The hairstyles here never cease to impress. Maybe it's because my haircut is boring; maybe it's because I'm a lousy foreigner. The girls have blunt cuts that carve out their faces from the eyebrows and below, covering their ears. Some keep the bangs and the ends stick-straight but crimp the back and fluff it. Other girls seem to have two haircuts at once. The top half of the hair is a shoulder-length cut that fans out at the chin. The bottom half is another 'do: a long, smooth cut that continues down the back and ends just above the elbows. Voila; two haircuts at once. The boys find exciting ways to wear their hair, too. Some have jagged bangs that start at the hairline and descend diagonally down the forehead to meet the ear. Some do the crimp-fluff method. Others rock what I call the Lychee Look: thick spikes all over the head. Even babies have great styles. My favorite baby haircut is the one you see on waddling Chinese girls: bowl cut complete with straight bangs cut an inch above the eyebrow. A classic look. Taiwan, you might not be a real country to some people, but you have real great hairstyle sense to me.
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As all of you know, China (and more specifically, Taiwan) is a big part of my heritage. My mother was born in China but raised in Taipei, Taiwan. (FYI, my father was born in Philadelphia but raised in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. So kind of the same.) All of my mother's immediate family still resides in Taipei: my grandparents, my aunt, my uncle, their children and their children's children. I'm going to Taipei this summer for seven full weeks (from May 28-July 15) to live with them, become familiar with their Taiwan lifestyle and finally learn to speak some Mandarin.
I want pictures. This sounds like something I could do with my do.
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