Category: Medium Maintenance
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What Actually Happens During My Blonde Hair Appointment?
This post may contain affiliate links. If you use them, it helps keep the blog going, which I appreciate. I wrote a post about what happens after I go to a blonding appointment. I’m not sure why it didn’t occur to me to write about what happens at the actual appointment. I know there are…
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I Have a Lot of Hair. Why Is My Hair So Flat?
Any Asian woman can probably empathize with being blessed and cursed with the hair we’re born with. We generally have a lot of thick, dark hair, and at some point, a lot of us have sported it long. On the other hand, our hair tends to be super straight and can appear rather flat. Is…
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I’m Testing Hair Tools to See What’s Actually Worth Using
I really had fun with my hair tie experiment. I actually found the hair tie of my dreams, and I found out that there are a lot of hair solutions for people with long, thick hair. Now that has concluded, obviously I needed something new to fuss over. It didn’t hit me until I started…
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What Hair Styling Is Actually Worth the Effort for Me
This post may contain affiliate links. If you use them, it helps keep the blog going, which I appreciate. When I was in high school, I’d get up two hours early to make sure I had enough time to shower, dry, and style my hair to a T. I enjoyed it. Any leftover time was…
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Why I Use Highlighting Foils Instead of Scalp Bleaching
There are many ways to go blonde. The easiest way is a wig. I know that’s probably not what you were expecting, but it’s true. In all seriousness, almost all of my time as a blonde has involved foils. There was a period when I switched to scalp bleaching, but eventually I decided to go…
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What “Low Effort” Actually Means for Me
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 feel like society has a pretty strong idea of what it means to be high maintenance. The problem is, if you’re not high maintenance, people tend to assume…
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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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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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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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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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Shopping for Swimsuits Over 40 (It’s Not What I Expected)
I thought I needed something “flattering,” but I didn’t actually know what that meant anymore. It’s like I don’t even want to be seen at the beach or pool, let alone in a bathing suit. I like going if it’s a social thing, but even then, we all know people are looking. Maybe not as…