How to Put Makeup on Like a Yamanba!

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This how-to gives you step-by-step directions for creating the yamanba makeup and hair style. It also includes style tips!

Steps

1. Start out with a plain, clean face. Make sure it's not oily or dirty.
   
2. Change the colour of your eyes with bright-coloured contact lenses. This is optional, but it's highly recommended to give you that extra manba edge.
   
3. If you already have a nice, deep tan, proceed to the next step. If not, apply a layer or two (as many as necessary) of dark foundation to create a skin tone 2 or 3 shades darker than your current skin colour. Make sure you don't use TOO many layers, though, or you could look cakey. Cover your eyebrows with foundation so that they don't show.
   
4. Draw on some eyebrows. Make sure they don't look messy.
   
5. Using white eyeliner or concealer (concealer usually works best) paint around around your eyes.(circles used to be popular, but now it more shapely: the shapes can be elongated like stretched out ovals[down the cheeks}, or high up without a droopy lid) Their outer limits should hit your eyebrow arch to the middle of your nose.
   
6. Cover your eyelids with a layer of black eyeliner or eyeshadow.
   
7. Draw in any eye shape you would like using black eyeliner, make sure its thick!)
   
8. Apply fake eyelashes, using your eye lines as guides, or for droopy eye affect, draw nice lashes to lid drawn on cheek.
   
9. Highlight your nose in white eyeshado or consealor. Use a picture as a guide.
   
10. Paint your lips in white, using white concealer or eyeliner.
    
11. Apply pearly white shadow or blush (if you have white blush) on your cheeks.
    
12. For the final touch,dont add colourful stickers to your cheeks, this is outdated, and elitis at some places would laugh at you or make you cry. but, if you are an odd person, you can do that, but not too much!
    
13. HAIR
    
14. Tease the top layers, leaving the bottom layers thin and long.
    
15. Hairspray it so it stays put.
    
16. Add in some colourful clip-in extensions or big flowers for an extra manba touch, or even stitch like ears!
    
17. for manba, bright colours for hair, banba, natural to maybe neony colours
    

Tips

• Carry along your makeup and hair supplies in a discreet tote bag so you can touch up now and then.
  
• Alba Rosa is one of the most symbolic manba brands. They don't really sell their manba stuff anymore, but you can probably find it on auctions/eBay here and there.
  
• Manbas usually have deep tans. If you're not already tan, you can get a tan at a tanning salon/at the beach, or if you're scared of the UV damage, try a fake tan product, like Jergens Natural Glow lotion.
  
• Manbas also usually have dyed hair in colours like blonde, pink, silver, blue, basically any unnatural colour. If you're scared of hair damage, try a wig.\
  
• Do a Google search for "yamanba". You'll find tons of pictures and references for inspiration. There are also many Livejournal communities dedicated to manba styles. The members of the communities would be glad to give you advice.
  

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Sources and Citations

• "Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno: Tokyo Teen Fashion Subculture Handbook" by Patrick Macias and Izumi Evers (outdated info)
  
• Gal International freewebsite (most recent info)
  

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