Hair as sociological phenomena is present in so many cultures. One example I like to think about is the way the Mexicah women would style their long hair for ceremony into two looped braids at the side of their head during the reign of the Aztecs. I like to think about how the hair would be braided during the times of African Slavery in the United States to help aid in escape. 

Hair has such a spiritual meaning that is so innate in the psyche of the human. In ancient times men would grow their beards as a sign of wisdom. In the Disney Movie Avatar you see the Avatars connecting their hair to living things as a way to literally connect to the past and the spirit of their world. 

Hair has so much to tell us. It has a history. Your hair tells your barber or stylist just how you have been treating it and many other things. Hair conditions tell us how healthy or stressed someone Is. Take Barack Obama and Motaz Azaiza who both got really gray in such a short time. My suspicion is that they went through what is called Mary Antoinette Syndrome where the hair turns gray due to a stressful or traumatizing event. 

The condition of your hair also tells the most pedestrian hair expert wether you care for it or if something is underlying and comprimising the healthy growth of the hair. Hair does not lie when it comes to how someone is really doing inside. 

Psychology and hair are not interdependent however they are dependent on each other in my opinion. Hair and what you do to it gives you a sense of control. There is beauty in that fact. There is power in that action. 

When you are not doing well you see it in your hair. An extreme example is when people forego brushing their hair during deep depression. Another example is when people feel a loss of control over their lives and/or situations they do drastic things like cut it or color it.

 Heck, that’s how I got my bangs! After George Floyd’s murder and the state of the world I ended up cutting my bangs really short.