I noticed that 2009 and 2010 brought on a Blonde Asian movement within the fashion community. It wasn't that Blonde Asians didn't existed before, it just wasn't common in high fashion (with few exceptions – dear friends Mey Bun and Rila Fukushima). Fashion wants Asians to look well... Asian. Straight black hair, small almond shaped eyes, delicate nose, petite frame, etc... Street fashion on the other hand is a different story. If you take a trip to Shibuya 109 in Japan, EVERY Japanese girl has some shade of blonde hair (My Taiwanese friend's use to call me 109 mei). I am personally a blonde and also Asian (only on some days). I've been touched with the high volume bleaching bug for almost 9 years now and prior to that, I was once a blonde in high school. When I see a head full of beautiful platinum blonde hair strolling down the street, I always do a double take. Something about that obviously bleached blonde nearing white silver just makes me so so happy. The fact that the color blonde is such a DIVA with all the maintenance requirements gives her extra credibility to be sassy. When she's burning your scalp you know she's bitching you out for having to work so hard just to lift from black only to get a tacky shade of orange before it even starts to get to a decent shade of blonde. All this, while your scalp is cursing at you for leaving behind boo boo's to allow this to happen. Even after all the torture, she shines like a beacon of light in the middle of a street filled with darkness, and glows in the black-light at the club (strip club? rave?), giving you all the more reason to put up with her antics.

Friends and family that have known me over the years have known that I particularly have a soft spot for this colour. It is my crack addiction that I just can't seem to give up. Sure, I secretly wish I had long luscious, silky, shiny black or brown hair that can blow in the wind like a Pantene commercial or shake my hair and have it fall back into place like good ol' Vidal Sassoon. But at the end of the day, it's the color blonde on my head that makes me feel at my best (it's also something about that overly damaged hair that allows me to have badass hair styles that I normally wouldn't be able to achieve because it just falls flat or straight). I love that there are so many different types of blondes with both positive and negative stereotypes: The Hollywood Glamour Star, Playboy Bimbos, Trashy Skank, Surfer Dude, Rock n' Roll Badass, Edgy Fashion Model- with so many labels under one belt to be a chameleon, no wonder stars like Madonna, Gwen Stefani, Christina Aguilera, Lady Gaga, my friend Darian Darling (who also has a love for all things blonde), and of course ME always keeping a head full of blonde locks!

I personally love that the fashion industry is riding this wave – blondes are awesome but Blonde Asian Models are even MORE awesome.

Everyone should go blonde at least once in their life.

Left to Right (Row 1): Mey Bun (occasional blonde) 2004, 2010 / Gwen Lu 2009, 2010
Left to Right (Row 2): Ai Tominaga 2010 / Tao Okamoto for Vogue China 2010
Left to Right (Row 3): Late Daul Kim 2009 / Rila Fukushima consistent blonde

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