Saturday, February 26, 2022
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Sunday, February 20, 2022
girls will be boys
Let's try something new regarding gender roles: gwwb. Let's embrace our uniqueness. Let's shave our heads or buzz our hair off if that makes us feel better. There is plenty of support. Let's explore gender boundaries. Let's understand each of our comfort zones. No matter what, let's just have fun.
Saturday, February 19, 2022
One xoContributor is getting her head shaved for summer.
Regrettably, xoJane ceased to exist the next year. Its replacement has been bland and superficial. For a moment, you see some vloggers be real. Kelly was awesome.
Woman Lets Public Cut Her Hair for Powerful Message
Jae West does a performance piece that is intended to show that beauty is more than skin deep or dependent on hair. I saw this video several years ago and always find it moving. The amount of trust it took to let perfect strangers cut and then shave her hair off is amazing and inspiring.
Head Shave
It's a simple video with no dialog - just a post-rock instrumental piece to accompany her shave. She knows what she's doing and what she wants as an outcome, and looks very confident the entire time. She rocks it.
Friday, February 18, 2022
Flux
A tale about existence in a realm ruled by the concept of time...
It's an interesting work of photographic art. The model, Mette, shaved her head during the the shoot, which as the artist says was done "in one continuous session." This is well worth viewing.
Cancer survivor shaves her hair!
Amanda is a cancer survivor, and wants a really short buzz cut and to donate some hair for wigs.
Thursday, February 17, 2022
I SHAVED MY HEAD BALD FOR FAZE1 (FULL VOD)
I know - nearly three and a half hours of video. She doesn't get to cutting and eventually shaving her hair off until a bit around the halfway mark. But she does have some reasons for shaving her head, some of which is to join the FaZe1 crew, and she wants to create a video entry that will get their attention during the latest recruitment challenge. But she also seems to just want to try a shaved head, loves how she looks afterwards, and she knows how to throw some attitude toward the haters. Her hair is being donated to make wigs for cancer patients.
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
ПОБРИЛАСЬ НАЛЫСО. ЗАЧЕМ?
If you use the closed caption feature and change it to your native language (mine's English), you'll get the basic idea. Shaving her head was a once-in-a-lifetime thing for her, but she really valued the experience, and she has some strong opinions on how we make too big a deal about hair, and how convenient a shaved head can be.
A few words about this blog
I've been curating some new content and going through and removing posts where the links to the videos no longer work. Usually, what that means is I revert those posts back to draft mode just in case the content creators chose to temporarily make their videos unavailable. Sometimes, that is exactly what happens. Ultimately, that is up to the content creators.
For this blog, I look for videos that offer a positive and realistic perspective, so you have some expectations about what you will likely experience once you decide to shave your head for the first time. Trust me - it's the lowest maintenance style you can have. But there is maintenance, even if you are planning on shaving your head only once, as an item on your personal bucket list. So, I do try to include some how-to videos for everything from razor shaves (for those who prefer a smooth look), to maintaining a buzzcut. I occasionally post scalp care videos. Although there a lot of pros to shaving your head if you identify as female, there are also some cons, so I try to include some pro/con videos. That way, you have a better idea of what you'll probably enjoy from your experience, but also the negatives you'll experience. There seems to be less social resistance to anyone identifying as female shaving their heads than when this blog first started. There are still stares. There are still the annoying questions, and there are always the creepers. But at least there is hope that being bald and female is increasingly normalized.
Since everyone has their own unique journey to that moment when they shave their head for the first time, I really prefer to post videos where the content creators discuss why they are shaving their heads. For those who are bald due to conditions such as alopecia, I prefer videos where the content creators discuss what motivated them to be more open about their baldness. One common theme in a lot of those videos is a sense of irritation with social norms that make hair some symbol of attractiveness. The same social norms dictate what body types are supposedly attractive as well. Many of the content creators featured here express frustration about the double standard that allows men to be bald with little question but not so much for women. So in a way, this is a body positivity blog. Hair positivity is just another facet of body positivity. One of the cool things for me is sharing videos that make a statement: there is no ideal face shape, head shape, or clothing size needed to look good with a shaved or bald head. Some of content creators shave their heads because of hair damage. Others do so for religious or spiritual reasons. Still others want to make a statement. Yet others choose to keep their heads shaved for a long period of time. And still others just decided it would be a fun style to try out. Odds are in your favor that you will find someone on a video who shares your motives. That's a good thing.
Sometimes I'll post videos offering advice about makeup and accessories. Once you shave your head or once you decide that it is time to embrace your baldness, you find yourself dealing with the fact that your facial features really stand out. You also realize that you really need to take care of that sensitive skin that we call the scalp. One of the things I love about several of our content creators is how they show us that there are endless possibilities for experimenting with makeup and accessories. Sticking with the theme of positivity, I also post videos by content creators who see no need for makeup or accessories after shaving their heads.
I also post articles that offer advice about how to shave your head, how to maintain a shaved style, as well as articles sharing the experiences of women who do shave their heads. I am realizing that I probably should create a page with these placed together, rather than have them scattered over 1,000 posts. I've been updating the other pages as time permits.
Finally, let's be grateful to the women in the videos I've curated for sharing a facet of their lives with us. They didn't have to. They did because they had a message that they wanted to send to anyone viewing their videos: whether of them getting their heads shaved, offering their pros and cons of having a shaved head, giving tips on how to maintain a shaved head or buzz cut, or advice on how to accessorize if this is a look you want to maintain. My blog's intended audience gets it. It's just another hairstyle. Let's normalize it, already.
Monday, February 14, 2022
I Think My Bald Head Is Sexy - But Will My Blind Date? | DATING DIFFERENT
This is one of those videos that gives me hope.
Sunday, February 13, 2022
Saturday, February 12, 2022
Thursday, February 10, 2022
Libertad
Head tattoos were meant to be displayed. She seems very happy to see her cobra tattoo and her libertad tattoo again.
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Monday, February 7, 2022
Sunday, February 6, 2022
Friday, February 4, 2022
These Images Of Beautiful Bald Women Prove That Our Hair Does Not Define Us
Nichola's aim is to challenge negative perceptions about alopecia and to make fellow sufferers love their bald heads too. Using diverse women from all over the UK, she set out to show that bald is beautiful, and that our hair is not our crown and glory.
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
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