Proud to be bald: “When I see my reflection in the mirror, I say to myself, ‘Girl, you look good!’”

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Proud to be bald: “When I see my reflection in the mirror, I say to myself, ‘Girl, you look good!’”

Proud to be bald: “When I see my reflection in the mirror, I say to myself, ‘Girl, you look good!’”
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They tell Libération about their uninhibited relationship with their bald heads in a society where the Z-ball isn't something to be proudly displayed. In the first episode of our series, Salomé, a hairdresser, shaved her head four months before her wedding.
"I've always had a style, both in clothing and hair, that's at least alternative, almost rock and roll," says Salomé. (ozgurdonmaz/Getty Images)

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Feared by men, like Edouard Philippe , stigmatized for women: sporting a bare head is a symbol of detachment from the gaze of others. In the collective imagination, being bald is necessarily the result of cancer or baldness. But nothing prevents bald people from embracing it. In this first episode, Salomé, a 27-year-old hairdresser in Central Brittany, claims her "little kiwi" on her head.

“One evening at the beginning of March, I left work, taking my clippers with me. When I got home, before taking a shower and eating, I told my partner that I wanted to cut my hair, shave my head… but he didn’t understand that for me, it was now! Even though my darling had always followed me in my hair madness, he was a little afraid of the result, and especially that I would regret it or not like it.

“When I tell my 4-year-old son I’m going to shave my head, he says, ‘ Oh,

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