Side Shaved Hair?

Hair is indeed one of the most underrated feature of your body, especially here in Singapore where most people focus on which handbag they carry, which brands they wear, where they dine and all. Ever since I started my street hairstyle hunt with L'Oréal Professionnel Singapore (it's not as easy as shooting street style fashion), I realised that a handful of Singaporeans do give a shit about their hair. Keeping a lookout for them is definitely not easy although many times, I was so tempted to check out all the hair salons on the island. You know, hairstylists naturally have the coolest hair. Well.. thing is, I don't have to resort to that yet, coz thankfully, I manage to spot many hair fashionistas on the streets, not only at Orchard but all the way to Chinatown, Millenia Walk and even the Google office!

When you have the good, you have the bad too. Let me share with you some of my observations:

1) Guys with side shaved hair are flooding the streets now from celebrities, editors to students and Ah Bengs (in case you're wondering, a.k.a. gangsters). I love to find out who started this trend that makes one's head look elongated. The play of Long & Short is a tad too much. 

2) Guys with side shaved hair and, fully gelled and combed are also flooding the streets too. I tried my best looking for one guy who looks amazing with side shaved hair but sadly, none of them stood out. Don't blame me on this. Somebody start another hair trend to make this go away, please. Having said that, side shaved for girls is indeed a new trend that grows on me. Way cool and badass, don't you think?

3) Brown is the most common hair colour for Singaporean ladies, period. I guess most of them are bored with their black tresses and want a colour which is suitable for the corporate world, paving the way for the boring brown. The bad news is, all the aunties jumped onto the hairwagon too. Whether is it the leftover of previous hair dyes (our black roots aren't the perfect canvas for hair colouring - another bad news) or simply because it's the Ah Lian (female version of Ah Bengs) trend, the perfect combi of brown and rebond hair, there are no excuses. It's time to head to the salon, ladies!

Then again, you don't have to dye your hair to look great. The hairsionistas I've featured so far are bold to use their black hair as the perfect backdrop for colourful hair accessories such as headbands, hairbands and hair clips. 

Disagree? 

So anyone of you out there, who resides in Singapore and fancy a mention on both my blog and L'Oréal Professionnel Singapore, feel free to drop me an email (vw.vionawang@gmail.com) with your interesting hairstyle and who knows? You may be featured next!

Into the Blue.

A new season, a new hair colour! I'm still in love with my purple hair but it's time to change it up. So there I was researching countless of amazing hair colour photos on tumblr and finally decided on BLUE! This time, it's more subtle with a focus on my fringe and the inner layers of my hair. I didn't want to be shouting blue so it pops out whenever the wind blows or when I tie my hair.

While getting my hair done at Salon #1, I picked up a hair colouring tip which I find is suitable for you whenever you want a hair colour change:

Me: So, Jason. How do you know which hair colour best suit your client?
Jason: There are several ways to find out. First of all, you need to find out which colour group you belong to: warm or cool. Warm colours includes red, brown, orange and blond, while cool colours are purple, blue, green and grey.

Me: How exactly do we know which hair colour group we belong to?
Jason: One way is to look at the colour of your veins. A good area to look at is underneath your forearm. If majority of your veins fall under either one of the colour group, it means that you belong to that particular group. Of course, it's still up to you in the end.

I guess for me, it's pretty obvious: I am the cool hair colour girl. Ha. Oh! Btw, I'm wearing Giambattista Valli for Macy's sequin top.