This might be more common for women, but men have also been know to make a bad haircut decision in the midst of a time they probably shouldn't have made that call. When you're feeling maniac, bored, depressed, hyper, sluggish, drunk, etc. Literally, it can be triggered at any moment where you're weak and that intrusive thought gets in: "I should get bangs." Well, one woman on TikTok jokingly made a mnemonic device to determine whether you're sound of mind to make the decision to get bangs or not—and viewers are actually finding it to be very helpful.
Kat Smith, the comedian on TikTok who has created this handy mnemonic device fittingly calls it “BANGS." B is for “breakup," A is for “anxiety attack,” N is for “nighttime,” G is for “ground”, and S is for “stressed.”
The point of this checklist is to prevent anybody to be a victim of their own pour haircutting decision making. It's too much, sometimes, after all you've been through, to then all of a sudden on top of it all, give yourself a horrible set of bangs. You already have trouble facing yourself in the mirror, why make it more difficult with band bangs? This checklist helps prevent the additional struggle bangs might add to someone who is already going through it and that is why they had the thought of bangs in the first place. Smith adds that she loves bangs and has many loved ones who love beautiful in bangs—but those bang making decisions were made sound of mind. She's trying to prevent the poor bang decisions from people who are probably also eating a block of each sitting on the floor with the fridge open…
Viewers are finding it all very helpful, and many confess they have been victims of poor bang decisions before. They wish they could've had this checklist earlier, and now vow to always check it before getting out the scissors. “I have made poor hair decisions at literally every point in this acronym 😭,” one person commented. “Thank you for your service,” another person added. “I’m going to use the BANGS method next time,” some else comments.
She adds that this mnemonic device can also help decide if you're sound of mind enough to dye your hair that crazy color you've been thinking about!