Chris Strikes is the co-director of Hairy Tales, a documentary from The Nature of Things, which explores how hair grows, why we lose it and why we have hair on our heads in the first place. In this First Person column, Strikes explains what his long hair means to him. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
January 2024 marked 13 years since my last haircut.
To go back even further, in the last 21 years, I’ve only had two proper haircuts (if I don’t count the occasional trim to get rid of split ends during my
