Fifteen Years

Happy Anniversary!

This blog's first post was published on August 5th, 2008. There were no blogs focused on videos of women who shaved their heads or were bald due to conditions like alopecia. So, this blog filled a very unique niche. YouTube was new back then, and there were no influencers at the time. 

One of the first posts was a video of a woman with alopecia who talked about normalizing bald heads on women. It's still one of my favorite videos. Over time, this blog would share videos of women shaving their heads, discussing life with alopecia, pros and cons of having a shaved head, shaving and scalp care advice, makeup advice, music videos, ads, GRWM videos, and some of bald women just going through part of their daily life. Sometimes news articles and columns were posted. Even the occasional artistic website got featured here. I tried to make sure there was adequate representation, including videos from different continents, different languages, ethnicities, ages, etc. This blog was intended to be as body neutral as possible. 

I took plenty of breaks. Early on, that had to do with lack of content. These days, there is an abundance of content. Since mid-decade last decade, time to do proper maintenance has been a problem. I took an extended break between 2017 and 2019. I have been posting quite a bit since. The 15th anniversary seems like a good time to take another extended break. Traffic has dwindled since 2021, when this blog was averaging about 5,000 unique visitors per month. Even that was a fraction of what traffic was like at its peak around 2015 or 2016. I have wondered if this blog has more or less served its purpose (which would be a good thing). I'll periodically log on and check for dead links. Otherwise, I think it is time to step back and make some decisions in a few months about this blog's future.

Hopefully you find value in what is already in the blog's archives, and hopefully this blog helped to normalize shaved and bald heads on women.

I shaved my head bald and it's been the most liberating decision of my life

I meant to post a link to this article earlier. 

Although my decision initially plagued me with undercurrents of fear and anxiety, I felt as though a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders. I could finally be unapologetically me. I was optimistic about the future, eager to explore my femininity through aspects beyond my appearance and re-define my own personal perception of beauty.

Fast forward six months, I have discovered new realms of self-love and now understand that the need to establish ourselves beyond societal expectations is crucial. Beauty is honestly skin-deep and sometimes it takes being vulnerable to obtain the truest version of ourselves. I loved my hair but I knew that I couldn’t depend on it. I now know that when it comes to my appearance, the only opinion that matters is my own.