1999-2012 Popteen volumes!... ALL of them (nearly)

ちゃおっす It's Spacy!

Why hello, for some reason I can't seem to produce a blog post that doesn't require me to be chronically unemployed, but I am sorta chronically unemployed which is why I could make this.

I actually wanted to do this with EGG but i'm currently pissed at EGG and someone already kinda did that, but I don't think i've seen anyone do this for popteen so I took it upon my unemployed self to do this, this shit was hard, I will put all of these onto a google drive folder, tbh some of the scans aren't good quality (bc i'm not gal revo or chogongal) and I still cannot find the january 1999 volume so that one is not there, but I got every volume after that. So please enjoy, because I put a stupid amount of effort into this because I decided to scan almost every image via an online scanner. The quality gets better as the year increases so the older ones will look like shit and the newer ones will look all nice and pretty.

Warning: I do not own any of these volumes so none of these images are mine

ALSO the title is MISLEADING, u are not about to find 155 popteen VOLUMES but 155 popteen volume COVERS, I didn't realise it was kinda misleading, I mean, I UNDERSTOOD wut i was talking about but I didn't consider people reading didn't, pls don't stone me for accidentally clickbaiting you

スジ盛り? Big hair! The short history of sujimori in gyaru

ちゃおっす It's Spacy!..... The one thing I haven't talked about yet is hair and make, so today we are gonna change that by doing a dive into morigami/sujimori hair in the gyaru scene!

Recently i hit 700 followers so this is my thank you for 700 followers. On Thursday I was talking to my therapist and I told her I had felt like I wasted my summer holiday by not doing anything productive, so she told me to do things I like but not force myself to complete it, so despite this ramble, would it shock u to say im forcing myself to do this? Not in a bad way, but I'm actually motivated, so I will try be more motivated and not wait for a divine spark to remind me what I love doing

Why do some gals reject the concept of shiro gyaru?

   ちゃおっす It's Spacy! Spacygirl where have you been? I know I know it's been a month+ of complete silence on this blog. So before this blog post begins, let me talk about where i've been, time to be honest and open.

I've been struggling a lot lately trying to balance school work and my own mental health meaning i've put blogging to the side, I also have my big project coming up so i've decided to make a comeback before then, but why? I've been way too busy with school to pick myself back together to write a blog post, so now my work load is lighter I decided to write a short blog post to get myself back into the spirit.

Thank you for reading, weird to drop before the actual post starts but I just wanted to show some appreciation to the people who'll come back and read my blog posts even tho I've only uploaded a few times in the past 3 months.

So now for the actual topic, why did some gals reject the concept of shiro gyaru?

Recently I saw a viral video of Heisei gyarus talking about their love and admiration for Heisei gals of the late 90s/ early 2000s which is the peak of gyaru. Usually before I write a blog post, I pretend I own a podcast discussing my topics to myself in my room at 2am, bc thats what us unemployed folks just do.

What is seiso Gyaru? What actually led to gyaru becoming 'toned down'

  ちゃおっす It's Spacy!  Uusually I don't decide to write blog posts on a whim but today I thought I may as well since I had a good idea and I'm still drafting other blog posts. But all in all, what is Seiso gyaru, and what are the actual causes for gyaru gradually toning down from the flashy ganguro era to our current sun kissed reiwa era? This is a text heavy post so put ur reading glasses on folks!

The 3 Gonguro siblings with U? The legacy of the gonguro siblings and the birth and death of the gonguro boom

  ゃおっす It's Spacy! ... UH yeah where have I been? here this entire time, I've had so many goos blog ideas but I've been too lazy to write them, but I decided to stop procrastinating on blog posting and start procrastinating on my school work instead.

If you know me, theres 1 EGG model I can never get enough of, and that is Buriteri, the queen of ganguro, but who even is Buriteri? Who are her 3 other best friends who defined the short but explosive era of gonguro, and how did them and their legacy change the gyaru scene forever?

Reiwa vs Heisei, is there a decline in visual appeal in Gyaru Magazines?

 ゃおっす It's Spacy! I need to stay a top of my game and try make a blog post before monday bc if I don't I won't blog post until like Wednesday 😭. Besides the point. The real point is, is there a decline in visual quality in gyaru magazines? Were magazines back then simply better, or can Reiwa magazines really compete in terms of visual attraction? Is there a cause for all of this? Welcome to magazine discussion episode 6 - Visual appeal, Heisei vs Reiwa

Blackface? A dive into gyaru and the influences of Black culture

 ちゃおっす It's Spacy! Today i want to talk about something that has been on my mind for a while, and that is gyaru and how black culture influenced and influences to this day, gyaru. This is a history based blog post, meaning I won't really dive deep into arguments of gyaru being blackface, rather, I will simply be talking about its history..... and maybe give my opinion towards the end! Let's start

Music? What music do I listen to? - PART 1!

 ちゃおっす It's Spacy! 

A few weeks ago there was plenty of discourse on music and 'gyaru' music! I pay £.750 a month for spotify premium, so I spend thousands of hours each week listening to music, and through some hard searching and research, I put together my own personal ultimate gyaru playlist. But exactly what music is popular with gals, not only from Heisei era, but Reiwa era as well, let's talk about it!

The History of Gyaru

 ちゃおっす It's Spacy! Let's cut the chit chat and get straight into it, where does Gyaru originate from?