Aahhhhh, good point - he is colored like a ghost. Is he any different in the flashbacks? Not that it would matter if he didn't, his memory of himself-as-alive has got to be pretty faint.
There is a color plate in the manga where Sai appears just as much of a healthy peachy skin tone as Hikaru and the others, so I agree that part of his anime look was to make him more ghostly.
I think he probably isn't wearing lipstick for the simple reason that in the Heian period, make-up was very basic. Rise paint for whitening the face, charcoal (mixed in a oil based something) to draw eye brows and some sort of red juice for lips? And all that only for the women.
What is more interesting is those earstuds he's wearing. That was not a Heian style. In fact, earrings are not even a Japanese style (throughout the ages). So where did they come from?
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Re: guess what; I do have a life!
Date: 2010-06-30 09:43 pm (UTC)Re: guess what; I do have a life!
Date: 2010-06-30 09:47 pm (UTC)And purple lips.
And his pale skin (for a Japanese...)
IMHO Sai's coloring is like that because he's a ghost. When he was alive he looked a little more normal, or so I'd like to think...
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Date: 2010-06-30 09:56 pm (UTC)Re: guess what; I do have a life!
Date: 2010-06-30 10:08 pm (UTC)in Autumn
at that fatefull game
in the moonlight, just before he kills himself
Re: guess what; I do have a life!
Date: 2010-07-04 08:07 pm (UTC)I had a similar conversation with
Re: guess what; I do have a life!
Date: 2010-07-04 09:24 pm (UTC)What is more interesting is those earstuds he's wearing.
That was not a Heian style. In fact, earrings are not even a Japanese style (throughout the ages).
So where did they come from?