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New hair, don’t care

It took a moment of self-sabotage for 23-year-old Lucy Hager to shave her head, something she’d wanted to do for years. Sitting in her Berlin flat, she decided to dye her hair a crazy colour with terrible dye. It ended with predictably unflattering results and gave her the perfect excuse.“I thought, ‘Oh, well. I guess we have to shave it off,’” she says.

Within minutes Lucy was sitting on a stool, mirror in hand, while her two flatmates used beard trimmers to shrink her hair down to a three-millimetre shave.

“I don’t think it was scary; it was really fun if anything else. We all just drank a bit of wine,

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