Sushrii Mishra
22, student and model
“All through my childhood, I was tortured with an armystyle, short cut, which made me grow and stick with long hair since my teens. But this pixie wig changed how I felt about short hair. In fact, I did a double-duty experiment—I not only went ‘short’, but also tried a lighter hair colour. Both made me feel chic and gamine, just like Audrey Hepburn. I also noticed that more people checked me out as I walked down the street, and my boyfriend fell in love with my new look—he thought I looked cute and sophisticated. At a sari campaign shoot the next day, the make-up artist loved my new hair so much, she wanted to use it in the campaign. That didn’t work out eventually, but I know now that short hair is far from being torturous.”