There’s a lot of trauma stored in one’s hair. It’s something that’s on your head for a long time; it’s seen it all—especially if you’ve never cut it before, like me. There’s also a certain trauma and scariness attached to the idea of starting over.
In addition to that fear, part of the reason why my hair is so long in the first place is because I’m kind of lazy and too comfortable. But I learned that comfortable does not necessarily mean confident. I got so used to my routines . I wasn’t ready to explore how my maintenance would change if I cut it all off. Long hair is praised in our society. I think it’s beautiful, too, but the notion that length is tied to femininity is dated.
Doing a drastic change didn’t really occur to me until recently. I started to feel like people weren’t listening to what was important to me, partially because they were distracted by my hair. I might be doing a livestream where I’m talking about, and then I see people in the comments making Rick James or George Washington hair jokes. But I can’t control what kind of hair I have. And the reason I have bangs is because I’m a chef and I need my hair to be out of my face while I’m cooking.
I think for me, cutting my hair is an act of resistance as well, in the truest sense. It’s me saying, ‘This is how little I care about it. I’ll chop this shit off.’ I want Black women to understand, too, that we can do whatever we want with our hair and still be beautiful. We are beautiful when we have it or when we don’t. We’re beautiful with wigs on and we’re beautiful with extensions. We’re beautiful when it’s natural, or when it’s not. It doesn’t matter.
Before this, when it came to my process with Renee, I kept giving her different references for what I wanted, from pixie to bob. I didn’t really know what I wanted, I just knew I wanted to get rid of it. She finally recommended I do a chin-length bob, and that if I wasn’t feeling it, we would just go all the way with a pixie cut. When I sat in the chair, she explained that she would be doing an undercut at the back of my head. “That way it will lay flat and have a cool shape,” she said.
IamSophiaRoe There's no hair weave or wigs that is better than our natural hair. We should take care of our natural hair first and foremost.
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