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Interesting video by a visual kei artist talking about the clothes and costumes etc:

https://a.aliexpress.com/NFd62pqg https://a.aliexpress.com/BStM2jmu https://a.aliexpress.com/K2YevQS8 https://a.aliexpress.com/D00WRDj2 https://a.aliexpress.com/n2250V04 https://a.aliexpress.com/2HPp54Jm https://a.aliexpress.com/omK976Z6 https://a.aliexpress.com/FPFxzenq https://a.aliexpress.com/3bNAtlPE This shirt is great if you like Versailles! Pair it with the leather pants above and cool boots and you will look like Kamijo! https://a.aliexpress.com/NGrQUGd2 https://a.aliexpress.com/OteIkV4k This is also great for versailles fans! https://a.aliexpress.com/29k9Ywbe https://a.aliexpress.com/M3sNHbzQ https://a.aliexpress.com/CL7QU61i https://a.aliexpress.com/mer8zVzW https://a.aliexpress.com/pwKpWP0M https://a.aliexpress.com/NcWLqepa As you can tell I love suits and blazer, usually I roll up the sleeves a bit messy and wear a cool shirt under them to look stylish! My tip is to always wear shoulder pads when you wear a coat or a blazer, it looks better! You want your shoulders to look sharp, not rounded because that makes it look like a blanket hanging on your shoulders...

This thread is made for everyone who wants to look Visual Kei! Let's help each other out by giving advice, tips and tricks. In this thread you can also post links to clothes, makeup products, hair products, jewelry etc. Also, if you want to look like your favourite artist but don't know how to get the look etc we might be able to help you find the right clothes and products! ---------------------------------------------------------- I start with my tips and tricks! I usually get my clothes from Aliexpress. Sometimes I customize regular clothes. Aliexpress is great! Just read the reviews before you buy. I own most of the clothes I post on here! Something I like to do is to get regular cheap pants from H&M or something like that. I only care about the fit and the color of the pants. Then I get some metallic fabric paint, and by using a sponge I just paint the pants to make them look unique. Sometimes I use stencils to make an interesting design on them! Easy way to customize clothes, this works on shirts as well. I also paint on shoes or boots! Here is an example of what the pants could look like when painted: Now over to aliexpress! Very cheap clothes but you can put together great outfits using them! I will link all the clothes under the pictures! Most of those comes in different designs and colors! Shirts and blazers: https://a.aliexpress.com/BmHk99AY https://a.aliexpress.com/eueEm2VE https://a.aliexpress.com/ey7ruNkk https://a.aliexpress.com/em2cTe1w https://a.aliexpress.com/tmEJKPY8 https://a.aliexpress.com/FEkyrOG0 https://a.aliexpress.com/rsxs8RzI Pants: https://a.aliexpress.com/p2zIx7ky https://a.aliexpress.com/2CueBzZA https://a.aliexpress.com/tesYw6zK If you scroll down on the pages for each clothing item you will find related clothes, that way you might find even cooler items! Biker jeans works great for visual kei, also just simple shirts and focusing more on the jewelry, hair and makeup will make you look visual kei!

The only visual kei bands and songs that people get exposed to these days are the most extreme ones. That's why people think it's weird, they believe all bands sounds and looks like the most extreme ones. The majority of visual kei fans doesn't even like those extreme bands! I watched youtubers react, they enjoyed the gazette and that video attracted more fans to the gazette. They thought they looked cool and beautiful, they enjoyed the song. The other bands they showed was too extreme for the mainstream audience and it might have been confusing for them. If everyone thinks visual kei is like obscure by dir en grey, of course it will come across as scary and weird. They need to see the beauty of it. It's like showing lady gaga in a meatdress and saying that is pop, of course people will think pop is weird if that's the only thing they see. We need to show people the beautiful songs and bands, make them emotional so that they like it. I wouldn't show them macabre by dir en grey the first time. It's an emotional song but it's hard for regular people to see the beautiful aspects of it. I would show them As if forever exist by Lin or something instead. My 72 year old grandmother enjoys that song and that song made her a fan!

Visual kei is a great genre if you think about it. It's so expressive, there are almost no rules of how the music is supposed to sound, what the artists should look like etc. People who likes metal will like some visual kei bands, people who like pop rock will like other bands. The music is usually a mix of different genres which could make the music very unique. It's a cool style, it's very artistic and it's fun to watch live performances because of that. If you, as a fan, dress up in visual kei you will feel like a part of a community, which people enjoy! Visual kei is brilliant, it could be huge and successful if we just made the comminty more interesting. Visual Kei isn't as extreme as the gothic subculture if you think about it. It's easier to enjoy the music, the clothes aren't that different to mainstream clothes. I mean, put on a regular outfit using a blazer and regular jeans, some jewelry and then just focus on the hair and makeup and you will look visual kei. It's pretty simple actually. No need for lolita dresses or goth makeup to look visual kei. It is very stylish and formal kind of. People love cool hairstyles, most people enjoy pop rock. Visual kei could be a huge thing! We just need to spread it more. No one wants it to die it's an fantastic genre, it's fun and cool!

It isn't dying, it's still just as popular as it was back in the day in japan for example. New bands pop up pretty often! The only thing that is dying is the fandom I believe because we are not as inviting and we don't share it with friends and such... It used to be a lifestyle, now it feels like it's a secret thing we do that we don't want to share. We don't have a proper community like the K-pop fans has etc Yes, we have this site, but we don't have youtube channels, discord servers, groups and such on other social media that is popular and big. I guess it would just take a couple of big youtubers who likes visual kei that talks about it to make it bigger. People discover K-pop by watching some popular beauty guru putting on k-pop inspired makeup, why not do that with visual kei? The only thing that keeps it alive right now is the fans in Japan. We need to help the bands in Japan, we as fans need to share their music and make people interested! If they don't get any money or become more successful, they will disband it's all on us!

I can only speak for my country, it was very huge in my country (Sweden) not just a niche. They showed visual kei on mainstream TV, in popular magazines etc. In every class at school there was at least one who loved it. We even had shops selling visual kei merch, fashion and everything. Yeah, I feel like the community is very silent. Closed and inactive groups on facebook, people who dress up in visual kei doesn't even mention it which makes other people believe they just like metal or something. We don't share the music like we used to, we don't talk about it etc... The fandom might be the problem, we are too silent and not very inviting for new commers. Maybe we should create a cool discord server for visual kei and subcultures or anyone really, that way it might spread more? ❤️

Yes, but where does it come from? It's because of the subcultures. Don't you find it weird that people seem to like colorful hair and alternative fashion, but don't know where it comes from? I think they would like visual kei if they just got exposed to it. Cool hairstyles, colorful hair, makeup etc is very popular today, visual kei has that. It comes from subcultures, yet now many people associate pink or blue hair with mainstream pop.

But nu-metal and eurodance is still being played on the radio, articles and documentaries about it is still being made. The new generation is still getting exposed to it in one way or another, compared to visual kei which is very hard to discover these days if you don't know what to search for. 😕 When I show people visual kei, they usually like it and get interested in it. Melodic metal fans today loves versailles for example if you just show them. I think that's what the problem is. Visual kei would live on just like metal and rock if it was easier to discover it today. 😕

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I have been thinking a lot about why the Visual Kei "trend" outside of Japan faded, just like the emo/scene kid trend did. I miss the old days a lot, I am so tired of all those Kardashian wannabes... no originality, everyone is dressing up the same way and everyone is listening to Ariana Grande etc. It feels like all the subcultures are gone. Feminists are the only ones you see these days who has piercings and colorful hair... which is sad. If you went to the mall about 10 years ago you would see huge gangs of Visual Kei fans hanging out. They were everywhere playing music out loud from their phone speakers, talking about how to get their hair perfectly straight or teased to perfection, the hottest member of their favourite band and they had cute pins on their shirts with band names. I hope I'm not the only one who is missing the old days. I want it back, and I hope you can help me make Visual Kei popular again :(! What caused it to become so popular? I think this question is very important to be able to bring it back again! My thoughts on this is that some people outside of Japan discovered Visual Kei on the internet. Then they started to dress that way. People saw those people in public or in schools etc, and thought they looked cool, asked them what it was all about and then it kind of spread. I saw that happening a lot, me and my friends showed up in school after the summer break 2007 in 7th grade dressed up in Visual Kei after we had discovered Phantasmagoria a month or so earlier through a friend of a friend who was into Visual Kei. After that more and more people at my school started to dress in visual kei and it became super huge in my city. Online we got in touch with other fans across the country and it felt almost religious! Sadly it faded away around 2010... only a small percent is still holding on to it. It's sad! It started to fade when Facebook became more and more popular, I believe. Before that everyone just spent their time online in old forums etc you know. I believe facebook, instagram, twitter and stuff like that killed the subcultures because everyone is exposed to the mainstream and everything that isn't mainstream gets filtered away because people tend to upvote Kardashian related things etc which makes visual kei related things etc harder to discover. I am a member of a lot of visual kei groups on facebook, I follow pages of my favourite artists etc... but when I scroll through my feed about 90% of everything I see is just posts with 100K+ likes about Ariana Grande and things like that. No wonder why Visual Kei is fading more and more, social media etc filters it out even for the most hardcore fans. Same thing on youtube, I use youtube mostly to listen to Visual Kei music or watch art channels. In my feed, recommended videos and related videos I only get videos about James Charles and "10 things you didn't know about Kylie Jenner"... I never even watch or care about that shit. Are we getting brainwashed into becoming mainstream? What is it that Visual Kei doesn't have that James Charles, Kim Kardashian, Ariana Grande etc has? I mean... they seam to be so important to everyone and I am getting forced to know everything about them because social media won't show me the stuff that I am interested in, even though 70% of everything I ever do on the internet is Visual Kei related... >___> The new generation can't discover it like we did because social media filters it out! It feels like they want Visual Kei to be forgotten. I mean... we still hear scene kid music playing on the radio, we still hear 90's grunge playing on the radio... but not Visual Kei even though it was just as mainstream back in the day as grunge etc was. Only difference is that Visual Kei isn't dead and new bands are still popping up and the genre is changing/evolving which makes it new and fresh unlike grunge and scene kid music which is exactly the same as it was back then(just more dead). How do we change this? What if we all dress up as visual kei as possible, take the hottest and coolest pictures ever and post everywhere, link Visual Kei related things all over the web and go outside and inspire people? Is that what it takes to make it popular again? Who sets the trends? Who decided that Visual Kei should fade right after it's peak in 2009? Would you be happy if Visual Kei became popular again? Why/why not? What are your thoughts?