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5 Things You Learn When you Shave Your Head
Let’s cut it all off baby!
It’s your favourite weirdo and newly bald baddie Victoria here! This last week, I chopped off all my hair. Yup. Every last curl was snipped and tucked into an envelop to be mailed off to a wig company in Vancouver as a donation. After that, I made a donation to the BC Cancer Foundation as well in my uncle’s name to help fund efforts to fight the big C.
Now, I thought I would share my new experience as a bald baddie with you all. How many of us shave our heads after all?! Maybe more men might have, but women are seldom bald by choice.
1. You Need a lot More Toques
My head is SO COLD! Once I walked outside the house with my freshly mowed scalp, I was ready to start gluing my hair back on my head. Obviously, that’s not a feasible long-term solution, so I borrowed my friend's toque and called it a day.
Time to buy more hats I suppose. Maybe I’ll start rocking a sunhat in the summer, or those weird bucket hats that fishermen wear, or perhaps the tacky rainbow umbrella hats? Who knows!
