If you’ve fallen to the trap of sharing your take on the topic of Emma Chamberlain and her latest chop, know this: she’s got you exactly where she wants you. So you hate it? Cool. She doesn’t care. She didn’t even like it at first. But she doesn’t let the ‘weird’ factor get in the way of trying what she wants to try. Here’s her take on personal style and why it’s completely irrelevant if someone doesn’t like yours.
Emma Chamberlain Haircut
Yeah, a woman cut her hair short – alert the town elders. For some unknown (and likely offensive) reason, society still struggles with the idea that a woman wants to wear her hair in a cropped cut. But Emma herself is a-ok with her chop regardless of your reaction.
“I honestly find it so freeing. Anytime you’re doing anything that is a bit different than the norm or the trend of the time, it can be a bit uncomfortable”, she shared in a conversation with Teen Vogue. “There are moments when you question yourself, ‘Wait, am I losing my mind? What am I even doing?’ Because again, it’s like you’re entering the unknown in a way. With my hair especially, I wasn’t copying anyone else’s hairstyle. I was like, I’m going to figure out what this hairstyle is going to be for myself. That meant going in every month and getting a new cut and being like, ‘Oh, I don’t like that’. Going in every month, bleaching my hair, figuring out, oh, maybe I want to tone it like this or that. Figuring out what looks the best on me.”
“I really, honestly try to compartmentalize these things so that I’m making these decisions strictly for myself. And again, when I first cut my hair or whatever, in retrospect, I don’t like the cut that I got first. I actually hated it. It was not right. It took a few tries to get it right. But I kind of knew deep down that that was going to happen. Anytime you make a big change, it takes a bit to figure out.”
Emma Chamberlain Personal Style
“When it comes to fashion, it’s like trying things that maybe are a bit weird”, she explained. “At Coachella this past weekend, I was like, ‘You know what? I’m going to put a belt on my tank top. I’ve never seen anyone do that before’, but for some reason it makes sense in my head and I’m just going to do it and see how it looks, and I ended up really liking it. But going out in public like that, it’s like, well, I don’t know what people are going to think. I don’t know if people are going to like it. And sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. But at the end of the day, I’m wearing clothes for me. I’m getting my hair cut for me. I’m doing all this stuff for me.”
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“There is sort of this empowerment that comes with that because I’m not doing it for anybody else’s eyes or satisfaction other than my own”, Chamberlain explained. “Overcoming that fear and truly expressing myself to the best of my ability to the furthest extent that I can, it is incredibly rewarding, and it does build a further sense of self. My confidence has grown as a result. But only because there’s been challenges with it as well. I think if it was easy for me it wouldn’t result in any sort of personal growth.”
“But I’m having a great time. And it’s really interesting to see how the internet sort of reacts to it. Sometimes they f*cking hate it. Sometimes they love it. They hate it first and then they grow to actually appreciate it. It’s very fascinating to see. But again, I’m not doing it for the internet. They’re there to watch like flies on the wall. I’m the person wearing the stuff, I’m waking up in the morning and looking in the mirror and seeing my haircut. It’s me. I’m the one living with it. So it’s fun to share with everyone, but I’m the one that’s got to love it. Right?”
“So I basically have trained myself to sort of put a barrier there and protect myself from that. And yeah, I get my fair share of judgment or whatever, or people being like, ‘wow, Emma, you really missed this one’. And I’m like, ‘all good. I knew I was going to’. Because that’s an integral part of finding a new cool hairstyle, of finding a new cool way to style clothing. You have to have some misses.”
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