[glamourcitys]

I was always curious why Japaneese people tend to dye their hair to get strictly, specificly, exactly, precisely this colour + some variations of reddish brown ? Short question, when you'll watch a K1 tournament and some Japanese fight, you can be sure that he will have dyed brown or reddish brown hair.

[JJascaxal]

They just want to be Euros so damn bad.

[InvertPrete]

It is in style I guess

[TeNuaTe]

Yes. Seems the bright red and yellow hair got them bored.

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They just want to be Euros so damn bad.

Well they could pretend being maltese or cypriot and im sure they wouldnt need that much hair dye at all

[blankostaroe]

I see Koreans and Hong Kongers, doing the same.

[katespepach]

a) because it's of cute;
b) because japanese are of bored;
c) because they are into using makeup and stuff like that.

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q...w=1440&bih=717

http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl...=&oq=&gs_rfai=

[happyman]

They probably aspire to look like their Anime characters, or some kind of trend like that.

[prpaims]

Its called fashion. And fashion is a way for pretentious people to conform to eachother. somebody thought brown hair was cool, and then everyone thought it was cool. I dont know, weird question.

[CialisBestPrice]

It's just a trend. A decade ago it was out of the ordinary to see Japanese men with dyed hair; now everyone does it. It's like long hair or afros in America. Back in the 60s long hair was fringe, but in the 70s, everyone had long hair.

[viiagrag]

Japanese take the term metrosexual to a whole new level.

[Stainditnew]

I was always curious why Japaneese people tend to dye their hair to get strictly, specificly, exactly, precisely this colour + some variations of reddish brown ? Short question, when you'll watch a K1 tournament and some Japanese fight, you can be sure that he will have dyed brown or reddish brown hair.

Since I realize most of you guys don't know shit about anything outside of the West and maybe the Middle East, time for class children:

Brown hair (happatsu) is often thought of as "kawaii" (cute, cool). A sizable percentage of Japanese children have brown hair, but it usually turns black by their teens.

Many girl, far more than men, dye their hair to look "cute" similar to how a lot of European women dye their hair blond to appear more "youthful" which is basically "sexy" for a woman.

It has little to do with Europeans, believe it or not, everything people do in the world does not have to do with Europeans. I know, I know, shocking...

http://danavideofilms.com/dana%20ima...ese%20kids.jpg
http://www.fitofat.com/wp-content/up...e-kids_246.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3602/...b14c6e.jpg?v=0
http://www.babies-cute.com/wp-conten...Girl-Photo.jpg

Many Euros may call this black hair, but it is really dark brown. Since almost all Japanese in adulthood have jet-black hair they notice the difference.

I would guess, from my time in Tokyo, about 1/4-1/3 of Japanese kids have brown hair as children...usually goes away by 9 or 10 years old...


Today in Tokyo you can find all types of hair styles, from long hair, dyed hair, permed curly hair (although a handful of Japanese have natural wavy hair) spiked hair, even afros, and braids:


http://cdn.thefrisky.com/images/uplo...o_060209_m.jpg

http://blog.dramafever.com/wp-conten...row_braids.jpg

What I've been told about all this is simple. Most people have black hair, so black hair is normal and somewhat boring. So people want to make themselves stand out and look different, at least until they start working professionally.

Actually, in the last 3 or 4 years more girls are wearing their hair naturally black, it is coming back in style. It is more so men who are dying their hair. LOL It was the other way around a decade ago.

In centuries past, young men with brown hair (or anyone) was considered "weak". Meaning easy to get sick, etc. My ex-wife's father has very light brown eyes, and had brown hair as a child (my ex-wife and her younger sister also had brown hair, her older one jet-black hair)...the father was made to stay inside a lot because they thought he might easily get sick and die or some nonsense.

That's not the case anymore, but it was looked on that way, at least in rural areas in Central Japan.

[Plulpangepler]

Lots of young Asians in the US dye their hair to an orangeish brown color, too. They do it because they think it looks cool, not because they want to be European or anything. Just a trend, just like the sayan hairstyles lots of them wear.

[genna]

i have never seen japanese with brown hair, neither those pictures seem to have it. I think japanese homogeneus looks (jet black hair, dark brown eyes, similar heights and skin tone) have helped themselves to admire easier things that come from outside, a kind of inferiority complex, specially towards white/caucasian foreigners.

[myspacepro]

Everyone wants white traits.

[carfAball]

i have never seen japanese with brown hair, neither those pictures seem to have it. I think japanese homogeneus looks (jet black hair, dark brown eyes, similar heights and skin tone) have helped themselves to admire easier things that come from outside, a kind of inferiority complex, specially towards white/caucasian foreigners.

Listen, I lived in Tokyo for over a fucking year, August 2001 - October 2002. I don't give a fuck what you think you have seen.

I've seen millions of Japanese as I commuted On the Chuo Line, the Yamanote Line, and the Mita Line every fucking day for months, from Chuo Rinkan to my home in Suginami-ku. Before that I lived in Nakano-ku and commuted daily to Higashi Shinjuku.

I worked at a company with all fucking Japanese, but my black ass, an African, and three white guys. That's it. Every morning the fucking cross guard would say "Ohaio" to me as he was crossing the kids, with their fucking helmets on and big as pack packs on my way from the station to work.

You don't know what the fuck you are talking about.

I do.

Get over it.

Many Japanese have brown hair as children.

That's the way it is.


This is me in Japan. Have you ever lived there?

Fuck no. So stop pulling bullshit out of your ass. Thanks.

[Derrida]

jack, im not questioning your personal experiences in japan so dont take it as personal. I just mentioned that what is considered as brown is indeed a very dark brown which for untrained western eyes means black. Anyways when japanese girls dye their hairs brown,they do it in a lighter shade of brown rather than a very dark shade of brown that according to you some asian kids have.

[gregmcal]

Listen, I lived in Tokyo for over a fucking year, August 2001 - October 2002. I don't give a fuck what you think you have seen.

I've seen millions of Japanese as I commuted On the Chuo Line, the Yamanote Line, and the Mita Line every fucking day for months, from Chuo Rinkan to my home in Suginami-ku. Before that I lived in Nakano-ku and commuted daily to Higashi Shinjuku.

I worked at a company with all fucking Japanese, but my black ass, an African, and three white guys. That's it. Every morning the fucking cross guard would say "Ohaio" to me as he was crossing the kids, with their fucking helmets on and big as pack packs on my way from the station to work.

You don't know what the fuck you are talking about.

I do.

Get over it.

Many Japanese have brown hair as children.

That's the way it is.


This is me in Japan. Have you ever lived there?

Fuck no. So stop pulling bullshit out of your ass. Thanks.

Damn you are skinny.

[uranbigis]

jack, im not questioning your personal experiences in japan so dont take it as personal. I just mentioned that what is considered as brown is indeed a very dark brown which for untrained western eyes means black. Anyways when japanese girls dye their hairs brown,they do it in a lighter shade of brown rather than a very dark shade of brown that according to you some asian kids have.

Never in my life have I ever heard a Japanese person say to me "I dye my hair X color because white people are so beautiful and I want to look like them..."

Yes in Japan there is something called Hakujin (white) Complex.

You can't read this but this article talks about it:

http://www.haverford.edu/jnse/4fall96/liz.html

Most Japanese don't have it.

They just do this to stand out, to be unique in a country that pushes conformity down your throat since before you can speak. YOu have no idea how suffocating that is. My ex-wife's cousin killed himself because he didn't get into a university his parents demanded, he made his family loose face, because all their friends kids got into good schools. So he hung himself.

This is just an act of rebellion, to be cool. Most Japanese people if they go to work a white collar professional job do not dye their hair, you will rarely see that in an office place. It is something specific to teens and university students.

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Damn you are skinny.

LOL Yeah I was damn skinny...that's true.

I literally weight 25 more kg now, muscle. I work out 3-4 times a week. Even when I was skinny I had game though.

[soitlyobserty]

Why do japanese take off their shoes before killing themselves?

[Clunlippibe]

Why do japanese take off their shoes before killing themselves?

LOL, that's a good question. I have no idea. I've heard that before, but no one ever said why. I guess to be comfortable.

I lived in China too, but only for 6 months...to me, Communist Mainland Chinese are far less strange than Japanese. Japanese are kind of like the British are to Europe...don't quite fit in anywhere.

If I understood my ex-wife (or if she understood herself, we would still be married). She's in the picture above.