I paid these girls a hundred yen a piece to take this shot one day while we were huddled for shelter against the rain. There's a thing in Japan where extreme styles take hold. One in the '90s was
ganguro, I think these are more likely the
manba or
yamanba styles of later times. These girls had taken it to the point of painting their contact lenses! Several people have told me they didn't believe this photo was real, but this is a culture where things like this happen.