Canadian woman forced to cut off up to half her hair because it gives her HEADACHES

This woman has to regularly cut off up to half her hair - because she has so much that it gives her headaches.Show more

Lola María, 28, went viral after showing how she cuts out clumps of her incredibly thick tresses herself using thinning scissors on TikTok.

Having such long hair means that she even suffers with painful headaches when wearing it in a ponytail.

Lola, from Montreal, Canada, said: “I have a lot of hair and it can look like a dream to some people, but for me it’s problematic.

“I’ll just take my thinning shears and go crazy, I’m never afraid of removing too much hair.”

She also has an undercut hairstyle, where she has very short hair on the back and sides of her head, but long hair over the top in order to reduce the weight.

She said: “I like having long hair and that’s the main reason why I got an undercut. I can stand longer hair if I only have half of my regular amount.”

Cruel trolls would comment on her video accusing her of lying or that her look was ‘disgusting’, but the software engineer is happy to stay an advocate for the style.

She said: “I’ve gotten quite a few messages from girls telling me ‘I have a lot of hair and after seeing your video I got an undercut’.

“So I just keep sharing how I do my own undercut, how I thin my hair, how I style and even how I dye it.

“Throughout my whole life I’ve never found people with as much hair as me, and now they found me on TikTok.”

As a child Lola would cry when she had to detangle her hair before school.

She said: “I would complain to my mum and she would suggest that maybe shorter hair would be less painful, but I didn’t want to cut my princess-long hair as a seven-year-old.”

While she was always told she’s had unusually thick hair, but it first properly dawned on her when she tried to dye her hair for the first time at the age of 15.

“I used pharmacy hair dye and I needed 3 boxes and a half to cover all of my hair!” she said.

“Besides that, the hairstylists would always mention at the salon that they had never seen this much hair.”

She says to this day she still struggles to find a hairstylist who knows how to handle her thick locks, so started to cut it herself when she was a teenager.

She has only been to see a professional three times in the past two years, and only when she wants to get a more radical haircut.

Lola said: “They will cut it as they would usually do with regular hair and I end up with a lot of volume and looking like Dora the Explorer!

“Every time I go to a new salon they add a note to my file saying that cutting my hair takes longer, so next time they book two hours instead of our hour for my haircuts.”

Lola got her first undercut hairstyle when she was 17, where the hair on top of her head is left long, but the back and sides are buzzed short.

She said: “I was hanging out with a friend of mine at her place, we were talking about how insane the amount of hair in my head was.

“She asked me if she could give me an undercut using his brother’s hair clipper

“I really liked it, but I was 17 years old and a boy from school asked me for permission to feel my undercut and then told me it felt like a boy’s head.

“I felt ashamed and I let it grow back.”

Lola didn’t get this haircut again until just two years ago, in order to allow her to grow her hair long but not get any headaches or neck pain.

She said: "My life is significantly better. I love my undercut, I love being able to rock two different hair styles at the same time.

“I get a lot of comments on TikTok saying I’m crazy for shaving my head and that I will regret it when I want my hair to grow back. Well, been there, done that!”

She shaves the undercut every two or three weeks which takes about 40 minutes, and thins it out only twice each year.

Lola said: “Thinning my hair removes a lot of weight, but also adds a lot of volume, so I do it only when I can’t stand a ponytail anymore without getting a headache.”

She gets headaches every time she tries to pull her hair back into a ponytail or other updo, because her hair is so heavy.

Lola said: “Headaches start with my scalp hurting, the scalp pain then transitions into a headache.

“It’s annoying because my hair is also hot, it keeps me warm during winter but during the summer can be challenging.

“It’s either the ponytail plus headache, or not styling my hair and having sweat on my neck all day long.”

Lola also says that maintaining that much hair also costs her up to $100 a month in products.

Even when it’s just shoulder length, she needs to buy two boxes of hair dye to colour her hair, and requires a higher volume of shampoo and conditioner to keep it clean.

She said: “I need extra-large elastic bands, and my elastic bands often break.

“When you have as much hair as I do you can’t afford for your hair to be unhealthy: dry hair has more volume, oily hair feels heavier, damaged hair breaks easily and becomes frizzy.

“I had to keep changing my hair routine, the products I use and even my diet; I think I have healthy hair now.”

When people see Lola’s thick dark tresses they tell her she is lucky, or wonder how she can function with that much weight on her hair.

She said: “The thing my partners do notice is the unusual amount of hair I shed every day. There are hairs everywhere in my house!"

Lola made a TikTok video in December of her doing a hair thinning session and it went viral, racking up 46 million views.

While many commenters were astounded by her unusual tresses, trolls accused her of lying about her hair or that her undercut is “disgusting”.

“’You shave your head because your dad abandoned you’ - I seriously get that one a lot, it doesn’t make sense to me at all,” she said

“If you don’t have thick, heavy hair, it might be hard to understand that hair can actually cause headaches.

"For every negative comment on any of my videos I get three positive ones.

“I particularly love seeing comments saying ‘this is so relatable to me’ or ‘I have the same problem’

“Some people like my content and some people hate it, it makes me feel controversial!”

She wants to be transparent about her hair and the problems it brings, but also be an advocate for the undercut hairstyle on women.

She said: “I gave up on my undercut because someone told me it felt like a boy’s head - I had a solution to my problem and I didn’t go for it because I felt insecure, I wanted to be pretty.

“But my undercut never made me less pretty, and it took me a long time to figure that out.”