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  • You can't date the boy your friend likes.

  • Why do we get judged by our lip color so much?

  • I think girls should hang out with different people.

  • Girls have to stay in girl groups? - Yes.

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  • Japanese girls have to move in groups.

  • It's the thing to do? - Probably.

  • Also Japanese girls have to always watch their weight

  • But foreigners seem to be accepted for different body types. We envy that.

  • True, in the US there was a variety of body types. In Japan everyone is just slim. - True.

  • I envy that freedom. Because I am fat. - You are NOT

  • So your image is that...

  • Japanese are naturally skinny? - No we all work on it

  • If your friend likes a boy...

  • you can't try and date him. - Was a there a problem at school?

  • There was. I didn't get involved

  • but I watched it from the shadows.

  • What happened? Two girls one boy?

  • Love triangle? - yes and

  • The girls stopped talking to each other because of that.

  • I watched it and thought how scary girls can be.

  • Girl rivals.

  • Japanese girls spend a lot of money on beauty.

  • How much do you spend a month? - I used to...

  • You went a lot. - To Spas yes...

  • I did a lot... I think I spend $500 a month for beauty salons

  • Wow that's your sallary there.

  • Yeah I was jobbing ever day in order to afford it.

  • What did you spend those $500 on?

  • $200 for hair removal

  • and then $300 for the beauty salon

  • and then $200 for the beauty salon for my face.

  • Wait you're over $500. - I am ain't I?

  • I spend a lot. I stopped because it was too expensive to keep it up

  • How many month did you do that. - For one year.

  • What?? - I couldn't afford that

  • In school we weren't allowed to dye our hair

  • Even colored lip balm was forbidden. Since it was school I coudn't say anything

  • but still...

  • why do girls get judged so much by their lip color?

  • Your teachers tell you off for tinted lip balm? - Japanese schools are stricter than abroad

  • Teachers get angry

  • You couldn't dye your hair. Now you do. Why?

  • My high school was strict and we all had to have black hair

  • Now that I graduated and go to university

  • I suddenly get so much freedom, for my hair too

  • I always wanted to have colorful hair and admired it

  • That's why I did it. - What was your reason?

  • My reason is, that I am allowed to do it now.

  • I feel it changes a person's aura too

  • Certain makeup doesn't work with black hair

  • I can wear it now. I have more options now.

  • There is makeup that looks bad with black hair?

  • You look unrefined. - Mature

  • I prefer dying my hair

  • Girls are so shallow.

  • Girls praise each other too much. They just do it. I think they don't mean it

  • When a girl changes her hair... they like praise right?

  • I think so. But I think they praise each other too much

  • "Wow so cute" - Yeah stuff like that. Too much

  • I think that's too much. My opinion

  • I think they are taking it too far.

  • Girls aim too much to be liked on instagram - How so?

  • They go to cafes that taste bad but

  • that look good on insta. Then they give the food away without eating it

  • Will boys take pics and not eat it? - Never

  • You eat it? - We do. - When a girl gets angry...

  • Japanese girls drag it along for a long time.

  • They are angry a long time. Boys forget

  • the issue on the next day.

  • Japanese girls fighting with girls drag their fights out for a long time.

  • They won't talk for a month? - They won't talk again AT ALL

  • I saw that.

  • Girls create groups and stay in those for a whole year

  • I think they should hang out with different people too. - Girls stay

  • In groups cause they have to? - Yeah once you are friends

  • you have to stay in that group. Sounds boring

  • Thank you for answering

  • Japanese girls have the pressure to always move in groups

  • They don't naturally look that skinny, they have to diet. Can't date your friend's crush

  • also happens in...

  • other countries. You have to spend a lot of money on beauty. That girl spend a lot of money

  • on beauty. Lots of restrictions in schools, the way you have to look, praise each other so

  • much and quite a lot of other things that suck about being a girl in Japan

  • or boys on Jgirls. How is that in your country. Is there a common thing girls do and you're like

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You can't date the boy your friend likes.

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