23/09/2025
Hair.
A must have to fit into today’s idea of beauty.
I’ve been reflecting lots on what hair means to me and if I could let go of it.
I see the conditioning that ties me to these strands clearly.
For me, hair has always been my insecurity.
Always.
Too thin, greasy roots, dry broken ends.
From product to product to using no product.
A journey that has never ended with satisfaction.
Maybe I never learned how to ‘do’ the hair thing having grown up with 3 brothers.
I’ve simply never felt confident about my hair, a constant source of insecurity, comparing with others, wishing for it to be different.
Anyways, whatever the reason, I digress.
There hasn’t been acceptance.
What lays beneath all this is an inability to accept myself at a deeper level.
Not just my hair, but all of me.
Especially now where wrinkles slowly start appearing I feel this lack of acceptance of what ‘is’ and how I look physically creeping in.
Something in me is stirring.
To reframe this mindset.
To learn to meet myself with the eyes of love and acceptance rather than judgement.
Maybe one of these days I’ll take the bold step and go bald.
It’s been calling me.
Many of my friends have taken this step on their journey of empowerment and self-acceptance.
Challenging societal beliefs of what beauty is.
There’s so much fear to commit to this step within me.
And yet, deep within I know that this path is also mine to walk.
So I stop looking up at others, putting myself in their shadow, and instead look at myself with the adoration I know I deserve from myself.
Fully shining my light.
Not giving a f**k about appearance.
Radiating beauty from within.
Without hair.
Soon I think.
Here’s me trying on a headwrap.
I guess my mind is already trying to ‘problem solve’ to some degree 😅
I’ll keep you in the loop about this inner process…🔥
How attached are you to your hair?
Could you do without?
What is it that’s holding you back from letting it go?
