The partial shave is a hex on expectations. You have options with this cut: Shave the side! Shave both sides! Shave the underside all the way around your head! Shave everything but your bangs! (Technically this last one is called a Chelsea cut, not an undercut, but this distinction matters only when you go to the salon and ask for it. We include it here as a variation of “partly shaved, partly not.”) In some ways, a partial shave is even more subversive than a full buzz cut: instead of doing away with feminine tresses entirely, you’re cutting into them, mutilating them. “Here’s what I think of
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