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10 Awful Things You Can Say to a Filipina

4. You look tired and frumpy (lusyang).

 

We all have bad hair days. We all experience trying times. We all go through a phase where we’re overcome by stresses and worries in life. When you notice us looking frumpy and stressed, we really are. We might be very busy, but we always find time to prettify ourselves – at least do our hair, take a long bath, and put on perfume. But when bad hair days start to become bad hair weeks or months, then something is terribly wrong, and we could use some help. The last thing we need when we’re lusyang is sarcasm and thoughtlessness. You don’t need to tell us how scruffy we look because we know that already. Good that you noticed our hair needs a good brushing, and better that you’d volunteer to help us do our hair and maybe run a few errands, too.

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