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| Applying a hot perm at Beauty Park Salon Shiseido (Shiseido Professional Inc.) |  |
Curly hair is back in style. Women from their teens through thirties are
styling their tresses in big, soft waves an effort to duplicate the cute, feminine hairdos currently featured in the
fashion magazines, including on
popular model Ebihara Yuri. The initial inspiration for this trend was the "Kobe curl," the traditional style of choice for the well-bred young women of that cosmopolitan port city. In 2002, a style known as the "
Nagoya curl," favored by the privileged lasses of central
Japan's industrial hub, reached
Tokyo. Now the curly theme is being played out in a growing number of variations, such as inward vs. outward curls.
