Beauty Sacrifice

This is a ritual and a relique which encourages the idea, to not be bound by conventions, like having to have long hair as a girl. Some of the people I interviewed, especially girls, said that they sometimes felt trapped by beauty standards. They expressed the wish to sometimes break the expectations and conventions. Creating a ritual which specifically breaks certain conventions together with friends, can strengthen the courage of doing so and the self esteem. A physical memory like for example a strand of hair, can help to remember this feeling in times of doubt.