11/10/2023 0 Comments Self cut curtain bangsMy emo phase drifted slowly but precisely towards a then-unidentified “I’m Not Like Other Girls” phase, where Zooey Deschanel’s locks on New Girl and Alexa Chung’s Cool Girl curtain bangs were all I ever wanted in life. After the cloud of “that” phase lifted, I realised I actually had a very small forehead – my forehead is about half the size of Rihanna’s – and every women’s magazine told me I didn’t suit bangs. I haven’t had a fringe since my emo phase of 2009 when it was very heavy and swept aside, always getting in my eyes and exasperating the patience of my hairdressers, who I’m sure were very tempted to protest my specific instructions for “extremely choppy layers, sweeping fringe”. Cutting my own bangs was a very deliberate, thoughtful decision I made on day 1 of self-isolation as my mum yelled out the door “Two metres! Two metres! Two metres!” when I departed for my daily walk around a quiet suburban neighbourhood, and then “Wash your hands! Wash your hands! Wash your hands!” when I returned. Could this actually be the best time to get the scissors out and carve out some DIY bangs? #pandemicbangs, anyone?īangs (as our American counterparts, and I, call the fringe) have the unfortunate reputation of being synonymous with some sort of mental breakdown, but I can assure you that is not what happened here. “Whatever you do during self-isolation, don’t cut your hair“.
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