There is some kind of therapy that one experiences when doing the big chop .The feeling that came with this decision was empowering and liberating, it was not just the feeling but the how it looks - cheeky and bold.
Full Name: Wendy Yoli
Current Occupation: Dental Technologist
Country and City of Origin: East London, South Africa
What was your relationship with your hair growing up? For me it was versatile in the sense that I could do a lot of hairstyles without cutting my hair as it was thick and long. I believe ones hair is a tool of self-expression. There is no hairstyle I cannot do with my hair, but we reached a point of being too comfortable, having safe styles. We had a good relation ship but I needed a change, something different.
Year of Chop: 2018
Reason for chop/s: There is some kind of therapy that one experiences when doing the big chop .The feeling that came with this decision was empowering and liberating, it was not just the feeling but the how it looks it looks gorgeous, cheeky and bold.
In the beginning I was rather skeptical, was I doing the right thing? What if I cut my hair and realized my head wasn’t shaped for this hairstyle? But I knew I wanted a change in life, something different (clearly without knowing that change would be me cutting my hair), I wanted something outside the norm/comfort zone. I mean it’s so easy for one to fall back to their safe style…probably just choosing one of the hairstyles you have done before and you know it works for you. So I decided a couple of days before my birthday that I’m cutting my hair.
Craziest hairstyle to date: I wouldn’t call my hairstyles crazy but rather a self-expression of how I felt at that particular point in time. So I actually don’t have a crazy hairstyle…
What is your current relationship with your hair right now? Since this decision to chop off my hair is very recent so we still in the honeymoon stage where I’m still trying different hairstyles for short hair and each day I’m learning something new about short hair, from how to maintain it , how to style it.
I feel we do not have a complicated relationship at the moment. I just want to live in the “short hair moment”.
Would you recommend the big chop/ if so why? Yes I would because I know its cliché to say this but, hair grows back. It’s an exciting journey that I think one needs to go through at least once in their life time. The feeling that comes with it is in explicable really. Like I said for me hair is a tool of expression.
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