Getting rid of the commitment
Natural hair is a commitment, long hair is a commitment and dealing with it can take time and energy. If you are over it, cutting your hair can alleviate some of that time you put into dealing with all that hair.
This can be a great thing for busy individuals who want to dedicate their time to something else. Wash day is now reduced to wash minutes and a visit to the barber shop is 20 minutes in comparison to hours at a salon. You cannot beat that!
Ridding yourself of toxicity
This might be a toxic relationship, bad energy or just cleansing your body by eating clean and exercising. I have no idea why cutting hair equates to these things but this is typically a universal language that is understood by many of us, men with long hair included. You are a new person and that typically means looking different while you work on being different!
Getting rid of the comfort zone
Yes, long hair is comforting, you can hide behind it but short hair forces you to be seen. There is no hiding your face, every line, every wrinkle, every freckle can clearly be seen and it is very liberating and scary all at the same time.
Becoming fearless
Getting rid of the comfort zone means letting go of the fear of everything you can possibly become. Sudden exposure can bring about all sorts of emotions that only come about when you remove the thing that may have comforted you the most.
With all that said, you must agree that when someone says that it “isn’t just hair” that there is a lot behind that statement. On the flip side once we cut our hair and have adjusted to a new lifestyle we might be inclined to wonder what all the fuss was about. After all it is ‘just hair’!
Regardless of what side of the story you are on now, I cannot help but be enamored by the level of energy our strands have. It’s all pretty fascinating and I have a whole lot of respect for them and what they do….. to us!
Yür Hiighness says
When you have that huge ‘from rockin’& you get that feedback from someone who will never have the experience of wearing hair that luxurious, that real…. You know why the big chop isn’t a little snip
Yür Hiighness says
*Huge ‘fro rockin’
ShiShi Maze says
when you’ve never had short hair..big chp short…it feels Freeing. I really do less to my hair now and everyday it’s the look you were going for
Amber Walker says
I loved the big chop I was able to donate it to Locks of love and now it has grown back. However, I like shorter better. I am currently scoping out the next style for my next cut.
Ginger Thomas says
Because as black women our hair is a part of my beauty and we cherishes the woman feel so great about herself that’s why
Laura Marie says
I was going to cut my hair and my bf flipped out. NBD to me either way but I guess it matters to him
Uche Ifediorah Collette says
Because it takes time to grow
Ngozi Brown says
Just my opinion , I feel when a black women cuts her hair down,it’s showing an inner strength. Cutting out your past striveing forward to a prosperous future.
Teresa Scott says
Most coveted and attributed to beauty, so cutting can sometimes be rebellion or freedom!
Cynthia J Wesley says
It never has to me.
Cutting my hair is like cutting my nails. It grows back.
Hair shouldn’t be a defining point, it should be a styling canvas.
Coffee Brown says
I just did it. Its freedom!