Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think she's got great hair, but I think it's just a genetic thing - long straight-ish thick dark hair. I had hair like that, but thicker (which made it harder to style). At 52, it's still my best feature.
Another vote for genes. My non-Asian friends are always shocked when I tell them that I wash my hair with whatever cheap shampoo I can find, wash it every day, and never use conditioner. I'm of east Asian descent and I never knew that shiny hair, straight har was something to be envied until I was an adult because that's just how my entire family's hair is.
Another Asian here. When our kids were in preschool, another mom remarked to me that she thought I had it together because my DD showed up at school every day with combed neat hair, never tangled or bed-heady. I informed her that I had nothing to do with it, my DD literally woke up every morning like that.
But it is also the reason why it takes me 20 minutes and 15 hairpins to get my DD's hair into a bun for ballet class, while everyone else pins it up 5 mins before class with 3 pins. Thick slick hair just doesn't want to stay in a bun shape.
And now that I'm older, my hair is thinning and that's definitely an Asian genetic thing.