Proud to be bald: “Shaving my hair made me feel better about a part of myself I hated”

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Feared by men, like Edouard Philippe , stigmatized for women: sporting a bare head is a symbol of detachment from the gaze of others. In the collective imagination, being bald is necessarily the result of cancer or baldness. But nothing prevents bald people from accepting it. In this episode, Léa, a 25-year-old tattoo artist in Paris, has shaved her hair every week since she was 14: a liberation.

“The first time I shaved my head, I was 14 years old. My mother was away on business, and I found myself alone at home, with my ideas and my more or less impulsive desires. I’ve been talking about wanting to shave my head for a while, but people always tell me: “ Keep your beautiful hair, it’s not done as a girl. ”

“So that morning, I took advantage of my mother not being there to make this dream come true. Having made this decision was one of the most significant actions of my life. At first, it felt strange to have my head shaved, because it was not trivial. However, very quickly, I felt an intense sensation of serenity