Today is my cousin Ayumi's birthday he turned 13 years old, look how time flies. Ayumi was born in the Philippines and spent his 7 childhood years in there. Like me Ayumi is also a Lola's kid (grandmother's kid), with his physical attributes you can never deny the fact that he is of Japanese blood. While still a baby we used to call Ayumi as a shaolin kid, hes eyes were small and does'nt have any eyelids at all, bald, chubby and cute. He's really a source of happiness in the family. When my aunt and his husband decided to bring Ayumi in Japan, off course my grandmother felt so bad about it but later realized that Ayumi also needs to be with his family. When I came here I was surprised how Ayumi can now relate being a Japanese, he's now good speaking the language, he's attitude is more of a Japanese, much more is, he even eats vegetables and even get used in eating Japanese food. Though he's ability to speak Tagalog became poor, but still I am glad he still knows how to speak it. Most half Japanese kids don't even know how to speak Tagalog. The adjustments Ayumi has made is not that easy. Maybe it's lesser but discrimination still exist and that's basically one reason why Ayumi is having a hard time in school. A part of Ayumi is still Filipino. And it really draws a lot of attention from his friends and schoolmates, other Filipino Japanese in their school don't even talk about themselves as being a Filipino. Confused, shy and misunderstood, I guess it's really difficult to show yourself who you are. Japanese has their own style when it comes to fashion and hairstyle, I must say it's a bit weird though. My aunt and Ayumi always argue about his hairstyle. At adolescent stage, Ayumi is starting to have acnes on his forehead, my aunt wants Ayumi to have a clean cut hairstyle revealing his forehead to avoid more acnes, the kind of hairstyle my aunt wants for Ayumi is not "in" he refused and still wants to maintain his anime hairstyle look. My aunt even mind the way Ayumi wears his uniform in school, for us Filipino being groom and neat before going to school is important, and that's what my aunt wants Ayumi to be. Well, Ayumi is a grown up now, I hope he figures that out.
JAPANESE HAIRSTYLES
Hair is the center of Japanese fashion, Japanese people care about their hair more than any other country people. It plays important roles as one of Japanese fashions.
There are so many kinds of hairstyle in Japan. Briefly, women have three kinds, "Long", "Medium" and "Short". These are just length of hair. Hairstyles for male are usually categorized into just one "Men's" Japanese hairstyles are always changing, so it is too many to count.
These hairstyles are created by hair conditioners, wax, mousse, and gel. Actually, Japanese have trendon the hair conditioners. First, Gel used to be popular form late 80's to middle 90's. this hair conditioner was mainly for holding hair. This is because of influence from music which was popular in those days. For example, rock music was popular then. Many people tried to imitate hairstyles of famous musicians like X JAPAN.
And, next, mousse became popular. Mousse is a French word, means fresh cream. Mousse is made of water, so it is easier to set hair and keep hair holding. Japanese still had the trend holding hair. Then, wax got the most popular for setting hair. It enables people to create many kinds of hairstyles, so it is flexible. Now, most people mix mousse and wax for their setting as new trend.
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