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‘Cutting my hair off was me rebelling’ – Beyoncé

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File image of music icon Beyoncé in her hometown of Atlanta on 27 December 2013, the year she decided to radically change her image.
File image of music icon Beyoncé in her hometown of Atlanta on 27 December 2013, the year she decided to radically change her image.
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She recently launched her haircare line, Cecred, a business venture she has been working on since 2018. 

Singer and performer Beyoncé Knowles-Carter is venturing into the multibillion rand haircare industry, and the hive could not be more excited for her latest drop. 

In an interview with Essence magazine, the pop and R&B icon, together with her mother, Tina Knowles, talks all things haircare and legacy. She shares how her relationship with her started at a young age when her mom owned a salon in Houston Texas. 

“Hair has always been a very big part of our lives,” says Tina.

“Just as fashion saved our family, hair is how we made a living.”

Beyonce also addresses the iconic moment in 2013 when she cropped her hair short into a pixie cut. 

"I remember the day I decided to just cut all my hair off. I didn’t have a particular style in mind. It wasn’t an aesthetic choice, but it was a very big, emotional transformation and metamorphosis that I was going through.

"So much of my identity as a performer has been connected to flowing hair. Cutting my hair off was me rebelling against being this woman that society thinks I’m supposed to be. I was a new mother, and something about the liberation of becoming a mother made me want to just shed all of that."

Beyoncé very rarely gives interviews so fans of the Knowles are spoilt for choice as her sister, Solange, is also gracing a cover. In Harper's BAZAAR, the artist, who's Bey's baby sister, talks about how she is learning to navigate her art, the world and her childhood. 

“A lot of my projects are asking questions,” she says.


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