If you’re thinking of staying in this weekend, this is a good time to catch up on your reading. Here’s a short list of beauty reads I enjoyed over the week — feel free to share your favorites in the comments 🙂
The Short Hair Realization
It has been around twelve years since my sister had hair above her shoulders. I’ve been telling her for years to get a bob, but her excuse for keeping waist-length hair has always been “I look ugly with short hair”:
“Long hair is beautiful. And painfully high maintenance for someone with thick, wavy and unruly tresses. I kept it up for years, never realizing I had placed upon myself some unrealistic expectation to be some feminine, pretty, and Photoshop perfect version of myself. . . . The long hair was a fantastic way to hide from my own self-loathing and perceived shortcomings. I associated short hair with exposing my ugliness, and so shied away from haircuts.”
But earlier this month, she told a hairdresser at the Shunji Matsuo in Singapore’s Jurong East Mall to cut off as much as hair as possible. Even the hairdresser was hesitant to cut off her waist-long hair! But she told him it was fine, and when the final look was revealed, she was more than pleasantly surprised to realize how much she loved it:
“I looked in the mirror and didn’t hate what I saw. In fact, I thought it was pretty friggin’ awesome. . . . I felt like a million dollars and ready to take over the world because I was so darn happy. Not because I thought I looked great, but because it was so freeing to no longer hide and not live by the chains of some unattainable standards of beauty … that I was constantly trying to go along with for so long.”
If you’ve always wanted to have short hair but were worried about looking the final look, you can also read the accounts by Griss and Deszell when their hair reached new short lengths. [Click here to read]
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