sometimes i wish i could tell other women that you can just stop removing your body hair and in many cases the consequences will be way less severe than u expect. you can go to the beach with all your leg hair intact and nobody will stop you or say a thing. you can stop waxing your upper lip and people won’t stare at it the way u might be bracing yourself for. you can quit plucking your brows and eventually they will grow back into themselves and no one will even notice. like for sure women are punished for not participating in beauty rituals but i also feel like so much of it is like The Panopticon sometimes where you just convince yourself that if u stop that kind of gendered upkeep everyone will be mad and stop talking to u forever when in reality you just keep existing and nothing remarkable happens. it’s not always easy but you can kind of just stop for real
CHAPPELL ROAN'S 26th YEAR IN REVIEW ┈➤ "I never really expected it to grow this big. I feel like I peaked a couple of years ago. Back then, I was like, “I sold out Bowery Ballroom and that’s crazy.” It’s been amazing to do bigger shows, and open for Olivia, but everything right now is truly icing on the cake. Me trying to navigate this, I feel very supported. Because I’ve never not been myself. I’m really glad the persona that I have, the drag version, is still very much me."
CHAPPELL ROAN'S 26th YEAR IN REVIEW ┈➤ "I never really expected it to grow this big. I feel like I peaked a couple of years ago. Back then, I was like, “I sold out Bowery Ballroom and that’s crazy.” It’s been amazing to do bigger shows, and open for Olivia, but everything right now is truly icing on the cake. Me trying to navigate this, I feel very supported. Because I’ve never not been myself. I’m really glad the persona that I have, the drag version, is still very much me."
good one, ed.
Hotel Room 1980
"He grants my every wish"
17 years ago today.. the biggest rockstar move in history.
The look of satisfaction says everything
There are a lot of photos that were purposefully edited or shot in a way that made it look just absolutely abysmal, but in reality? It was a damn good look.
Should also be noted, this wasn't an entirely spur of the moment thing as everyone tried to make it seem. She had actually scheduled and sat down at her stylists/hair dressers office, and told them she wanted them to shave her head — but they wouldn't do it, tried to convince her not to do it, and so Britney ended up doing it herself, which is why the original photos were rather horrible — she was shaving her head for the first time, not using the proper tools, and didn't get every spot, or anywhere close to even.
I've been shaving my head for ten years now, and it took me a good two years to do it properly, and I still mess up fairly often.
She talked about it in 2008 by saying:
“I was going through so much artificial stuff with my kids and Kevin at the time [her ex-husband had just taken her kids from her]. He’d just left me and I was devastated... People thought that it was me going crazy and stuff like that, but people shave their heads all the time. I was going through a lot, but it was just kind of like me going through a little bit of rebellion, or feeling free, or shedding stuff that had happened, you know?”
yes its that one fallen angel painting everyone and their mom has already drawn at this point. no i do not care. look at him