Category: Blonde Asian Chronicles
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Blonde Asian Chronicles: My Experience as an Filipino + Asian Woman Going Blonde
How This Even Became a Thing People notice when an Asian woman is blonde. Sometimes it’s subtle. A double take. A quick question about whether the color is natural. Occasionally someone just blurts out that they’ve never seen an Asian woman with hair that light in real life before. After a while you get used…
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Blonde Asian Chronicles: Why Blonde Asian?
Unless you’re fortunate enough to have no trace of social media, at some point in your life you’ve had to come up with a username or handle of some kind. Early on, I used to change my Instagram username constantly just to be funny. As you can imagine, it became confusing for people pretty quickly.…
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How Going Blonde Changed Me (It Wasn’t Just My Hair)
Why I Went Blonde in the First Place If I really boil it down, I went blonde for two reasons that don’t actually belong together. When I was still performing, I once got a note from a director. The gist was that my face read as too “hard.” I wish he’d just said RBF. The…
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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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The Blonde Asian Project
Heidi Ho, people I don’t know! Heidi Ho, people I don’t know! I’m your resident Blonde Asian, or at least, that’s the name I go by here. I’ve been wanting to start this blog for a while, and for so many reasons, it finally feels like the right time. I’m turning 40 in January, I’ve…