My path to healthier hair; Shaving my head!

Good morning,

As it’s been a whole year since i’ve shaved my hair back in April/May, I’ve been wanting to talk about my journey for quite a while! I just pushed it up for so long because it’s not really in topic with this blog & idk if people are interrested.. BUT I’ve also seen this “trend” of shaving their head on tiktok soo- here it is!

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Growing up, I’ve used WAY too many box hair dye; I did reds, purples, black, black with red tips.. bleached them a few times. So it’s fair to say that they’ve been quite damaged in the process 😅 I cut them frequently enough, never going shorter then Jaw-leveled; the longest i’ve kept being mid-back.

Picture from April 2019; looking thin & bottom bleached

 

I box dyed my hair so many times, that to be honest, I haven’t seen my “true” natural hair since I was a child! 😅 I’ve started dying them at 12-ish, with some of thoses less permanant 10 washes dyes that I haven’t seen since.

As you can see in the picture, although my hair has probably been washed, they looks like strands of hay.. thin and clearly damaged. I was loosing few handful of hair; specially in the shower, but there was some of my strands of hair EVERYWHERE in the house. Even in places like the dishwasher & microwave. Cutting them would fix it for a few months, but it’d start back.

 

Covid happened, and I’ve got to a point where I got absolutely overworked and EVERYTHING was irritating me. Most especially the hair on my neck- I just.. couldn’t stand it, it bothered me so much!

So I cut them up to my jaw.. but it was STILL bothering me. It wasn’t short enough. So I cut them again – twice. The last time was actually a mistake- wanting my aunt to trim them at a lower number.. not actually thinking it’d get this short. But omg it felt so freeing!!

 

3 July 2020 // 29 July 2020

Never having them this short before, I was shocked at how good it felt – I got many compliments, people asking if I liked them better that way.. but while I didn’t really liked the way it looked, I was hooked on the way it felt. Plus, it’s not like you can see yourself often anyway. In this period, I sadly haven’t taken much pictures.

 

 

The problem of hair falling was absolutely GONE; but I had another kind of problem – while my hair was growing back, I had issues where 5-6strands of hair would grow from the same folicule 🙃 So i’d ask mother to pluck them out, leaving little holes & scald in my scalp; I had them happening for a few months, with like 10 different spots.. but eventually it stopped.

 

December 2020 // Felt like I looked like Tokyo in “Casa del papel” on Netflix

 

When they grew back.. I was amazed by how thick they were (though the little “overgrowth” shouldve enlightened me), ofcourse clearly much more healthy and retaining volume- something I never had in the past. And I also managed to get this side swept bang that I always dreamt of that I could never manage before !! Which I see now how annoying that can be with glasses, specially at work 😅

Another thing that I was quite stunned, is the color they turned up. Again, remember that I haven’t seen my real natural color since childhood — remembering my chocolate brown with ginger highlights.. and I got like 3 different shades of brown!

 

Last recent picture, 13th September (I have a thing for work selfies..🤷🏽‍♀️)

 

Now a year later, I’m still in the “wierder” phase of growing them out that absolutely drives me nuts at time — the part where they’re *almost* Shoulder lenght.. but not quite, While I can use a clip or a small ponytail but all the hair doesn’t fit in quite yet — needing like 10 bobipins to hook them in place 🤭

Regardless, I’m quite happy of my irritated spontaneous choice of shaving them off; I gets many compliments on them at work now, finally gotten my bang I was dreaming of, got healthy puffy hair.. and no more hair falling!!! I’d get 1-2hair out sometimes, which is quite normal, but not to the extend of handful I had regularly before.

 

 

Have you ever shaven your head, or wanted to?