(funky piano music)
- I'm about to go bald for a day and I feel
- [Chantel] really nervous. - [Freddie] Anxious.
- When I was 18 I was diagnosed with alopecia
and my hair started to fall out.
Seven months ago I just got annoyed with it all
and I completely shaved my head.
- I shaved my hair a year ago
because I wanted to explore my confidence
outside of my hair.
- So right now, my hair's the longest that it's ever been.
My ultimate goal is to make it as long as possible
to where it just flows unprovoked.
Unprovoked swing.
- I always took in pride in having decently long hair.
About four years ago I did do the big chop.
That was a huge step for me
but it was all an effort to get my hair healthy again
and to get it back to where it used to be.
- It wasn't like I loved my hair every day
and I was thinking I had the best hair in the world.
But I was so able to not even think about it.
I could just get up and go
and it was incredible easy to manage.
And then when I got diagnosed with alopecia,
all of a sudden something
that I had completely taken for granted,
became this huge thing every day.
- Growing up there was never a woman
that took charge and just shaved her head
because she wanted to.
I wanted to take that step and try to be that person
for some little boy or girl out there
to just rock nothing and be confident in that.
- Completely covering up something
that's such a big part of my identity,
is really scary to me.
- I would love to sit here and say,
yeah, I think I can be confident without my hair.
My hair doesn't define me, I've had short hair before.
It will be fine.
But I think tomorrow it's gonna definitely be a wakeup call
to just learn more about myself
and what makes me me and what makes me feel good.
- I see a lot of people with shaved heads,
which is funny.
There is literally a girl who lives down the street from me
who just has a shaved head
because she thinks it looks bad-ass
and she loves Amber Rose.
- I recognise that it is a privilege
that I can even do this experiment just for a day,
while there are people who don't have a choice.
- We're gonna do it.
I'm gonna sit there for two hours and be bald.
(upbeat guitar music)
(screaming)
Oh my God.
- Yeah, this crazy.
- Oh, wow.
- Wow.
- I wasn't expecting to look this bald.
So, I'm about to go live my life, completely bald
and we'll see how it goes.
- We look fierce.
- We do look fierce.
- We look fierce.
- I will say I'm not as nervous anymore.
Now that I see we both have very cute heads.
(laughing)
- I went bald for a day and it was an emotional
- [Freddie] roller coaster. - [Chantel] Surprising.
- Damn girls, you look good.
Let me touch it, can I touch it, am I allowed to?
- [Chantel] Yeah.
- Oh my God, you have a great head shape.
- The main word that I could say to describe
how I was feeling is just shocked.
- It really brings out your eyes and your eyebrows.
I don't know, I just feel like I'm seeing
a whole new side of you.
- Everyone was just complimenting us.
- My God, you gives look beautiful.
- I was just taking all these external compliments
in order to feel good with myself.
I've never based my own self worth
or how i view myself with how other people she me.
This really opened my eyes to the fact
that I can be so vulnerable to that.
- I wasn't expecting you guys to be cone heads, I think.
That's why I don't think it's that weird.
You know what I mean?
- Actually, you look so good.
- Becky has given us three challenges.
Challenge number one is to wear our favorite outfit
and see if we feel as confident in it, without our hair.
I wore a dress that is most quintessential Chantel.
- I wore an outfit that I really really like,
which was a cheetah crop-top, overalls and my adidas.
- Normally when I wear that, I'll get remarks like,
oh you look like this Grecian goddess.
When I had my bald cap on, people were saying
that it looked like I should be meditating
or sitting atop a mountain or farming goats.
- You immediately look like every person on a sci-fi movie.
- This is very firmly like Avatar the Last Airbender.
- Initially I felt self-conscious.
I am not as confident as I thought I would be.
I am trying to channel Amber Rose
but yeah, I just can't get there.
I put on sunglasses and then I felt like a whole new person.
Shades on, yup, I'm doing it.
Amber I see you, hey girl.
It was kind of disappointing that I needed an accessory
to validate how I pretty I felt.
We were also challenged to see if we still felt sexy
or desirable with no hair.
- You look great, it's very smooth.
You look like Dr. Evil.
- I don't think I felt super sexy with the bald head
but then I realised I don't think I feel super sexy in life
and I don't think it has anything to do with me being bald.
- I think you look really cute.
I think this could be a look for you.
- I didn't really feel less feminine
while wearing the bald cap
but I think that's because I'd compensated with other ways.
I made sure to wear very dramatic winged eyeliner,
put on more mascara than usual
because I was like, I'm not gonna have anything else to do.
Our last challenge that Becky gave us
was to go into a public space
and not give any disclaimers about why we were bald.
And this was so hard.
- Because we went to a fast food restaurant
right across the street from a high school,
right when school let out
and it was filled with high schoolers.
- There was one squad that stopped us
and asked for a picture.
- And I think it took a lot out of both Chantel and I
to not give a disclaimer as to why we were bald.
That was a big challenge but we held strong, right Chansie?
- It was so hard, it was so weird.
- Nothing was said about us being bald
and we realised that we cared way more
about us being bald than anyone else did.
So, it's time to get my bald cap removed.
- I don't know that I'm excited to get it off.
I was just kind of living with it and it was fine.
But I'm curious to see if I feel differently about my hair
once it's fully out and hitting my shoulders again.
- I don't think I can accurately judge
what it's like to be bald just from one day,
so I don't know, I wish I could experience it for longer.
I got a really, really, really tiny glimpse
into what it's like to be bald.
- If I was by myself the entire day,
I would have been so scared.
There are quite a few people who are bald
because of forces beyond their control
that are often the only ones in that situation.
And so you don't have a buddy, you don't have an ally
that you could be standing next to.
- This was more of an exercise for myself
to see where my confidence lies
and if I could slay life without hair.
- I do fully realize that a big reason
why I probably wasn't scared was because I knew
that I still had all my hair underneath this bald cap
and would have it at the end of the day.
- In terms of confidence and feeling unstoppable,
I had to dig super deep within myself
to grab that confidence from somewhere else
because I didn't have my hair.
- Coming into this, I felt so, so attached to my hair.
And now I don't feel quite as attached to it.
- This was a really rewarding experience
for really unexpected reasons.
And I can't say that I wouldn't shave my head one day.