Wu Lei, 54, wanted to try and look like someone
in their 20s or 30s to try and gain the affections
of a 23-year-old woman
A middle-aged man made waves when he styled
his hair into a perfectly right-angled flat top to
make himself look younger - but instead and
ended up looking like a plastic Lego toy.
When Wu Lei, 54, from Taiwan, was quizzed
about the hairdo by a Chinese reporter, he said he
had wanted to impress a 23-year-old woman who
he had tried to chat up but who had rejected his
advances.
But the young woman said the hairdo had made
her even more unlikely to respect him as he
looked like a Lego figure or character from the
video game "Warcraft".
She said: "My friends call him blockhead, I can
imagine he might have found someone as he had
a good and respectable job as a medical
laboratory scientist at the National Taiwan
University Hospital. But he should act his age."
Wu, who is still single despite the expensive
hairdo, said: "I can't understand it. I make an
attractive monthly income of 70,000 Taiwanese
Dollars (£1,400).
"I adopted this hairstyle because I wanted to look
like a guy in his 20s or 30s to attract the girl who
rejected me. Or in fact any girl."
Styling his hair was not an easy task. He
reportedly needs to use up two cans of gel and
spends two hours doing his hair. He can also
only comb it once every 15 days to get rid of
dead hair.
But the hairdo and the media coverage has made
Wu a hit on the streets, with people pointing out
Blockhead to their kids and taking snaps of him.
The famous local comic artist Cherng Li even
featured Wu in one of his stories after seeing him
on the metro, saying "I could not get his figure
out of my mind, so I had to put it onto paper."
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