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‘Break Up’ Hair Colors Male Stars Dye With: Zayn Malik Silver, Joe Jonas Blue, Wiz Khalifa Purple

When Ashton Kutcher went clean-shaven after his break up with missus Demi Moore and when John Mayer chopped off his locks after a split with Katy Perry, New York-based sexologist and relationship expert Dr Logan Levkoff saw such decisions as a transition mechanism people use during a major change in life.

"Even when your heart is broken, you want to feel like you can pick up and be a new person. Dyeing your hair or doing something dramatic, in an idealised way, tricks us into thinking that we are."

Dr Levkoff explains further: “I love the idea that we can own wherever we are in a particular moment. It can be very empowering to change your
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But it is something that belongs to us, and only us, especially if we gave every other physical part of ourselves to someone else. There is a special kind of beauty in this release. We reclaim ourselves again.

But it’s important to know that we do not cut our hair because it symbolizes the birth of a new identity. Rather, it informs us that we will never lose ourselves despite what sadness and other pain we have experienced. Purple, ombre’d, bobbed or permed, we ARE the still that same person inside. No matter how many times we fry it until it’s falling apart, or bleach it until its green and aren’t recognizable in ANY of your recent photos, we are still full of just as much life as we had before we met whoever broke our

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