Ladies shaved heads

How do we encourage women who are not as young and as confident as we are to make the move? I was a lot more comfortable at a festival or in a city rather than the rural corners of Scotland or the news desk of the newspaper where I was working at the time. Again, it was a psychological act, a need to express the end and beginning of a new life. The fact that her short hair shows off her bold lip color and statement earrings are just two more reasons every woman should try shaving her head at least once. Getty 3 Of 15 Solange See how prettily short hair shows off the singer's face? The reaction was, shall we say, mixed. Everyone says when they shave their hair, they feel so liberated and so confident.

Fourteen years later, I still have it. Getty 6 Of 15 Cate Blanchett Blanchett chopped her hair off to play the role of Philippa in 's Heaven and found the experience personally gratifying. The story is about the experience of biracial children growing up in Nazi Germany. I had to do it once for a film role, but I've done it periodically, too," she told The Daily Telegraph. I'm so glad I did! The solution was either to grow it out or cut it short; both ideas were horrific and staying the same would mean running around with a very strange Vidal Sassoon-looking hairdo. Universal Pictures 5 Of 15 Lupita Nyong'o While this Oscar winner has played around with a variety of short hairstyles since she took Hollywood by storm in , her most famous look is this stunningly chic buzz cut.

Pictures 2 Of 15 Kellie Pickler Unlike many of the celebs on this list, the American Idol alum didn't shave her head for a role or for style — she did it to show solidarity for her childhood best friend who was battling breast cancer. Getty 4 Of 15 Anne Hathaway Of her close crop for the role of Fantine in 's Les Miserables, Hathaway confessed , " Cutting my hair reduced me to, like, mental patient-level crying. So I decided to go for the complete shave, and I couldn't have wished for anyone better to do it. Eve was really popular, and my friends said, 'Please don't do it, Amber, you're gonna look crazy.