Japanese Salon Boys

Fashion in Japan have many distinct style, from designer brand until to gyaru-o ("gal men"). Gyaru-o style, guys with the dyed-brown-haired Shibuya "gals" who dress in tight T-shirts and ripped jeans. There are also the sporty "street style" men who favor sweats and sneakers. From the street fashion becoming "salon boys", where you can meet professional or apprentice hair stylists in their late teens and twenties. Their major turf is Harajuku, Tokyo's premier hair salon battleground. Known not only for sporting the very latest hairstyles, as one would expect of their profession, but also for mixing designer brands with vintage and second-hand clothes, they pay attention to the smallest items, including hats, glasses, belts and shoes. The Roots is one Salon Boys, started at 1999 in TV Series Scissors League, tell about chronicled the lives of artistically and technically gifted hair stylists. The series is credited with setting off the craze for so-called charisma hairdressers, who became regular fixtures on TV and in magazines not only for their hair styling skills but also for their choices of fashion, cars, bikes, and interior design. The exposure of their charismatic figures also turned hair styling into a popular career choice for young men.
Although this craze has gone down, the salon boys have remained an object of emulation for many young men, in part thanks to the launch in 2002 of the magazine CHOKi CHOKi ("Snip Snip"), which features real-life hair stylists as models. Today, the term salon style refers to professional and apprentice hair stylists' fashion and to those who have adopted their style.Source : www.web-japan.org