The Terror Of Cutting Long Black Hair Kept Her Up At Night

I struggled to let go of my long Black hair — even though I knew I had to.

Nia Simone McLeod
5 min readMar 18, 2022

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Two women with long, curly hair in white tank tops look into the camera.
Photo by Polina Tankilevitch from Pexels

As I held the gray shears, moments away from cutting the hair I’d spent five years growing, my hands began to quiver. I looked at myself in the bathroom mirror. My large halo of kinks and coils was haphazardly sectioned into parts, each…

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Nia Simone McLeod

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