Beyoncé’s pixie cut is high on the list of shocking transformations in celebrity hair history.
When the singer shared her new hairstyle on Instagram on August 3, 2013, she nearly took the social media platform down. Yes, she looked amazing (she’s Beyoncé, she always looks amazing), but the cropped bottom had her fans wondering the motivation behind the massive change.
In a new interview with Essencethe “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer finally revealed why she went from one hairy extreme to another.
“I remember the day I decided to just cut all my hair off,” she said. “I didn’t have a certain style in mind. It wasn’t an aesthetic choice, but it was a big emotional transformation and metamorphosis that I was going through.”
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Beyoncé, 42, said a big part of her “identity as a performer” came back to her hair – whether it was her long braids or huge curls. One thing was the unifying factor: length.
“Cutting my hair was about rebelling against what society thought I should be,” she said. “I was a new mother, and something about the liberation of becoming a mother made me want to let go of all that. It was a physical representation of me letting go of the expectations that were placed on me. I just wanted to get rid of it.”
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But not everyone around her was ready to see her lose so many centimeters. Her hairstylist, Neal Farinah, who was “crazy,” Beyoncé revealed, “because [my hair] she was really long, really fat and really healthy.”
She continued: “I just took a pair of scissors and cut it off. It was very intentional. And it was what I was supposed to do. And after that I got super brave. It was the first step to a lot of braver decisions that I made in my life and my career that have led to who I am now.”
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The Grammy-winning singer, who recently announced her latest album, a country music collection titled Work: II, which will be out on March 29, will also officially launch her Cécred hair care line tomorrow. She first teased the line earlier this month, writing on Instagram, “Hair is sacred. The journey begins February 20th. Visit CECRED.COM.”
In the clip, a group of women working in a hair salon are first shown in footage projected on a curtained screen in a dark room. The salon is named ‘Headliners Hair Salon’, after the salon that Beyoncé’s mom, Tina Knowles, opened in 1990 in Houston.
The shot then cuts to shots of women with different hair textures having their hair washed and shampooed, before returning to the salon as the camera zooms in on a bright neon sign indoors that reads “Headliners La Mode Salon”.
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In a later shot, Beyoncé is shown staring straight into the camera while washing her hair in a sink before the Headliners hair salon is shown again.
The trailer ends with a flashback of Beyoncé as a child with mom Tina, 70, waving at the camera. It then fades to black as Cécred appears in white letters.
She opened further towards Essence about naming her brand after the sense of community she felt around her hair.
“I think that connection of community, mother and child, father and child and respect — and allowing yourself to take care of yourself, especially for black women, who are always taking care of everybody else — all of that is sacred,” she said.
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