Hair - Self Expression and General Thoughts

 Hair - Self Expression and General Thoughts

So I recently got my haircut, by an amazing woman named Kellie who run a small business known as Hair by Kellie. It is way shorter than I had it previously, and what I thought I would want to end up with. That said, I like the cut I have and it is easier to take better care of my scalp and hair overall.

But why would I make a blog post about hair if that's all I had to say? Well hair through my childhood was something I considered an afterthought, and I just got it cut however my parents decided to tell the person cutting it, even once old enough to express an opinion I didn't hold any. However, in the past few years, particularly after I cut my own hair and then when I started to wear it much longer then before I began to fall in love with my hair, viewing it as deeply connected to my self-expression.

This was an interesting develop as my mom did struggle a lot during her battle with cancer about her self-expression feeling taken away with her hair going away then growing back short and curly. This made her feel boyish and like an older woman; things I didn't understand at the time as it was just hair, which I didn't care about that much personally. I felt that hair wasn't too important for one's own body image and felt it was purely for others to judge and therefore irrelevant. I now have much more understanding of why hair can mean something to yourself.

Developing a positive connection to my hair, made it more important to me that I figured out how I wanted it. For a long time growing it out was just because I didn't know when or how I wanted it cut, then I really started liking the long hair. However, recently it had grown too long, my hair prevented me from a normal posture in many situations due to its length, and simply had reached a barely, if at all, manageable length. So I finally found the time to go get it cut.

Kellie was able to ease me into a new cut by simply cutting to the shoulder, before eventually reaching the point seen on my head today. She also had shampoo/conditioner products that I'm starting to use as a means of building my scalp health. I do feel positive so far, but it is still early. I think a major reason I like the haircut is because it isn't really very masculine, but is quite androgynous from most angles. I do plan on having it grow to a longer length, but this is a good starting point.

While it is perfectly fine to be a super feminine man, a super masculine woman, super binary presenting non-binary individual, or appearing in a stereotypical fashion for ones gender. What I prefer is an androgynous to lightly feminine hairstyle, that is the self-expression I like to have in terms of my hair. While my hair is based heavily on a masculine style, it still isn't, and is still quite androgynous.

I'll be honest of course, I am having to adjust to the new hairstyle, and many of the things I have mentioned in this post are helping me do just that. It's difficult to determine if an aspect of oneself is a proper self-expression in just a day or two. Regardless of that though it's nice that it looks the way it does, that it isn't overly masculine, that it gives me the opportunity to have healthier long hair, and that others seem to like that hair. Now when it comes to self-expression I don't care too much about others' perceptions of me, but it's still nice to hear from everyone.

Something interesting that I have figured out already is that it's actually harder to keep this shorter hair out of my face. So I do think the relationship between hair length and it getting in your face must be a bell curve, with super short and truly long hair both with lower levels of hair in the face with medium length hair being the prime culprit of covering your face.

Hair is one of many things I need to take better care of, I really want to try even harder to improve my overall health, but it is quite difficult to do. Regardless I look forward to exploring that journey with my hair, and hopefully otherwise. This health also includes mental and emotional health, of course, as it is just as vital as physical health.

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