✝KAOLU △SANUMA △PPRECIATION BLOG✝

This is a fan account for Kaolu Asanuma, head hair & makeup artist at DEEP END Styling Company in Tokyo, Japan. ✝✝

[fuckyeahasanuma]

Good morning, guys. I'm sorry to say that I've decided to put this blog on permanent hiatus for the reasons I wrote in the previous post. I won't delete it and maybe there will come a time when I'll start posting again, but for now it's just not possible. I apologize to all followers who have enjoyed this blog and thank you all for a wonderful year interacting with you. FYA

[fuckyeahasanuma]

Hello everyone. I've very much tried to keep any personal posts off this blog as much as possible, but there comes a time when every rule meets its exception. The thing is that for awhile now I've been considering quitting FYA; that is, putting it on permanent hiatus, though I probably wouldn't delete what's been posted until now. Of course I love maintaining this blog, interacting with all of you, and promoting my favorite artist, and I'm exceedingly proud of how far this blog has come in just a year, but a few things have come up which have made me really start wondering whether this is something I want to continue. For starters, although I personally really hate when blogs I follow go on hiatus due to the admin entering university, that's unfortunately something which I have to write here. I've just graduated language school and will be entering vocational university from next week (my orientation is tomorrow). Along with that, I work two (soon three) part time jobs as well as having a personal life, so there's just really not much time left to promptly upload photos, spend time doing translation etc. Another very huge reason that I'm considering quitting this blog is simply because I feel like my purpose is no longer being achieved and that makes me uncomfortable. I started FYA because personally I am hugely interested in the visual, makeup, & styling aspect of visual-kei rock, and I wanted to give people more of an insight into that world by promoting my favorite hair make artist, Asanuma Kaolu. I've done my best to be as in-depth as possible, which previously involved posting translations of every tweet and Twitter conversation he had, every Instagram post etc as well as of course scans of photo shoots he worked on etc. However, to be honest, I feel like this work is being overlooked, and the attention of my followers has focused solely on the band members in those scans. For example, I read post tags religiously, and I often see "get away from my [bias name]" "ugh god [bias name] unffff" "man [bias name] you did it again" etc. but it's rather rare to see any tags or comments pertaining to the styling or visual aspects of the shoot, so I feel like what is my favorite part of the blog -- that visual insight -- is completely unnecessary and the only posts which can succeed are those about everyone's biases. To me this feels unfair as well as just disappointing. I really thought more people would be interested in the talent and literal magic that this man and this branch of society has, but it seems like there's less than 10 people who really care about that. As someone who's starting classes next week to train to become a hair make artist myself, that is extremely demoralizing and really makes me wonder whether there's a point in continuing. And, since I'm about to enter that world myself, I often feel uncomfortable with some of the seemingly innocuous posts that I upload onto FYA.. I feel like they represent almost obsessive feelings regarding band members or Kaolu himself that I don't possess and feel uncomfortable catering to. I apologize if you do not agree with this statement, but it is my personal opinion that band members, artists, stylists etc are humans and people first and foremost, and they deserve respect and privacy from their fans. Respect and privacy aren't things I've seen often in online fandom and it really does make me very hesitant about posting to cater to that demanding sort of fan. At the moment I've just been home about an hour after two long international flights following a week abroad, and I have a minor cold, so I'm not sure if I was able to express myself coherently but I hope my message was understandable anyway. I haven't yet made the final decision but I guess I will within a few days, especially once I receive my class schedule, and will post again at that time. I of course welcome any comments or questions regarding anything I wrote. Feel free to contact me either here on the FYA blog or at my personal tumblr, malformed-box. I apologize for clogging your dashes with a long unexpected text post like this. Hope you all have a wonderful rest of the day & good night. Ravi / FYA Admin

[dont-squeeze-me-ill-fart-deacti]

Takeru is the only person who can pull this off

Uwakimono - HELLYEAH MV Full 

[fuckyeahasanuma]

Hair/make for this incredible video done by Asanuma Kaolu (DEEP END) :)

[visulog-blog]

Takeru of SuG reboots solo project “Uwakimono” 

The new single [HELLYEAH] will feature the sounds of EDM star TeddyLoid!

For more details visit: http://v-kei.jp/news/?newsId=1068

[fuckyeahasanuma]

Today I had the great pleasure of visiting the temporary pop-up shop of VITAL MATERIAL in Hikarie ShinQ's in Shibuya. As expected, the display was cute and fashionable, and I was able to buy myself the bergamot hand cream and the sanitary gel, and I also got the damask rose hand cream for my mum. :) The pop-up shop will be open until 9/22, for anyone who's able to go!

[fuckyeahasanuma]

Here's a teaser uploaded today by Takeru of the new Uwakimono song, "HELL YEAH" .. with some gorgeous hair/makeup done by Kaolu Asanuma (DEEP END). What a fashionable and cool video!

[namelessliberty]

japON! on MTV81

We talk to RUKI of the GazettE about his new line VITAL MATERIAL.

Fully immerse yourself in RUKI’s world – art, fashion and music are all pieced together in this fascinating new project.

Click here to watch full clip!

[fuckyeahasanuma]

Beautiful hair/makeup by Kaolu Asanuma :)

[fuckyeahasanuma]

We apologize for the slow speed at which posts are currently being posted on FYA. This has become an extremely busy month, including fun things like final exams, moving house, switching schools, and a brief trip overseas, so there's many things to do and not enough time to do them all in. We will be back shortly with lots of update posts regarding Kaolu and the gorgeous work he does, so please stay tuned. Hope you have a nice day.

FYA

[fuckyeahasanuma]

Brief look at the Hiroto section in Rock & Read 55 (front cover Reita/the GazettE). Quite an interesting double team from DEEP END: hair/make by Kaolu Asanuma, and styling by Masato Hishinuma of the same company. :) 

[fuckyeahasanuma]

Just a bit of teasing by Kaolu and Takeru from the Uwakimono photoshoot today with Kaolu Asanuma and also (according to Kaolu) "whiz Super photographeR Mr. Yonehara Yasumasa :) ". This shoot is apparently due to be published in the next month, so please look forward to it :))

[fuckyeahasanuma]

A nice Takeru appearance in the new volume of KERA magazine (October 2014 issue).

Hair/make (and apparently sunglasses advice) by Asanuma Kaolu (DEEP END) 

[fuckyeahasanuma]

Someone's home and apparently bored :) 

[fuckyeahasanuma]

He had a pretty nice time working with Plastic Tree at Rock In Japan Festival as well :) 

[fuckyeahasanuma]

Kaolu tweeted about having an MV shooting on the same day as Takeru's 'special movie shoot'.. So far so good ;) 

Side note, from Kaolu's MV shooting tweet it seems that a lot of people believe that MV to be Last Heaven: guys, Last Heaven has been already filmed and completed, and is already uploaded to the Sony walkman GazettE collab technology. Okay? Okay.

[maiformed-box]

Went to the VM exhibit yesterday with my friend and just thought I’d do a brief write-up.

By the way, at the exhibit we also got a small booklet with photos and descriptions of all the products, as well as a lovely photo of the entire collection, but today it is raining like crazy so the light in my room is just awful for taking photos, and I wasn’t able to get a good one. My apologies. 

Hope you enjoy! :) 

[maiformed-box]

So I went to the Vital Material exhibit yesterday with my friend. There were two rooms: shop room and display room. I fell in love with the display room so here you are.. Photos of both will be up shortly. :)))

[fuckyeahasanuma]

What else did he do yesterday? Get a tattoo (reportedly it means happiness in Greek), go shopping, and relaxxxx at home :)