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Brave girl

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Was so very eager to get started on her way to a beautiful bald head

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Enjoying my bald girl summer

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🕸🕸🕸I DID IT . It's gone lovelys 🕸🕸🕸

Omg it's a strange feeling

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I Am Not My Hair

What actually happens if I shave my head bald?

Why cant I see what I look like without hair?

Why do I have to be sick or have cancer or be dying?

Why am I not allowed as a woman to just shave my head?

Why do I need a reason, a justification, an explanation?

Why do I have to justify being hairless?

Why are people acting like Im dying and have cancer just because Im bald?

Nothing happens. Thats the gag.

Youve been taught to fear.

Its just my bald head. Why is that forbidden?

Verboten?

Why cant I ever see what my actual head looks like without all this hair on it?

Why cant I see what my face looks like without it constantly being surrounded by hair?

What if I like being bald?

What if I like not spending $1200+ a year on my hair?

What if I like not styling my hair?

What if I like not doing anything with my hair other than cutting it super short, about an inch or two, every few months?

Why does it threaten people for a woman not to care about her hair?

I dont want to go to a hair salon or barbershop.

I dont want to go back to an afro.

I dont want locs or dreads.

I dont want shaved sides, I already did that last year.

I dont want corn rows or bantu knots, Ive done that too.

I dont want to grow it out.

I dont want a $500 lace front wig.

I dont want a wig professionally installed by a stylist every 2 to 3 months.

I dont want to wash or brush my hair.

I dont want to put any products in my hair.

Why is it a sin for a black woman to not want to grow her hair out?

I dont want my "long beautiful" hair back.

I dont want it halfway down my back again.

I dont want it to my waist again.

I dont want to relax it again -- there are lawsuits against Loreal, black women who used Just For Me and other chemical relaxers to straighten their hair are being diagnosed with cancer, inferitility and fibroids.

The chemicals in a relaxer are strong enough to break down and destroy the natural texture of your curly coiled kinks and force it to be straight -- those same chemicals are also strong enough to literally peel paint off of cars -- why are you putting this directly on your scalp for an hour plus every 2 to 3 months from the time you are a pre-teen or in high school until adulthood, for decades, and thinking that there wont be health issues?

They target products to Black women that kill them.

Remember the little Black girls that sang the R&B pop jingle in the Just For Me commercial?

"Just for me...hair so healthy, silky and free."

Who was that song for?

This was the 90s and there were multiple Black girl groups back then -- TLC, 702, Blaque, Xscape, Jade, Total, MoKenStef, etc. -- they wanted to get us while we were young so we would keep using their products until adulthood. 

I got my first perm, I am 4C, at 11. I was so glad my mother stopped burning me with the hot comb that she had tortured me with since I was 5. Anything was better than that as I had a very sensitive scalp or "tenderheaded" as it is called in our community.

I couldnt wait to go to Touch of Magic salon where my older sister already had her long, silky hair. I was tired of being tortured by a hot ass comb that was constantlu burning my fucking scalp and I was tired of being told to "sit still" while my scalp was being fucking burned. I couldnt wait for the Revlon Fabulaxer so the dreaded golden hot comb could be forever banished from my existence.

From 11 to 34, 23 years, I faithfully got  a relaxer at the salon every 2 to 3 months. It was about $120+ (relaxer, deep condition, style, split ends, color, etc.). Over the years, that fucking adds up, over $100k I spent on my hair. Even when I went natural at 34, my 4c hair is extremely thick, kinky, nappy, unruly and very difficult to deal with. People have literally broken combs trying to comb through it. Needless to say, I couldnt manage anything myself but a wash and go so I spent thousands at the salon as a 4c natural on Senegalese twists, box braids, Bantu knots, corn rows, twist outs, twist updos and flat twists. 

Then I shaved my sides and cut my hair super short and started going to barber shops but I was dyeing it fuschia back then so my hair was still costing me money.

Then last year, I finally just grabbed kitchen scissors out of my kitchen and hacked it myself and decided I was never going to go back to a salon or barbershop.

I was going to cut my hair with kitchen scissors myself every 2 to 3 months. I do like different looks so I have five cheap synthetic shitty wigs that are different colors (blue, blonde, green, black). Depending on the lewk and fit, either I just wear my hair natural and short or I slap a wig on.

But thats it. No maintenance, no upkedp, no hair care routines, no wasting away a Saturday at a salon, no barbershops, no wash and gos, no 15 hour sessions getting braided extensions. 

Just literally cutting it with kitchen scissors every 2 to 3 months and slapping on a cheap shitty wig whenever I have a certain fit or lewk and thats it.

Then in August, I decided to shave my head bald. I didnt want even a few inches of hair anymore so I grabbed my husbands razor and shaved it. Didnt go to a barbershop or stylist. Had no idea how to even use the razor and just shaved it all off in under 10 minutes. I loved the bald look especially with thick ass winged liquid eyeliner, bold dramatic eyeshadow and colorful lipstick.

I have a few inches of growth that in a month or two, I will grab the kitchen scissors again and cut my hair down to an inch or two. Ill do that every few months. I love it bald but even shaving my head on a regular basis is more time than I choose to devote to my hair. Cutting it with scissors to an inch or two every 2 to 3 months is my absolute limit.

As a woman, thats not allowed.

Especially as a Black woman.

And I was raised by a Southern Baptist fundamentalist, so forget about it.

You have to obsess over your hair, products, styling, color, length, look, appearance, texture, curl pattern, thickness, volume, care routines, pre poo, deep conditoning, tea tree oil, diffusing, texturizing, blow out, straightening, relaxing, lace front wig installations, weaves, kanekalon, bundles, braids, twists, locs, dreads, corn rows, bantu knots...

You cant just not do your hair!

Only you can. Because thats exactly what I do.

Even as a Black woman and we are brainwashed to be absolutely obsessed with our hair.

Go back and look at the hysteria India Arie caused when she shaved her "beautiful curls".

Just like India Arie, I am not my hair.

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Bald lumberjack babe chopping down wood for a living

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Lot of fans of bald girls on Tumblr. This is the first time I went bald. I had been dying my hair blonde. My hair was long and beautiful. But the hair dye destroyed it. I was forced to cut all the blonde hair off. Was left with a very short boy cut. It didn’t look good. So I took the plunge into baldness. It was a scary leap of faith. No one knows if they are going to look good bald until they are bald and theirs no going back from their. Once I saw myself bald and experienced bald life. I was hooked. I kept my bald head going for about 2 years. After that I tried growing it back for about 6 months and shaved it off again. Now I am on my hair growth journey and will probably just keep it going this time. I don’t foresee myself going bald again any time soon. I do miss it tho.

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I realised that since I shaved my hair that I’m constantly taking pictures of myself bc I think I look cute af and you know what? That’s gr8 bc everyone deserves to feel that good about themselves

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I think I look kinda cute here

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so guys, in the last couple weeks since I’ve not come on tumblr, I have completely shaved my head, gotten braces and finished an entire assignment for college in the space of two days (should have been done slowly in a process of like three weeks lmao) which I would say is a pretty damn good achievement all around…

opinions anyone?

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I dont wear jeans very often

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My sociology professor had a really good metaphor for privilege today. She didn’t talk about race or gender or orientation or class, she talked about being left-handed.

A left-handed person walks into most classrooms and immediately is made aware of their left-handedness - they have to sit in a left-handed seat, which restricts their choices of where to sit. If there are not enough left-handed seats, they will have to sit in a right-handed seat and be continuously aware of their left-handedness. (There are other examples like left-handed scissors or baseball mitts as well.)

Meanwhile, right-handed people have much more choice about where to sit, and almost never have to think about their right-handedness.

Does this mean right-handed people are bad? No.

Does it mean that we should replace all right-handed desks with left-handed desks? No.

But could we maybe use different desk styles that can accommodate everyone and makes it so nobody has limited options or constant awareness that they are different? Yes.

Now think of this as a metaphor. For social class. For race. For ethnicity. For gender. For orientation. For anything else that sets us apart.

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I’m Jade. I have had short hair for a long time, in fact since I was about 17, or 18. I’ve been cutting my hair relatively short for about 2, 3 years now. I, as of 3 months ago, have started shaving my head. Like, to the skin. At first when I shaved it off I felt more feminine and beautiful than I did in a long long time. I felt like a million bucks. I couldn’t stop looking at how gorgeous I was, and I was so over the top in love with my looks.

And unfortunately, a lot of people in my family have been giving me a ton of shit for it. They’re constantly like “you’re not pretty without hair” or “when will you grow it out?” or my favorite “You’re not you without hair”.

I think the last thing is so stupid. You’re not you without hair. i think its stupid because I feel more like who i am than i ever have before. But i am trying to stay optimistic, i’m trying to keep a positive mindset, but I just wanted to share this. (: 

BE BRAVE! JOIN THE BODY PEACE REVOLUTION!

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lets normalize bald women. whether its genetics, medical reasons or for fashion, bald women are awesome. fat bald women are awesome, butch bald women are awesome, bald woc are awesome, bald trans women are awesome, sick/disabled bald women are awesome, non binary bald women are awesome. lets just embrace bald women ok?

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Let me start by saying long hair on women was created by society and called the “norm” because we were raised to think like that... these days things have changed, that norm we were raised with has changed and evolved over the generations... women can wear pants, drive, vote, work in men’s jobs. So why hasn’t hair evolved with us!!! When I buzzed my hair a year ago I didn’t know what I was in for, if I would like it, or how I would feel... but WOW has it changed my life! Not only was it VERY freeing, and eye opening but I felt sexier than I ever did with long hair. It woke me up! My only regret is not having buzzed my hair off years ago! I realized that my hair was materialistic, it didn’t define who I was. When I buzzed my hair I actually was able to look at myself differently, to really “see” who I was. My focus became more on my life, my dreams and how I viewed things. Not worrying about having bad hair days, or the time it took to wash and style the long hair. I now have more time to perfect on other more important things. I feel more “myself” than I ever did! The Bonuses... I travel a lot in my RV and boat, the quick showers are awesome! Save so much money not buying shampoos and hair products so I get to spend more money on clothing and accessories. In a rush in the morning? No need to worry about doing the hair, just apply makeup and go! The bonuses SO out-way the negatives. Yes, I have had a few negative comments, someone thinks I have cancer or the men have no idea why I would do such a thing to myself. I do have to say in 2 years of having abuzz cut I can count on one hand the negative comments. I have had way more positive compliments then the negative ones. I find more people want to talk with you, they find you interesting. After all, your not the “normal” woman they are used to seeing! It brings out your character and who you are, with no hair to hide behind that IS your only choice! I’m not saying it’s for all women, but if you have even briefly thought about chopping off that hair, give it go, take the plunge! You might be surprised at how freeing it is!!! Worst case, you can always grow it back out if you don’t like it. You only live once, do something wild for yourself!