Why I Hate Japanese Hair Salons & Japanese Hairstylists

Japanese hairstylists always make the lady look older than when she came into the salon.

Instead of making the person appear fresher & younger, their designs emphasize the woman's age & make look her true age or even older. Very un-sexy & these Japanese stylists don't even realize what they are doing.

I have not seen a Japanese hair salon deviate from this.

That's why I hate Japanese salons. And will avoid going to try one, even if it's new & has good reviews.  These women don't know what is good & what is not. They think perms are everything.


When you go into a salon, you should come out looking better, youthful & fresher. If you go in as a young woman but come out as a married-looking woman, how can the salon be good?? 

Japanese people (like the Koreans) have a fixation with a person's age & have very rigid, outdated & old-fashioned ideas of women & feminine beauty. So unconsciously, they make a woman look her age. They make a woman unattractive & boring.

This is different from western/Caucasian hairstylists who are bolder & more creative in giving fresh new looks to a woman, regardless of her age.

In the hands of a western/Caucasian hairstylist, an older woman can emerge looking younger, fresher, sexier & runway fashionable. But not so in a Japanese salon.

(Personally, I've been to Japanese salons & they were expensively lousy. Shunji Matsuo & Monso.).   

Take a look at this video below: 

At the beginning when she is first seated, she looks like a young woman. Her long, soft hair frames her face & makes her look younger in her case.  The long hair softens her jawline & blurs her age. I would guess she is in her twenties. Credit goes to whoever did her hair.

But look what happens when the Japanese stylist cuts her hair short. The camera closes in on her face. I see she is not as young as I thought.  At least thirty & more likely older.

When the short hair is finally done (without hair cream), she looks totally like a married woman. He said now she looks more "adult". Yeah. He means now she looks older. Precisely.

Which part of his terrible design is "fashionable"???  After he added the hair cream, it's even worse. She looks like a mother of 2 or 3 kids. Shit.

His haircut has completely destroyed her youthful appearance. Now I can see clearly the thick layers under her eyes, the lines down her cheek, her high forehead, the hard angular cheekbones highlighting the fact that she isn't a young woman at all.

Big age jump up. This is the kind of hairstylist I hate.  For turning a young woman into a married-looking woman who has years on her face... I definitely want his shop to close down.

What he has done is not stylish at all. It's shit. And I would say he dares charge expensively for it.