author of the book Yaeba Girl. "Some say it originated from Japanese traditional aesthetic sense of wabi, which means that we find beauty in imperfect shapes." TYB48 - a play on Tomomi Itano's ...

In the U.S. people aim for perfectly straight dentures, but an entirely different trend has taken off in Japan. Many teenaged girls have undergone dental procedures called yaeba to elongate their ...

Japanese women are going crazy for a crowded, crooked-toothed smile with accentuated canine teeth. The look, known as the 'yaeba' look, is well-liked by men, who find the imperfect smile they form ...

The Japanese trend for crooked, “snaggle” teeth is going from strength to strength. Yaeba – which translates literally as “double tooth” is a dental procedure which sees the upper ...

Japanese women are paying dentists to make their smiles more crowded, even canine, in a quest to appear more childlike, more fashionable and to appeal to men. The trend, known as yaeba (Japanese ...

Yaeba in Japanese means “double tooth”. The procedure pushes canine teeth forward so they stick out. The teeth often are made longer and sharper, and look like a vampire’s fangs. The ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. For years, fang-like "yaeba" have been considered cute in Japan. Whether it's video games, anime, or manga, characters with "yaeba" (snaggletooth ...

many of whom focus on the fact that this fad is "peculiarly Japanese" in the vein of "bagelheading" (injecting saline into your forehead until it swells out of all proportion), yaeba (undergoing ...