I’m not exactly sure when it started but sometime in the late 80s or early 90s, Asians living overseas decided it was a good idea to emulate the ridiculous hairstyles found in Japanese anime.

Western born retards running around with all manner of colors, gravity defying spikes and ridiculous slanted fringes pretending their hair was a throwback to their Asian cultural heritage never made sense to me. I mean it’s not like western teenagers run around with teletubby haircuts or whatever.

When I came to Taiwan part of me was curious as to whether or not the crazy hairstyle culture was homegrown or whether it was simply a product of Asians and a cultural identity crisis.

Thankfully crazy anime hairstyles appeared to be kept at a minimum in Asia itself, well at least in Taiwan anyway. This appearance continued for a few months after I first arrived. Everywhere I looked guys sported boring parted haircuts and occasionally I’d see a young guy with borderline emo ‘I’d love to know what exactly what the hell you told your hairdresser to get them to do that‘ look. And then of course there were the random androgynous guys running around too.

Still, nothing as a bad as some of the crap I’d seen back home. Well, that is until I ran into this guy.

What you’re looking at there ladies and gentlemen is not a wig and the guy isn’t sporting hair extensions either. It’s a bonafide dyed tips and all anime haircut making him look like something out of Dragonball Z.

Worst of all I’d put his age at somewhere in his twenties.

Up until the point I saw this guy I’d had a good run. Sadly this random Taiwanese guy not only made the haircuts I’d seen back home obsolete… but he set the bar for stupid haircut so ridiculously high that I fear nobody anywhere at any time in the future will ever be able to top it.

Seriously I don’t even want to know how many hours it takes to do that to your hair every freaking morning.

Thankfully for most Taiwanese guys the necessity of riding scooters around and having to wear a helmet means stupid crazy hair is kept to a minimum. No point dolling yourself up if you’re going to arrive with flattened hair anyway.

Since buying my scooter I myself have had to resort to a near crew cut out of functional practicality.

Unfortunately the same applies to girls and while there are some sexy haircuts out there, most girls go opt for keeping their hair naturally dead straight and scooter helmet friendly.

Not that there’s anything wrong with dead straight Asian hair on girls, just that sometimes some variety would be nice.

Anyway, getting back to Asian guys hair… I’m hoping this is the worst I see but it’s still early days yet. Here’s to you Mr. random Taiwanese guy – As judged by myself, for now you’ve officially got the worst guys haircut in Taiwan.

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