Gets her head shaved

Sometimes a hashtag sums it up perfectly. A phrase topped the quartet: "The future is female, and it doesn't have time for styling products. The message is clear. A community of women with buzz cuts and shaved heads is growing under hashtags that embrace the look, uniting people in dismissing societal standards and celebrating those who do what they want.

The Instagram hashtag girlswithshavedheads currently has over , posts, with the more recent showing examples of lockdown buzzcuts. Of course, black women and non-gender conforming women have been doing this forever, without anyone paying particular attention to them. I'm sure a lot of the women who have been shaving their heads for decades are rolling their eyes that it's taken a few weeks without a hairdresser to push some of us less-courageous women into it. I started by making a couple of ponytails and chopping them with scissors. He then took to my head with clippers. It's about half a centimetre in length, and the same length all over.

With many salons and barbershops closed , people of all ages and genders are shaving their own heads for the first time. The Cut talked to 17 people about why they decided to buzz in quarantine: to save money on shampoo; to push gender boundaries while stuck inside; to inspire a certain intimidating, masculine new-in-the-military look; or just to fight boredom. Read on to see them all. Already a subscriber?

Here, we unpack the history of the shaved head. Read More. Over on Instagram, it would appear people are shaving their heads left, right and centre during the pandemic. But what significance does the buzz cut hold throughout history? In ancient Egypt , priests ritualistically removed all the hair from their bodies to avoid lice and general uncleanliness.