I want genuineness, confidence, and self-love to be the new beautiful." My hope isn't to shift the focus from one to the other I don't want to for bald to be the 'new' beautiful. In a lot of ways, that's still the case today. I know that, historically, women with long hair have been celebrated as the most beautiful. On the other hand, some of my friends, and the Instagram community, have supported my decision 100 percent. What was the reception like? "Some members of my family have yet to comment on my shaved head some of them won't look me in the eye and literally just shook their head in disappointment. I can genuinely say that I will never be the same." I don't plan to stay bald or even buzzed forever, but I think that it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. I've always been a chameleon, changing my personality-and even my physical appearance-to fit in and be accepted. Now the shield is gone, and when I look in the mirror, interact with people, or go in public, it's the most raw version of myself. It represented so much more than just hair it represented a shell that I portrayed to hide the real me. It was like a metaphorical shield that I held up whenever I felt like I wasn't good enough. I had no idea how much I used to hide behind my hair before shaving it. I laughed out loud the whole time I was shaving it because it felt like such a release from the pressure to be a certain person and look a certain way in order to be considered beautiful. By no means do I think that shaving my head was necessary in order to be free from that, but it was a symbolic step in the right direction. I've spent most of my life looking to other people to validate my beauty and define my worth. How did it feel to shave it off? "Honestly, I didn't expect how liberating it would be. You know what's really different? Completely shaving my head." I liked it, but on the way home that evening, I just thought. While in the salon, I told my stylist that I was ready to try something new with my cut. I had thought about it before, but never seriously. When did you first shave your head? "I shaved my head for the first time a little over a week ago. The look isn't new-women have worn their hair shorn since ancient Egypt, and iconic women throughout history have adopted the look-but with the current climate of women rejecting antiquated norms in favor of self-determination, now more than ever is the time for women to own their look.Īccording to these nine women, this is exactly what that feels like. Especially considering the beauty ideals that are pushed on women from birth (thanks, shampoo commercials), bald women's blatant refusal to exist for anyone but themselves is groundbreaking. A community of women with buzz cuts and shaved heads is growing under hashtags that embrace the look, uniting people in dismissing societal standards and celebrating those who do what they want. A buzzed head represents a fearless, done-hiding movement, and in both fiction and real life, González isn't alone. A phrase topped the quartet: "The future is female, and it doesn't have time for styling products." Take #BaldiesGettheJobDone-as soon as Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma González labeled a video of her shaving her head with the hashtag, a meme of Black Panther's Okoye, Mad Max's Imperator Furiosa, Stranger Things' Eleven, and González started making the rounds. After the initial cut she decided she liked it short and wanted to return for a buzzcut at a local barbershop and that footage is also included in this video but was only shot with one camera.Sometimes a hashtag sums it up perfectly. Instead of going straight to bald we decided to give her a few cuts along the way. Unfortunately for her on her first draw she drew bald and the reaction she gave when she found out she was about to lose all her precious hair was priceless. Andrea came to us wanting a change but was nervous to go super short so we decided to play a game with her where we put 10 haircuts in a hat from bald to a trim and we were going to have her pick a few out of the hat to do.
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