My Hair: The Most Significant Event In My High School Experience

The most significant event in my high school experience occurred on June 6, 2014 when I decided to cut my hair. Now, by cut I don’t mean a slight trim or a nice bob, I’m talking about a one inch bush. Only a week prior to doing the deed did I decide I was going to go through with it. It didn't take much thought, at that point in time it was just hair, but in the past it was much bigger than that. In my short seventeen years I’ve heard many girls girls speak against the idea of cutting their hair. They’d say things like, “ I would look like a boy,” or how they loved their hair too much to cut it. I was like them once because when I was younger, having short hair usually meant you were unable grow it out. Short hair was seen as a weakness, like you lacked an important skill that all girls were supposed to posses. I used to beg my mother to pay for me to …show more content…
I spent years growing my hair barely to my shoulders and I was not about to put all of my hard work to waste. When I was first considering my big chop I began to think about what people would say and who would make fun of me. Once while at the store with my mother I had my hair in braids and a woman said to my mother, “your son in very handsome.” Great, had been mistaken for a boy. Once in my life, fine, but I did not want to relive that experience. However, it wasn’t until I saw the tufts of my hair on the salon floor that I felt a strong wave of relief. I wasn’t relieved about how I looked, because my head did look like an oversized coffee bean, but rather how I felt.My first thought wasn't, “what are people going to say about me?” instead it was ,“how am I going to do my makeup so I can post some pictures!” For the first time in my life I had drastically altered my appearance, regardless of the response I would get from others. From then on my life