« As someone who goes from short to long and back again every couple of years, I’m fascinated by women who cling to the same hairstyle their whole lives or recoil at the chop as if it’s a form of female castration. I never miss the makeover episode of America’s Next Top Model, when contestants throw toddler-hyperventilation fits as bitchy hairdressers take them from shopping-mall big-hairs to Mia Farrows: In this world, right now, what scares you is short hair? »
An interesting column in the March issue of Chatelaine about the fear of short hair on women. I was surprised at the strength of some of the reactions I got recently when I said that I wanted to go short. It felt at times as if I had just announced that I was renouncing all worldly possessions and entering the convent! With the price of salon haircuts and hair coloring these days, I might just have to…
