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Short hair psychology: the truth about going for the chop

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Short hair, don’t care? After the first contestant with short hair to win Miss France was critiqued online, we take a closer look at all the complicated emotions that come with having a crop. When I went to the salon for the first time in months after the 2020 lockdown, I was desperate to have my grown-out bob cut back to its jaw-length glory. I soon noticed, however, that everyone else around me was having a very different conversation with their hairdresser. “Not much off the length,” one woman said, adding that anything more than an inch would be “too much”. “I like it longer,” another woman with a grown-out bob insisted. Another asked, much to the visible despair of the woman restyling her hair, if they could avoid cutting any off at all and instead “just shape it” (presumably through means of magic and witchcraft, as scissors had been banished from the equation). YOU MAY ALSO LIKE Since going for the chop, I’ve had friends, without any prompting whatsoever, suddenly sigh wistfully

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