I recently went from dark brown/black hair to fluorescent pink hair, to deep red, to purple and then cut about six inches off of it. I had a friend ask me what it means when women change their hair. The answer is change. Big change. A lot of times when women get drastic haircuts, they're trying to make a cut from the past and move forward such as in cases of divorce, break-ups, or a big move to a new location. Change of color, is more the fact that we are trying to change who we are, maybe change other's and our own perception of ourselves. It could also be just us trying to find our identity, which is changing all the time by the way.
So what is my drastic change about? Identity crisis or cutting my losses and moving on? Both actually. I'll be moving in July. I don't know where to yet but it's going to be big either way. I'm also trying to find myself. I've done a lot of changing in the last couple of years, and am trying to find out where I fit in my world, or else I just need to find a new world. It's exciting, scary, joyful and painful all at the same time, and sometimes the only outlet for all those emotions is hair.
This whole change of the hair business isn't something to be alarmed at however. Usually by the time a woman changes her hair in this drastic way, she's decided on a course of action so any distress she may have been in is now over or will very shortly be over, because there is now a plan.
So in short, yes, drastic hair change means some sort of emotional turbulence, but usually by the time it is manifest in the hair, it's over.
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