What followed Hudson's inaugural cut was a series of more cuts — each time, going shorter and shorter. After a year in Charleston post-graduation, she moved to Amsterdam for five years. It's there that she says she came into her own, and finally got a haircut that felt like . . . her.
"I wasn't in America anymore, I wasn't in the South anymore — I had this fresh slate where I got to start over," she said. "People in Amsterdam are a little bit edgier with their style anyway. One day I went to this Dutch hairdresser, and she just did away with all of it. It was like she saw me. I looked masculine in a way that was exciting to me, and it felt so freeing. I had been holding onto sort of some flair of femininity or style that I never really liked, but didn't know how to get away from. She shed that for me."
Image Source: Courtesy of Genevieve Hudson