[video available on spotify] a few months ago, i cut my hair really, really short - shorter than i ever have before. since then, one of my favorite topics of conversation has been my haircut. but unfortunately, i don’t get to talk about it that much. today i’m going to let myself indulge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Why is Emma obsessed with her pixie haircut?
A few months ago, I got a haircut and I cut my hair really, really short, shorter than I've ever cut it before. And since then, one of my favorite topics of conversation has been my haircut. If it was up to me, every conversation would be about my haircut. I absolutely love talking about it. I love talking about how I've been styling it.
I love talking about how I feel about it on a personal, deep, emotional, spiritual level. I love talking about how people are responding to it. I love talking about how scared I was and then how rewarding it was to do. I love talking about my goddamn haircut. But unfortunately, I don't get to talk about it that much because people have other interests.
They don't want to talk about my haircut more than once. Sometimes they don't want to talk about my haircut at all. And that's hard for me. Today, I'm letting myself indulge. Today, I'm gonna spend probably the next hour talking about my haircut. And you know why that's appropriate? Because I just got my haircut again, and I got it cut shorter than I ever have in my entire life.
Like, the haircut I just got is a full-on pixie, okay? It was sort of pixie-adjacent prior, but it was more of like a little short shag haircut. I have a full pixie now. Like my hair is the same length as my dad's. It's short, short. And I don't know, to me, that's like an excuse to talk about the haircut again.
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Now, you're probably wondering, like, Emma, why do you love talking about your haircut so much? Like, who cares? I think the reason why I love talking about it so much is because of how much of a plot twist it is, okay? When I was a kid, I absolutely hated, hated the look of short hair on women. It didn't have anything to do with like societal, you know, norms, like femininity norms.
I really genuinely in my heart of hearts do not believe that that had anything to do with it. Well, maybe that was part of it. You know what? Maybe that was part of it. I just genuinely didn't like the way it looked. I think because, you know, in the early 2010s, the pixie cut that was trendy was not cute. I still don't like it. Like, it was sort of like a comb over.
It was like a side part and like a comb over. Like, not my style. OK, it never I always felt like it wasn't flattering. I just couldn't comprehend it. And it's funny because my own mother had a pixie cut. In fact, she's had a pixie cut my entire life and I still didn't like it, although that actually might have made me hate the haircut more because.
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Chapter 2: What inspired Emma to cut her hair short?
I it took a few cuts for me to figure out what haircut suited me the best so thank you all for your patience over the last few months because yeah I didn't I don't think I got it right the first time by the way this was all my bad I was showing a reference to my hairstylist and saying let's do this and he was saying great and he would copy it exactly and the first you know
let's say four cuts, I was doing a bit longer, more of a shag, uh, that would then grow out into something that was a bit mullet-esque kind of maybe not mullet, not mullet. What would be the word? Um, I don't know. I don't have the word, but yeah, it, it took a sec, but I finally figured out my haircut and it's really exciting.
Um, I also think that there's something weirdly empowering about taking a risk like this. Like I felt empowered by the situation, not because, and not actually not for the reasons that you would assume, right? Like I think, you know, going back to the reason why the people, the people tend to hate the pixie cut because it is sort of a, a statement. Like, I don't care what men think about me.
That's a reason why people do it. That's a reason why it might be empowering for some people. For me, it was empowering because it was scary, right? It was just simply scary. It was frightening, okay? I was afraid of getting this haircut because I was afraid of potentially being judged. I was afraid of perhaps finding myself ugly, right?
Like looking in the mirror every day and being like, I look hideous, right? having a hard time looking at myself in the mirror. You know, I was frightened for those reasons. And you might think to yourself, those are far more shallow than the other reasons. I don't care why you think that they're shallow, okay? That's why I was frightened and being honest, okay?
I'd love to say that they're deep and they're political and they're, oh my God, but no, they're not. I was frightened for those more surface level reasons, but that was still frightening for me. I did it and I lived to tell the tale and it ended up being rewarding because there were so many things about it that were so great.
So I think what was empowering about it was trusting my gut, doing what I wanted to do and it paying off. That was rewarding. That was empowering. And my last observation over the last few months has been, I don't think I can ever go back. I'm so much like my mom. I'm growing to be more and more like my mom in a way that is good.
My mom and I are very, very different in a lot of ways, but we actually are also the same in a lot of ways. We have a very similar, our style is weirdly melding. My style is starting to sort of I don't know, mirror my mom's. And she definitely is less into fashion than me, but she actually is a fashionable woman in her heart.
Even when she wears hokas, you know, like around, which I would never do as a fashion statement. Even when she wears hokas with cargo pants, like which again, yeah, like it's like, I still am seeing my mom in my style. It's fascinating. But anyway, my mom has had a pixie my entire life. At her longest, she's had like a shack, you know, but she's had short hair my entire life.
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