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I’m not the kind of girl who takes a long time to get ready (as is evident from most of my photos), but I do spend quite a bit of time running around searching for hair accessories, as they tend to disappear and then turn up again in odd places. This is not because I am scatter-brained, but rather because the Boy pinches them to keep his hair out of his eyes when he’s at home.

Grooming seems to be quite an obsession with most of the J-boys I know. Younger Brother posesses more hair products than I do, and spends longer styling it than most girls I know. There are several complete ranges of toiletry products for guys marching off the shelves here. Sometimes the Boy and I do face masks together, running around in white towelling robes. And you’ve probably already read about our epic hair colouring events that are staged here about once every 2 months…

Even though I was brought up in a family of Aussie blokes, quite a few of my male friends back home were into products as well. It’s a good thing. Skin is skin whether it be a boy or girl, and scaly, pimply skin doesn’t suit anyone. Of course there were bizarre grooming exceptions in the family - of course being Mas - who although he would wear his 6 trillion hole cherry Docs for a week straight, not even taking them off to shower (he would just lean in as far as he could and wash the other bits), he would also spend 2 hours doing his hair ala a multi-coloured Statue of Liberty impersonation. But then again punk phases are always entertaining for all involved…

As has been commented on many times before the biggest grooming obsession for J-boys concerns their eyebrows. Off the top of my head I can’t think of one who doesn’t have a bit of a pluck or shave at theirs at least once a fortnight. And I’ll admit that they are not things to be left to roam free, the mono-brow should be banished and those hairs that roam down to the fold of the eyelid need to be kept in check. The good news on the J-boy eyebrow front though is that over-plucking/shaving is now considered very unhip and very 2001, and moderation reigns supreme as we are in the current “slightly wild” look as trendy boys grow their eyebrows back…

• Y’know, I think it is not just J-boys but Asian boys in general.  My ex (Filipino) spends longer on just his hair than I spend in my whole getting-out-of-bed-showing-dressing-eating-grooming-getting out the door.  Twice as long.  But I admit, I like those spikey-haired asian boys.

  Hmm.  I just realized that both times I’ve posted here have been about hair.  I promise you I have other interests.

  Elle
  03/04/18 11:25 AM