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One woman wrote to us saying she had avoided one hairstyle her entire life—not because she disliked it, but because she was sure it wasn’t “for someone like her.”
What happened in that salon chair stayed with her long after the haircut was over.
This is her story, shared in her own words. Lightly edited with permission.
I used to say it all the time:
I said it so often that I stopped questioning it. It felt like a fact, not an opinion. Something about my face, my neck, my age—I never really knew the reason.
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