Break-up with love and with your hair

One of the many things that girls universally understand is that when dealing with a break-up, the best way to cope and start anew is to chop off your hair. It's something that society has influenced upon girls. They grow up learning from shows and movies that the main character cuts her hair to deal with a broken heart. Why is this? Why do girls tend to majorly change their hair when they leave a relationship? What does it even mean for them to cut their hair?

These answers can be perceived in many different ways, but here are a few reasons why.

To Become a New Person: 

Hair is often used as symbolism in movies and in shows. The moment those shears snip away at strands of hair is when the girl becomes a new person. For example, Mulan cuts her hair in a dramatic scene where she runs away to impersonate her father in the army. This act is what made the distressed Mulan into the awkward man she made up to be Ping. The change in hair gives off the feeling of turning the page and starting a new chapter.

Increase Ones Confidence:

Hair is easily associated to ones pride. After a relationship that ends badly, a girls confidence can be wavering. In order to gain that back, what do we girls do? We make it our mission to look better then we were at the start of the relationship. 

In Order to Finally Let Go:

In a way, hair can also be used as a metaphor. At times, in order to be able to let go of an old relationship, girls cut their hair. Cutting what a girl is so used to having is something that can be therapeutic in a way. It gives the sense of letting go, accepting change, and being able to say "Hey, I can survive without you" to our hair and to a significant other.