In pictures: The beauty routines of Tokyo’s Gyaru and Otaku girls
‘The thicker my lashes are, the more they feel like guardian spirits’: Photographer Alexandra Waespi steps inside the bedrooms of Japan’s subcultural youth to capture their maximalist beauty looks

Photographer Alexandra Waespi’s project began as a trip to Tokyo to meet the city’s nail artists, a community at the centre of some of its most expressive beauty cultures. Once there, she found that the scene extended far beyond nail art, and began documenting the young creatives around it. The series moveshellip;
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