I’m the opposite! I always had short hair, even a buzz cut, but since the pandemic I’ve not been to a haircut since February 2020! Now I’m feeling the nerves about cutting my hair after all this growth, but it needs to happen.
Had a buzz cut that I periodically grew out to a bob for over ten years, and let my hair grow since 2019 (longest bits are almost at my waist now-shocker for me). Agree on everything you said, although I would not be able to put it in such a great list as most just seem normal after so many years. I always tried to correlate my haircuts with summer heat and trying to finish all my products beforehand since they do not work for my scalp.
That brush you showed for your shortest hair is a must. It's easy not to comb your hair when you don't need to style it, but you still need to remove scalp and hair buildup. If you go that short, you need to brush regularly with a thick boar's hair or cactus brush. Make sure it doesn't have any nylon bristles: your scalp will thank you.
Every couple of months during the summer I buzz a mohawk (which I never actually wear up bc I'm extra lazy), and then let it grow during summer. Spring is buzzcut season and it's always so exciting!
I went from hip-length hair to a pixie cut when i was in my 20s and my number one regret was that somehow the entire time it was short, it didn't occur to me to put it up in a shampoo fauxhawk and sing in the shower like Ferris Bueller. Don't skip that experience, folks!
She said she has on her messy clothes which means she does not care about that shirt. It might even be designated for hair coloring. Maybe it was already ruined in some way so she doesn't care if it gets hair color on it.
I remember watching your "500 years of haircuts" video. I assumed that was all in one day, didn't realize you filmed over several days, living with each step for a while. That actually makes me feel better; I'm glad you had that experience more fully than I had previously thought.
I loved that video! The thing that struck me was how carefully Morgon needed to think through what she was planning to do, because she had to figure out which century or decade of hairstyles was appropriate for every length of hair she had. She must have worked very hard on that piecing that wonderful video together!
I'm thrilled to see people be themselves. I grew up in the 80s when everyone tried to look the same. It's taken me 50+ years to be me and I'm thrilled to see the younger generations breaking the molds. I LOVE that fun colors are more common. Your mix of dark natural color and the rainbow fringe is so fun. Keep inspiring each other!
I do as well! Meanwhile, my mother and all of her maturity need to repeatedly get fed up and judgemental over something with ZERO impact on her life...
@@snow-js4te My hair is long enough to sit on and many shades of purple, blue, magenta and my natural grey and has been for decades. I guess I'm trendy and outdated at the same time.
I was around 19 when I buzzed mine for the first time and my biggest revelation was how many guys felt a need to tell me that it was unattractive for a woman to have short hair. Which, you know, made me keep the style for the next 10-15 years 😂 no one is gonna tell me how to wear my hair. I think it's really cool that you did it just because you thought it would be fun 😄
I was dating someone, who had just dumped me for like 2 weeks and wanted to get back together, have the audacity to tell me he doesn't find it attractive for women to have buzzcuts. So naturally, I got a buzzcut. We finally broke up for good after a couple months after this. Not because of the buzzcut, but because I was having a hard time trusting someone who first dumps me and then tells me shit like this.
Omg I get so many comments (almost always from men) even when my hair is (short) pixie length! If they aren't downright negative ('I really don't like short hair on women' ehhh do I look like I care what you think?!) it's the ever returning question of 'why do you wear your hair so short?' - the meaning behind this seems to be anything from veiled judgment to legit interest (some men really don't seem to know any short haired women?). It is SO strange and I totally understand your reaction of 'ok if you comment that kind of shit I'll keep it like this!', I kinda feel the same way.
also I want to say you're never too old to have fun with your hair!! my dad in his 50s and currently has blue hair! he dyed it for the first time in July when his band played at pride, so he went rainbow first!!
I've had a Mohawk off and on since high school. When I turned 50 in 2021, I went back to it "one more time while I was still young enough." I started letting it grow out right after New Year this year, but went back to it last week-- the long bits are over a foot long, so it takes well over a year for the short bits to even start to blend in...
I have ultra fine naturally blonde hair and it started thining markedly because of alopecia so, I bit the bullet and asked my hubby to shave my head totally. I now have a blast wearing wigs and I’m now behaving disgustingly for a 63 year old. I’ve become eccentric and don’t care what people think now which is a massive change from being very self conscious
I have fine, thinning, dark blonde hair and alopecia. Yesterday I brought the human hair topper (a hair piece that covers the top of your hair) home that I ordered earlier this year that was dyed to match my hair perfectly. I spent a big chunk of the day taking photos in different types of lighting, and trying different styles. I finally have the bangs back that I haven't been able to do for 13 years. I bought this at a special salon for people with hair loss. I would love to get a hh wig but there are a ton of scammers online (and it's still 150~500eu on the line here for a lower end hh wig) and I cannot afford the hh wig prices at local stores who probably won't even sell to me anyway. I have a lot of synthetic wigs with different quality and price points but for a long time have been dissatisfied with them.
My mom is 50+ now and always so incredibly worried about her hair and dress being appropriate and always asking if she isn't too old for xyz And it drives me mad. I wish she could just wear whatever makes her happy and do with her hair whatever makes her happy because you only got so long on this planet do you really want to waste it worrying about what judgmental aholes think about your clothes and hair If somebody genuinely cares about you as a person, you having fun with your clothes and hair won't scare them away, and if somebody really puts that much weight on appearance then are they really worth having around? Anyways i am so glad you got your confidence now and can just enjoy yourself. Your age doesn't matter. You'll always feel as yourself regardless what age you're at so why should you be forced to be a certain way Just do you. At the end of the day, you're the only one having to live with it, so make sure it makes you feel good and bring you joy.
@@itsalwayshalloweenexceptwh5118 I'd recommend looking at wigs marketed towards black American women, usually they're pretty good quality and won't run you more than $250 usd, but it will last you for several years if not decades
I buzzed my head back in 2018, and honestly I was not anticipating the response that I got. I was expecting kind of a mixed bag of responses, but the comments I got both online and in public were overwhelmingly positive. That, and I had so many middle aged and older women come up to me to talk about how they were dealing with hair loss and had thought about/wanted to shave their heads as well, but were so scared of it. It really felt like an honor to be able to talk to these women about their own relationships with their hair, and the thoughts I had when I decided to buzz mine. Additionally, I never felt more feminine than when I had my buzz cut. I would 10000% do it again and again and again
I had my sides and back buzzed off and my top really short (imagine a generic military hair cut) and I think I would have enjoyed it more if I didn't have so much dysphoria surrounding my hair.
@@Liquidmind246 hey, is your hair dry at all? I have a hair type that really, really needs moisture. I found a good leave in conditioner then put mousse on top to seal it in. A few weeks after doing this, my hair stopped dropping out so much that I'm still surprised when I see not much hair has come out.
@@Liquidmind246 Amazing to hear that is has improved! I'm currently in your initial situation but actually I've already had multiple periods in my life with hair loss. I think something's up with my hormones (probably also to do with lots of stress) but doctors don't seem to help. I'm 98% there to actually go for the buzz.
Buzzed mine in 2016 to get all the color off and show off my grey. I want to do it again because I can’t stand my hair wrapping around my neck and it’s so easy to care for as you age.
I love my hair as it is now, but my sister just started chemotherapy and i told her that if she ends up having to buzz her hair, i'll do it with her. I'm kind of scared but my sister feeling supported means a lot more to me than my hair ✨️❤️
@@leila1700 i did it a few days after I posted this comment and my hair is back to a long bob and my sister is mostly healthy now ❤️❤️🥰🥰 i'm so glad i did it, totally worth it
One really unexpected benefit of having worn a buzz cut for a while (and liking it) is that it's made me feel a lot more carefree about anything else I ever try with my hair - "well, if I hate it, I'll just shave it off" is always on the table as an option.
As far as being treated differently, having a buzz cut and a shaved undercut pixie, I got treated WAY differently in a positive way. I got SO many compliments and praise, almost every single day I got hair compliments. The most common one was people telling me I was “brave” for having short hair. It got to the point that I was afraid to grow my hair back out because I felt I would be losing something that makes me unique and special and gets me compliments. I’m growing it out now to see how it makes me feel and go from there!
Yeah, I think it's just that it's a noticeable style choice? I've had everything from "Well, eh, that's interesting" and "I could never! You're so brave" to "That's so cool!" from perfect strangers with my current bright purple pixie. My natural hair in a bob never got any comments. Like at all.
I got laughed at when I had short hair. Had people say I looked like a pickled onion waaaayyyy too many times to count. It was never complimented. But I've had positive comments about my hip length hair and just people not commenting on it at all. Not that I really care too much what others think. Or rather it hurts when they're nasty, but I don't need their approval if that makes sense. I'm personally way happier with my longer hair.
About adjusting: I went from tailbone to chin lenght (once in a cut, I donated the braid, best decision ever). For about a couple weeks after the cut I kept trying to move around an invisible braid while doing things! The automated gestures of having a braid hunging around were a new discovery when I had not the said braid anymore.
@@MegaKellyschannel I did the exact same thing, I went tailbone to pixie and donated. I would also keep brushing hair that wasn't there any more and hit my shoulder with the brush! I had shoulder bruises for MONTHS until I finally stopped hitting myself 😂
Before I did my tailbone to jaw cut I would play with the end of my braid behind my back. It felt really weird to reach back and not find that. The ability to not sit on it was SO worth it tho.
Same! Same thing happened again when i went from the bob to buzz cut later, i was so used to hide behind my hair or comb through it with my fingers or tuck it behind my ears, i would constantly try to move something that wasn't there
As a professional hairdresser, I have found this video so so helpful! This gives me an idea of the process that I hadn't considered before and helps me help my clients! Thank you for such a well documented video, even though you lost a lot of footage, you explained your point incredibly well! Keep it up!!
heeya i buzzcutted my hair in 2012 on the shortest setting possible. and i have never seen someone who got fmale assigned at birth who did not suit a shaven head. they ALL look good. i got comments on how brave i was and how they wouldnt dare. and it kickstarted my confidence so much. I was 22 back then and now im nearly 33 and i took the sciccors and just put them in. and i have felt like myself again! i alway had long hair because i thought thats what i was supposed to have. but now that its short again i cant believe i had it long for so long :D if your clients tell you they want to dare to go bold but are scared tell them it all suits them and people are gonna compliment them sooo much :D thank you for reading!
My hairdresser always knew she could experiment with cut/color on me (obviously with communication) because I would shrug and say “it’s hair. It’ll grow out.” My very first visit to her I had hacked my own hair from ~waist to ~shoulders. “Can you fix this?” I’ve been from pixie to practically waist length and back with her. I’ve since moved and never found her match 😢
A year already! That hair video was probably the most brilliantly crafted, superbly organised, well edited and interesting vid I have seen on TH-cam, and I have watched it multiple times over the months. I remember the shock I had when you first casually took out the scissors…and then again…and again!! So many TH-camrs make an enormous fuss about just getting bangs, and there were you (whose content was in large part hair-related!) blithely cutting away without vanity or hesitation or histrionics. So great to have an update and hear the answers to some questions I had mulled over at the time. Your hair suits you so well in so many styles (and colours!), looking forward to seeing the fun you have with it over the next 12 months!
The pure enjoyment of experimentation and total lack of fucks Morgan gives about how others might judge her is incredibly refreshing. I've long hair & no videos bar Morgan's have even made me consider a cut, but the '70's vibe of the hairstyle video & the cute curls of this one? Has made me think! (which is another reason I love Morgan's channel - she doesn't tell you what to think, she does her own thing, has fun, provides info & then you go off inspired, informed & excited to have fun 💜)
I love that for practically every month you said some variation of "I look cute" or "I feel cute"! It's so cool that you were able to experiment with different styles and find things you liked at the different lengths your hair grew to 🥰
Also, I went for a big chop last year to donate my hair, and those hair slides/combs you used in month 11 were a lifesaver for me as someone who hates having hair fall in my face lol
I had started growing out my beard and shaved my head at the same time. Went from about mid-back length to 0 in February '13. Definitely learned timing immediately. What I noticed was how others saw me as more generic. Bald biker guy with beard #7 vibes, if that makes sense. As it grew back out I saw 3 phases: the peach fuzz, the "not long enough to tie back but long enough to get in your face", and the mullet. Seeing the possibilities and styles you pull off throughout the months makes me jealous! Men aren't allowed to do very much with our hair, unfortunately. I think I will try some colors now that it is about waist length. Had my nails painted for the first time Saturday, and I think I like it? Maybe I'll like dying it? P.S. made a "circle cloak" thing as my first sewing project after seeing your Circle Dress video. Thanks for the inspiration to try new things!!
Sounds awesome, just do whatever hairstyles you want, who cares what men “aren’t allowed” to do? Ps try colours but if u need to bleach ur hair to get the colours u want, it’s definitely going to change your hair texture so grab some conditioning products first. My hair is almost black so to try a medium-deep red I had my hair lightened with a non bleach lightener and a little bleach, and my hair was definitely significantly drier and more crunchy.
Kudos to you for not giving 2 craps what others think & exploring new things! People get so caught up in what is “feminine” & what is “masculine” & due to that, folks, imo, become boring robots-or these like bland, carbon-copies of each other. I just don’t believe in assigning gender to objects..fingernail polish is not “for women”, & so on…you get the point! Be authentically you!! Take care!
@@skully6223 fr people start to look too similar and it gets harder and harder to tell them apart as my eyesight gets worse. Love unique looking people.
I had a pixie cut for years. Also working in retail. Number one comment I received was, “you’ll look so pretty with long hair”. There were rumors that a couple of guys had a crush on me, but won’t ask me out because my hair was too short😮!
Same. When my hair was in a pixie, one girl commented that she wished I would grow it out so people would have something more interesting to look at. One man told me my features sure would look softer if I grew my hair out. Oh, and the typical "my husband would die if I cut my hair like that." (🙄) Then a local man with greenhouses heard I wanted to work for him so he told my friend to send me over to talk. He took one look at me and said boy your hair is so short--and he never called me back.
@@RainbowSunshineRain Where do you live? I'm in the South but I think social media and women like the Kardashians (and now so so many more like them) have given men unreasonable expectations about women. I could be wrong but I think I'm expected to look like that and it's depressing.
I’m a girl who had a buzz cut from late middle school to early college, and sometimes when I met someone new and knew them for at least a couple of months, they’d say something along the lines of “Your hair is growing back reaaally slowly.” Kinda bummed me out that some folks assumed that I had that hairstyle unwillingly. There were other people saying it looked cool, though, and wherever y’all are, I hope your pizza rolls always come out the ideal temperature for immediate consumption.
Hi Morgan! I wanted to let you know that you inspired me to buzz my head on 9/11/2021. More than half of my hair had fallen out from Covid and I was depressed and desperately trying to cover up the thinning spots. Then I stumbled upon that fabulous video of you chopping into the hair that can become a security blanket for so many of us. You’re energy of confidence and whimsy as your tresses got shorter and shorter was truly inspiring! Thank you for sharing that with us! This past year has been the most fun I think I’ve ever had in my hair journey. You the G.O.A.T. For real! 💜💚 I’m not crying, you’re crying 🥲
Has your hair grown back? I lost most of my hair (autoimmune thing) in ‘16, and one day just said, “Ah, screw it,” and shaved it off. I started wearing wigs and *loved* it. When my hair grew back (a little), I realized that I hate messing with hair and have for a long time! Now wigs are just part of my daily routine.
Another caution note for when you buzz cut... Besides using caution for your scalp in the sun, also beware your ears and neck. Family member actually got melanomas on the tops of the ears from the extra sun exposure (NOT a good look and a hard area to treat without scarring). Scarves can help protect your neck along with sunscreen.
Agreed, I have a family predisposition for melanoma and an aunt had melanoma on her ear, spreading into her ear canal and healing after surgery was a long process. Don't forget to protect your ears!
@@PartanBree even if you have long hair though it can be an issue. I remember a long hike I was on in lust merciless sun. I had to put sunscreen on the part in my hair. Be careful regardless of hair length.
For the people that asked "Why?" I say, "Why not?" It was a fantastic journey! Thank you for having the courage, motivation and fortitude to do all you did, and to share it with all of us!
When I grew out my super short pixie, I did an undercut when the top reached my ears. Then I just left it until it got to a bob. I still have the bob and the undercut, and nobody knows it's there. Best of both worlds! No soggy nape in the summer, and a 'regular' hairstyle day to day. It was also the least stressful grow-out ever. No mullet. I'd definitely do it that way again.
Same. I started letting my hair grow out without an undercut for the hair in the back area and it always looked somewhat messy and I didn't feel comfortable. And then I, for some reason idk, was like "maybe an undercut would help. So the top hair still grows longer but without the hair in the neck area sticking up and looking messy". BEST DECISION EVER!!
one thing I learned after shaving my head for the first time was the freedom of (almost) no consequences! since then I've tried a LOT of different hairstyles (coloured, permed, undercut, many of them were those judgy internet lists say would be "wrong" for my head/face shape lol) and I always say that if I don't like it, I can just shave it all off and have a clean slate!!
When I was in High School (dear Goddess, 50 years ago! Eeep!) there was a girl in our class who had REALLY long hair...her braid went to the top of her thighs! What none of us knew, was how fast it grew. On the first day of school, our Senior year, she showed up with her hair really short...a cute, curly 2" halo. The entire school was in shock. She just told everyone to relax "Don't worry, it grows really fast... by Graduation, you won't be able to tell." For years, I had a picture of her on Graduation Day. Cap, Gown .... And hair almost to her waist.
Wow! My hair grows really fast, but not quite that fast. It's hard to imagine, and it would be difficult to maintain anything other than long hair. I always felt like my hair grew too fast to be paying for stylish cuts at a salon because they just grew out and didn't look the same after two weeks.
I want this super power so badly :( my hair grow so slowly I cut it once per three years to about half neck, or even to shoulders, and still never had hair longer than... Idk the English name of this lenght, anyways, I could barely cover my nipples with my hair. My hair are also totally straight, completely resistant to styling (curls done with super strong foam AND hair spray lasted about half a day) and have zero volume or thickness (I don't have enough hair to look good with any type of untied hair style,maybe beside putting all hair on the one side of the head). OK, maybe I exagerrate but I am really insecure about my hair.
I also have hair like this, though not quite that extreme, but it grows really fast. I cut it twice during the pandemic, to a bit below the shoulder, and by this summer it was back to waist length again. I didn't realise how much of a superpower this was until I started getting interested in hair and learning how many folks struggle to grow it. Mind you, the downside is I'm always having to cut my nails, as they also grow really quickly!
I've had 2-inch hair and waist length hair. I discovered that I prefer my hair as long as possible, but I never would've known that for sure without trying out short hair. I definitely recommend that everyone get a proper short cut at least once.
While people have generally become much more accepting of a diverse range of haircuts, it still amazes me how much value people put on some dead cells, especially when it isn't even their own hair. When you cut your hair, I was honestly surprised at how chill you were about it. Most people on social media would have spent half the video freaking out like they were about to make some massive life altering decision. It was really refreshing to see someone treat their hair as something to bring joy to themselves, not as something to fulfill the expectations of others.
Maybe the reason she was so chill with it is because she _chose_ this for herself. For other people, like cancer patients for instance, the loss of hair isn't quite as consensual. Since hair changes how one looks a lot (and I posit that many people attach a lot of feelings to their appearance), I imagine that having the time to consciously choose a new look vs having one's look ripped away is most likely a big factor.
A lot of women, including those choosing to shave their head, freak out about it because they were raised with this notion of hair changes being permanent with how long they take to go back (the difference between a buzzcut and your usual style is just larger when you've got longer hair), so it feels almost as if hair should never have drastic changes made to it. Also, many women are raised to see their long hair as an integral part of their (gender) identity, so changes to it are perceived to be bigger than they actually are.
I get harassed enough for being trans without short hair, and growing out my hair took 5 years Yeah I'd get upset if 5 years where pissed down the drain while being harassed on the street Its fine to want short hair but you don't need to make everyone else love it, not everyone wants short hair
@@LuluTheCorgiyeah, when my hair was short, nobody cared, but as i grow it, people seem to never stop bringing it up and asking me if im ever gonna cut it. Like no, i dont plan to cut it for many years to come
If you hadn’t told us about your hard drive failure I don’t think I would have noticed the missing content-you did a wonderful job using other content for those month! Thank you for sharing your journey, your joy is contagious.
What a sweet love letter to Rachael Maksy; it's okay to make mistakes, they are the best teachers! Morgan and the other Costuber's I love so much BECAUSE they are authentic, share their successes and mistakes with us, because we learn from it all! Love your new look, so sorry about your hard drive death; that's a real blow, not just to the content you mentioned, but all the other critical stuff on there as well. Great video, thank you!
I had waist length hair for over 20 years. One winter I got sick of the constant battle with flyaway hair because of static. But I had already been thinking of cutting my hair for a year. So I went to shoulder length. After that I went to a pixie cut. THEN, I went to shaved sides. I’m so happy with my punk-ish hairstyle and glad I made the change.
Shaved sides is really such a good compromise lol. I grew up wanting short hair but when that didn't work out I wanted it as long as possible and it was a total menace to care for. Now my sides are shorn with the top long and it's so versatile
I was already experiencing hair loss when I was diagnosed with breast cancer and had aggressive chemo and targeted treatments followed by hormone suppression drugs for 6 years. I had my hair buzzed off when I got fitted for my first wig. I immediately broke out with folliculitis. This is really common when you go down to the skin. Know this! So after all this, my hairline never recovered so I’m a full time wig wearer in public but around the house, I keep it in a buzz cut. (It’s like Velcro for the wig 🤣). The biggest adjustment was how cold I get year round being bald especially in bed. I have caps and beanies all over my home to pull on when I get chilled.
One thing I found when I shaved my head, as far as the reception from others went (besides being generally very positive), I got a lot of sympathetic stares. I shaved my hair off for fun and because my hair was fried from years of home bleaching, so it was entirely by choice. Even still, when I did it back in 2017 there was (and I assume still is) an overwhelming thought that if you’re female presenting and bald, it’s probably medically related. It was very strange to experience, I can’t imagine how uncomfortable I would be if it WERE medically related and it HADN’T been my own choice
That’s exactly my experience too! Went from a black, very vintage style to bald by choice. It was so liberating but yes, everyone assumes it’s medically related. Like “why would I choose this voluntarily?” I’m growing it again now and having so much fun with colour and styling, but it was the best two years :)
During quarantine, my daughter decided she wanted to cut her hair short. At the time she had shoulder length hair and she was getting really frustrated with it. I didn’t want her to start drastically short, so we found a 3 inch clipper guard to start with. We cut it at home and she LOVED it. Although it’s 3 inches all around, she ends up with a really cute soft mullet. We cut it down about once a season. She is so much happier, and looks awesome, which makes me happy.
You worked retail that long?! No wonder you have such a kind soul. I only worked in retail for about 2 years and all I got was bitter and mental health issues getting worse. You really are a gem ❤️
@@DariaHoelzel I think it was actually crazier back before internet shopping became such a thing. It used to be the mall was MOST people's go to option for xmas shopping. Back when I worked at the mall in the 90s it was fkn bonkers.
@@phoenixliv Man, I can hardly imagine that it must have been worse. Not saying, I don't believe you, the videos of the recent years are just... haunting. xD Thanks for the answer! :D
@@DariaHoelzel Some of it depends on the store you go to. Back in the 90's and early 00's, all stores were madness and there was a lot of nastiness and violence. The internet has changed the way we shop and the way we handle these crowds. People can pre-order, the store can advertise how many of a thing they have, the line management is easier (and building capacity limits are better enforced after some of those stampede stories). None of which is to say that Black Friday from the worker's perspective is enjoyable. We had to get there at some horribly early hour to set up displays and decorations, organize as best we could for the influx of people, and generally brace ourselves for the incoming madness. As stores open earlier into Thanksgiving it's gotten much worse. Now we're dragged away from our Thanksgiving festivities, we often have to staff the store overnight, and it feels like for all the above mitigation the individual troublemakers have gotten more entitled and mean. Mean customers plus exhausted resentful over-stressed employees means that you kind of expect at least 1 rage quit per 50 employees over the Thanksgiving weekend alone, and expect to see more burnout as you get closer and closer to Christmas. "Right-sized" schedules, which is what eventually led to me quitting, makes it all even worse. That's where the store staffs exactly the number of employees at a given time as corporate programmed the scheduling system to permit per $ amount sold. Realistically you always need at least 1-2 more people in slow times, and 3-4 more in busy times to have a productive staff working at a healthy pace. This and underpayment is the real reason your US fast food joint or grocery store or big box store always seems shorthanded. . . . . . and I did the ranting about the disaster that is the back end of the system on which retail runs thing again. One of these days I'll start my own youtube channel and deep-dive into how these problems interconnect and the depressing economic theory that underpins it.
From around 8 or 9 years old until my early 60s, my hair was hip length. Partially due to preference, partially to shyness about going to a hair dresser, partially because it seemed so easy to switch up to suit different occasions (loose, all sorts of braiding, buns, twists, etc). Then I went through an emotionally stressful event and half my hair fell out. I'm not exaggerating about half, I looked like I had a bad combover all over my head. So I got irritated with it and put it in timeout by buzzing it down to about 1/8th of an inch/0.3 cm long all over (didn't want to risk a scalp rash if I used the surgical blade alone--I used the clippers from my years of owning and showing dogs!). I found buzzing it with the smallest comb really easy--just run the clippers every which way over and around my head until there is nothing to hear (I have nerve damage in one hand, so can't rely on touch to let me know if there are wispy bits). That was over four years ago and every time I contemplate letting it out of time out, I develop one or more bald spots (my doctor tells me that once you have alopecia, the risk of it happening again goes up with each episode). Out come the clippers and the hair goes back into timeout. At this rate, I seriously doubt it will ever not be buzzed but who knows? Stranger things have happened and I've beaten the odds before. So I've really gotten into head wraps and scarves. My favourite head wraps are rayon jersey infinity scarves that I hand dye using low water immersion techniques to get a water colour type effect. Easy for me to change my head colour, warm in the winter and cool in the summer, sun protection for my scalp and I can change or accent them with ribbon or using two scarves or or a brooch or whatever. If my hair ever does decide to behave itself again, I'm grateful for the tips on the growing out stages.
I’m so with on this! I have a legendary collection of hats, this time of year (Southern Hemisphere) it’s mostly beanies, but Sun hats rock for the rest of the year. Used to have long hair, been super short for years now - have never acclimatised to the cold🤦 but since I love hats - NO DOWNSIDE👍 Last tip - hats that hide your eyebrows make it REALLY hard for people to accurately guess your age. You look younger 👍👍
I'm currently suffering the "hair falling out" stage. Last year was so awful stress wise it's just coming out constantly. I'm strongly considering cutting short (not buzzed but more like Morgan's current length in the vid), and taking up wigs or scarves. So much of my identity is tied up in long hair, and that's been a really wild ride to work through. I appreciate you sharing this comment and experience, it helps me feel less alone. Thank you, genuinely. 💛
@@mialemon6186 you are welcome. You're definitely not alone! This is probably the best time in history if you want realistic wigs because the quality of wigs has improved immensely just in my lifetime (I'm in my 60s). I've met several people that I would never have guessed they were wearing a wig until they told me. Scarves, headwraps, etc, are also great. There's so much variety and there's a kajillion ways to wear them, especially when you start using two or three, adding jewellery, etc. In some ways, I see them as being better than and certainly easier than dyeing one's hair--if you try a colour or pattern and don't like it, changing it is as easy as just pulling it off your head. And they don't go all brittle or frizzy and all the things that can happen if your hair gets processed wrong or just decides it doesn't like what you've done to it. There's no such thing as a bad hair day when you have scarves and headwraps to play with.
It was near the end of the video that I finally was able to put my finger on what was so unusual about looking in on your hair journey ... The attitude toward your hair and its constant changes is very much a mindfulness experience. We as a society tie up so much meaning and memories into the state of our hair that your journey was simply "This is how I am *now*." I know that's not what you intended, but it is an interesting way of looking at it. The hair was personifying being present in the moment. I love everything you did. It's so beautiful watching you enjoying the process and knowing everything will turn out all right.
Different people put different values on different part of them. Imagine if Christine (simply nailogical) cut her nails, it be a whole emotional thing. I've always been blasé about my hair, doing what I want because it'll grow back or I can get it cut again but so many people are aghast when I tell them. Human identity, even putting aside gender for a moment, the feelings about the things that make us us are so complex and amazing. Then you add culture on top and the symbolism and sacredness of hair in some societies. It's *a lot*! But it's also wonderful and fascinating.
I'm a guy that has had buzzed hair for yeeeeeeeeeears with the occasional 1-2" grow out. I'm a month short of 2 years growing my hair out to donate for a childrens' wig charity (allllllmost there) and completely agree with all of your phases so far. I also had to go buy hair ties, combs, conditioner, etc. Can't wait to do some good for a kid and get back to my buzz cuts! LOVE the current hair style, btw :)
My mom used to run an organisation for children with cancer and years ago she learnt to make full custom wigs on lace (it's huge now but this was brand new then) Try to get it as long as possible bc the final wig will always be several centimetres shorted than the raw hair. a lot of people just donate the minimum and it's doesn't leave many options for variety
I buzzed my hair to almost bald in May 2022. And I really enjoyed the easy phase when it was super short. It's perhaps halfway to my goal of basically wearing it in the messy ponytail that Link has in Breath of the Wild. It gives me some very good enby gender euphoria at wvery stage so far, as well
@@Schnort it's really hard. Tbh, many days, I just roll out of bed and hardly look at myself before going to work. My hair is curly in odd ways as well, and some days I dig what it does, and some days I just resign to it. Adding color has been a good way for me to feel ownership of my hair, but that can be challenging in its own ways too. I hope you find some good hair days!
As someone who has had mid-back or longer hair since I was 12 (and I'm in my 60s now), my long hair is a large part of my identity. I projected that onto you, and was in complete shock when you did The Buzz. Knowing you switched up hair lengths several times removed that shock. And ... we all have different relationships with our hair. Mine is "Liz = very long hair", Morgan's is "Hair is fun to play with." Neither is right or wrong. And even though I would never cut my hair (aside from "health trims"), it has been fun to watch the hair journey.
I adore the rainbow in the back - when you twirled around and there was that rainbow at the bottom of the curls all the way around your nape - HEART EYES. I really enjoyed this video and found it to be super helpful! I appreciate the dedication and how you kept up all year with check ins
I buzzed my hair short in 2017 for charity and decided I liked it so much that I've kept it short ever since*. This was pre-pandemic and I was living in a relatively warm location so my buzzed hair was generally on full display, and I found most people were really cool about it! I did get occasional weird questions ("does your hair naturally grow that short?") and people wanting to touch my head without consent, but I don't think I had anybody misgender me or make rude jokes about my hairstyle (other than certain members of my immediate family, but I don't live with them so they're free to be small-minded and rude in their own space). *During the 2020 lockdowns I started growing my hair out, figuring it was my best opportunity to do so without anybody seeing the awkward phase(s). Unfortunately, my hair is so thick that it just became a giant afro, hair sticking straight outward because that was the only way it could fit. It looked awful, and wearing hats/scarves/beanies only gave me headaches because they pushed the hair directly back toward my head. After close to 8 months (around 8 cm of growth) I realised I didn't want it long anyway and was just doing this because it was a "good time to do it" rather than something I actually wanted to do, so I went back to buzzing to #0 every 1-2 weeks, and I haven't looked back. I also feel just as feminine as I did with long hair, if not more so. My long hair was super thick and so I always wore it in a ponytail to keep it out of my face, because nothing else could hold it. Now, I don't have that problem, nor do I create hair spiders to stick to the tiles in the shower, nor does my vacuum cleaner get clogged with hairs tangling around its brushes. Instead, I look like Eleven or Furiosa or Okoye, and what's not feminine and awesome about that?
At age 67 I went ahead and got an asymmetrical buzz. Three mm on the left and 3.5" on the center-top & right side - all naturally curly. A year before, I'd stopped the brown + highlights hair dye I'd been doing for 20 years and went natural salt & pepper. The asymmetrical buzz is just glorious! Cool in the Florida summer, and I feel super stylish.
I totally agree with the "benign neglect" expression; whenever I get asked how I grow my hair so long, the answer is because I haven't gotten a haircut. I appreciate this video because I'm planning to cut my hair short sometime. And yeah, I feel like getting a haircut as we head into summer where I live is pretty common.
I had been planning to get a cut a few jobs back...but then covid hit. Businesses closed down or shortened hours, which made it impossible on my schedule. So by necessity it went back to a fair bit over the shoulder again, at least until things had calmed down. Yeah, summer cuts are nice!
As a kid, i was obsessed with having long hair, but it never grew enough bc i didn't take care of it enough for it to grow out. Now I'm considering all these shorter styles and cuts that i never tried bc i wanted long hair so badly for so long. Right now i have a partial undercut (mostly on one side and a diagonal line on the back) that I've been kinda maintaining as i can (for months we couldn't get it cut and it grew like 4 inches, not what i wanted)
I don't even understand what answer I'm supposed to give... like.. "how did you grow your hair so long?" ...??? It.. you know hair just grows, right? You get a hair cut to keep it short... and if you don't want it short, you just... don't get it cut? It's insanely easy to grow your hair out you just do nothing and it grows on its own???
I was forced to have an ugly bob cut with bangs for much of my childhood so long hair feels like freedom to me. I definitely don't miss having even shorter hair and needing styling gel or mousse to look even remotely presentable. It is fun though to watch other women experiment with hair.
My childhood "bowl cut" sympathizes with your forced bob! 😆 Honestly I think in our family's case it was purely an economic thing...? Easy to cut at home cheaply with 3 kids, and also part of a religious thing where they tended to consider any kind of style expression "vanity". And then of course being the 80s, the cut was allowed to straggle out into an almost-mullet as it grew!! 🙈 Finally being allowed to grow proper long hair was a big relief - even if some of my efforts at styling it are 100% cringe now, looking back at old photos 😂
I’ve had a pixie cut for 4 years and finally buzzed it last year. I’m so excited to hear your journey and tips! I went on vacation right after the buzz and it was so nice to not have to pack ANY hairbrushes and hairspray. Currently my goal is to go back to a long pixie slash very very short severe bob. I’m excited for that journey ahead! I’m starting the growing out process now so I can hide the awkward stages under winter hats for the next 6-8 months and get a lot of growth.
Almost two years ago I had hair down to my knees, literally. Cut it all off, to about 2 inches left. Best decision I've made. The before and after pictures were epic. I've had several different short styles, including a very cool undercut with a criss-cross pattern. Doing new stuff with my hair was (and still is) so fun!
@@JescaBartell Most guys look silly with super long hair, IMO, and most women gain an extra dimension of beauty with it. I have seen exceptions, of course.
Guys with long hair can absolutely be sexy and attractive, but more importantly, our hair is OURS to do what we want with and gendering a bunch of dead cells is stupid. As for your misogynistic comment on women, women aren't just for men to look at. You're thinking of paintings.
I had a college friend (this is around 1988) who had had to shave her head for surgery in high school. NO ONE outside the Harlem Globetrotters were shaving their heads at that time, so it made her look very unusual. Shaving her head changed her entire life; she went from being a quiet, normative person to a wildly expressive person. Anything became possible!
October will mark the 1 year anniversary that I've had my hair short, and I'm honestly beyond pleased that I did it! I did it as an autonomy and self-identity thing, and it's an experience I wish I could have a Pensive to go back and relive as many times as I want, haha. I had just gotten through wedding season for my brother at the time; I had to contort and squish myself so many ways to fulfill my duties and make him happy. I'm nonbinary and was just getting into the "yeah, this is my full truth" stage while being asked to be a bridesmaid and going to the bachelorette and basically hyperfeminize myself because my SIL and her friends are all cis women who celebrate their femininity. It's beautiful and empowering for them, but crushing and soul-wearing for me. Three days after the wedding and countless showers later, I still couldn't get all the product that made my hair wedding-ready out. So, I poured a glass (cough cough half a bottle) of wine, blasted a playlist that started with Reflection and Go the Distance, and chopped my hair off. And while belting out Defying Gravity, I shaved my hair down to just under an inch. The euphoria is honestly unmatched, and I still dip into that memory when I want a boost. I've let my hair get longer, but it's fairly consistently around a 1/2 inch round the sides and 3 inches on top. It feels so right and so much more like me. I do get stares and comments and the odd insult, but most people seem to really like it, and even my family says that I just look brighter with my hair so short. It's also just made me fully love my hair and its natural qualities; it's super fine and super densely populated, which means grease builds up easily when it's long. When it's short, that translates as volume! I almost never have to use product, and it just happily sticks up and cascades into a lovely little coif.
Ah, I guess that bridesmaids have a lot of expectations. I was wedding photographer at my cousins, and just wore a somewhat fancy looking jumpsuit with my usual bob cut. Maybe for the next wedding you could try a jumpsuit to? I was extremely comfortable and could move with freedom. And no one (except my grandma) questioned it. Then again I'm not non-binary, It's just a suggestion based on comfort.
I'm an uber-uber-uber-femme cishet lady, and nothing in the world makes me happier than someone doing their own thing. Buzz cuts on other people thrill me. Folks figuring out their gender identity make me stoked.
@@DominikaHare Honestly, it was less about the clothes and more about being forced into a more feminine role. I’m good with dresses and things like that-when it’s on my terms. But being called “lady” or “girlie” or asked to uphold societal norms for women and bridal stuff is just massively uncomfy. At the time, too, I had only just started coming out to myself. Thank you for the advice and support, though!
When the video came out last year I was suffering with birth control/hormone related hair loss. This gave me the confidence to cut it into a short pixie cut - which I rocked and helped me to start living my life again.
Good luck to your Mom. My mother had the same situation and her hair was flattering and maintenance free. Get her a pretty, soft hat for cooler weather. Everything you do for her depends on her personal style: casual, frilly, tailored, etc. hugs to you.
Good luck to your mom. I finished chemo last October. It took about 2 months for it to get from cue ball to buzz cut. Then 2 months after that, it turned curly almost overnight. (Chemo curl is a known thing!) I cut the curls off and dyed my remaining hair in June because I thought they made me look at least 10 years older. Now my hair is definitely thinner than it was before. I think that’s a combination of chemo and the maintenance drugs I’ll need to take from now on. I must admit that when Morgan’s video came out last year, my first thought was “Oh no, she has cancer, too!” But that was just a reflection of where my mind was at the time.
Keeping a good thought for your mom. I've seen some beautiful things like henna "crowns". Wishing your mom and family all the best as she goes through this.
I love how excited you are at every single stage of growth ❤️ I grew out a pixie cut and a lot of the "awkward" length stages just made me miserable, so I wish I'd had your creative and positive mindset to experiment and have fun with every month 🥰
I went from 46 inches of hair, to shaved (no guard) in 2013. I had had long hair my entire life up to that point, and I was done. The sense of freedom from removing all that hair so quickly was amazing, and I've been much happier and totally fearless with my hairstyles since then. No regrets!
Love the “Claire Foy” The Crown look! Would be nice to have hair! Mine started to do the male pattern when I was 16! My Mum was beside herself. Gallons of rosemary tea and cod liver oil and all the potions now as an old man the bit of fluff left is a reminder that a man’s glory is not his hair! 🙃💨
😆 Love your sense of humour! Guys do seem to have a much more accepted option of total shaved-head style when dealing with hair loss, at least...? (Have never seen a woman trying that one in public here! Even those who struggle with hormone-related or chemo-linked hairloss?) These days the 'billiard ball' #0 or #1 cut honestly seems to be all the rage for guys, and very popularized by celebrities... Can't remember seeing anyone go that route when I was young in the 80s, but I reckon it's very snazzy & way more dignified than the terrible comb-over which was that era's response to MPB! 🙈
It is amazing to compare the difference in hair growth from person to person. In one full year, I can put my hair up but a friend's hair is shorter than yours. For me, short hair is too much fussing, always needs styling somehow before going anywhere. Long hair gets a quick brush and a twist up, and I'm ready to go. Enjoying watching your changes
I guess I'm different from most commenters here when I say that I HATED my buzz cut. Loathed it. Went from waist-length to as buzzed as yours, and felt utterly amputated, and I grieved for my hair. I was grieving for other reasons too at the time, which was what motivated me to cut my hair, but then seeing myself "not looking like myself" definitely did nothing good for my recovery. It took me two years to grow my hair out again to a length I could feel "like myself" again. Like you, the middle stages were worst, as my back hairs bounced weirdly and thinly against my neck but the upper hairs hadn't grown out enough to give them the weight they needed to behave how I liked. I was never interested in bleaching or coloring my hair. My biggest takeaway from the experience was to recognize that I'm just not a person who needs variety in my hairstyle. I have a signature look that I'm comfortable with, and that I know how to style to my own liking, it fits my lifestyle and the amount of effort I want to put into it, and I think I'm probably never going to vary from it again. People who change their hair are fine. You do you. But I just want to speak for the validity of anyone who feels unhappily pressured to change just because others enjoy it, but maybe feels scared that it's not for them. You don't HAVE to change. Morgan seems to be having a blast with all the changes, because apparently it's in her nature to enjoy changes. Some of us just aren't like that, and that's just as normal and good too if it's what we want. For me, just like how Morgan said that cutting all her hair off gave her less energy she needed to put into worrying about it (for the first month or so), leaving my hair in my personally familiar style protects me from needing to expend any energy wondering what I'm going to do with it. I have two or three styles I wear all the time, and I feel cover all the occasions I have to present myself for in my own life. It's practical for me. I want everyone to feel happy in their own appearance, whatever that may be, and in the experience of how much energy, variety, playfulness, OR calm your style gives you. We all have different needs, and whatever suits your own needs for who you are and the life you're living is always best.
I like this. I know I would hate it. Maybe later stages, but definitely not the buzz. I have such a discomfort with not looking like myself that I don't wear makeup! Thanks for saying this, it's nice to hear both sides!
@@juniper2346 Interesting that you mention makeup! I feel the same way. I gave up makeup about 20 years ago, and I LOVE the freedom and self-appreciation I get from living with my face bare all the time. Not to mention the savings in expensive products I no longer need to buy! Others may obviously feel differently. But for me, makeup felt like it erased my true self and forced me to live behind a mask, performing for a public that wouldn't accept "plain old me". Once I got over that fear, and allowed myself to exist publicly without makeup every day, I find my self-esteem has skyrocketed! I feel so much more valid in my own skin now.
Thanks for sharing your experience! It’s good to hear from people who had very different reactions to the same style choice. We’re all built differently, and that’s beautiful!
I've only once let someone not me near my hair with scissors in the last 30 years and I was angry at myself for months for letting them ("Just let me take care of these split ends!!") till it grew back how I want it. There's a reason I cut my hair the way I do, I need it to stay in a braid for a variety of reasons and if it's too short, it escapes and drives me nutz. Why have long hair if you only ever leave it in a braid, one might ask? Because I like having long hair, it's the easiest to manage because I've got leverage on it the longer it is, I can easily keep it braided out of my way, and it's still there if I WANT to do something pretty with it. I've had not quite a buzz cut but pretty close and it was not my choice "if you won't take care of your hair we're cutting it off" and I didn't like it at all, I'm not sure any of my photos from that time survived me hating it so much. These days it's also a control thing, when everything else is out of control, I can colour my hair however I want it (generally blue and purple streaks that don't go all the way to the roots so they look less unnatural while growing out). Some people like what they like and even have reasons for it, I don't think I'll ever be one of those people who's so relieved when they finally decide to go short.
I’m so thrilled to have found this video . I’m 2 months post chemo and have about half an inch of hair growth and didn’t know how it would grow out . Watching you I’m now looking forward to the process . Subscribed 😊
Absolutely have to say that I have been LOVING your approach to life over the last year. New experiences are a huge part of what we are here for. Learning new things and letting those things shape us as people and lead us to answers to more existential questions is the right way to live a life (imo). Please keep doing what you are doing. Also, LOVE your hair right now! The colors are so awesome!!!
I've done the cut-16-inches-off twice now. I LOVED the pixie - because I have curly hair the pixie was super crazy and cute. I haven't cut my hair in a few years now so it's creeping below my waist right now. I think I'll keep it for a while, because I haven't had the "cut the hair" dreams yet. But yes, waiting to cut the hair until it's April or May in the north east is sometimes key (coming on summer instead of coming on winter). I am also in the benign neglect camp for haircuts. No professional hairstylist takes me seriously when I come in with hair to my butt and I tell them to cut it all off. They keep checking in like I'm gonna sob to lose my hair. I had to tell both stylists - look, I want this. Cut it all off! One thing I know about my hair is it GROWS.
I've had hair down past my butt and I've been completely bald ... and everywhere in between. It wasn't by choice to be bald .. but such is life 😉 It's funny you mentioned the Mohawk. During the shaving process we took a picture of it as a Mohawk. It really made me laugh. It all took a bit to process, but it was freeing to have no hair at all. I rocked a doo- rag and big earrings like nobody's business 🥰
I totally buzzed my head every few years from 13 on, and when I was 19, I did it again, and the first thing my boss said to me was “Don’t ever come in looking like a man again.” And as a little genderqueer bb, that was actually a really traumatizing thing for me. I had been happily expressing my gender how I wanted, and for her to sort of imply that could get me fired was NOT OKAY. That wasn’t the only messed up interaction at that job, and by the time I left I was spending my lunch breaks crying in a stairwell. And this was in the oh-so liberal Portland, OR. So, Morgan’s concern about a boss being weird or rude about it is DEFINITELY a valid one.
As a guy who dislikes crewcuts on most women, it is no one's concern but yours how you cut your hair. Your boss's rebuke to you was abominable and unprofessional. Sorry it happened.
Absolutely. I luckily did not experinece that at my workplace, people actually complimented me on my haircut even tho I did not like it then yet! However, my fam hated it and they still do. They don't have anything better to talk other than how hideous my hair looks and how it was the biggest scandal in history how I looked like when I decided to cut my hair in a veryyyy short mullet. I was traumatized and even cried at the beginning. But then I learned to not give a fuck ngl. Them saying trash things about me says more about them than me. And if anything, I don't identify as a woman everytime. I'm gender fluid, I adore being able to wear whatever I want now and looking either as masculine or feminine as I want!!
@@sin3358 I've had a similar experience as well. It's become a running half-joke w/ my family how much they hate what I do to my hair (short Mohawk). I take their feedback as a sign that I'm getting the right style, lol. (I get complements most other places, though, esp. when I dye it.)
As I watch this (and as someone who just had two lbs of hair cut off last week), having confidence in yourself and being comfortable in your choice is 9/10 of what makes a person beautiful.
Morgan, a year ago I was SO INSPIRED by you buzzing your hair! You looked SO DARNED CUTE that I buzzed my own hair to about 1/2 inch. I, however, was 68 and not quite as cute as you. My half silver hair looked invisible against my scalp while the dark brown parts looked like I had very odd receding sections. With my 50th class reunion a few days away, I dyed my hair teal. Loved it and felt MUCH BETTER about my looks. Three weeks ago, my mother told me how much she hated my hair during that period because my head looked so tiny! My hair isn't quite chin length yet. I allowed the dye to grow out and have trimmed the back to stay even and the bangs to keep out of my eyes. I had a pixie cut before the buzz so it is now longer than it's been in years. No idea what I'll do with it next!
I've donated my hair twice, and the first time i was DELIGHTED but not at all prepared! Just the weight difference had my neck sticking out to a silly degree 😅 My advice is, if your hair is anything like mine (fine and prone to greasiness) you need to wash it basically every day so long as it's got enough length to touch your face! Longer hair i can get away with a day or two inbetween washes, but not so much short hair
I agree. Everyone always commented that it must be so much less work short, but it needed more attention in my opinion. If my hair is in a bun it stays there. If my hair is short then I have to wash it daily and use spray etc to keep it from looking like a total mess. 😕
The only time my hair has been short is after a bad mental break down, so for me the short hair has a bad attachment. However to see you having so much fun with your hair being short is helping me to see that having my hair short isn't necessary a bad thing.
This hit me hard. I'm going through a Want-To-Self-Destruct phase (but I won't because...I can't afford to). Long hair is my trigger. My hair is super long right now and I want it gone. I called my friend to convince me NOT to cut it all off. Edit: OK. Not super long. But longer than I'm used to and longer than I like my hair.
I can relate to this. Times when I feel fine, my hair grows long. Times when I'm under big stress is when suddenly my hair feels like it's "too much" or possibly seems like cutting it would serve some purpose such as "helping me grieve" or "making a change" or "destroying myself, but in a less-lethal way". In my own case I learned that the changes I felt from cutting my hair were never positive. I like my hair long, and find it easiest (even in stressful times) to style hair long enough to pull into a bun. For me, cutting it shorter than that makes me feel out of control and less attractive and less like "me". I 100% do not pretend everyone else feels the same way about hair cutting. But I agree that for some of us it has negative connotations, and it's great when we recognize that for ourselves, and move forward with better understanding and self-love into the versions of ourselves we most want to be.
@@vanessar.6085 For me the trick is keeping my hair put up into a bun. When the hair is loose and in my face or catching on stuff or getting caught in car doors/windows or requiring a lot of daily work to style, that's when the hair seems to trigger a stress response and the urge to just cut it all off out of frustration. The thought is that "I can't deal with this too, on top of everything else right now!" But the solution for me to keep my hair long (which is what I really wanted) was just to change my care/styling/wearing routine so it was the least complicated as possible, and was contained in a small area and did not move or require any touch-up styling or brushing throughout the day. When life feels less stressful and you have more time to devote to fluffy styles the hair will still be there ready to try new things with. If you want to move towards a shorter hairstyle because you love it and you're happy about the option, then that's probably a healthier decision than when you're just reacting in a moment of stress.
I love the shorter look on you. It's fantastic. I started getting prematurely gray (THANKS Mom), then it started to break etc etc. So I had my husband trim me up, and I wanted to try the punk look I've loved forever. What did we decide? Mohawk. And I F(reakin)G LOVE it. I periodically change the color, mainly like a sapphire or denim-ish blue. It grows out, I cut it off. Voila- it's a self-refreshing canvas. Mine is currently cut to be versatile- mohawk when I want it, when it's down it looks like a pixie-bob cut. My favorite tips: 1. It's YOUR head, YOUR hair. If you know that others are going to try to talk/shame you out of your decision then SKIP to the end and over their opinions. 2. If you're not sure about a drastic and immediate change in your appearance, try the cut/style in increments. (I did this for the initial cut, found I loved it so much that my husband gave me the full cut later that same day.) Doing this incrementally gives you the option of changing what you don't like about the style as you go. Additionally, it breaks in the people you want t convince without unnecessary tears and drama. 3. Really LOOK at the styles you'd like to try. Look online etc, and take the parts that you like and make the style truly YOURS. 4. If you plan to color your style I HIGHLY recommend that you have someone HELP YOU. One wrong move with a color (especially with reds, blues, purples etc) will ruin your clean lines, even with mirrors and lighting, because of the movements needed to reach some areas. Those colors will warm up from your natural body heat and will be easy to transfer, or they will run. Help with coloring ensures the color stays where you want it, and away from where you don't want it. 5. The color will stain scalp and skin. USE GLOVES. I hope my tips are helpful for you. It's been almost three years since I started with the punk look, and I'm still in love with it. Due to some chronic illness I've had to let it grow here and there but this is my go-to style. I thought I'd be embarrassed, or people would laugh at me. Have learned two things: 1. I feel totally like a badass. My self-esteem is much better than when I was trying to fit in by being normal. 2. It's my life, my hair. Have discovered firsthand that I don't CARE what others think. It doesn't make or break my day.
I buzzed my hair back in 2018, when i was just 13 years old. so much of what you said in this video rang true for me. i buzzed my hair during a bad time in my life, and i don’t think i’d do it again for that reason, but it sure was fun when i had it. also morgan you are SO brave for dying your hair while wearing white
I love it. I was always someone with very long hair (a thing people don't like weirdly enough). After my second kid, I thought, "let's go pixie." And now I'm doing all sorts of things I've never done before thanks to the freedom of it being short. I've been toying with the buzz cut idea though I might wait until summer to do so. Thanks for the video.
I did the "Brave the Shave" for Mcmillan Cancer charity in August 2019. I raised about £800. I loved it super short but didnt like the what i called the tween style when it was at the almost style. When it stopped being short and wasnt quite long enough to style. I had fun with hair bands for a while tho. Back into a bob now but dont dye it red anymore so it is now a natural grey.
I did the Australian equivalent "Worlds Greatest Shave" for the leukaemia foundation, I shaved all my waist length hair off to about 1/2 cm. I loved having a buzz cut, my husband wasn't so happy. At the 6 month point my hair was as long as Morgan's is now and at 1 year I was able to do 2 French braids as my hair was shoulder length, I did have one tidy up hair cut at the 8 month point. It was fun having a shaved head, it was something that I had wanted to do for a very long time.
I'm always impressed at how knowledgeable you are about bleaching/cutting/coloring even though (judging by the length and color of your hair a year ago) it looks like you had never done anything to your hair at all. I was amazed at every single haircut being perfect when you were going through with cutting it all off
You are SO inspiring, Morgan!!! Your original haircut video was amazing and this follow-up is as well. There's a kind of societal hair anxiety - that there's a narrow, crucial zone of hair perfection and everything else is DISASTER, so don't experiment, don't learn new options... bleh. You just blew all that away with joyful creativity (always your specialty). THANK YOU!!!
I am sure so many people are going to be thankful for this video. I wish it had existed 4/5 years ago. I cut all my hair off right as I went into high school and I had a fun few years playing with color and undercuts and all that, but when I wanted to grow out my hair and have it natural and healthy again, it was such an awkward process for me trying to figure out styles for my hair. I even got extensions put in to hide some of the growth (which in hindsight weren’t all that cute because the length of the extensions and the length of my actual hair was was too different) because I hated the weird middle phase of my hair growing process. So I am in love with all the hair styles you showed off in your video today!
Thanks for all the tips! I’m growing my hair post cancer treatment and had no clue what to expect or do with it until now. Much appreciate your sharing your experience with all of us!
I feel you on the mullet thing, I did the exact same thing as you when I first buzzed my hair, just let it grow undisturbed "for science!" lol the neck portion reached my shoulders while the rest of the layering was barely touching the earlobe area. The cold also caught me by surprise, I didn't realize how much hair insulates the head, even living in a warm climate where it doesn't snow I needed hats. Tip for anyone growing it out, there's a sweet window of time when you can look like the lead singer of the Cranberries in her "ode to my family" video just by tying a bandana to keep your hair down while it dries. Mine liked to stick up so I didn't realize this potential until I buzzed it for the third time in my life. It's simple, it dries up fast even with the fabric on top, and it looks extremely cute.
I'm the same, I have a #1 guard undercut with slightly longer bits on the top. Today I learned how to avoid the morning fight to get it to behave! Thank you, and Morgan for this 🙂
Even with long (boob-length) non-layered hair & a short fringe, I frequently find it's looking sneakily mullet-like when left loose! 🙈 Maybe mulletness is just one of life's inevitabilities?? 😂 (Jeez I hope not! Living through that era once was MORE than enough - the current fad for reviving the '80s has me living in constant fear! 😆)
I went from long-ish hair to chin length before my wedding. Then afterwards I had it cut into a very short pixie. I wish I had prepared an answer for when nosy people ask why I cut my hair. It is nobody's business, but it would have been helpful for me to be prepared. edit to add: I felt like I had to overcompensate with feminine makeup and accessories when I had short hair. But I was also experimenting with my clothing styles, and decided to stop wearing pants in favour of skirts. I quite liked the juxtaposition of "masculine" hair with "feminine" clothes and makeup. Now I would not cut my hair short again, but I don't regret doing it.
I felt similarly with wanting to "overcompensate". It's wild how people will be nosy over something that's none of their business! 😂 "I wanted to" is a good enough answer. When I got a pixie cut one of my classmates said, "Aw, darn, your hair was so pretty." What good could that possibly do? 😂
The q&a brought back a lot of memories for me when I used to buzz cut my hair. It’s been well over ten years now. I loved it and always felt pretty and feminine. How other people perceive you is different though. There were definitely people that assumed my sexuality or misgendered me. You definitely have to learn to not be bothered by those things. Those people were not anyone I wanted in my life anyway so I didn’t let it get to me. I mostly rock a mom cut now because my kids don’t deserve to get judged and stared at because their mom has a pink mohawk. Occasionally o get wild and shave part of it off lol. But mostly I enjoy the low maintenance of no dye no cut do.
Yes I got the “I thought you were gay.” comment from more than one person. Nope. But When I had my child I kept my hair within a normal look and only once went super short at that time-she was about 11 then and she also wasn’t sure about it at first but quickly got used to it. I let it grow long again mostly after that. Now I am 61 and covid medical treatment screwed my hair up and for a year it fell out and looked terrible. I had to cut it short to deal. And it was still awful. But now it’s getting thicker thankfully and the base of the ponytail is twice as full or more than it was! I miss my braids so we shall see. But somedays I wanna go real short and add pink…fuchsia and orange again maybe.
Just watched a few of your hair videos, first tine seeing your channel. I had chemo in 2017 with the hair loss. I have to tell you, it was very freeing. My favorite thing was being out in the rain and hearing it hit my head plip plip plip. Since then I've let it grow, after getting rid of the first of the regrowth. It's down to the lower part of my back and is very thick. It's also a bit scruffy at the ends. Or was. I watched your 500 years of haircuts and you showed how to evenly cut it. I just did it and so want to give you a virtual hug. It looks so much better!! Thank you!!
I buzzed off my long curly hair 10 years ago to see what it would be like and because I was so done with having hair. I agree I shouldn't have done it in winter but apart from having a cold head I found the experience very freeing. Mostly I got compliments but I did make a 10 year old girl cry "You'll never get a boyfriend now!" 😂 and another friend asked me if I was having a nervous breakdown 🙃 Interesting. I grew it out because I didn't want the maintenance of frequent haircuts and left it for about 6 years before cutting it short again to grow out my grey hair. I like having long hair again now. Curly hair just looks shorter for longer but I found the layers growing out very cute. If you're thinking about it definitely try it.
I've worn a buzzcut for most of my adult life. I used to limit myself to a #2 length, but have recently started going for a #1. I don't brush my hair except occasionally with the back scratcher, and I find on times when I don't have time to wash the hair (which I can do with the same soap that I use on the rest of me) I can just rub a Jiffy paper towel over it and it's clean of grease. I DO have eczema on my head, so having the buzz cut makes it really easy to put hand lotion on the dry skin! I recently bought a special round, easy to use cutter so that I can get a nice even job done. Oh, and I'm really grateful that no one yells at me for the do anymore. And one last thing. I find that I am getting natural grey patches and stripes as I age, so I don't even need to creatively colour the buzz.
I've buzzed my hair off completely twice. Both times in solidarity with my mom when she went in for chemo. This last time was this past January. Honestly, and this is a little odd, but it's strangely freeing in a way. You will have a time where some people will avoid you because they're, frankly, bigots who think you're gay. I don't want to know those people anyways. I think it's something everyone should experience at least one time, and I'm usually a VERY long haired person (like, past my butt length hair). Also, it allowed my hair to grow back thicker, because it wasn't getting pulled on so much. Just an added side effect I noticed. Overall fun video. 🥰💖
That's so sweet a thing to do for your mum!! 🥰 Hope it made her feel much less the odd one out? Really interesting what you noted about some people's bigoted responses too. Isn't it weird how much immediate judgement people can attach to a single element of someone else's appearance...? Particularly ironic when (as in your case) the impetus wasn't choices of personal expression at all, but an act of great love for someone else. I guess it is a good reminder to all of us to check our assumptions, & to stop and think if we notice we're jumping to surface-based judgements!
I too tried out the full buzzcut a couple years back, what I did not consider in advance was the fact I look pretty unwell. It coupled badly with the super short hair, to the point I stopped wearing my light blue nightgown because it made me look like a hospital ward escapee... Not generally the look I aim for! XD
Morgan, it was your 500 years of historical hair styles (over 6M views, congrats) by which I found your channel. Since then I have loved all of your posts, and have watched a lot of your older ones too. Thank you for the great entertainment. This was a great call back to the video that hooked me onto your channel.
I buzzed my hair off in spring of last year, and I love it. I've kept it buzzed ever since, it looks great on me and feels the most ME out of all the haircuts I've had.
Great video, Morgan! I have a lot of thoughts on hair... I was a competitive swimmer until I was 18, so I wore it really short because it was just so much easier. It was pretty awesome and I liked being able to punk it up with pomade when I was a teenager, but I'll confess I was occasionally envious of girls who had longer hair and could do things like different updos. I never felt my head was cold, but I never had long hair in my life until I got to college and I was no longer a competitive swimmer so I really didn't have the experience of going from long hair to none and my hair was very thick. (Mom kept it short when I was little because she didn't want to deal with a toddler being fussy about brushing, etc.) So I started letting it grow in college, partly because it was easy. I'd get a professional trim about twice a year and that was it. My hair then was very curly (I'm at just soft curls/waves now, curses aging!), so while it was waist length wet, it was about bra length dry. By the time I was in my early 30s I was tired of it, so I whacked it to shoulder length and it's been somewhere around there ever since. I haven't used product since the 80s--well I think I did put some gel in for my sister's wedding in the late 90s--and I never use a brush because brush + curly hair = disaster. It's wash and air dry unless it is the dead of winter--I bring the hair dryer out then because haircicles aren't fun for me. I am a bit envious of those who can do fun colors--I tried to dye my hair once in my 30s and had a horrible allergic reaction, so not ever trying that again! My only advice for anyone is do what you want with your hair. Style it into oblivion, wash-and-go, somewhere in between--it's your hair, do what makes you feel good. Note: I recognize there are some constraints with certain employers, etc. and most of us have to deal with those constraints. I have a whole rant about the cultural norms about women's hair in particular that are steeped in incredible sexist and racist bulls***, but I expect I might be preaching to the choir here so I'll stop. 🙂
I had a meltdown the other night and got a straight buzz cut. I’ve never had short hair like this. I’m lowkey embracing the look and excited for the different phases of growing it out. I’m in my GI Jane era.
As a person with short hair, my absolute favourite product is salt spray! I spray it in (towel dried) wet hair and style it using fingers/comb/brush to move the hair the way I want it. It dries at first a lil crusty, but brush it out with fingers or a brush and it feels like you've barely put anything in the hair at all. I have really silky straight hair, so the texture salt spray gives is essential! Otherwise my hair just puffs out, and doesn't want to do anything. Salt spray also works with wavy/curly and long hair. And you can put it in dry hair too, I just prefer wet.
I did a pixie, and then a buzz with a pomp about 6 years ago. I also died my buzz magenta. I so remember thinking “short hair will be so much easier”… oh boy was I wrong. Every stage of short hair requires so much work! I did the Bob, and then the pixie, and then the buzz over 6 months, and then I was done! I might go back to a pixie at some point in my life, but I feel so much more myself with long hair. I just had a horrible salon experience that definitely has me feeling like… this is why people cut their hair at home. Anyways! Love the video! So true about everything!!!
I mean, this is highly dependent on your cut and your standards. I've had a pixie for years now and I basically wash it, brush it and then floof it with my fingers as it's drying (no products) and I'm done. Only difference imo is that you need to go to the hairdresser more often to maintain the cut, but that also depends entirely on what you want. I can grow out my pixie for like 12 weeks and it'll still look like a passable cut. It's not what I want, but it doesn't look bad.
Ouch! That sounds expensive!! 😬 When I see on hairdressers' chalkboards the cost for cutting women's hairstyles, it seems incredibly steep in comparison to what barbers charge the guys. I often wonder how anyone manages it?
Agreeing with Joelle, I'm super lazy wirh my hair. Wash/flush, comb, comb with fingers, done! And I often cut it myself... Hairdressers are expensive, there's infuriating sexism at most hairdressers, and I've ended up with a cut I didn't quite like once to often...
I have shaved my head three times now. Twice for charity and once because I could not take the heat. I love having my hair that short. I know some people think a buzz cut on women looks weird or unattractive, but I didn’t care because it feels wonderful (to me).
It's so crazy to see this video, because I went through a very similar process a few years ago! But I played with colors first, then cut it into a very short buzz-cut style to let it grow out and recover from all the bleaching. It's been 2 years and 2 months from the time I cut my hair, and it is very long again (waist length), and I definitely see myself going through all the process again and again! Having fun with colors, crazy cuts, then cutting it short to let it grow again... I will say you dealt with the growing phase SO MUCH better than I did, because I just looked like a kid for a long time in the first year, as I didn't really know what to do with it. I'll keep all of those tips in mind for the next time!
I have almost waist lenght hair and I am a couple weeks from having to shave my head because of chemo. It's very comforting to watch this without bring cancer related (which is all I can find on youtube) ❤
First off, I highly recommend space buns for that period when hair is too short to ponytail, but still long enough to get in the way. They made me feel really cute and were easy enough for a lazy hair gal like me getting them even heights was the only tricky part lol. I buzzed my hair over a trash can with some friends' help in college after having it (mostly) pixie length for around 7 years. I still found that the transition was still pretty difficult, in terms of adjusting to the lack of volume. I partially agree with Morgan about the summer thing, although I cut my hair mid December and appreciated that I could wear a hat without it feeling weird if I was a bit insecure that day (although baseball hats would work for that too). I also wish I had gone all the way bald, and played around more with designs and stuff while it was super short! I also grew my hair out (from a pixie cut later on) and relate to not wanting to get a hair cut in the more mullet-y/Beatles phase because it was so close to pony-tail length. Personally, I still recommend cutting it unless you really need to tie you hair back every day, since I found it let me enjoy that middle length a lot more and made it feel more intentional rather than feeling gross while waiting for it to grow for months.
It's nice to see someone so comfortable with their hair in all of its representations. I am especially loving the vibrant colours!! I know myself and many others grew up with parents/religions who used hair styles/cuts as a form of control or punishment so it can be a fraught experience for some. Now as I am nearly 40, I have the joy of medical issues impacting my hair as well so. . . like I said. . . fraught. It's brilliant being able to live someone elses hair transformations vicariously. Thank you for the video and for still posting so beautifully, even after losing your footage 🥴
Hair grows around 1 cm a month ( about half an inch) so your growth is actually considered ‘normal’… There are always people who grow faster or slower - but its individual ;)
I buzzed my hair in grad school and kept it that short for 10 years - I actually started growing it out a month before quarantine! I've actually had really positive experiences overall, including when I worked retail (women's shoe department at a Macy's) and lots of people told me they loved my hair or wished they were "brave enough" to cut their own hair that short. During the pandemic I grew my hair out for just about 2 years, getting it a few inches below my shoulders, before I decided to go back to my beloved buzz. It was fun experiencing longer hair again, but I don't miss it and will probably keep my current hair for the foreseeable future.
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Have you ever gotten a *SUPER* short cut? :D Any tips or tricks you want to share with the rest of the class?
I’m the opposite! I always had short hair, even a buzz cut, but since the pandemic I’ve not been to a haircut since February 2020! Now I’m feeling the nerves about cutting my hair after all this growth, but it needs to happen.
Not that short. But the most was my 3.5 foot long hair, and cut it to the level of my ears. No regrets.
I love your channel! ❤
Had a buzz cut that I periodically grew out to a bob for over ten years, and let my hair grow since 2019 (longest bits are almost at my waist now-shocker for me). Agree on everything you said, although I would not be able to put it in such a great list as most just seem normal after so many years.
I always tried to correlate my haircuts with summer heat and trying to finish all my products beforehand since they do not work for my scalp.
That brush you showed for your shortest hair is a must. It's easy not to comb your hair when you don't need to style it, but you still need to remove scalp and hair buildup. If you go that short, you need to brush regularly with a thick boar's hair or cactus brush. Make sure it doesn't have any nylon bristles: your scalp will thank you.
Every couple of months during the summer I buzz a mohawk (which I never actually wear up bc I'm extra lazy), and then let it grow during summer. Spring is buzzcut season and it's always so exciting!
I went from hip-length hair to a pixie cut when i was in my 20s and my number one regret was that somehow the entire time it was short, it didn't occur to me to put it up in a shampoo fauxhawk and sing in the shower like Ferris Bueller. Don't skip that experience, folks!
[Taking NOTES!] ✍️ Shampoo….fauxhawk…Bueller. OK!
Noted
🤣 gotta write that down
Ok ok I will do that!
This current length is insanely cute on you. (They all have been but this one hits like snow white and I'm here for it)
I was also getting young Queen Elizabeth II vibes (except for the fun rainbow colors, of course!).
The idea that anything on Morgan could be not cute is utterly unbelievable to me! She is a cutie pie and that doesn't change with hair length
Yes! Snow White! That's what it reminded me of! (I have been trying to figure it out!)
Agreed!
This and month five are just 😍
The hair dye game is solid. She's got a white shirt on. That level of skill and confidence. Whew.
Her "messy" clothes make me wanna start buying damaged vintage stuff so I can craft more elegantly LOL
That white shirt has seen some shit at least lol
Because she can just bleach it
She said she has on her messy clothes which means she does not care about that shirt. It might even be designated for hair coloring. Maybe it was already ruined in some way so she doesn't care if it gets hair color on it.
I remember watching your "500 years of haircuts" video. I assumed that was all in one day, didn't realize you filmed over several days, living with each step for a while. That actually makes me feel better; I'm glad you had that experience more fully than I had previously thought.
I thought the same thing.😂I guess that's the magic of editing and youtube. 😄
I loved that video! The thing that struck me was how carefully Morgon needed to think through what she was planning to do, because she had to figure out which century or decade of hairstyles was appropriate for every length of hair she had. She must have worked very hard on that piecing that wonderful video together!
I'm thrilled to see people be themselves. I grew up in the 80s when everyone tried to look the same. It's taken me 50+ years to be me and I'm thrilled to see the younger generations breaking the molds. I LOVE that fun colors are more common. Your mix of dark natural color and the rainbow fringe is so fun. Keep inspiring each other!
Fun colors are people trying to look like others. It’s the current trend.
@@Appaddict01 most people don’t have colourful hair. and those who do can look wildly different from each other.
@@snow-js4te yeah it's so "outdated" literally everyone around me has long natural hair 👹
I do as well! Meanwhile, my mother and all of her maturity need to repeatedly get fed up and judgemental over something with ZERO impact on her life...
@@snow-js4te My hair is long enough to sit on and many shades of purple, blue, magenta and my natural grey and has been for decades. I guess I'm trendy and outdated at the same time.
I was around 19 when I buzzed mine for the first time and my biggest revelation was how many guys felt a need to tell me that it was unattractive for a woman to have short hair. Which, you know, made me keep the style for the next 10-15 years 😂 no one is gonna tell me how to wear my hair. I think it's really cool that you did it just because you thought it would be fun 😄
Guys love to say that, eh?
how dare you not indulge male gaze?!
it's not about you!
and don't forget to smile.
/sarcasm, angry
I had that too when I buzzed my hair after highschool! Even dated a guy who was like "it's ugly but that's kind of hot".... Ewwwww
I was dating someone, who had just dumped me for like 2 weeks and wanted to get back together, have the audacity to tell me he doesn't find it attractive for women to have buzzcuts. So naturally, I got a buzzcut. We finally broke up for good after a couple months after this. Not because of the buzzcut, but because I was having a hard time trusting someone who first dumps me and then tells me shit like this.
Omg I get so many comments (almost always from men) even when my hair is (short) pixie length! If they aren't downright negative ('I really don't like short hair on women' ehhh do I look like I care what you think?!) it's the ever returning question of 'why do you wear your hair so short?' - the meaning behind this seems to be anything from veiled judgment to legit interest (some men really don't seem to know any short haired women?). It is SO strange and I totally understand your reaction of 'ok if you comment that kind of shit I'll keep it like this!', I kinda feel the same way.
also I want to say you're never too old to have fun with your hair!! my dad in his 50s and currently has blue hair! he dyed it for the first time in July when his band played at pride, so he went rainbow first!!
That’s so cool!!
Yeah. It's safe to say your dad is very cool.
That's awesome, both the hair and him playing at Pride!
I've had a Mohawk off and on since high school. When I turned 50 in 2021, I went back to it "one more time while I was still young enough." I started letting it grow out right after New Year this year, but went back to it last week-- the long bits are over a foot long, so it takes well over a year for the short bits to even start to blend in...
I love your dad
I have ultra fine naturally blonde hair and it started thining markedly because of alopecia so, I bit the bullet and asked my hubby to shave my head totally. I now have a blast wearing wigs and I’m now behaving disgustingly for a 63 year old. I’ve become eccentric and don’t care what people think now which is a massive change from being very self conscious
I have fine, thinning, dark blonde hair and alopecia. Yesterday I brought the human hair topper (a hair piece that covers the top of your hair) home that I ordered earlier this year that was dyed to match my hair perfectly.
I spent a big chunk of the day taking photos in different types of lighting, and trying different styles.
I finally have the bangs back that I haven't been able to do for 13 years.
I bought this at a special salon for people with hair loss.
I would love to get a hh wig but there are a ton of scammers online (and it's still 150~500eu on the line here for a lower end hh wig) and I cannot afford the hh wig prices at local stores who probably won't even sell to me anyway.
I have a lot of synthetic wigs with different quality and price points but for a long time have been dissatisfied with them.
63 is the perfect age to become eccentric. Any 63 year old not embracing their weirdness is doing life wrong, imo.
Hell yeah
My mom is 50+ now and always so incredibly worried about her hair and dress being appropriate and always asking if she isn't too old for xyz
And it drives me mad.
I wish she could just wear whatever makes her happy and do with her hair whatever makes her happy because you only got so long on this planet do you really want to waste it worrying about what judgmental aholes think about your clothes and hair
If somebody genuinely cares about you as a person, you having fun with your clothes and hair won't scare them away, and if somebody really puts that much weight on appearance then are they really worth having around?
Anyways i am so glad you got your confidence now and can just enjoy yourself.
Your age doesn't matter. You'll always feel as yourself regardless what age you're at so why should you be forced to be a certain way
Just do you. At the end of the day, you're the only one having to live with it, so make sure it makes you feel good and bring you joy.
@@itsalwayshalloweenexceptwh5118 I'd recommend looking at wigs marketed towards black American women, usually they're pretty good quality and won't run you more than $250 usd, but it will last you for several years if not decades
I buzzed my head back in 2018, and honestly I was not anticipating the response that I got. I was expecting kind of a mixed bag of responses, but the comments I got both online and in public were overwhelmingly positive. That, and I had so many middle aged and older women come up to me to talk about how they were dealing with hair loss and had thought about/wanted to shave their heads as well, but were so scared of it. It really felt like an honor to be able to talk to these women about their own relationships with their hair, and the thoughts I had when I decided to buzz mine. Additionally, I never felt more feminine than when I had my buzz cut. I would 10000% do it again and again and again
I had my sides and back buzzed off and my top really short (imagine a generic military hair cut) and I think I would have enjoyed it more if I didn't have so much dysphoria surrounding my hair.
@@Liquidmind246 hey, is your hair dry at all? I have a hair type that really, really needs moisture. I found a good leave in conditioner then put mousse on top to seal it in. A few weeks after doing this, my hair stopped dropping out so much that I'm still surprised when I see not much hair has come out.
@@Liquidmind246 Amazing to hear that is has improved! I'm currently in your initial situation but actually I've already had multiple periods in my life with hair loss. I think something's up with my hormones (probably also to do with lots of stress) but doctors don't seem to help. I'm 98% there to actually go for the buzz.
Buzzed mine in 2016 to get all the color off and show off my grey. I want to do it again because I can’t stand my hair wrapping around my neck and it’s so easy to care for as you age.
I love my hair as it is now, but my sister just started chemotherapy and i told her that if she ends up having to buzz her hair, i'll do it with her. I'm kind of scared but my sister feeling supported means a lot more to me than my hair ✨️❤️
That is very nice what you are planning to do for your sister. May she recover quickly God willing.
@@leila1700 i did it a few days after I posted this comment and my hair is back to a long bob and my sister is mostly healthy now ❤️❤️🥰🥰 i'm so glad i did it, totally worth it
Handy hint from a habitual hair dyer - micellar water will remove hair dye off your skin, and acetone will remove it from counters.
Thank you!!
Thank you!
Great tip. Thank you.
But does it remove black dye? Definitely worth a try. Thanks for the tip.
@@SierathI dye my hair black / blue black and yes it’s pretty good at getting it off!
One really unexpected benefit of having worn a buzz cut for a while (and liking it) is that it's made me feel a lot more carefree about anything else I ever try with my hair - "well, if I hate it, I'll just shave it off" is always on the table as an option.
As far as being treated differently, having a buzz cut and a shaved undercut pixie, I got treated WAY differently in a positive way. I got SO many compliments and praise, almost every single day I got hair compliments. The most common one was people telling me I was “brave” for having short hair. It got to the point that I was afraid to grow my hair back out because I felt I would be losing something that makes me unique and special and gets me compliments. I’m growing it out now to see how it makes me feel and go from there!
I had a couple of aggressive reactions from total strangers in the street. It was quite strange.
Yeah, I think it's just that it's a noticeable style choice? I've had everything from "Well, eh, that's interesting" and "I could never! You're so brave" to "That's so cool!" from perfect strangers with my current bright purple pixie. My natural hair in a bob never got any comments. Like at all.
I got laughed at when I had short hair. Had people say I looked like a pickled onion waaaayyyy too many times to count. It was never complimented. But I've had positive comments about my hip length hair and just people not commenting on it at all. Not that I really care too much what others think. Or rather it hurts when they're nasty, but I don't need their approval if that makes sense. I'm personally way happier with my longer hair.
brave? sounds like a back handed compliment to me. but, i think that buzzed hair looks super pretty, but im glad if you're happier with longer hair!
@@AlexaFaie Yep, I had it buzzed and got laughed at a lot by randos on the street, as well as getting called a lesbian.
About adjusting: I went from tailbone to chin lenght (once in a cut, I donated the braid, best decision ever). For about a couple weeks after the cut I kept trying to move around an invisible braid while doing things! The automated gestures of having a braid hunging around were a new discovery when I had not the said braid anymore.
The. There's brushing your hair and "falling off" the end because you're arm remembers how far the brush had to go before 😅
Oh yes, same when I donated mine as well. I called it phantom hair syndrome :D
@@MegaKellyschannel I did the exact same thing, I went tailbone to pixie and donated. I would also keep brushing hair that wasn't there any more and hit my shoulder with the brush! I had shoulder bruises for MONTHS until I finally stopped hitting myself 😂
Before I did my tailbone to jaw cut I would play with the end of my braid behind my back. It felt really weird to reach back and not find that. The ability to not sit on it was SO worth it tho.
Same! Same thing happened again when i went from the bob to buzz cut later, i was so used to hide behind my hair or comb through it with my fingers or tuck it behind my ears, i would constantly try to move something that wasn't there
As a professional hairdresser, I have found this video so so helpful! This gives me an idea of the process that I hadn't considered before and helps me help my clients! Thank you for such a well documented video, even though you lost a lot of footage, you explained your point incredibly well! Keep it up!!
heeya i buzzcutted my hair in 2012 on the shortest setting possible. and i have never seen someone who got fmale assigned at birth who did not suit a shaven head. they ALL look good. i got comments on how brave i was and how they wouldnt dare. and it kickstarted my confidence so much. I was 22 back then and now im nearly 33 and i took the sciccors and just put them in. and i have felt like myself again! i alway had long hair because i thought thats what i was supposed to have. but now that its short again i cant believe i had it long for so long :D if your clients tell you they want to dare to go bold but are scared tell them it all suits them and people are gonna compliment them sooo much :D thank you for reading!
My hairdresser always knew she could experiment with cut/color on me (obviously with communication) because I would shrug and say “it’s hair. It’ll grow out.” My very first visit to her I had hacked my own hair from ~waist to ~shoulders. “Can you fix this?” I’ve been from pixie to practically waist length and back with her.
I’ve since moved and never found her match 😢
A year already! That hair video was probably the most brilliantly crafted, superbly organised, well edited and interesting vid I have seen on TH-cam, and I have watched it multiple times over the months. I remember the shock I had when you first casually took out the scissors…and then again…and again!! So many TH-camrs make an enormous fuss about just getting bangs, and there were you (whose content was in large part hair-related!) blithely cutting away without vanity or hesitation or histrionics. So great to have an update and hear the answers to some questions I had mulled over at the time. Your hair suits you so well in so many styles (and colours!), looking forward to seeing the fun you have with it over the next 12 months!
The pure enjoyment of experimentation and total lack of fucks Morgan gives about how others might judge her is incredibly refreshing.
I've long hair & no videos bar Morgan's have even made me consider a cut, but the '70's vibe of the hairstyle video & the cute curls of this one?
Has made me think!
(which is another reason I love Morgan's channel - she doesn't tell you what to think, she does her own thing, has fun, provides info & then you go off inspired, informed & excited to have fun 💜)
This comment, 1000% was my experience. It was absolutely incredible! I loved the whole thing! 😍
I was feeling rhr same! I was like Whaaat she really CUTS her hair?! 😂
I love that for practically every month you said some variation of "I look cute" or "I feel cute"! It's so cool that you were able to experiment with different styles and find things you liked at the different lengths your hair grew to 🥰
Also, I went for a big chop last year to donate my hair, and those hair slides/combs you used in month 11 were a lifesaver for me as someone who hates having hair fall in my face lol
I had started growing out my beard and shaved my head at the same time. Went from about mid-back length to 0 in February '13. Definitely learned timing immediately. What I noticed was how others saw me as more generic. Bald biker guy with beard #7 vibes, if that makes sense. As it grew back out I saw 3 phases: the peach fuzz, the "not long enough to tie back but long enough to get in your face", and the mullet. Seeing the possibilities and styles you pull off throughout the months makes me jealous! Men aren't allowed to do very much with our hair, unfortunately. I think I will try some colors now that it is about waist length. Had my nails painted for the first time Saturday, and I think I like it? Maybe I'll like dying it?
P.S. made a "circle cloak" thing as my first sewing project after seeing your Circle Dress video. Thanks for the inspiration to try new things!!
Glad you're feeling more comfortable experimenting and exploring your creative side!
Sounds cool, Brother! Rock on!
Sounds awesome, just do whatever hairstyles you want, who cares what men “aren’t allowed” to do?
Ps try colours but if u need to bleach ur hair to get the colours u want, it’s definitely going to change your hair texture so grab some conditioning products first. My hair is almost black so to try a medium-deep red I had my hair lightened with a non bleach lightener and a little bleach, and my hair was definitely significantly drier and more crunchy.
Kudos to you for not giving 2 craps what others think & exploring new things! People get so caught up in what is “feminine” & what is “masculine” & due to that, folks, imo, become boring robots-or these like bland, carbon-copies of each other. I just don’t believe in assigning gender to objects..fingernail polish is not “for women”, & so on…you get the point! Be authentically you!! Take care!
@@skully6223 fr people start to look too similar and it gets harder and harder to tell them apart as my eyesight gets worse. Love unique looking people.
I had a pixie cut for years. Also working in retail. Number one comment I received was, “you’ll look so pretty with long hair”. There were rumors that a couple of guys had a crush on me, but won’t ask me out because my hair was too short😮!
Well, that's a great filter. No shitheads gonna approach you!
Same. When my hair was in a pixie, one girl commented that she wished I would grow it out so people would have something more interesting to look at. One man told me my features sure would look softer if I grew my hair out. Oh, and the typical "my husband would die if I cut my hair like that." (🙄)
Then a local man with greenhouses heard I wanted to work for him so he told my friend to send me over to talk. He took one look at me and said boy your hair is so short--and he never called me back.
@@karenbertke3149 I sure am sorry you've had to endure chemo and lost your hair. I really hope it grows back x1000🙏💖
@@skyclad89 Oh no! That's horrible! There are better places in the world and kind people. Also where I live people are more open minded.
@@RainbowSunshineRain Where do you live? I'm in the South but I think social media and women like the Kardashians (and now so so many more like them) have given men unreasonable expectations about women. I could be wrong but I think I'm expected to look like that and it's depressing.
I’m a girl who had a buzz cut from late middle school to early college, and sometimes when I met someone new and knew them for at least a couple of months, they’d say something along the lines of “Your hair is growing back reaaally slowly.” Kinda bummed me out that some folks assumed that I had that hairstyle unwillingly. There were other people saying it looked cool, though, and wherever y’all are, I hope your pizza rolls always come out the ideal temperature for immediate consumption.
As do I hope your Pizza rolls come out perfectly sweet strange
Hi Morgan! I wanted to let you know that you inspired me to buzz my head on 9/11/2021. More than half of my hair had fallen out from Covid and I was depressed and desperately trying to cover up the thinning spots. Then I stumbled upon that fabulous video of you chopping into the hair that can become a security blanket for so many of us. You’re energy of confidence and whimsy as your tresses got shorter and shorter was truly inspiring! Thank you for sharing that with us! This past year has been the most fun I think I’ve ever had in my hair journey. You the G.O.A.T. For real! 💜💚 I’m not crying, you’re crying 🥲
I am so happy for you! 💜💜💜
@@moxiebombshell, I second that!
Has your hair grown back?
I lost most of my hair (autoimmune thing) in ‘16, and one day just said, “Ah, screw it,” and shaved it off. I started wearing wigs and *loved* it.
When my hair grew back (a little), I realized that I hate messing with hair and have for a long time! Now wigs are just part of my daily routine.
@@llamasugar5478, Wigs are a lot of fun, because there is so much variety there.
has your hair grown back? i didn’t know covid could cause that
Another caution note for when you buzz cut... Besides using caution for your scalp in the sun, also beware your ears and neck. Family member actually got melanomas on the tops of the ears from the extra sun exposure (NOT a good look and a hard area to treat without scarring). Scarves can help protect your neck along with sunscreen.
Agreed, I have a family predisposition for melanoma and an aunt had melanoma on her ear, spreading into her ear canal and healing after surgery was a long process.
Don't forget to protect your ears!
Hats. Big straw hats. They are great for sun protection.
Very good point, use sunscreen, people! Those of us who have always had long hair don't necessarily think of putting it on some areas.
@@PartanBree even if you have long hair though it can be an issue. I remember a long hike I was on in lust merciless sun. I had to put sunscreen on the part in my hair. Be careful regardless of hair length.
For the people that asked "Why?" I say, "Why not?"
It was a fantastic journey! Thank you for having the courage, motivation and fortitude to do all you did, and to share it with all of us!
For those who value practicality over sensuality, (and yes, most guys find long hair to be super sexy), why not indeed? Everyone is different!
@Happy thoughts Lol! The most jealously protective person of a girlfriend's long hair that I knew was a butch woman.
@@rac7773 lmfao you again, you on a crusade or something?
When I grew out my super short pixie, I did an undercut when the top reached my ears. Then I just left it until it got to a bob. I still have the bob and the undercut, and nobody knows it's there. Best of both worlds! No soggy nape in the summer, and a 'regular' hairstyle day to day. It was also the least stressful grow-out ever. No mullet. I'd definitely do it that way again.
Same. I started letting my hair grow out without an undercut for the hair in the back area and it always looked somewhat messy and I didn't feel comfortable. And then I, for some reason idk, was like "maybe an undercut would help. So the top hair still grows longer but without the hair in the neck area sticking up and looking messy". BEST DECISION EVER!!
one thing I learned after shaving my head for the first time was the freedom of (almost) no consequences! since then I've tried a LOT of different hairstyles (coloured, permed, undercut, many of them were those judgy internet lists say would be "wrong" for my head/face shape lol) and I always say that if I don't like it, I can just shave it all off and have a clean slate!!
😂😂😂 real
When I was in High School (dear Goddess, 50 years ago! Eeep!) there was a girl in our class who had REALLY long hair...her braid went to the top of her thighs!
What none of us knew, was how fast it grew. On the first day of school, our Senior year, she showed up with her hair really short...a cute, curly 2" halo.
The entire school was in shock.
She just told everyone to relax
"Don't worry, it grows really fast... by Graduation, you won't be able to tell."
For years, I had a picture of her on Graduation Day. Cap, Gown .... And hair almost to her waist.
Wow! My hair grows really fast, but not quite that fast. It's hard to imagine, and it would be difficult to maintain anything other than long hair. I always felt like my hair grew too fast to be paying for stylish cuts at a salon because they just grew out and didn't look the same after two weeks.
My mom knew a girl in elementary school whose parents would bob her hair at the beginning of each year. By June, it was almost to her waist.
I want this super power so badly :( my hair grow so slowly I cut it once per three years to about half neck, or even to shoulders, and still never had hair longer than... Idk the English name of this lenght, anyways, I could barely cover my nipples with my hair. My hair are also totally straight, completely resistant to styling (curls done with super strong foam AND hair spray lasted about half a day) and have zero volume or thickness (I don't have enough hair to look good with any type of untied hair style,maybe beside putting all hair on the one side of the head).
OK, maybe I exagerrate but I am really insecure about my hair.
I also have hair like this, though not quite that extreme, but it grows really fast. I cut it twice during the pandemic, to a bit below the shoulder, and by this summer it was back to waist length again.
I didn't realise how much of a superpower this was until I started getting interested in hair and learning how many folks struggle to grow it. Mind you, the downside is I'm always having to cut my nails, as they also grow really quickly!
I speak for all when i say this woman is incredible-
Ladies and gentlemen, her.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Love her hairstyles a lot! But what about that gorgeous black puffy shoulder sleeve dress she's wearing ... holy beautiful!
I've had 2-inch hair and waist length hair. I discovered that I prefer my hair as long as possible, but I never would've known that for sure without trying out short hair. I definitely recommend that everyone get a proper short cut at least once.
While people have generally become much more accepting of a diverse range of haircuts, it still amazes me how much value people put on some dead cells, especially when it isn't even their own hair. When you cut your hair, I was honestly surprised at how chill you were about it. Most people on social media would have spent half the video freaking out like they were about to make some massive life altering decision. It was really refreshing to see someone treat their hair as something to bring joy to themselves, not as something to fulfill the expectations of others.
Maybe the reason she was so chill with it is because she _chose_ this for herself. For other people, like cancer patients for instance, the loss of hair isn't quite as consensual. Since hair changes how one looks a lot (and I posit that many people attach a lot of feelings to their appearance), I imagine that having the time to consciously choose a new look vs having one's look ripped away is most likely a big factor.
A lot of women, including those choosing to shave their head, freak out about it because they were raised with this notion of hair changes being permanent with how long they take to go back (the difference between a buzzcut and your usual style is just larger when you've got longer hair), so it feels almost as if hair should never have drastic changes made to it. Also, many women are raised to see their long hair as an integral part of their (gender) identity, so changes to it are perceived to be bigger than they actually are.
I get harassed enough for being trans without short hair, and growing out my hair took 5 years
Yeah I'd get upset if 5 years where pissed down the drain while being harassed on the street
Its fine to want short hair but you don't need to make everyone else love it, not everyone wants short hair
@@LuluTheCorgiyeah, when my hair was short, nobody cared, but as i grow it, people seem to never stop bringing it up and asking me if im ever gonna cut it. Like no, i dont plan to cut it for many years to come
If you hadn’t told us about your hard drive failure I don’t think I would have noticed the missing content-you did a wonderful job using other content for those month! Thank you for sharing your journey, your joy is contagious.
What a sweet love letter to Rachael Maksy; it's okay to make mistakes, they are the best teachers! Morgan and the other Costuber's I love so much BECAUSE they are authentic, share their successes and mistakes with us, because we learn from it all! Love your new look, so sorry about your hard drive death; that's a real blow, not just to the content you mentioned, but all the other critical stuff on there as well. Great video, thank you!
I had waist length hair for over 20 years. One winter I got sick of the constant battle with flyaway hair because of static. But I had already been thinking of cutting my hair for a year. So I went to shoulder length. After that I went to a pixie cut. THEN, I went to shaved sides.
I’m so happy with my punk-ish hairstyle and glad I made the change.
Shaved sides is really such a good compromise lol. I grew up wanting short hair but when that didn't work out I wanted it as long as possible and it was a total menace to care for. Now my sides are shorn with the top long and it's so versatile
I was already experiencing hair loss when I was diagnosed with breast cancer and had aggressive chemo and targeted treatments followed by hormone suppression drugs for 6 years. I had my hair buzzed off when I got fitted for my first wig. I immediately broke out with folliculitis. This is really common when you go down to the skin. Know this! So after all this, my hairline never recovered so I’m a full time wig wearer in public but around the house, I keep it in a buzz cut. (It’s like Velcro for the wig 🤣). The biggest adjustment was how cold I get year round being bald especially in bed. I have caps and beanies all over my home to pull on when I get chilled.
I live in Australia and find that my head is always sweating in summer or winter when I buzz it. And you feel the heat from light bulbs!
Oh you should get one of those old fashioned night caps. They are super cute, and should keep your head warm.
One thing I found when I shaved my head, as far as the reception from others went (besides being generally very positive), I got a lot of sympathetic stares. I shaved my hair off for fun and because my hair was fried from years of home bleaching, so it was entirely by choice. Even still, when I did it back in 2017 there was (and I assume still is) an overwhelming thought that if you’re female presenting and bald, it’s probably medically related. It was very strange to experience, I can’t imagine how uncomfortable I would be if it WERE medically related and it HADN’T been my own choice
You can do anything you want with your hair because you have such a pretty face!! You’re so lucky!
That’s exactly my experience too!
Went from a black, very vintage style to bald by choice. It was so liberating but yes, everyone assumes it’s medically related. Like “why would I choose this voluntarily?”
I’m growing it again now and having so much fun with colour and styling, but it was the best two years :)
During quarantine, my daughter decided she wanted to cut her hair short. At the time she had shoulder length hair and she was getting really frustrated with it. I didn’t want her to start drastically short, so we found a 3 inch clipper guard to start with. We cut it at home and she LOVED it. Although it’s 3 inches all around, she ends up with a really cute soft mullet. We cut it down about once a season. She is so much happier, and looks awesome, which makes me happy.
You worked retail that long?! No wonder you have such a kind soul. I only worked in retail for about 2 years and all I got was bitter and mental health issues getting worse. You really are a gem ❤️
I'm still recovering from over 30 years (not consecutive) in retail. I can't imagine how much worse it is nowadays.
@@maryeckel9682 Can you tell me: Has the Black Friday (if you're in the US) always been so nightmarish?
@@DariaHoelzel I think it was actually crazier back before internet shopping became such a thing. It used to be the mall was MOST people's go to option for xmas shopping. Back when I worked at the mall in the 90s it was fkn bonkers.
@@phoenixliv Man, I can hardly imagine that it must have been worse. Not saying, I don't believe you, the videos of the recent years are just... haunting. xD Thanks for the answer! :D
@@DariaHoelzel Some of it depends on the store you go to. Back in the 90's and early 00's, all stores were madness and there was a lot of nastiness and violence. The internet has changed the way we shop and the way we handle these crowds. People can pre-order, the store can advertise how many of a thing they have, the line management is easier (and building capacity limits are better enforced after some of those stampede stories).
None of which is to say that Black Friday from the worker's perspective is enjoyable. We had to get there at some horribly early hour to set up displays and decorations, organize as best we could for the influx of people, and generally brace ourselves for the incoming madness. As stores open earlier into Thanksgiving it's gotten much worse. Now we're dragged away from our Thanksgiving festivities, we often have to staff the store overnight, and it feels like for all the above mitigation the individual troublemakers have gotten more entitled and mean. Mean customers plus exhausted resentful over-stressed employees means that you kind of expect at least 1 rage quit per 50 employees over the Thanksgiving weekend alone, and expect to see more burnout as you get closer and closer to Christmas.
"Right-sized" schedules, which is what eventually led to me quitting, makes it all even worse. That's where the store staffs exactly the number of employees at a given time as corporate programmed the scheduling system to permit per $ amount sold. Realistically you always need at least 1-2 more people in slow times, and 3-4 more in busy times to have a productive staff working at a healthy pace. This and underpayment is the real reason your US fast food joint or grocery store or big box store always seems shorthanded. . .
. . . and I did the ranting about the disaster that is the back end of the system on which retail runs thing again. One of these days I'll start my own youtube channel and deep-dive into how these problems interconnect and the depressing economic theory that underpins it.
From around 8 or 9 years old until my early 60s, my hair was hip length. Partially due to preference, partially to shyness about going to a hair dresser, partially because it seemed so easy to switch up to suit different occasions (loose, all sorts of braiding, buns, twists, etc).
Then I went through an emotionally stressful event and half my hair fell out. I'm not exaggerating about half, I looked like I had a bad combover all over my head. So I got irritated with it and put it in timeout by buzzing it down to about 1/8th of an inch/0.3 cm long all over (didn't want to risk a scalp rash if I used the surgical blade alone--I used the clippers from my years of owning and showing dogs!). I found buzzing it with the smallest comb really easy--just run the clippers every which way over and around my head until there is nothing to hear (I have nerve damage in one hand, so can't rely on touch to let me know if there are wispy bits).
That was over four years ago and every time I contemplate letting it out of time out, I develop one or more bald spots (my doctor tells me that once you have alopecia, the risk of it happening again goes up with each episode). Out come the clippers and the hair goes back into timeout. At this rate, I seriously doubt it will ever not be buzzed but who knows? Stranger things have happened and I've beaten the odds before.
So I've really gotten into head wraps and scarves. My favourite head wraps are rayon jersey infinity scarves that I hand dye using low water immersion techniques to get a water colour type effect. Easy for me to change my head colour, warm in the winter and cool in the summer, sun protection for my scalp and I can change or accent them with ribbon or using two scarves or or a brooch or whatever.
If my hair ever does decide to behave itself again, I'm grateful for the tips on the growing out stages.
Where do you get those scarves? 😊 they sound lovely
What's the low water immersion technique you're talking about?
I’m so with on this! I have a legendary collection of hats, this time of year (Southern Hemisphere) it’s mostly beanies, but Sun hats rock for the rest of the year. Used to have long hair, been super short for years now - have never acclimatised to the cold🤦 but since I love hats - NO DOWNSIDE👍
Last tip - hats that hide your eyebrows make it REALLY hard for people to accurately guess your age. You look younger 👍👍
I'm currently suffering the "hair falling out" stage. Last year was so awful stress wise it's just coming out constantly. I'm strongly considering cutting short (not buzzed but more like Morgan's current length in the vid), and taking up wigs or scarves. So much of my identity is tied up in long hair, and that's been a really wild ride to work through.
I appreciate you sharing this comment and experience, it helps me feel less alone. Thank you, genuinely. 💛
@@mialemon6186 you are welcome. You're definitely not alone!
This is probably the best time in history if you want realistic wigs because the quality of wigs has improved immensely just in my lifetime (I'm in my 60s). I've met several people that I would never have guessed they were wearing a wig until they told me.
Scarves, headwraps, etc, are also great. There's so much variety and there's a kajillion ways to wear them, especially when you start using two or three, adding jewellery, etc. In some ways, I see them as being better than and certainly easier than dyeing one's hair--if you try a colour or pattern and don't like it, changing it is as easy as just pulling it off your head.
And they don't go all brittle or frizzy and all the things that can happen if your hair gets processed wrong or just decides it doesn't like what you've done to it. There's no such thing as a bad hair day when you have scarves and headwraps to play with.
It was near the end of the video that I finally was able to put my finger on what was so unusual about looking in on your hair journey ...
The attitude toward your hair and its constant changes is very much a mindfulness experience. We as a society tie up so much meaning and memories into the state of our hair that your journey was simply "This is how I am *now*."
I know that's not what you intended, but it is an interesting way of looking at it. The hair was personifying being present in the moment.
I love everything you did. It's so beautiful watching you enjoying the process and knowing everything will turn out all right.
Different people put different values on different part of them. Imagine if Christine (simply nailogical) cut her nails, it be a whole emotional thing. I've always been blasé about my hair, doing what I want because it'll grow back or I can get it cut again but so many people are aghast when I tell them. Human identity, even putting aside gender for a moment, the feelings about the things that make us us are so complex and amazing.
Then you add culture on top and the symbolism and sacredness of hair in some societies. It's *a lot*! But it's also wonderful and fascinating.
I so agree. Sometimes the invisible weight of societal expectations is only apparent when someone just utterly disregards them.
I'm a guy that has had buzzed hair for yeeeeeeeeeears with the occasional 1-2" grow out. I'm a month short of 2 years growing my hair out to donate for a childrens' wig charity (allllllmost there) and completely agree with all of your phases so far. I also had to go buy hair ties, combs, conditioner, etc. Can't wait to do some good for a kid and get back to my buzz cuts! LOVE the current hair style, btw :)
My mom used to run an organisation for children with cancer and years ago she learnt to make full custom wigs on lace (it's huge now but this was brand new then)
Try to get it as long as possible bc the final wig will always be several centimetres shorted than the raw hair.
a lot of people just donate the minimum and it's doesn't leave many options for variety
@@saritshull3909 Yep - I plan on a few extra inches :)
@mae8646 I heard they dye it all the same color.
I buzzed my hair to almost bald in May 2022. And I really enjoyed the easy phase when it was super short. It's perhaps halfway to my goal of basically wearing it in the messy ponytail that Link has in Breath of the Wild. It gives me some very good enby gender euphoria at wvery stage so far, as well
I can't find any hairstyle that makes my enby heart happy. Everything feels terrible!
@@Schnort it's really hard. Tbh, many days, I just roll out of bed and hardly look at myself before going to work. My hair is curly in odd ways as well, and some days I dig what it does, and some days I just resign to it. Adding color has been a good way for me to feel ownership of my hair, but that can be challenging in its own ways too. I hope you find some good hair days!
My daughter walked by as I was watching and exclaimed "Morgan is everyone's favorite fairy Goth Mother in that outfit" You are amazing
As someone who has had mid-back or longer hair since I was 12 (and I'm in my 60s now), my long hair is a large part of my identity. I projected that onto you, and was in complete shock when you did The Buzz.
Knowing you switched up hair lengths several times removed that shock. And ... we all have different relationships with our hair. Mine is "Liz = very long hair", Morgan's is "Hair is fun to play with." Neither is right or wrong.
And even though I would never cut my hair (aside from "health trims"), it has been fun to watch the hair journey.
I adore the rainbow in the back - when you twirled around and there was that rainbow at the bottom of the curls all the way around your nape - HEART EYES. I really enjoyed this video and found it to be super helpful! I appreciate the dedication and how you kept up all year with check ins
I buzzed my hair short in 2017 for charity and decided I liked it so much that I've kept it short ever since*. This was pre-pandemic and I was living in a relatively warm location so my buzzed hair was generally on full display, and I found most people were really cool about it! I did get occasional weird questions ("does your hair naturally grow that short?") and people wanting to touch my head without consent, but I don't think I had anybody misgender me or make rude jokes about my hairstyle (other than certain members of my immediate family, but I don't live with them so they're free to be small-minded and rude in their own space).
*During the 2020 lockdowns I started growing my hair out, figuring it was my best opportunity to do so without anybody seeing the awkward phase(s). Unfortunately, my hair is so thick that it just became a giant afro, hair sticking straight outward because that was the only way it could fit. It looked awful, and wearing hats/scarves/beanies only gave me headaches because they pushed the hair directly back toward my head. After close to 8 months (around 8 cm of growth) I realised I didn't want it long anyway and was just doing this because it was a "good time to do it" rather than something I actually wanted to do, so I went back to buzzing to #0 every 1-2 weeks, and I haven't looked back.
I also feel just as feminine as I did with long hair, if not more so. My long hair was super thick and so I always wore it in a ponytail to keep it out of my face, because nothing else could hold it. Now, I don't have that problem, nor do I create hair spiders to stick to the tiles in the shower, nor does my vacuum cleaner get clogged with hairs tangling around its brushes. Instead, I look like Eleven or Furiosa or Okoye, and what's not feminine and awesome about that?
At age 67 I went ahead and got an asymmetrical buzz. Three mm on the left and 3.5" on the center-top & right side - all naturally curly. A year before, I'd stopped the brown + highlights hair dye I'd been doing for 20 years and went natural salt & pepper. The asymmetrical buzz is just glorious! Cool in the Florida summer, and I feel super stylish.
I totally agree with the "benign neglect" expression; whenever I get asked how I grow my hair so long, the answer is because I haven't gotten a haircut. I appreciate this video because I'm planning to cut my hair short sometime. And yeah, I feel like getting a haircut as we head into summer where I live is pretty common.
I had been planning to get a cut a few jobs back...but then covid hit. Businesses closed down or shortened hours, which made it impossible on my schedule. So by necessity it went back to a fair bit over the shoulder again, at least until things had calmed down.
Yeah, summer cuts are nice!
As a kid, i was obsessed with having long hair, but it never grew enough bc i didn't take care of it enough for it to grow out. Now I'm considering all these shorter styles and cuts that i never tried bc i wanted long hair so badly for so long. Right now i have a partial undercut (mostly on one side and a diagonal line on the back) that I've been kinda maintaining as i can (for months we couldn't get it cut and it grew like 4 inches, not what i wanted)
I don't even understand what answer I'm supposed to give... like.. "how did you grow your hair so long?"
...??? It.. you know hair just grows, right? You get a hair cut to keep it short... and if you don't want it short, you just... don't get it cut? It's insanely easy to grow your hair out you just do nothing and it grows on its own???
I was forced to have an ugly bob cut with bangs for much of my childhood so long hair feels like freedom to me. I definitely don't miss having even shorter hair and needing styling gel or mousse to look even remotely presentable. It is fun though to watch other women experiment with hair.
Same for me! I started growing out my hair when I became an adult and it finally looks nice)
Same
My childhood "bowl cut" sympathizes with your forced bob! 😆 Honestly I think in our family's case it was purely an economic thing...? Easy to cut at home cheaply with 3 kids, and also part of a religious thing where they tended to consider any kind of style expression "vanity". And then of course being the 80s, the cut was allowed to straggle out into an almost-mullet as it grew!! 🙈 Finally being allowed to grow proper long hair was a big relief - even if some of my efforts at styling it are 100% cringe now, looking back at old photos 😂
@@annastevens1526 we all have cringe times in our past. That's part of the fun.
I’ve had a pixie cut for 4 years and finally buzzed it last year. I’m so excited to hear your journey and tips! I went on vacation right after the buzz and it was so nice to not have to pack ANY hairbrushes and hairspray. Currently my goal is to go back to a long pixie slash very very short severe bob. I’m excited for that journey ahead! I’m starting the growing out process now so I can hide the awkward stages under winter hats for the next 6-8 months and get a lot of growth.
Almost two years ago I had hair down to my knees, literally. Cut it all off, to about 2 inches left. Best decision I've made. The before and after pictures were epic. I've had several different short styles, including a very cool undercut with a criss-cross pattern. Doing new stuff with my hair was (and still is) so fun!
If you are a guy, good. A woman, it is a somewhat sad for a man to see it, but I'll bet it feels great. Change is healthy for the psyche sometimes.
@@rac7773xD like wtf dude
@@JescaBartell Most guys look silly with super long hair, IMO, and most women gain an extra dimension of beauty with it. I have seen exceptions, of course.
@@rac7773 lmfao who asked tho
Guys with long hair can absolutely be sexy and attractive, but more importantly, our hair is OURS to do what we want with and gendering a bunch of dead cells is stupid. As for your misogynistic comment on women, women aren't just for men to look at. You're thinking of paintings.
I had a college friend (this is around 1988) who had had to shave her head for surgery in high school. NO ONE outside the Harlem Globetrotters were shaving their heads at that time, so it made her look very unusual. Shaving her head changed her entire life; she went from being a quiet, normative person to a wildly expressive person. Anything became possible!
October will mark the 1 year anniversary that I've had my hair short, and I'm honestly beyond pleased that I did it!
I did it as an autonomy and self-identity thing, and it's an experience I wish I could have a Pensive to go back and relive as many times as I want, haha. I had just gotten through wedding season for my brother at the time; I had to contort and squish myself so many ways to fulfill my duties and make him happy. I'm nonbinary and was just getting into the "yeah, this is my full truth" stage while being asked to be a bridesmaid and going to the bachelorette and basically hyperfeminize myself because my SIL and her friends are all cis women who celebrate their femininity. It's beautiful and empowering for them, but crushing and soul-wearing for me. Three days after the wedding and countless showers later, I still couldn't get all the product that made my hair wedding-ready out. So, I poured a glass (cough cough half a bottle) of wine, blasted a playlist that started with Reflection and Go the Distance, and chopped my hair off. And while belting out Defying Gravity, I shaved my hair down to just under an inch. The euphoria is honestly unmatched, and I still dip into that memory when I want a boost.
I've let my hair get longer, but it's fairly consistently around a 1/2 inch round the sides and 3 inches on top. It feels so right and so much more like me. I do get stares and comments and the odd insult, but most people seem to really like it, and even my family says that I just look brighter with my hair so short. It's also just made me fully love my hair and its natural qualities; it's super fine and super densely populated, which means grease builds up easily when it's long. When it's short, that translates as volume! I almost never have to use product, and it just happily sticks up and cascades into a lovely little coif.
Ah, I guess that bridesmaids have a lot of expectations.
I was wedding photographer at my cousins, and just wore a somewhat fancy looking jumpsuit with my usual bob cut.
Maybe for the next wedding you could try a jumpsuit to? I was extremely comfortable and could move with freedom. And no one (except my grandma) questioned it.
Then again I'm not non-binary, It's just a suggestion based on comfort.
I especially recommend the elastic ones.
I’m also nonbinary and getting a buzzcut really was so amazing!
I'm an uber-uber-uber-femme cishet lady, and nothing in the world makes me happier than someone doing their own thing. Buzz cuts on other people thrill me. Folks figuring out their gender identity make me stoked.
@@DominikaHare Honestly, it was less about the clothes and more about being forced into a more feminine role. I’m good with dresses and things like that-when it’s on my terms. But being called “lady” or “girlie” or asked to uphold societal norms for women and bridal stuff is just massively uncomfy.
At the time, too, I had only just started coming out to myself.
Thank you for the advice and support, though!
When the video came out last year I was suffering with birth control/hormone related hair loss. This gave me the confidence to cut it into a short pixie cut - which I rocked and helped me to start living my life again.
My mom had to buzz cut her hair at the start of chemo. The advice will be useful when her hair grows out eventually.
Good luck to your Mom. My mother had the same situation and her hair was flattering and maintenance free. Get her a pretty, soft hat for cooler weather. Everything you do for her depends on her personal style: casual, frilly, tailored, etc. hugs to you.
Good luck to your mom.
I finished chemo last October. It took about 2 months for it to get from cue ball to buzz cut. Then 2 months after that, it turned curly almost overnight. (Chemo curl is a known thing!) I cut the curls off and dyed my remaining hair in June because I thought they made me look at least 10 years older.
Now my hair is definitely thinner than it was before. I think that’s a combination of chemo and the maintenance drugs I’ll need to take from now on.
I must admit that when Morgan’s video came out last year, my first thought was “Oh no, she has cancer, too!” But that was just a reflection of where my mind was at the time.
Keeping a good thought for your mom. I've seen some beautiful things like henna "crowns". Wishing your mom and family all the best as she goes through this.
I hope she gets better soon.
My mom had brain surgery and got that side of her head shaved for surgery. She keeps that side shaved now, almost 10 years later. She really rocks it
I love how excited you are at every single stage of growth ❤️ I grew out a pixie cut and a lot of the "awkward" length stages just made me miserable, so I wish I'd had your creative and positive mindset to experiment and have fun with every month 🥰
I went from 46 inches of hair, to shaved (no guard) in 2013. I had had long hair my entire life up to that point, and I was done. The sense of freedom from removing all that hair so quickly was amazing, and I've been much happier and totally fearless with my hairstyles since then. No regrets!
Love the “Claire Foy” The Crown look! Would be nice to have hair! Mine started to do the male pattern when I was 16! My Mum was beside herself. Gallons of rosemary tea and cod liver oil and all the potions now as an old man the bit of fluff left is a reminder that a man’s glory is not his hair! 🙃💨
😆 Love your sense of humour! Guys do seem to have a much more accepted option of total shaved-head style when dealing with hair loss, at least...? (Have never seen a woman trying that one in public here! Even those who struggle with hormone-related or chemo-linked hairloss?)
These days the 'billiard ball' #0 or #1 cut honestly seems to be all the rage for guys, and very popularized by celebrities... Can't remember seeing anyone go that route when I was young in the 80s, but I reckon it's very snazzy & way more dignified than the terrible comb-over which was that era's response to MPB! 🙈
It is amazing to compare the difference in hair growth from person to person. In one full year, I can put my hair up but a friend's hair is shorter than yours. For me, short hair is too much fussing, always needs styling somehow before going anywhere. Long hair gets a quick brush and a twist up, and I'm ready to go.
Enjoying watching your changes
I guess I'm different from most commenters here when I say that I HATED my buzz cut. Loathed it. Went from waist-length to as buzzed as yours, and felt utterly amputated, and I grieved for my hair. I was grieving for other reasons too at the time, which was what motivated me to cut my hair, but then seeing myself "not looking like myself" definitely did nothing good for my recovery.
It took me two years to grow my hair out again to a length I could feel "like myself" again. Like you, the middle stages were worst, as my back hairs bounced weirdly and thinly against my neck but the upper hairs hadn't grown out enough to give them the weight they needed to behave how I liked.
I was never interested in bleaching or coloring my hair.
My biggest takeaway from the experience was to recognize that I'm just not a person who needs variety in my hairstyle. I have a signature look that I'm comfortable with, and that I know how to style to my own liking, it fits my lifestyle and the amount of effort I want to put into it, and I think I'm probably never going to vary from it again.
People who change their hair are fine. You do you. But I just want to speak for the validity of anyone who feels unhappily pressured to change just because others enjoy it, but maybe feels scared that it's not for them. You don't HAVE to change. Morgan seems to be having a blast with all the changes, because apparently it's in her nature to enjoy changes. Some of us just aren't like that, and that's just as normal and good too if it's what we want.
For me, just like how Morgan said that cutting all her hair off gave her less energy she needed to put into worrying about it (for the first month or so), leaving my hair in my personally familiar style protects me from needing to expend any energy wondering what I'm going to do with it. I have two or three styles I wear all the time, and I feel cover all the occasions I have to present myself for in my own life. It's practical for me.
I want everyone to feel happy in their own appearance, whatever that may be, and in the experience of how much energy, variety, playfulness, OR calm your style gives you. We all have different needs, and whatever suits your own needs for who you are and the life you're living is always best.
I like this. I know I would hate it. Maybe later stages, but definitely not the buzz. I have such a discomfort with not looking like myself that I don't wear makeup! Thanks for saying this, it's nice to hear both sides!
@@juniper2346 Interesting that you mention makeup! I feel the same way. I gave up makeup about 20 years ago, and I LOVE the freedom and self-appreciation I get from living with my face bare all the time. Not to mention the savings in expensive products I no longer need to buy!
Others may obviously feel differently. But for me, makeup felt like it erased my true self and forced me to live behind a mask, performing for a public that wouldn't accept "plain old me". Once I got over that fear, and allowed myself to exist publicly without makeup every day, I find my self-esteem has skyrocketed!
I feel so much more valid in my own skin now.
@@Marialla. well said :) I'm the same way
Thanks for sharing your experience! It’s good to hear from people who had very different reactions to the same style choice. We’re all built differently, and that’s beautiful!
I've only once let someone not me near my hair with scissors in the last 30 years and I was angry at myself for months for letting them ("Just let me take care of these split ends!!") till it grew back how I want it. There's a reason I cut my hair the way I do, I need it to stay in a braid for a variety of reasons and if it's too short, it escapes and drives me nutz. Why have long hair if you only ever leave it in a braid, one might ask? Because I like having long hair, it's the easiest to manage because I've got leverage on it the longer it is, I can easily keep it braided out of my way, and it's still there if I WANT to do something pretty with it.
I've had not quite a buzz cut but pretty close and it was not my choice "if you won't take care of your hair we're cutting it off" and I didn't like it at all, I'm not sure any of my photos from that time survived me hating it so much.
These days it's also a control thing, when everything else is out of control, I can colour my hair however I want it (generally blue and purple streaks that don't go all the way to the roots so they look less unnatural while growing out).
Some people like what they like and even have reasons for it, I don't think I'll ever be one of those people who's so relieved when they finally decide to go short.
I’m so thrilled to have found this video . I’m 2 months post chemo and have about half an inch of hair growth and didn’t know how it would grow out . Watching you I’m now looking forward to the process . Subscribed 😊
Absolutely have to say that I have been LOVING your approach to life over the last year. New experiences are a huge part of what we are here for. Learning new things and letting those things shape us as people and lead us to answers to more existential questions is the right way to live a life (imo). Please keep doing what you are doing. Also, LOVE your hair right now! The colors are so awesome!!!
I've done the cut-16-inches-off twice now. I LOVED the pixie - because I have curly hair the pixie was super crazy and cute. I haven't cut my hair in a few years now so it's creeping below my waist right now. I think I'll keep it for a while, because I haven't had the "cut the hair" dreams yet. But yes, waiting to cut the hair until it's April or May in the north east is sometimes key (coming on summer instead of coming on winter). I am also in the benign neglect camp for haircuts.
No professional hairstylist takes me seriously when I come in with hair to my butt and I tell them to cut it all off. They keep checking in like I'm gonna sob to lose my hair. I had to tell both stylists - look, I want this. Cut it all off! One thing I know about my hair is it GROWS.
I've had hair down past my butt and I've been completely bald ... and everywhere in between. It wasn't by choice to be bald .. but such is life 😉 It's funny you mentioned the Mohawk. During the shaving process we took a picture of it as a Mohawk. It really made me laugh. It all took a bit to process, but it was freeing to have no hair at all. I rocked a doo- rag and big earrings like nobody's business 🥰
I totally buzzed my head every few years from 13 on, and when I was 19, I did it again, and the first thing my boss said to me was “Don’t ever come in looking like a man again.” And as a little genderqueer bb, that was actually a really traumatizing thing for me. I had been happily expressing my gender how I wanted, and for her to sort of imply that could get me fired was NOT OKAY. That wasn’t the only messed up interaction at that job, and by the time I left I was spending my lunch breaks crying in a stairwell. And this was in the oh-so liberal Portland, OR. So, Morgan’s concern about a boss being weird or rude about it is DEFINITELY a valid one.
aw man, that's super sad! I am not a huge fan of the buzzcut, but that is super out of line for other people to be dictating someone's self! X(
As a guy who dislikes crewcuts on most women, it is no one's concern but yours how you cut your hair. Your boss's rebuke to you was abominable and unprofessional. Sorry it happened.
Absolutely. I luckily did not experinece that at my workplace, people actually complimented me on my haircut even tho I did not like it then yet! However, my fam hated it and they still do. They don't have anything better to talk other than how hideous my hair looks and how it was the biggest scandal in history how I looked like when I decided to cut my hair in a veryyyy short mullet. I was traumatized and even cried at the beginning. But then I learned to not give a fuck ngl. Them saying trash things about me says more about them than me. And if anything, I don't identify as a woman everytime. I'm gender fluid, I adore being able to wear whatever I want now and looking either as masculine or feminine as I want!!
@@sin3358 I've had a similar experience as well. It's become a running half-joke w/ my family how much they hate what I do to my hair (short Mohawk). I take their feedback as a sign that I'm getting the right style, lol.
(I get complements most other places, though, esp. when I dye it.)
poor little snowflake
As I watch this (and as someone who just had two lbs of hair cut off last week), having confidence in yourself and being comfortable in your choice is 9/10 of what makes a person beautiful.
Morgan, a year ago I was SO INSPIRED by you buzzing your hair! You looked SO DARNED CUTE that I buzzed my own hair to about 1/2 inch. I, however, was 68 and not quite as cute as you. My half silver hair looked invisible against my scalp while the dark brown parts looked like I had very odd receding sections. With my 50th class reunion a few days away, I dyed my hair teal. Loved it and felt MUCH BETTER about my looks. Three weeks ago, my mother told me how much she hated my hair during that period because my head looked so tiny! My hair isn't quite chin length yet. I allowed the dye to grow out and have trimmed the back to stay even and the bangs to keep out of my eyes. I had a pixie cut before the buzz so it is now longer than it's been in years. No idea what I'll do with it next!
I've donated my hair twice, and the first time i was DELIGHTED but not at all prepared! Just the weight difference had my neck sticking out to a silly degree 😅
My advice is, if your hair is anything like mine (fine and prone to greasiness) you need to wash it basically every day so long as it's got enough length to touch your face! Longer hair i can get away with a day or two inbetween washes, but not so much short hair
I agree. Everyone always commented that it must be so much less work short, but it needed more attention in my opinion. If my hair is in a bun it stays there. If my hair is short then I have to wash it daily and use spray etc to keep it from looking like a total mess. 😕
That contrary foof at the front of your head that didn't lay down is a cowlick. You might find that the direction of it changes monthly.
The only time my hair has been short is after a bad mental break down, so for me the short hair has a bad attachment. However to see you having so much fun with your hair being short is helping me to see that having my hair short isn't necessary a bad thing.
This hit me hard. I'm going through a Want-To-Self-Destruct phase (but I won't because...I can't afford to). Long hair is my trigger. My hair is super long right now and I want it gone. I called my friend to convince me NOT to cut it all off.
Edit: OK. Not super long. But longer than I'm used to and longer than I like my hair.
I can relate to this. Times when I feel fine, my hair grows long. Times when I'm under big stress is when suddenly my hair feels like it's "too much" or possibly seems like cutting it would serve some purpose such as "helping me grieve" or "making a change" or "destroying myself, but in a less-lethal way".
In my own case I learned that the changes I felt from cutting my hair were never positive. I like my hair long, and find it easiest (even in stressful times) to style hair long enough to pull into a bun. For me, cutting it shorter than that makes me feel out of control and less attractive and less like "me".
I 100% do not pretend everyone else feels the same way about hair cutting. But I agree that for some of us it has negative connotations, and it's great when we recognize that for ourselves, and move forward with better understanding and self-love into the versions of ourselves we most want to be.
@@vanessar.6085 For me the trick is keeping my hair put up into a bun. When the hair is loose and in my face or catching on stuff or getting caught in car doors/windows or requiring a lot of daily work to style, that's when the hair seems to trigger a stress response and the urge to just cut it all off out of frustration. The thought is that "I can't deal with this too, on top of everything else right now!"
But the solution for me to keep my hair long (which is what I really wanted) was just to change my care/styling/wearing routine so it was the least complicated as possible, and was contained in a small area and did not move or require any touch-up styling or brushing throughout the day.
When life feels less stressful and you have more time to devote to fluffy styles the hair will still be there ready to try new things with. If you want to move towards a shorter hairstyle because you love it and you're happy about the option, then that's probably a healthier decision than when you're just reacting in a moment of stress.
I love the shorter look on you. It's fantastic.
I started getting prematurely gray (THANKS Mom), then it started to break etc etc. So I had my husband trim me up, and I wanted to try the punk look I've loved forever. What did we decide? Mohawk. And I F(reakin)G LOVE it. I periodically change the color, mainly like a sapphire or denim-ish blue. It grows out, I cut it off. Voila- it's a self-refreshing canvas. Mine is currently cut to be versatile- mohawk when I want it, when it's down it looks like a pixie-bob cut.
My favorite tips:
1. It's YOUR head, YOUR hair. If you know that others are going to try to talk/shame you out of your decision then SKIP to the end and over their opinions.
2. If you're not sure about a drastic and immediate change in your appearance, try the cut/style in increments. (I did this for the initial cut, found I loved it so much that my husband gave me the full cut later that same day.) Doing this incrementally gives you the option of changing what you don't like about the style as you go. Additionally, it breaks in the people you want t convince without unnecessary tears and drama.
3. Really LOOK at the styles you'd like to try. Look online etc, and take the parts that you like and make the style truly YOURS.
4. If you plan to color your style I HIGHLY recommend that you have someone HELP YOU. One wrong move with a color (especially with reds, blues, purples etc) will ruin your clean lines, even with mirrors and lighting, because of the movements needed to reach some areas. Those colors will warm up from your natural body heat and will be easy to transfer, or they will run. Help with coloring ensures the color stays where you want it, and away from where you don't want it.
5. The color will stain scalp and skin. USE GLOVES.
I hope my tips are helpful for you.
It's been almost three years since I started with the punk look, and I'm still in love with it. Due to some chronic illness I've had to let it grow here and there but this is my go-to style. I thought I'd be embarrassed, or people would laugh at me. Have learned two things:
1. I feel totally like a badass. My self-esteem is much better than when I was trying to fit in by being normal.
2. It's my life, my hair. Have discovered firsthand that I don't CARE what others think. It doesn't make or break my day.
I buzzed my hair back in 2018, when i was just 13 years old. so much of what you said in this video rang true for me. i buzzed my hair during a bad time in my life, and i don’t think i’d do it again for that reason, but it sure was fun when i had it. also morgan you are SO brave for dying your hair while wearing white
I love it. I was always someone with very long hair (a thing people don't like weirdly enough). After my second kid, I thought, "let's go pixie." And now I'm doing all sorts of things I've never done before thanks to the freedom of it being short. I've been toying with the buzz cut idea though I might wait until summer to do so. Thanks for the video.
I did the "Brave the Shave" for Mcmillan Cancer charity in August 2019. I raised about £800. I loved it super short but didnt like the what i called the tween style when it was at the almost style. When it stopped being short and wasnt quite long enough to style. I had fun with hair bands for a while tho. Back into a bob now but dont dye it red anymore so it is now a natural grey.
I did the Australian equivalent "Worlds Greatest Shave" for the leukaemia foundation, I shaved all my waist length hair off to about 1/2 cm. I loved having a buzz cut, my husband wasn't so happy. At the 6 month point my hair was as long as Morgan's is now and at 1 year I was able to do 2 French braids as my hair was shoulder length, I did have one tidy up hair cut at the 8 month point. It was fun having a shaved head, it was something that I had wanted to do for a very long time.
I'm always impressed at how knowledgeable you are about bleaching/cutting/coloring even though (judging by the length and color of your hair a year ago) it looks like you had never done anything to your hair at all. I was amazed at every single haircut being perfect when you were going through with cutting it all off
You are SO inspiring, Morgan!!! Your original haircut video was amazing and this follow-up is as well. There's a kind of societal hair anxiety - that there's a narrow, crucial zone of hair perfection and everything else is DISASTER, so don't experiment, don't learn new options... bleh. You just blew all that away with joyful creativity (always your specialty). THANK YOU!!!
I am sure so many people are going to be thankful for this video. I wish it had existed 4/5 years ago. I cut all my hair off right as I went into high school and I had a fun few years playing with color and undercuts and all that, but when I wanted to grow out my hair and have it natural and healthy again, it was such an awkward process for me trying to figure out styles for my hair. I even got extensions put in to hide some of the growth (which in hindsight weren’t all that cute because the length of the extensions and the length of my actual hair was was too different) because I hated the weird middle phase of my hair growing process. So I am in love with all the hair styles you showed off in your video today!
I love your humble confidence. You seriously rock every single length it’s so fun to see!
Thanks for all the tips! I’m growing my hair post cancer treatment and had no clue what to expect or do with it until now. Much appreciate your sharing your experience with all of us!
I feel you on the mullet thing, I did the exact same thing as you when I first buzzed my hair, just let it grow undisturbed "for science!" lol the neck portion reached my shoulders while the rest of the layering was barely touching the earlobe area. The cold also caught me by surprise, I didn't realize how much hair insulates the head, even living in a warm climate where it doesn't snow I needed hats.
Tip for anyone growing it out, there's a sweet window of time when you can look like the lead singer of the Cranberries in her "ode to my family" video just by tying a bandana to keep your hair down while it dries. Mine liked to stick up so I didn't realize this potential until I buzzed it for the third time in my life. It's simple, it dries up fast even with the fabric on top, and it looks extremely cute.
I'm the same, I have a #1 guard undercut with slightly longer bits on the top. Today I learned how to avoid the morning fight to get it to behave! Thank you, and Morgan for this 🙂
Yes when my hair grows out it always tries to become a mullet!
Even with long (boob-length) non-layered hair & a short fringe, I frequently find it's looking sneakily mullet-like when left loose! 🙈 Maybe mulletness is just one of life's inevitabilities?? 😂
(Jeez I hope not! Living through that era once was MORE than enough - the current fad for reviving the '80s has me living in constant fear! 😆)
I went from long-ish hair to chin length before my wedding. Then afterwards I had it cut into a very short pixie. I wish I had prepared an answer for when nosy people ask why I cut my hair. It is nobody's business, but it would have been helpful for me to be prepared.
edit to add: I felt like I had to overcompensate with feminine makeup and accessories when I had short hair. But I was also experimenting with my clothing styles, and decided to stop wearing pants in favour of skirts. I quite liked the juxtaposition of "masculine" hair with "feminine" clothes and makeup. Now I would not cut my hair short again, but I don't regret doing it.
I felt similarly with wanting to "overcompensate". It's wild how people will be nosy over something that's none of their business! 😂 "I wanted to" is a good enough answer. When I got a pixie cut one of my classmates said, "Aw, darn, your hair was so pretty." What good could that possibly do? 😂
@@KZesty YES, I got the same type of comments. I replied with "well, my hair is still pretty now" 🙄
The q&a brought back a lot of memories for me when I used to buzz cut my hair. It’s been well over ten years now. I loved it and always felt pretty and feminine. How other people perceive you is different though. There were definitely people that assumed my sexuality or misgendered me. You definitely have to learn to not be bothered by those things. Those people were not anyone I wanted in my life anyway so I didn’t let it get to me. I mostly rock a mom cut now because my kids don’t deserve to get judged and stared at because their mom has a pink mohawk. Occasionally o get wild and shave part of it off lol. But mostly I enjoy the low maintenance of no dye no cut do.
I'd seek you out as a friend, if I saw a mom with a pink Mohawk. And I'm an awesome person to have as a friend.
Yes I got the “I thought you were gay.” comment from more than one person. Nope. But When I had my child I kept my hair within a normal look and only once went super short at that time-she was about 11 then and she also wasn’t sure about it at first but quickly got used to it. I let it grow long again mostly after that. Now I am 61 and covid medical treatment screwed my hair up and for a year it fell out and looked terrible. I had to cut it short to deal. And it was still awful. But now it’s getting thicker thankfully and the base of the ponytail is twice as full or more than it was! I miss my braids so we shall see. But somedays I wanna go real short and add pink…fuchsia and orange again maybe.
Just watched a few of your hair videos, first tine seeing your channel. I had chemo in 2017 with the hair loss. I have to tell you, it was very freeing. My favorite thing was being out in the rain and hearing it hit my head plip plip plip. Since then I've let it grow, after getting rid of the first of the regrowth. It's down to the lower part of my back and is very thick. It's also a bit scruffy at the ends. Or was. I watched your 500 years of haircuts and you showed how to evenly cut it. I just did it and so want to give you a virtual hug. It looks so much better!! Thank you!!
I buzzed off my long curly hair 10 years ago to see what it would be like and because I was so done with having hair. I agree I shouldn't have done it in winter but apart from having a cold head I found the experience very freeing. Mostly I got compliments but I did make a 10 year old girl cry "You'll never get a boyfriend now!" 😂 and another friend asked me if I was having a nervous breakdown 🙃 Interesting. I grew it out because I didn't want the maintenance of frequent haircuts and left it for about 6 years before cutting it short again to grow out my grey hair. I like having long hair again now. Curly hair just looks shorter for longer but I found the layers growing out very cute. If you're thinking about it definitely try it.
I've worn a buzzcut for most of my adult life. I used to limit myself to a #2 length, but have recently started going for a #1. I don't brush my hair except occasionally with the back scratcher, and I find on times when I don't have time to wash the hair (which I can do with the same soap that I use on the rest of me) I can just rub a Jiffy paper towel over it and it's clean of grease. I DO have eczema on my head, so having the buzz cut makes it really easy to put hand lotion on the dry skin! I recently bought a special round, easy to use cutter so that I can get a nice even job done.
Oh, and I'm really grateful that no one yells at me for the do anymore.
And one last thing. I find that I am getting natural grey patches and stripes as I age, so I don't even need to creatively colour the buzz.
I've buzzed my hair off completely twice. Both times in solidarity with my mom when she went in for chemo. This last time was this past January.
Honestly, and this is a little odd, but it's strangely freeing in a way. You will have a time where some people will avoid you because they're, frankly, bigots who think you're gay. I don't want to know those people anyways. I think it's something everyone should experience at least one time, and I'm usually a VERY long haired person (like, past my butt length hair).
Also, it allowed my hair to grow back thicker, because it wasn't getting pulled on so much. Just an added side effect I noticed.
Overall fun video. 🥰💖
That's so sweet a thing to do for your mum!! 🥰 Hope it made her feel much less the odd one out?
Really interesting what you noted about some people's bigoted responses too. Isn't it weird how much immediate judgement people can attach to a single element of someone else's appearance...? Particularly ironic when (as in your case) the impetus wasn't choices of personal expression at all, but an act of great love for someone else. I guess it is a good reminder to all of us to check our assumptions, & to stop and think if we notice we're jumping to surface-based judgements!
I too tried out the full buzzcut a couple years back, what I did not consider in advance was the fact I look pretty unwell. It coupled badly with the super short hair, to the point I stopped wearing my light blue nightgown because it made me look like a hospital ward escapee... Not generally the look I aim for! XD
Morgan, it was your 500 years of historical hair styles (over 6M views, congrats) by which I found your channel. Since then I have loved all of your posts, and have watched a lot of your older ones too. Thank you for the great entertainment. This was a great call back to the video that hooked me onto your channel.
I buzzed my hair off in spring of last year, and I love it. I've kept it buzzed ever since, it looks great on me and feels the most ME out of all the haircuts I've had.
The rainbow is super cute!!
Great video, Morgan! I have a lot of thoughts on hair... I was a competitive swimmer until I was 18, so I wore it really short because it was just so much easier. It was pretty awesome and I liked being able to punk it up with pomade when I was a teenager, but I'll confess I was occasionally envious of girls who had longer hair and could do things like different updos. I never felt my head was cold, but I never had long hair in my life until I got to college and I was no longer a competitive swimmer so I really didn't have the experience of going from long hair to none and my hair was very thick. (Mom kept it short when I was little because she didn't want to deal with a toddler being fussy about brushing, etc.)
So I started letting it grow in college, partly because it was easy. I'd get a professional trim about twice a year and that was it. My hair then was very curly (I'm at just soft curls/waves now, curses aging!), so while it was waist length wet, it was about bra length dry. By the time I was in my early 30s I was tired of it, so I whacked it to shoulder length and it's been somewhere around there ever since. I haven't used product since the 80s--well I think I did put some gel in for my sister's wedding in the late 90s--and I never use a brush because brush + curly hair = disaster. It's wash and air dry unless it is the dead of winter--I bring the hair dryer out then because haircicles aren't fun for me. I am a bit envious of those who can do fun colors--I tried to dye my hair once in my 30s and had a horrible allergic reaction, so not ever trying that again!
My only advice for anyone is do what you want with your hair. Style it into oblivion, wash-and-go, somewhere in between--it's your hair, do what makes you feel good. Note: I recognize there are some constraints with certain employers, etc. and most of us have to deal with those constraints. I have a whole rant about the cultural norms about women's hair in particular that are steeped in incredible sexist and racist bulls***, but I expect I might be preaching to the choir here so I'll stop. 🙂
Watching you for the first time cannot believe you cut that beautiful hair.
I had a meltdown the other night and got a straight buzz cut. I’ve never had short hair like this. I’m lowkey embracing the look and excited for the different phases of growing it out. I’m in my GI Jane era.
As a person with short hair, my absolute favourite product is salt spray! I spray it in (towel dried) wet hair and style it using fingers/comb/brush to move the hair the way I want it. It dries at first a lil crusty, but brush it out with fingers or a brush and it feels like you've barely put anything in the hair at all. I have really silky straight hair, so the texture salt spray gives is essential! Otherwise my hair just puffs out, and doesn't want to do anything. Salt spray also works with wavy/curly and long hair. And you can put it in dry hair too, I just prefer wet.
Salt spray & spray wax - two excellent products for short (or longer) hair!
Oooh I'm going to try this, sounds like just the thing! Do you make it yourself or buy a spray?
@@meisjeViv i buy it
I did a pixie, and then a buzz with a pomp about 6 years ago. I also died my buzz magenta. I so remember thinking “short hair will be so much easier”… oh boy was I wrong. Every stage of short hair requires so much work! I did the Bob, and then the pixie, and then the buzz over 6 months, and then I was done! I might go back to a pixie at some point in my life, but I feel so much more myself with long hair. I just had a horrible salon experience that definitely has me feeling like… this is why people cut their hair at home. Anyways! Love the video! So true about everything!!!
Yes, short hair requires so much upkeep, especially if you have any curl. I love my hair in a pixie cut, but long is better for my lifestyle.
I mean, this is highly dependent on your cut and your standards. I've had a pixie for years now and I basically wash it, brush it and then floof it with my fingers as it's drying (no products) and I'm done. Only difference imo is that you need to go to the hairdresser more often to maintain the cut, but that also depends entirely on what you want. I can grow out my pixie for like 12 weeks and it'll still look like a passable cut. It's not what I want, but it doesn't look bad.
@@Rhaifha yeah, my problem is the getting it cut every six weeks.
Ouch! That sounds expensive!! 😬 When I see on hairdressers' chalkboards the cost for cutting women's hairstyles, it seems incredibly steep in comparison to what barbers charge the guys. I often wonder how anyone manages it?
Agreeing with Joelle, I'm super lazy wirh my hair. Wash/flush, comb, comb with fingers, done! And I often cut it myself... Hairdressers are expensive, there's infuriating sexism at most hairdressers, and I've ended up with a cut I didn't quite like once to often...
I have shaved my head three times now. Twice for charity and once because I could not take the heat. I love having my hair that short. I know some people think a buzz cut on women looks weird or unattractive, but I didn’t care because it feels wonderful (to me).
It's so crazy to see this video, because I went through a very similar process a few years ago! But I played with colors first, then cut it into a very short buzz-cut style to let it grow out and recover from all the bleaching. It's been 2 years and 2 months from the time I cut my hair, and it is very long again (waist length), and I definitely see myself going through all the process again and again! Having fun with colors, crazy cuts, then cutting it short to let it grow again... I will say you dealt with the growing phase SO MUCH better than I did, because I just looked like a kid for a long time in the first year, as I didn't really know what to do with it. I'll keep all of those tips in mind for the next time!
I have almost waist lenght hair and I am a couple weeks from having to shave my head because of chemo. It's very comforting to watch this without bring cancer related (which is all I can find on youtube) ❤
First off, I highly recommend space buns for that period when hair is too short to ponytail, but still long enough to get in the way. They made me feel really cute and were easy enough for a lazy hair gal like me getting them even heights was the only tricky part lol.
I buzzed my hair over a trash can with some friends' help in college after having it (mostly) pixie length for around 7 years. I still found that the transition was still pretty difficult, in terms of adjusting to the lack of volume. I partially agree with Morgan about the summer thing, although I cut my hair mid December and appreciated that I could wear a hat without it feeling weird if I was a bit insecure that day (although baseball hats would work for that too). I also wish I had gone all the way bald, and played around more with designs and stuff while it was super short!
I also grew my hair out (from a pixie cut later on) and relate to not wanting to get a hair cut in the more mullet-y/Beatles phase because it was so close to pony-tail length. Personally, I still recommend cutting it unless you really need to tie you hair back every day, since I found it let me enjoy that middle length a lot more and made it feel more intentional rather than feeling gross while waiting for it to grow for months.
It's nice to see someone so comfortable with their hair in all of its representations. I am especially loving the vibrant colours!!
I know myself and many others grew up with parents/religions who used hair styles/cuts as a form of control or punishment so it can be a fraught experience for some. Now as I am nearly 40, I have the joy of medical issues impacting my hair as well so. . . like I said. . . fraught.
It's brilliant being able to live someone elses hair transformations vicariously. Thank you for the video and for still posting so beautifully, even after losing your footage 🥴
Hair grows around 1 cm a month ( about half an inch) so your growth is actually considered ‘normal’…
There are always people who grow faster or slower - but its individual ;)
I buzzed my hair in grad school and kept it that short for 10 years - I actually started growing it out a month before quarantine! I've actually had really positive experiences overall, including when I worked retail (women's shoe department at a Macy's) and lots of people told me they loved my hair or wished they were "brave enough" to cut their own hair that short. During the pandemic I grew my hair out for just about 2 years, getting it a few inches below my shoulders, before I decided to go back to my beloved buzz. It was fun experiencing longer hair again, but I don't miss it and will probably keep my current hair for the foreseeable future.