I shaved off my widow's peak a few months ago and I quickly regretted it. Here's what happened.
I had been ill for a few years with many inflammations (bursitis, chostochondritis, gastritis). I had taken quite a bit of NSAIDS and other medication and I sort of felt it when my hairline was suffering from it. The hair at the line would get thinner, the line would move up a bit, my hair was more brittle and also one lock became darker, thicker and limp. It was the lock from my widow's peak. I tried everything to revive the proudest lock of my hair: quality products, a barber visit, styling it, oil treatments are simply leaving it reast. Of course getting of meds and becoming healthy was a no-brainer, that was a general goal.
I regained my health but the lock of hair stayed limp. I figured something was wrong at the root. I did notice my hair becoming stronger again, but then came new illness in the form of leaking gut and adrenal crisis. I was lacking nutrients. My hair would grow mega slowly and the ends were still brittle from one last dye job a year before. I didn't realize that everytime I snipped off a centimeter of that awfully glassy hair, I was removing a month worth of growth.
So, my hair looking bad in every way. It was still a bit dyed, it was sick, dry, a little dead at the roots, fried from styling, etc... I changed everything, never dyed my hair again, stopped cutting my ends, stopped using rough towels, got a Mason Pearson brush, quality straighteners, a high end iron spray and a Brita water filter. That, ladies, is the golden ticket to thick, long, souple, shiney hair, with basically no physical or genetic effort!
But the lock stayed limp! I would have wonderful hair and then this limp, sick looking lock drooping in front of my eyes. It also reminded me of the bad times. So I shaved it off. Bam. And I would keeping shaving it off forever. It started with a centimeters, but more followed, and to keep my hairline consistent, I started shaving along my entire hairline. It looked crazy, it looked like Alexis Bledel but not in a good way, like a freaky Alexis Bledel forehead. But I thought a big forehead was cute, like hers and Reese Witherspoon. Only one difference: theirs are natural. Me... I looked sick either way eventally. The peak would stubble constantly and because shaving was dangerous on such short hair, I started plucking... Yes... plucking this hair out of my head. But that had one advantage: I was refreshing the root, and maybe, who knows, stimulating it to become better.
I got more and more annoyed with maintaining the shaved spot. One day I did the cringiest thing. I took one of those facial razors that are drugstore quality (ya know, kinda blunt), and started shaving the stubble. But the hair was so short and resistent that I had to push hard, and the razor was parallel with my skin. You guessed it, I pushed too far and sliced right under the skin of my scalp with the razor. Not too far, but it sure bled a lot! That was the moment when I knew I had to regrow my widow's peak.
Also, bleaching it and using hair line powder didn't work, neither did brown eyeliner to fake a widow's peak because it's too oily on bare skin.
Was it hard to grow back the peak? Did anyone notice? No, only the first month was annoying. Their is not enough stubble to give the impression that there is a dark shade from the hair. It's just a weird triangle that's 10 shades lighter than your hair. That's why I chose the winter months to regrow the peak. I also couldn't wear my hair back in public for more than 2 months. I had to hide the stubble for a month under a lock of sideways hair, and the next month I still couldn't pull the other hair back because the lock wasn't long enough yet to cover the line of scalp that was between the short and the long hair.
Now I'm more than two months further and the widow's peak has grown a nice 3 centimeters. That doens't sounds like much especially compared to my long hair which is perhaps 70 cm long right now, but the thick bushy piece of hair I have there right now can be flicked up to hide any scalp when I wear a ponytail and no one notices a thing.
I actually like it more this way than when it's long, at least when it was limp. Now it's thick and short at the top, but still look like a natural widow's peak, it blends into the other hair etc... I have my normal face shape again, I look younger and more healthy. I will regrow it all the way back but it will take more than a year I bet, and I'm not sure if I will like it when it's at 10 cm or so. I think this must be what having a kid is like. They're tough at age 0 but not at age 3, they're tough at age 10 but not at age 20... same with the centimeters of this lock. If I don't like the way it will hang over my eyes at 10 cm, I might push through and let it grow anyway. Otherwise I will never know whether the lock had become healthy again. It's a tough choice, I have a healthy thick widow's peak now but I'm not sure if that will still be the case if it gets long again. I may keep it at this length... I don't know.
Conclusion: never shave your widow's peak because it doesn't fall the way you like. It will ruin the shape of your face and make you look sick. It will come back every day and will make you feel subconsious. Just grow it back a few centimeters and blend it in with the rest, or let it grow back entirely.
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Helena
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