2/24/2012

‘We cut heads’ in Harajuku

Reminiscent of one of my favorite bits of film by Spike Lee, Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads* is today’s Tokyo street scene photo from TokyoFashion.com’s twitter showing the grim aftermath of beginning beauty school students.

Via TokyoFashion
Please view the full-size, hi-rez, photo of “Bags of Heads, Harajuku” on TokyoFashion’s flickr.

The 3Yen has covered photos of Japanese mannequin heads many times before. By by law, Japanese beauty school students must practice on mannequin heads before attempting to cut a person’s hair—The huge number dummy heads being thrown out for every new class of students results in a lot of creative “repurposing” of creepy heads in Japan such as:

. . . • We Cut Heads
. . . . . (3Yen / 2011-04-20) →
. . . • Haircut heads turn into ‘grow heads’
. . . . . (3Yen / 2011-02-03)
. . . • Let’s ‘kakashi’ — Japanese scarecrow!
. . . . . (3Yen / 2007-08-16) ↓
..

Posted by Taro in Arts/Culture, General, Japanese fashion victims | 4 Comments »

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4 Responses to “‘We cut heads’ in Harajuku”

1. fapgaijinfap Says:
   February 24th, 2012 at 1:08 pm

   Is it wrong that this gave me a boner?

2. Taro Says:
   February 24th, 2012 at 1:17 pm

   fapgaijinfap wrote:
   Is it wrong that this gave me a boner?

   It can’t be helped in “sticky” situations like this…

   
   via (cartoon by Politicomix, January 12, 2011)

3. Anaïs Nin Says:
   July 27th, 2012 at 8:35 pm

   I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

   

4. Jake Adelstein (@jakeadelstein) on twitter.com Says:
   May 12th, 2013 at 10:24 pm

   散髪 (さんぱつ）means hair cut in Japanese but it has been replaced with ヘアカット (HE-AH-KATTO). I told someone「散髪に行く」and their reaction 「原発？」— Jake Adelstein (@jakeadelstein) May 12, 2013

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