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Solange Chops Hair, Is Called "Insane"
Tress Test
Deja-'Do


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Anyway, it's summer. Why not go short and take it easy on yourself and be cooler? People way overthink things sometimes.
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Last summer I cut it super short and I'm never going back...I get so many more compliments now, and it's SO SO SO much easier to deal with. Many women say to me "oh your hair looks great, I wish I could do that"...I think more women can pull it off than they realize, whether they're black, white, latina, whatever. If your hair is a hassle, GET RID OF IT. If you really hate it that much, it WILL grow back!
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But seriously, who HASN'T dreamt of cutting off all their hair in some ungodly summer heat wave? I lack the balls to do it, personally, but I've definitely thought about it.
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My point was that sometimes you make a statement by just being yourself, especially in a world where there's lots of pressure to conform to certain standards, to be/look/talk/behave a certain way. If you can ignore all that and choose to just do you, even if "you" is something that's not the norm (especially when it's not the norm), that's a personal choice that can also be quite radical and political; not in, like, a Black Power, racial-identity-affirming, Movement sense, but in a declaration of individuality and self and self-determination sense. What I like, in addition to Solange's new hairdo, is her unapologetic (and sensible) stance on it, and her long history of being her damn self, even when she takes heat for it.
And I wouldn't condemn Solange for wearing extensions or a weave or a wig (which she did the very same day the photo featured above was taken). I don't hate or condemn Jill Scott for straightening her hair. Or Erykah Badu for wearing fake locs. Or India.Arie for wearing extensions. Or Beyoncé for being weaved to high heaven all the time. But I do appreciate it when somebody steps outside of the box and says, "Know what, I'm a do something different right now, just 'cause I feel like it." I think that's hot, and it's a powerful statement.
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I commented on this in the Dirt Bag After Dark thread from last night, and I'll comment again. Borrowing an expression from the fab Miz Jenkins and applying it to Solange:
GODDAMMIT, I LOVE THIS BITCH!
Do your damn thing, Ms. Solange. Fuck the haters.
Also, she's done this at least once before, when she was pregnant with her son, as seen in the picture above. And she looked gorgeous then too.