips now!
Here are my personal most-visited hairstyle sites:
HOT PEPPER Beauty
Itโs the top site in Japan for beauty-related services.ย Besides being able to search and book appointments, it has Japanโs most extensive hairstyles catalogue with new additions added daily! Itsย advanced search engine allows you to search byย keywords, gender,ย length, texture, softness, colour, overall image (e.g. girly), and face shape.
One thing to note is that its siteโs design is very typical โJapaneseโ. Itโs very information-dense withย high volumes of text-based content. If you arenโtย comfortable reading Japanese (or at least familiar with Japanese sites in general), it can be overwhelming. But itโs Japanโs most popular hairstyle site for a reason โ it has over 3.3 million hairstyles in its catalogue!
Beauty-Box
My second most-visited hairstyles website after Hot Pepperย Beauty. Its catalogue is nowhere as extensive and its search function is rudimentary, but that can be a good thing. Sometimes Iย just want to quickly find some styles that I like without having to click through page after page even after filtering the search results.
A lot of the hairstyles there are geared towards women and men in their 20sโ40s, so nothing particularly bold or experimental.ย Most styles, especially short ones, have photos that clearly show the front, side, and back.
Beauty navi
Beauty navi is specifically designed for viewing on aย mobile device. Its โnormalโ desktop site has a mobile layout so everything is unusually large, but very handy because its photos are by far the largest Iโve ever come across for Japaneseย hairstyles website!
Itโs particularly notable for its catalogue of very on-trend short hairstyles for women โ if you like bobs and boyish cuts, itโs well worth taking a look.
Rasysa
Rasysa is probably the most well-known among non-Japanese since it has been around since 1999! Back in the day, it was the only website in Japan dedicated to hairstyles. To be honest, I seldom go on it now โ I really donโt like its search function and I prefer the other sites mentioned โ but I have spent many hours on it in the past.
That being said, itโs a terrific site if you justย want to look at tons of hair photos and you donโt know Japanese. Its photos are bigger and it has lessย densely packed text โ navigation isnโt an issue even if you run it through Google Translate.
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