I am basically asian and i can say that there is some difference of asian and european hairstyles.The basic difference is that the asian have the pure black hairstyles while the european have some kind of white hairs.
Hair texture, coarseness/fineness of the strands, and the amount that grows on your head, is not necessarily a racial/ethnic thing, although certain ‘hair types’ are much more common in certain ethnic groups. For instance anyone who would be called ‘black’ almost certainly has a dry scalp and hair with a ‘fine’ to ‘medium’ strand thickness (not coarse) and a good deal of curl/bend/kink to each strand. This hair needs lots of moisture and very gentle treatment or it breaks off. Similarly anyone ‘East Asian’ almost certainly has brown or black hair which is not what most of us would call curly - but I have known Asian women with silky fine or very coarse (think horse’s mane) strands, with a ton of hair on their heads or very little, dead straight or with quite a lot of body wave.
Also - hairdressers are trained to deal with your ‘average’ (American - mostly whites) head of hair - which is of fine to medium strand thickness, worn straight to wavy (regardless of the amount of curl it’s capable of), and of an average amount (which seems to be, roughly, 2" to 3.5" ponytail circumference). If your hair is curly, has a lot of body, you have a ton of hairs on your head or not a lot, or your strands are coarse, it’s damn hard to get a decent haircut no matter your ethnic background.
ETA: If anyone cares I’m a white girl with dry, average to thinnish curly/wavy hair with both fine and medium strands - and an INSANE amount of body. My hair is gigantic, always has been, and I don’t know why. I stay away from all salons because they do nothing but make me look like a mushroom (improper haircut) or haystack (heat styling).
i have a chinese friend that only gets her hair done in Taiwan,
My hair is similar to Obsidian – delicate, thin, and very straight. I went to an Asian hairstylist here in Flushing (which is, if you don’t know, a gigantic Chinatown) and he gave me the exact same hairstyle as every Chinese girl in Flushing wears: the same blunt corners, the same bangs, not a bit of layering. Oh my! It wasn’t hideous or anything, at least.
Now, because I’m poor, I just take a pair of scissors to my bangs whenever they get too long, and try to trim off any split ends I can find.
I have to ask: what is “basically asian?”