Asian Women's Hair | Asian American Poll

ASIAN WOMEN'S HAIR
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:16:57 PM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

What is your most consistent attitude toward hair?
It's a nuisance to be tolerated | 22%
It's one of my favorite beauty assets | 78%

Which cut is most flattering on Asian women?
Short | 19%
Shoulder-length | 28%
Long | 53%

What is your favorite hair treatment?
Highlighting/streaking | 23%
Coloring | 22%
Therapy/conditioning | 37%
Other/No Response
| 18%

Which of the following is your biggest hair headache?
Finding a good stylist | 25%
Dos that fall apart when you leave the salon | 15%
Coping with tired hair | 24%
Trying to blow-dry layered hair | 10%
Split ends | 26%

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WHAT YOU SAY

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i just need help on doing my hair styles these dayz cuzz im so tired of the same hair doose
Yerdie Vue, i have long natrual brown hair, and is 15, 100%azin AznBooties@hotmail.com

I like being Asian and having Asian hair!
It's Thick, Shiney, and Healthy, just like it is on most other Asian people I know :)
Be excited about who you are and how you feel about yourself, and the rest will follow!!

ps: I whole-heartedly agree with tara's comments!! You go girl!
Jess in Brissy, Australia

when i was little my hair was extremely thin (around ages 5 to 14), but in about 3 to 4 years it grew alot faster, thicker and darker. i dunno y, but two reasons it could be, bcs i always got my hair layered, and i also started using coconut oil in my hair. so if you start using coconut oil..melt it, massage it into your scalp and leave it in for a couple hours (i usually leave it in my hair overnite). well hope it works if anyone wanted to knoe!

chynadoll

Finding natural color to cover grays!
Khim Wildsz@hotmail.com

Asian women's hair are often oily which are produced from the scalp. It is very difficult to style your hair with the greasiness.Make sure those who are having this problem, shampoo your hair 2-3 times a day and quit bathing with warm water (i mean keep the warm water out of your hair)It'll make your scalp weak and there will be an increace in the rate of hair loss.Cut down the using of blow- dryer.Leave it to dry by itself once in a while..For shampoo i think for me, it's Pantene.I don't know about others as each of us had different scalp and sensitivity towards shampoo.Example, my sister can't use Pantene as it will cause rashes and bleach her hair, instead she uses Organics.
Nurulhudha. hazel_nut86@yahoo.co.uk

anyone know of a good hair salon in the San Francisco Bay area? I want to get highlights done!!!
Klaude =) bebegrl777@aol.com

dark and lovely relaxer system super ultra for soft, silky-straight hair no-lye conditoning relaxer system.
amal ederes sorry i forgot my email address.

I just got out of 8 long, tedious years of grad school and am looking for a good way to shake myself up a bit with some kind of drastic change in the months. I am thinking about dyeing my hair blonde but don't want to look like a character out of The Planet of the Apes. Does anyone have any tips or horror stories they would like to share? I will be looking for a consulting job in about 6 months so any weird thing that I do has to be reversible!
celestialblue celestialblue@visto.com

pretty good

annelle

I THINK A LOT OF ASIAN WOMEN HAVE THE PROBLEM OF CONTROLING LONG,THICK AND FRIZZY HAIR, I NOW I DO!
STUDENT

I have long to the hips straight black hair that goes wavy on some days. I hate how it curls a little bit at the top of my head, for me, it's either ALL STRAIGHT or straight at the top, wavy downwards.

I think bright orange-y red strands would look great in my hair, as I already have them naturally (only at the back of my hair for some reason).

I am a strong believer that bleached blonde (all the way blonde) hair on Asians is extremely tacky and ugly, because their hair goes frizzy, and it is just plain UGLY.

The only thing I wish I could change about my hair, is to make it have a little more volume and bounce :)
Sher from Canada gummibearsher@home.com

I love my long hair. I keep it about bra strap in length. It's straight and cut bluntly on the bottom.

No colors, perms, or anything. Lots of conditioners and good shampoo.

Leave you hair natural. It's your best asset. Men love long asian hair.
hairsomeone gearup@sssnet.com

Does anyone have any thoughts on Japanese or Korean hair straightening perms? I've got the worst frizzy, wavy, long hair....that looks halfway decent when i blowdry it straight. i'd appreciate any advice!!!
muijui dso116@yahoo.com

my family has really unusual hair. i have 100% korean parents. my mother has typical thick, shiny, chinese hair, and my dad has semishort hair that grows in these whirls and waves on his head. weird, huh? my sister and i didn't inherit either. i have thinner, naturally light hair with golden brown highlights (from the sun iguess, but it stays all yr round) and my sister's hair is light too. ???? wut's the deal
korean girl

I have to say PANTENE treatment conditioner worked really well.
Leave the conditioner on for at lease 15-20 mins or longer if your wish and rinse out with really cold water.

: ) Hope that help!
Mia

I have a very corse hair. Corse even for Asian. Imagine what "average" hair stylist can do with my hair. Not much but chop it off. Even a stylist in senior position can't do it right!
I have hard time finding someone who can come up with style that fits me. That someone has to have the skill to cut hair that falls right in position. I must be dreaming...
Kay

Cannot make them silky,conditioned
Vaishali

     Vancemar-
     This doesn't address your specific question, but I am interested in knowing what you have used to highlight your hair at home for the past 12 years. I would like to highlight at home, but I don't know which product would work best. I bought a "frosting" kit, but I haven't used it yet because I'm afraid my hair will look red,or worse, my hair will look like zebra-stripes.
     I am half Asian and half white with dark brown hair and some natural reddish brown highlights, but I want more golden highlights like you describe you have, especially now during the summer. Also, I am interested in how you have done it: foil? cap? brush on? I would appreciate anyone else out there with highlighting advice to respond, too.
Hapa Chick

Where on earth can I get Shiva hair dye products? Please help!
VKWONG@MEGADATA.COM

My name is Jennie and I live in Orlando/ocoee Florida. I cannot find a good asian hair stylist anywhere close or not to expensive~ if you can reccommend someone or someplace please do!
thanks!
Asianpersuasion@cfl.rr.com

Hello everyone, my name is Mia
Good head of hair needed treatment regularly neither it short or long, fuzzy or dyed. I used thermo cap to condition my hair every 2 days with good treatment conditioner. Once your hair is in good condtion you can do just about everything to it , just as long as you keep conditioning your hair.
NSW

I once went to a salon and had ask a senior hair dressor to give my long hair a trim. Some how I left this salon with an uneven horible cut, I look in the mirror in the salon and felt like cring .
Untill these day I only get my hair cut by an asian hair salon.
Mia /22

I am seeking info on hair coloring for Asian hair. I have been coloring my hair for 12+ years with various at-home highlighting kits originally made for brown Causcasian hair. Although I love the color and receive many compliments (it is a brown/carmel and some blonde highlights color,I am considering going to a darker bronze shade. Because I have used various at-home kits, I am hesitant about correcting the color myself, but am concerned about what can be accomplished at a salon. I love my hair overall, but would appreciate guidance on specifically coloring Asian hair at-home and at the salon. Lastly, for the first time in 12 + years, I sam noticing damage (split ends and broken ends) that leads me to believe the color has damaged my hair.
thanks!
vancemar@cs.com

My hair when I was younger used to be very fine, black, and straight. It also used to grow as slow as anything! Now, at age 14, my hair's a natural dark brown color, very full, and with soft waves. I cut my own hair (usually just the bangs; my mom, who cuts the back, refuses to layer them for me so I have to do it myself), and I love the results.
Chinese high-school chick

Hi,
I am dealing with my not just natural curly hair, but talk about dry, brittle and frizzy hair. My sister once told me that my hair look just like hays in the farm.. I had tried many many well known hair products, that supposingly make your hair silky, managable and soft. But nothing can improve my hair condition. I feel like my hair is turning like the black people hair now. Please if anyone can give my suggestion or recommend me a product that really can help improving my hair, I will really appreciated.
jlee2000@msn.com

It's strange, i'm Vietnamese but i've always had brown hair with gold highlights. I didn't really notice it until about 5th grade (looking back at childhood photos though, i had light hair then, too, at least up till 1st grade then it seems to have gotten dark) but now it's even lighter. What could possibly be causing it? I don't go outside a lot, my family is as Vietnamese as can be, and all the other asians i know save three have jet-black hair. Honestly, sometimes i wish i had black hair just so other people won't think i dyed my hair or anything--my hair is dark dark brown on top, and it gets lighter and lighter till it's almost a golden-brown at the bottom. Strange.
Josie

     i just happen to see this page while surfing the web. i am a full-blooded asian american. i find it rather odd that some of the comments from obviously non-asian speakers who ask us questions that seem to imply that we are some exotic species of homo sapiens.
     the same issues and comments about hair can be applied to anyone else of any race. i think hair is a piece of your identity and you should have fun with it. cut it. color it. leave it alone. leave it long. buzz it. your hair is linked to your identity, but even some asians have brown hair or some even with naturally curly hair. i think its narrow-minded for anyone to tell another person -- even ones of their own race -- that they should keep thier hair a certain way. and i think it is funny and sometimes insulting that non-asian people ask questions like we are from mars or something.
     i have had my hair everyway except shaved. the only negative experience i had was when this neanderthal white guy telling me that i don't look as attractive or "sexy" when i did a medium length cut. he was one ugly bastard so his comments did not mean much. but i think he shares the sentiment of many insecure men who think that women can somehow -- via thier hair decisions -- can compensate for thier lack of self esteem and security about their own sexuality. i told him that if he continues to grow his armpit hair super long, perhaps he can gratify himself. he was not happy with that comment. screw him.
tara lee in beautiful sunny california

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