Remember when Mulan chopped off her long, black hair? She was on to something. There's something pretty cathartic in cutting your own hair. Here's why your impulsive DIY haircut feels *so* damn good:
I cut my own hair for the first time last winter, and I’ll never forget the very specific thrill: Standing in the fluorescent light of my bathroom, I uncoiled each frizzy curl with my left hand, then hacked at it with the blunt kitchen scissors in my right. Watching clumps of hair fall into the sink while my shaggy, Stevie Nicks-inspiredAfter the triumphant experiment, I texted my best friend to boast about my fearlessness and my new look. She responded, “Are you okay?”.
That’s where the DIY haircut and the professionally styled breakover diverge. “The biggest difference is the role independence plays in the change,” Koblenz says, setting this specific kind of self-styling apart from the equally clichéd breakup haircut or new-mom one — which are dramatic changes just the same but often executed by a skilled salon worker. And not over a gas station sink.
The visceral nature of cutting your hair is also what makes it so cathartic, though — like rage channeled into sport, screaming at the top of your lungs, or, if you’re a millennial,like it mimics the act of self-harm, but it targets the one part of the body that has no sensation. After all, hair is already dead; to sever it is to recognize the dead weight you’ve been carrying around, and let it go. “It can be a healthy way of coping with an emotional trigger,” says Koblenz.
My own therapist gave a rah-rah head nod to this and called cutting your hair a perfect metaphor for loss and renewal — sometimes you need to tear down in order to rebuild.While writing this, I took a break to cut my hair. I wanted to see how it would feel when there was no turbulence compelling me. On a mellow Tuesday evening, I snipped off the bouquets of split ends sprouting from my layered mane.
Personally, I think I’ve had enough self-styling for a while. But I’d recommend giving it a shot at least once, if only because it comes with a compassionate warranty we don’t grant ourselves enough: Go on, mess up. It’ll be fine.
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