43-year-old Kelis, the singer of the famous song Milk Shake from back in 2003, was at a coffeeshop here in Chinatown last week.
She posted a video on her Instagram showing a couple of PRC women approaching her and playing with her hair without asking her.
The two women then started having a conversation among themselves about Kelis’ hair, as the latter looked surprised with her personal space being invaded.
She was seen minding her own business when the two women started meddling with her hair, asking her “is it real hair?”
Kelis captioned her video “I don’t even know what to say here”, as she was seen in the video looking exasperated and resigned to her fate.
The two women continued to fool around with her hair, as Kelis’ companion told her to “just embrace it”.
Netizens’ comments
- Waaaayy more tolerant than me lol! This is just insane… like no.
- They are not locals. Their accents gave them away.
- So sorry you had to encounter that in Singapore. From their accents & behavior, looks like they are from China. Those from Singapore usually are more reserved in touching coz there are law against harassments – tht includes touching. They said they were intrigued & amazed the lenght & waves anyway. Tell them loudly “SEE NO TOUCH!” or in Mandarin “CAN, PU YAU DONG!” repeated that point your fingers at them wave it (which literary means see, no touch). Last time some tourist frm China touched my baby sister & pinched her cheeks. I learned to tell them off by saying same thing.
- Singaporeans don’t touch people’s hair. These 2 girls likely from China.
- The irony is how offended she became when you touched her hair
- Gurrrrl if you don’t back up 🙄 from my hair !! I’m aware that it’s a different culture and they see us differently but you should’ve educated them on NOT touching black women’s hair we are not dogs . All of us don’t like to be touched it’s rude for most of us .