Perms and Celebrity Lookalikes

Today's Asian look. The shag.

And for those unlucky enough to be born without straight Asian hair, the "Japanese Straight Perm"

When I was a child, the only haircut that the white hairdressers my mother took me too could imagine was the Chinese bob. Bangs straight across my forehead and the rest to the chin. Of course, like everything else about myself, I despised my straight black hair. And to remedy the problem I opted for the home perm, endless hours scorching my hair with a curling iron, and painful nights sleeping on plastic rollers. I had years of frizzy funky wild hair until I finally realized upon leaving highschool that my hair was great just the way it was and actually returned to the Lousie Brooks style bob. Cultivated it. Reveled in it. Except for one unfortunate year when I had it bleached blonde. Well that was what I was going for, but the Dutch hairdresser didn't know what she was doing and after frying my scalp with chemicals for eight hours straight she managed to turn it bright orange. I came back to where I was staying with my aunt in Eindhoven and nearly gave my grandmother a heart attack as she'd just woken up from a nap and thought a stranger had broken into the house.

But back to perms. Because let's face it, perms on Asians on just bad news. Although I did see an Asian man on the train the other day with a light wave in his short hair and he was the spitting image of Jude Law in his stance, style and features. On him the perm actually worked. Which just proves there's an exception to every rule.