Why Asian parents should never give their child the Asian-Bowl-Cut.
Asian bowl-cuts are horrendous.
Growing up, my father cut my hair.
I remembered sitting in the bathroom when I was younger, watching snippets of my hair fall to the ground. I gasped as my hair length became shorter and shorter.
My father used to be a hairdresser and cut the family member’s hair. My father had the entire hair salon equipment and would often ask us or the family what kind of hairstyle they want. My father would replicate the desired hairstyle and it would turn out great.
I remember, sitting still on the leather chair — watching my beautiful, long, luscious hair snipped off to the ground. “Snip, snip, snip,” my hair dramatically falls onto the ground. Every year, my family would save a ton of money on haircuts.
However, the hairstyle I got was often the Asian Bowl-Cuts.
As you can see, back then, I would not care about my Asian-Bowl-Cut hairstyle. Whenever my elementary teachers or high school teachers saw my new Asian-Bowl-Cut hairstyle, being freshly cut — they would compliment me saying it’s nice and so on.
As the years go by, and the changes in Puberty happened. I became more conscious of my Asian-Bowl-Cut style. I remembered getting awful comments about my hair and face and even being conscious of what people would say about my hair.
Here are 3 reasons why Asian parents should not give the Asian Bowl Cuts to their children:
(1) Bullying.
I hate when children bully other children. Why are kids such evil creatures sometimes?
When I was in 8th grade, I still had the Asian-Bowl-Cut.
To add another catastrophe on the list, puberty kicked in. I had oily skin and lots of acne. I once posted a selfie on Ask Fm (an anonymous website where you can people question, anonymously) and I vividly remembered getting a ton of hate comments. One comment that struck me the most was a comment from an anonymous user, saying “Your face and style looks weird.”
To be fair, I plastered my face on the internet.
But still. Haircuts and hairstyle with children can lead to bullying.
After a few bullying incidents, I had to end my Asian-Bowl-Cut phase. I had to grow out my hair for conformity. I was conscious of people’s comments as well as my looks. Throughout adolescence, I had to grow out my hair. Goodbye, my Asian-Bowl-Cut.
(2) It’s embarrassing!
It is a bit embarrassing to walk around with an Asian-Bowl-Cut, with some short bangs and an awful hairstyle.
While Asian parents may embrace it, the other people may ridicule at you. I remembered back in high school, I was embarrassed to have that haircut because some kids at my school didn’t have crushes on me because of my awful haircut. While teachers may like it, students not so much.
(3) Regretful looks later.
In the present moment, as I look back at my bowl cut days, I have realized that they were awful. Yes, I said awful. A part of me regretted that hair cut — but at the same time, I loved it that it was part of my childhood — despite getting bullied for my fabulous haircut.
To recap: To all the Asian parents out there, please do not give your children the Asian bowl cut. Unless you want them to cringe back at the good ol’ haircut days.
Love in the stars,
— Britney Vu
:)
