Low cut hair is so underrated. Keeping short hair literally takes your hair off the list of things you have to worry about, stress over and spend on. Low cut hair is legit one of the most budget friendly slay options out there and here’s why;

1. You spend less money on maintanance.

This means no charge for hair appointments, hair extensions, hair dressers, hair shampoos, hair this, hair that. That’s a lot of money you could redirect to something else, like good old sweet food.

2. You spend less time on maintanance.

Yassss, no wash days, no spending the entire day at the salon because you had to wait your turn. Then your hair took a while because it’s braids and there was traffic on your way back so you got home by 12 mid night. None of that dear.

3. You can pour water on your head when you bathe.

Once you do this, you’ll be mad at the rest of the world for not telling you how orgasmic a feeling it.

4. No headache from new hair styles.

You know that vicious headache you get from a new hair style because the hair dresser put too much pressure on your scalp? It is non existent with short hair. The only pressure your scalp feels with short hair is the breeze gently caressing it.

5. No awkward sleeping positions from new hair styles.

You know how when you make a new hair style your head suddenly becomes a source of pain? Low cut hair isn’t that petty dear.

6. You can throw on a wig on the go.

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You can show up at work as a hot baldie on Monday and by Tuesday be serving some sizzling Shaniqua/Latoya vibes. No long procedure with loosening your braids, washing your hair and then putting it in cornrows first. You just slay.

7. Air actually touches your head. 

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When you cut your hair you realize that your hair is blocking a lot of things from your head. One of them is fresh hair on your scalp.

8. You don’t have to worry about the rain messing with you hair.

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The situation in the gif above will simply never be your portion because your hair is used to water on it.

Did this convince you to cut your hair? No? You like your braids just fine? Oh.

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