As the universal truth holds, there is nothing undeniably more important to a female than her hair.

Whether it sways below our hips like Rapunzel, perks up in a perfect razor-buzz, or hangs in a pin-straight bob, it is one of the essential elements of our identity. Across color and style, hair will always be the first thing we are perceived by and the last thing that anyone forgets.

No wonder we can characterize each time period with a hairstyle. Women and men transcendentally have an obsession with their hair.

“Hair holds so much more energy than most of us are aware of. Some women use it as a security blanket whose purpose is to shield and protect while others use it as a secret weapon to tease and entice,” says Owen Gould, a celebrity hairstylist who styles Jessica Alba, Björk, Karlie Kloss, Kate Hudson, and pretty much everyone else. The hair God has spoken. Simple logic: hair covers our head, which supposedly has our brains inside, so we care about hair – but there's more...

Think: Amelie from "Amelie" and Carrie Bradshaw from "Sex and the City." Could those characters flip hairstyles? Carrie would lose her hippy flair and autonomy without her blonde locks and Amelie would seem idiosyncratic without her pixie raven strands. Their hair has a direct correlation with their identity.

Cutting off your hair, as a result, is like a new tattoo – it can be a stupidly reckless drunk decision or a consciously personal transformation. Once those scissors clip away the strands we valued so much, we commence anew. What better way to ignite change than cutting away from the old? Getting rid of the weight off our shoulders is incredibly liberating. Going from Carrie to Amelie might be a bit of an extreme, but that extreme says much more than just a change of style.

Of course, we must cut away our frail, damaged, dead locks almost every month. But do we cut off more than just physical damage?

Society has us idealize Sarah Jessica Parker and Jennifer Aniston kinds of styles (these styles are actually named after them), but shorter hair actually signifies that she is careless towards these standards. She is not necessarily a redhead Miranda, but she is cutting off expectations like Miranda. Often, in this situation, she might have gone through the rough patch of a breakup, a promotion, or some sort of life change, but not always. The change is just an emancipation of who she was en lieu for who she is.

She leaps out of her usual comfort zone, coming to the stylist for a "regular cut" and taking a leap of faith. This rash decision will directly translate into her life. She steps into a zone of adventure. If a woman wants to change something, the first step in that direction is her hair style.

While sexist notions argues that femininity is nestled in long locks, short hair exposes and underlines the physiques of a woman that long hair simply cannot. Short hair gives a glimpse of one of the most seductive areas of a woman's body, her neck. Eyes then wander down to her clavicle.

Would you ever argue that Karlie Kloss isn't as feminine as the other Victoria's Secret angels? Miranda Kerr, Kate Hudson, Rihanna and others have also recently chopped off their hair to channel their fearless femininity.

For a female, cutting off hair means cutting off so much more to give into something new. Despite one's reasoning, a haircut just reminds us how temporary permanence is because hair will grow out anyway.