Sonya Heaney Category Romance

hello, it’s me, enlightened historical fiction feminist heroine. i hate being forced to wear my long hair gathered up neatly and securely behind my head. oh how i long to let it flow free and whip around wildly in the wind and get in my face and my eyes and my mouth and get snagged on everything

why would i ever want to wear plain period appropriate hairstyle that focuses on practicality because i am absolutely busy during the day unless i’m upper class when i could instead appeal to specific luxurious 21st century marketable beauty norms

help girl they’re making me wear my uniform-length hair in a neat updo instead of letting me have really really precise framing pieces and ‘stray hairs’ in the front and on the side for a ‘messy’ look that actually requires significantly more effort to achieve and that blocks my peripheral vision 😭

I simply cannot look beautiful or express myself artistically with my hair up! It's not like there were a variety of interesting updos throughout history that women used to convey information about their place in society, sometimes their age depending on the specific era, or their personal aesthetic preferences, after all! Hair Up = Boring and Repressed and Unsexy Always!