Much like the yaeba snaggletooth phenomenon, the Japanese trend of the duck face has both fascinated and revolted foreigners.
Japanese girls make the duck-face pout (ahiru-guchi) as they think it makes them look cute and attractive to men. You look “dumb” and submissive, and, since Japanese ladies don’t usually have much in the way of busts or butts they have to make up for it by charming gentlemen with their faces.
Classic duck-face advocates include Tomomi Itano from AKB48, singer Yuki, and voice actress Aya Hirano, though it can look sexier in the context.
It was first used in the late Nineties to talk about singer Ami Suzuki and the word entered the Japanese dictionary in 2006.
So what do you guys out there think? Sexy or not?
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