![]() At least one a day to be honest.”Ī post shared by Spoke & Weal of those clients are giving up their signature looks and going for a complete 180 in their overall vibe. Some won’t tell you, but the energy they come into the salon with and the demand and eagerness to change their hair color is a direct message. During the pandemic I would say about one out of three people want a change.”Īdds Richy Kandasamy, colorist and R+Co Collective Member, “I have seen a lot of clients coming back to the salon going through. Pre-pandemic it was probably one out of a hundred. Even before the pandemic, they would come in when a relationship was done, or a new chapter in their life was starting. Says Liz Rim, lead hairstylist at IGK Salon in SoHo, New York, “People that want a dramatic change with their hair are usually going through something. I had bangs all throughout my twenties and often trimmed them myself in between visits to my stylist, so I opened a bottle of rosé, grabbed a blunt, rusty hair razor and gave myself some passable curtain bangs.”įor the less adventurous, they waited for salons across the country to re-open before flocking to their colorists and stylists en masse with visions of hair transformations dancing in their brains. I’d been watching the second season of Dead to Me and was obsessed with Linda Cardellini’s bangs I decided I had to give myself bangs, like right that minute. ![]() “I’m used to getting fairly regular haircuts, so by May 2020 my hair was getting long and the ends were stringy,” says Emily*, “I had also come to realize I was pretty much living in Groundhog Day, but with anxiety, which isn’t great for a person with ADHD - I need constant change, I need excitement. That resulted in some people taking matters into their own hands during lockdown. ![]() If you pair that with the monotony of looking at your hair every day, you get rash decisions.” Hair was something people could control in a moment in time where there was absolutely no control. Notes Kim Kimble, celebrity hairstylist and owner of Kimble Hair Studio in West Hollywood, “Throughout the pandemic people have made very harsh decisions because of stress. I saw many of my patients going to the hair salon because it made them feel good and. “You have people feeling like they can’t control anything - if they get the virus, if their loved ones get the virus, if they lose their jobs. “This has been a terrible year for the mental health of Americans,” agrees Dr. The pandemic has taken even the most emotionally stable and thrown them into a tailspin of anxiety, stress, burnout, boredom, loneliness, and stagnation. It always helps my mood to feel like I look good, too.”Īnd if society’s mood has ever needed a boost, it’s now. “I went red after a really dramatic breakup and stayed that way for a decade, until I had a miscarriage and bleached the hell out of it. “Changing my hair gives me something to focus on other than whatever shitty thing is happening in my life,” she says. ” Emily*, a 38-year-old writer in Kansas City, Missouri, can relate to that mentality. “When things feel out of control, people will often try to change their body or their look because it’s something they feel like they can. Ann Kearney-Cooke, a psychologist and body image and eating disorders expert in Cincinnati, Ohio. “From birth, there is this message that if you can control your body, you feel more self-esteem and better about yourself,” says Dr. And in 2020 especially, it seemed like many people dealt with the pandemic’s stress and anxiety with a drastic hair change. In the real world, these types of major aesthetic makeovers, spurred by emotional duress do happen, but it’s not always a clear cut story of female empowerment - many times, it’s a coping strategy for serious mental and emotional trauma. In the fictional world, the meltdown makeover is a form of empowerment - a symbolic show of rebirth, of taking back control of your identity. It’s a well-worn, almost comical movie trope: Girl gets dumped (or suffers another massive life upheaval), girl stares into mirror with grim determination, girl hacks off a chunk of hair with scissors, girl tearfully smiles while holding shorn hair as inspiring music swells.
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