Blonde Asian: Medium Maintenance.
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Start Here
I think a lot of people land here and don’t know what this is. Some probably think it’s something else entirely. I get it. The name doesn’t exactly help. This blog is about my experience as a Filipino + American woman, first generation, going blonde and figuring out what that actually takes. Not just getting…
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Blonde Asian Chronicles: My Blonde Hair Timeline
Going Blonde as an Asian Woman (Over 10 Years, No Disappearances) So you’re Asian and you want to be blonde. Welcome. Pull up a chair. This post walks through my blonde hair journey from the perspective of an Asian + American woman who has been blonde, in some form, for over ten years. Writing this…
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Where I Actually Spend Time on My Hair (and Where I Don’t)
This post may contain affiliate links. If you use them, it helps keep the blog going, which I appreciate. If you’re new here, you’ll learn quickly that I try my best to keep my life very medium maintenance, especially when it comes to my hair. Aside from the financial cost of consistently bleaching my hair…
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Teleties vs. Invisibobble: One Annoyed Me Less
This post may contain affiliate links. If you use them, it helps keep the blog going, which I appreciate. I’m taking this experiment very seriously because anyone who experiences hair aches deserves answers. Lol. My last post sung the praises of Knekki hair ties. Now, I want to put similar hair ties head to head.…
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What Actually Changed After I Cut My Hair
I cut my hair a while ago and wanted to sit with it for a bit just to see if anything actually felt different afterward. We approached the blonde a little differently during that appointment, but the main thing was how much hair I cut off. With the losses and changes in my life, we…
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Heat Damage: How I Avoid It (and When I Don’t)
Some links are affiliate links. If you choose to use them, it helps support the blog at no cost to you, and I really appreciate it. I was looking up guides on how to do finger wave curls and ended up falling down a rabbit hole of 1940s and 1950s hair routines. One thing that…
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My Only Hair Pet Peeve Is Split End Delusion
This post may contain affiliate links. If you use them, it helps keep the blog going, which I appreciate. There Is No Way to Repair Split Ends I feel like I need to say this out loud so I can claim I did my good deed for the year. There is no way to repair…
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Hair Tie Experiment: Kknekki Is the Best Hair Tie, But It’s Not Easy to Get
I tested Burlybands right before this, which was helpful because it made me realize strength is not the only thing I care about in a hair tie. Burlybands held my hair, but it also felt like a lot of hair tie for me. Kknekki is different. It still holds my hair well, but it does…
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K18 Products I Reach For When I Have Somewhere to Be
There are times when you know you have a special event coming up. More often than not, you start thinking about what you’re going to wear. Once that’s settled, the next thing on my docket is my hair. What am I going to do with my hair? Since I’m so Medium Maintenance, even though I’m…
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K18 Purple Shampoo Review: What It Did to My Blonde Hair
Some links are affiliate links. If you choose to use them, it helps support the blog at no cost to you, and I really appreciate it. I fell in love with K18’s product line to the point where I basically bought everything they make and started rotating it into my routine to see what actually…
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The Real Cost of Going Blonde (Money, Time, and Maintenance)
I knew going blonde would cost money. That was the obvious part. What I didn’t realize were all the other costs that come with going blonde as an Asian woman. The easiest way for me to explain it is the triangle of production costs. On each side of the triangle you have time, cost, and…
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Why Going Blonde Isn’t Just Dye (Especially for Dark Asian Hair)
I remember being in grade school and seeing my friends’ moms buying Clairol Nice ’n Easy to touch up their roots. It was a totally foreign concept to me. I started looking at the boxes in the store and noticed they showed base hair colors and the results you could expect after dyeing. The darker…
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Meeting My Mom’s Garden
I know if you’re here, you’re probably looking for information about either being blonde, Asian, or both. But this week I finally had the opportunity to tend to my Mom’s garden. There are other facets to myself, and this felt like something that should have an audience here. We finally had some nice Michigan weather,…
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Blogging the Silence: Posting When No One Is Watching
I started this blog after both of my parents passed away. It’s not that I didn’t want to blog before. I tried a few times, but I didn’t have the drive to turn it into something consistent. I also had no idea what I was doing. I knew I needed time to process my grief,…