{"id":1748603,"date":"2026-02-04T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1748603"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T07:29:00","slug":"in-2026-women-are-going-bald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1748603","title":{"rendered":"In 2026, women are going bald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1152\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/5\/1435589.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article standard \">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/beauty\/article\/69505\/1\/in-2026-women-are-going-bald-tiktok-shaving-head-buzzcut\" data-article-id=\"69505\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-landscape-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img has-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.5\" data-template=\"Standard Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bugonia, 2025 (Film Still)\" class=\"img\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1152\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/5\/1435589.jpg\" width=\"1152\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"credit\">Bugonia, 2025 <span class=\"nowrap\">(Film Still)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-02-04T10:29:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"04 February 2026\"><span class=\"month\">February<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"4\">4,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - beauty\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/beauty\">Beauty<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/speakerbox\">Speakerbox<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard-tag-container\"><a class=\"standard-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/beauty\">Beauty<\/a> \/<br \/>\n<a class=\"standard-series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/speakerbox\">Speakerbox<\/a><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>In 2026, women are <span class=\"nowrap\">going bald<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>On TikTok, young women and non-binary people are shaving their heads to challenge their beliefs around beauty \u2013 we spoke to four of them about what the experience has <span class=\"nowrap\">taught them<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-02-04T10:29:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"04 February 2026\"><span class=\"month\">February<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"4\">4,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-02-04T10:29:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"04 February 2026\"><span class=\"month\">February<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"4\">4,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/HalimaJibril\">Halima Jibril<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>I was six years old when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/britney-spears\">Britney Spears<\/a> shaved her head in 2007. Pictures of her smiling as she took clippers to her dark brown hair were splashed across the front cover of every gossip magazine, alongside headlines referring to the 25-year-old as having gone \u201cmad\u201c or \u201cinsane\u201d. The media frenzy around the event solidified in my child brain that when a woman shaved her head, something must be wrong with her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a child, those images of Spears scared me. Culturally, they became a visual representation of mental illness, of a woman who had completely lost her mind. But when you come to understand the mistreatment the popstar had faced at this point in her life \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2021\/02\/tavi-gevinson-britney-spears-was-never-in-control.html\">the corporate-sanctioned sexualisation of her teenagehood<\/a>, the constant media harassment, the dissolution of her marriage and more \u2013 you start to see those images of her differently. You see that, potentially, the smiling woman shaving her head is not losing control of herself, but rather joyfully attempting to gain control of her life and her image for the very first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In her 2023 memoir, <em>The Woman in Me<\/em>, Spears writes that shaving her head was meant to be a \u201cfuck you\u201d to the world. \u201cYou want me to be pretty for you? Fuck you,\u201d she writes. \u201cYou want me to be good for you? Fuck you. You want me to be your dream girl? Fuck you.\u201d Today, more and more young women are shaving their heads for this same reason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the new year hit, influencer and actress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@erikatitus?lang=en\">Erika Titus<\/a> decided to shave her head and document her journey on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@erikatitus\/video\/7590519059632934174?lang=en\">TikTok<\/a>. \u201cSocial media has ruined our perception of beauty. It definitely ruined mine,\u201d Titus tells Dazed. Shaving her head was Titus\u2019 way of working to challenge her beliefs around beauty and femininity, in hopes that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@erikatitus\/video\/7584604340539706655?lang=en\">that stuff won\u2019t really matter to me anymore<\/a>\u201d. The video of Titus shaving her head now has 28.9 million views on the app. It has inspired other young women and non-binary people who were already considering cutting their hair to take the plunge (it\u2019s important to note that Titus is not <em>everyone\u2019s<\/em> inspiration for shaving their heads).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Below, we spoke to young people about why they decided to shave their heads, the uncomfortable feelings it has surfaced and how it\u2019s transforming their understanding of beauty (and themselves) for the better.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1>MALIA, 18\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019d had the idea to shave my head for a long time, and it always seemed to come to me in moments of chaos, where I would joke, \u2018What if I just shaved my head!?\u2019 I feel like my hesitation stemmed from the connotations around it. People assume that women who do it have had something drastic happen to them because it\u2019s seen as a crazy decision. But I think that speaks volumes to the social weight hair holds for women. Another fear I had going into this stemmed from being a woman of colour. I\u2019d been seeing people in the media with buzzes and pixies, but all of them were white. I\u2019d be lying if I said I didn\u2019t think their presence is better received than mine because of that fact. I have 3a-c curly hair, and knowing how long it would take to grow back was also quite jarring. But I\u2019m trying to view this as practice of permanence. I want to understand what femininity means to me when I don\u2019t have something that others love to hide behind (curly hair is easy to compliment and look past).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever cared less about my appearance, but the moments when I\u2019m feeling myself in the mirror feel so much more significant now. I truly feel that I can accept any version of myself, and I\u2019m just glad to be meeting this version right now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s taught me that I love to be naked, I feel so vulnerable and open to the world\u2019s interpretations of me. I love that I get to choose when I wear a hood, or a hat, or when my hair speaks. I love feeling my scalp while showering. I don\u2019t think I realised how open to the world I was before, but being bald makes that openness feel more real. Opportunities that truly align with me have been finding me recently, and I hope for more of that. I credit that to being bald because it feels like all of me is on the table.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1>LILY, 28<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019d been thinking about shaving my head for a few years now, mainly because I wanted a fresh start. I\u2019ve had highlights, I\u2019ve been bleached blonde, I\u2019ve been red, and I\u2019ve done keratin treatments. I was tired of the upkeep and wanted the chance to see my natural colour and texture again. Additionally, for the past couple of years, I have been struggling with trichotillomania, which means I pull out my hair, and I thought that having no hair would help me curb the behaviour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve been a bit self-conscious since shaving my head; I\u2019m still not used to seeing myself in the mirror. I\u2019m worried that I don\u2019t look feminine. But being uncomfortable isn\u2019t necessarily a bad thing. I see this experience as a way to challenge myself; it\u2019s essentially exposure therapy for my anxiety. So far, I have realised that having a shaved head isn\u2019t really as big a deal as I thought it would be. S<\/span><span>haring my experience on social media has also made me realise that vulnerability can be a strength. I don\u2019t have to be perfect to be of value; just being myself is enough. I\u2019m tired of letting fear get in my way. Life\u2019s too short!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1>SAM, 20\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cThe idea of shaving my head has been with me since I was about 14. Even back then, I remember thinking that everyone should experience it at least once in their life. The main reason I finally decided to shave my head was how deeply attached I was to my hair. It felt like such a huge part of my identity, my femininity, and how I presented myself to the world. I realised I was sometimes hiding behind it. I wanted to challenge that attachment and learn to feel confident and complete without relying on something external to define my beauty or self-worth. What held me back for so long was that same attachment. I was scared of change and of not recognising myself in the mirror. I worried about how people would react, whether I would still feel attractive, and whether I would regret such a big, visible decision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cShaving my head has been incredibly freeing. It did bring up some uncomfortable feelings at first, especially around vulnerability and identity, but it ultimately made me feel more confident, grounded, and at peace with myself. It taught me that my self-worth isn\u2019t tied to how I look and that I can still feel feminine, beautiful, and strong without conforming to traditional expectations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1>BROOKLYN, 21<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>\u201cI decided to shave my head because I needed a fresh start, not only with my hair, but with my life. I\u2019m Indigenous, and in my culture, we believe hair holds memories. I honestly went through the wringer in 2025. I\u2019m about to graduate from college and move somewhere entirely new soon, so I just said, fuck it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second I did it, I felt like myself. Once I shaved off my last strand of hair, I had this rush of confidence. It felt like I unpeeled myself and could finally be face-to-face with who I really am. My features became more pronounced to me, and I remember thinking, \u2018wow, I look like THAT?\u2019 Such a silly thing to think, but hair had been a cover-up for my insecurities, a shield when I needed one. Because my hair had been my whole identity for ages, I was more focused on my outer appearance than the things right in front of me that actually mattered. That first hour or two after shaving felt like being born again. Pure euphoria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShaving my head has taught me to take more risks and that I can do scary things and still be okay. There are so many other things I want to check off my bucket list, and this experience taught me to keep going. It also taught me that energy is much more radiant than appearance ever was. I feel more approachable now, like I\u2019m just this orb of light. 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Get The Drop<\/h1>\n<div class=\"meta-row\">\n<p class=\"meta\">Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"confirmation\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p class=\"confirmation-title\">Thank you. You have been subscribed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>I was six years old when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/britney-spears\">Britney Spears<\/a> shaved her head in 2007. Pictures of her smiling as she took clippers to her dark brown hair were splashed across the front cover of every gossip magazine, alongside headlines referring to the 25-year-old as having gone \u201cmad\u201c or \u201cinsane\u201d. The media frenzy around the event solidified in my child brain that when a woman shaved her head, something must be wrong with her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a child, those images of Spears scared me. Culturally, they became a visual representation of mental illness, of a woman who had completely lost her mind. But when you come to understand the mistreatment the popstar had faced at this point in her life \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2021\/02\/tavi-gevinson-britney-spears-was-never-in-control.html\">the corporate-sanctioned sexualisation of her teenagehood<\/a>, the constant media harassment, the dissolution of her marriage and more \u2013 you start to see those images of her differently. You see that, potentially, the smiling woman shaving her head is not losing control of herself, but rather joyfully attempting to gain control of her life and her image for the very first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In her 2023 memoir, <em>The Woman in Me<\/em>, Spears writes that shaving her head was meant to be a \u201cfuck you\u201d to the world. \u201cYou want me to be pretty for you? Fuck you,\u201d she writes. \u201cYou want me to be good for you? Fuck you. You want me to be your dream girl? Fuck you.\u201d Today, more and more young women are shaving their heads for this same reason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the new year hit, influencer and actress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@erikatitus?lang=en\">Erika Titus<\/a> decided to shave her head and document her journey on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@erikatitus\/video\/7590519059632934174?lang=en\">TikTok<\/a>. \u201cSocial media has ruined our perception of beauty. It definitely ruined mine,\u201d Titus tells Dazed. Shaving her head was Titus\u2019 way of working to challenge her beliefs around beauty and femininity, in hopes that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@erikatitus\/video\/7584604340539706655?lang=en\">that stuff won\u2019t really matter to me anymore<\/a>\u201d. The video of Titus shaving her head now has 28.9 million views on the app. It has inspired other young women and non-binary people who were already considering cutting their hair to take the plunge (it\u2019s important to note that Titus is not <em>everyone\u2019s<\/em> inspiration for shaving their heads).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Below, we spoke to young people about why they decided to shave their heads, the uncomfortable feelings it has surfaced and how it\u2019s transforming their understanding of beauty (and themselves) for the better.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1>MALIA, 18\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019d had the idea to shave my head for a long time, and it always seemed to come to me in moments of chaos, where I would joke, \u2018What if I just shaved my head!?\u2019 I feel like my hesitation stemmed from the connotations around it. People assume that women who do it have had something drastic happen to them because it\u2019s seen as a crazy decision. But I think that speaks volumes to the social weight hair holds for women. Another fear I had going into this stemmed from being a woman of colour. I\u2019d been seeing people in the media with buzzes and pixies, but all of them were white. I\u2019d be lying if I said I didn\u2019t think their presence is better received than mine because of that fact. I have 3a-c curly hair, and knowing how long it would take to grow back was also quite jarring. But I\u2019m trying to view this as practice of permanence. I want to understand what femininity means to me when I don\u2019t have something that others love to hide behind (curly hair is easy to compliment and look past).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever cared less about my appearance, but the moments when I\u2019m feeling myself in the mirror feel so much more significant now. I truly feel that I can accept any version of myself, and I\u2019m just glad to be meeting this version right now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s taught me that I love to be naked, I feel so vulnerable and open to the world\u2019s interpretations of me. I love that I get to choose when I wear a hood, or a hat, or when my hair speaks. I love feeling my scalp while showering. I don\u2019t think I realised how open to the world I was before, but being bald makes that openness feel more real. Opportunities that truly align with me have been finding me recently, and I hope for more of that. I credit that to being bald because it feels like all of me is on the table.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1>LILY, 28<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019d been thinking about shaving my head for a few years now, mainly because I wanted a fresh start. I\u2019ve had highlights, I\u2019ve been bleached blonde, I\u2019ve been red, and I\u2019ve done keratin treatments. I was tired of the upkeep and wanted the chance to see my natural colour and texture again. Additionally, for the past couple of years, I have been struggling with trichotillomania, which means I pull out my hair, and I thought that having no hair would help me curb the behaviour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve been a bit self-conscious since shaving my head; I\u2019m still not used to seeing myself in the mirror. I\u2019m worried that I don\u2019t look feminine. But being uncomfortable isn\u2019t necessarily a bad thing. I see this experience as a way to challenge myself; it\u2019s essentially exposure therapy for my anxiety. So far, I have realised that having a shaved head isn\u2019t really as big a deal as I thought it would be. S<\/span><span>haring my experience on social media has also made me realise that vulnerability can be a strength. I don\u2019t have to be perfect to be of value; just being myself is enough. I\u2019m tired of letting fear get in my way. Life\u2019s too short!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1>SAM, 20\u00a0<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cThe idea of shaving my head has been with me since I was about 14. Even back then, I remember thinking that everyone should experience it at least once in their life. The main reason I finally decided to shave my head was how deeply attached I was to my hair. It felt like such a huge part of my identity, my femininity, and how I presented myself to the world. I realised I was sometimes hiding behind it. I wanted to challenge that attachment and learn to feel confident and complete without relying on something external to define my beauty or self-worth. What held me back for so long was that same attachment. I was scared of change and of not recognising myself in the mirror. I worried about how people would react, whether I would still feel attractive, and whether I would regret such a big, visible decision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cShaving my head has been incredibly freeing. It did bring up some uncomfortable feelings at first, especially around vulnerability and identity, but it ultimately made me feel more confident, grounded, and at peace with myself. It taught me that my self-worth isn\u2019t tied to how I look and that I can still feel feminine, beautiful, and strong without conforming to traditional expectations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1>BROOKLYN, 21<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>\u201cI decided to shave my head because I needed a fresh start, not only with my hair, but with my life. I\u2019m Indigenous, and in my culture, we believe hair holds memories. I honestly went through the wringer in 2025. I\u2019m about to graduate from college and move somewhere entirely new soon, so I just said, fuck it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second I did it, I felt like myself. Once I shaved off my last strand of hair, I had this rush of confidence. It felt like I unpeeled myself and could finally be face-to-face with who I really am. My features became more pronounced to me, and I remember thinking, \u2018wow, I look like THAT?\u2019 Such a silly thing to think, but hair had been a cover-up for my insecurities, a shield when I needed one. Because my hair had been my whole identity for ages, I was more focused on my outer appearance than the things right in front of me that actually mattered. That first hour or two after shaving felt like being born again. Pure euphoria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShaving my head has taught me to take more risks and that I can do scary things and still be okay. There are so many other things I want to check off my bucket list, and this experience taught me to keep going. It also taught me that energy is much more radiant than appearance ever was. I feel more approachable now, like I\u2019m just this orb of light. Once you shave your head and realise it\u2019s just hair, so many other things in life feel easier to handle.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! Get The Drop<\/h1>\n<div class=\"meta-row\">\n<p class=\"meta\">Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"confirmation\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p class=\"confirmation-title\">Thank you. 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