C/D? Bleached hair on Asians

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Last year I noticed that the Japanese kids in L.A. were very trendy and prone to bleaching their hair orangey-brown to caramel blond.

Now that I'm in Japan, everywhere I see boys with spiky 'dos and kids of both genders with these bleached dye-jobs. Even the old ladies on the train sometimes have not merely blue hair but deep lavender hair topping off a rather sedate ensemble.

I can't decide if I think these dye-jobs are attractive or not. The punk in me is intrigued with the will to decorate oneself unnaturally. However, the bourgeois Martha Stewart in me thinks that the brassy yellow tones clash badly with the skin. So far, I really like the looks of wizened obasans with purple hair more than the looks of young Turks with orangey hair.

― Melinda Mess-Injure, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wish I could post a picture of these kids. Sorry, the best I can do is this...

http://www.blairmag.com/blair4/hair/MakiWink.jpg

Is that James Iha?

Check this article -- nearly parallel with my own hair misadventures in my youth.

― Melinda Mess-Injure, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dud - for the common Asian American teen, where bleached hair is generally conformist and dull. Also dud is people who try to have green/blue/pink hair inspired by an anime character and end up looking merely trashy.

Classic - When it gets more stylized and outrageous such as in the visual rock scene in Japan. Purple spikes 6 inches long, 360 degrees. etc.

― Honda, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://a740.g.akamai.net/f/740/606/1d/image.pathfinder.com/time/asia/magazine/2001/0625/japan_girls.jpg

Like, omigawd, that look is sa 90s!

― Melinda Mess-Injure, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:mQdjNu6DrhgC:j apanmusic.free.fr/jband/direngrey/gallery/kaoru01.jpg

I like this sort of thing. Generally bleached hair on Asians is rather mundane, but it can still impress.

― Honda, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Honda described with his 'dud' line a huge slew of people here at UCI, I'll say that much.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Was that a picture of Mary Kate and Ashley?

― Samantha, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, there's always this option:

http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/asiantart.jpg

― Brian MacDonald, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, I'm not calling out Asia America (since dissing dyed hair is basically doing just that) but its gotten to the point where it's like asking "black hair on Asians C/D".

― Honda, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like Asian guys. Ok, there I've said it.

― Sean, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People who don't have really pale skin look really odd when they dye their hair orangey blond and it is gross (ooh or when they highlight their hair and tan until their hair and skin are the SAME COLOR, very creepy). Other colors (red, blue, etc.) are very lovely, though (even without the spikes).

― Maria, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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