I read this article a few days ago, and somehow, although it's explicitly about short haircuts, and eccentric haircuts, it felt like something worth sharing here. Here's the general claim of the article:
"Hair doesn’t make anyone beautiful but anyone can make their hair beautiful by rocking the ever-loving everything out of it. Have the length of hair you want at any given moment".
And that's something that I think is totally part of the style message that I want to send (even if most of the article is about cutting your hair off, and my hair is now the longest that it's ever been, and I'm pretty crazy about that). To apply it to my topic at hand, I really believe in this covering thing- but do it in the way that rocks your world (not a phrase I'd usually use ever).
The phrase that caught my attention is "command of her own presence". Making your own decisions is taking command of your own presence, it's owning what you do with your body. And it takes courage to do that. Especially when I wore a kippah much of the time, it took courage to be myself, and to let other people react to it however they were going to react. I still have those moments, although they're fewer.
In other words, "Sometimes, in cutting off this type of hair, you really achieve a wider, louder broadcast of your identity as it is and as you want it to be." The head has this power to project identity. A headshot is all we put on drivers' licenses and passports because it's enough to see our heads in order to see who we are. So doing something authentic to yourself with your head is a really powerful way of signalling who you really are.
In other words- go forth and be yourself. It seemed like a message worth sharing.
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