I’m a guy who has typically kept my hair pretty short for most of my life. I have very thick, very straight hair that would look good if grown out long (I have a class pic from 3rd grade with shoulder-length hair, and I look like a baby rock star). But the very few times I have tried to let it grow out it gets wildly unruly in that ‘middle length’ stage. During the Covid lockdown I didn’t get a haircut for the better part of a year, and I got very tired of looking like the infamous Nick Nolte mugshot every morning upon waking.
Not to mention, all day long my hair would be flopping into my face, covering my eyes, and I’d have to flip the hair back constantly. I started to notice how many people on TV and in movies, women and men alike, have long floppy hair and constantly do this. Think Keanu Reeves in the John Wick movies-- all that hair in the face had to be mad distracting in the middle of a gunfight. So I gained a new appreciation for what people with long hair have to go through to maintain and just deal with it, and I was extremely relieved when I finally got my lockdown hair cut.