ALESSANDRO
My dad wants me to cut my hair. He offered me 1000 euros for me to cut my hair, but I said no! Even with money, I’m like, NO, you’re not corrupting me!
My hair represents myself more than my culture or anything else; my hair was a big part of my breaking away from societal expectations of what a man should be.
As I’ve gotten more confident my hair has grown longer and vice versa; I feel like I look better with longer hair.
I’m a straight man, but I’m not a stereotypical masculine guy; and my hair was a good part of accepting myself. Ever since I was a child, my parents would say, you should cut your hair, so I always wore my hair very very short. There weren’t rules against it, but it was more a societal thing; all the boys had straight hair. And those with long hair generally did not wear very fashionable hair styles–like the padawan braid in Star Wars!–or take care of their hair very well. So short hair was what was expected.
During the pandemic, I started growing it out, and I feel that I look better with longer hair. It also was a way to show having longer hair, shorter hair, doesn’t matter, doesn’t make you any less masculine. But of course now it's like every f*ing guy has long hair! And now I want to grow it even longer.
