{"id":201,"date":"2009-10-21T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2009-10-21T06:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T13:43:00","slug":"hair-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Hair Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I buzzed off all of my hair yesterday. Well, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I<\/span> didn&#8217;t do it, Stacey the hair stylist did it for me. It&#8217;s not the first time I&#8217;ve done it, either. I took some clippers to my hair about nine years ago and experienced the radical change, both on the inside and the outside, that can come with such a drastic move.<\/p>\n<p>Though the word &#8220;drastic&#8221; conjures up images of measures taken in extreme situations it really means &#8220;likely to have a strong effect&#8221; and that is exactly what occurs when a woman has a #1 buzz cut.<\/p>\n<p>The cut I sport today is not a #1. Stacey did a very careful job with scissors and though she did use a little device that made a buzzing noise the resulting effect is more of a #4.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the breakdown of lengths and corresponding blades, taken from Wikipedia, FYI:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#0 or bareblade (shortest)<\/li>\n<li>#1 (3 mm)<\/li>\n<li>#2 (6 mm)<\/li>\n<li>#3 (9 mm)<\/li>\n<li>#4 (12 mm)<\/li>\n<li>#5 (15 mm)<\/li>\n<li>#6 (19 mm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Yes, my hair is now 12 mm long. And boy does it feel good.<\/p>\n<p>I remember experiencing this feeling the first time I took the plunge and went this short. It&#8217;s freedom, pure and simple. Freedom from hassle, freedom from vanity, freedom from hair in the sink, on the sweater, in the food. It&#8217;s a joy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also intense. It&#8217;s not easy to be a woman with a buzz cut. People have very strong reactions. I was having coffee with an ex-lover back when I had the #1 and he told me flat out, &#8220;I can&#8217;t look at you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Globe &amp; Mail even went so far as to publish an article featuring a couple of high-profile women who&#8217;ve gone the <span class=\"style8\">Sin\u00e9ad<\/span> O&#8217;Connor route of late. The piece talked about how empowering it is for a woman to have a shaved head but how the style ultimately challenges people&#8217;s expectations of what femininity is supposed to look like.<\/p>\n<p>Funnily enough, I feel more feminine with this cut than the one I had previous, which was still very short but long enough on top to spike up or comb down. I felt really masculine with that cut. I felt like a guy.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with no hair, man, I feel like a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Inspiring Message of the Day: Despite the fact that I think my attractiveness has something to do with how I look, I am mistaken. We are not our hair. Our light comes from within. Shine your beautiful light!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I buzzed off all of my hair yesterday. Well, I didn&#8217;t do it, Stacey the hair stylist did it for me. It&#8217;s not the first time I&#8217;ve done it, either. I took some clippers to my hair about nine years ago and experienced the radical change, both on the inside and the outside, that can&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-inspiration","category-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}