Leviticus 19:27-28

What I am getting at here of course touches on the subject of hair, and what God is implying here is an imposed baldness is a symbol of shame. The key word here is imposed. An imposed baldness is a symbol of shame. Now together with the sackcloth that appears in the verse, it is signaling a forced, abject, extremely unpleasant change of circumstance. In many countries a woman having her head shaved of all of its hair is the punishment for an arrested prostitute.

Here He speaks against the hairstyle deliberately designed to attract attention. In this case, it was a certain hairstyle used by the pagans to draw attention through an external sign that they were mourning. You might recall there in Leviticus 10 when God killed Nadab and Abihu, that Moses very quickly told Aaron, "Do not dare show any sign at all of disagreement with God's judgment here, or the same thing might happen to you!" God is speaking here against a hairstyle deliberately designed to attract attention, and in this case, to the state of the heart. "My heart is mourning!" "Look at me." "Take pity on me." That is what the outside is saying because the person's heart is so low.

The pagans felt that the hairstyle and the cuttings, or the tattoos, influenced the will of their deity to be favorably disposed toward them. I want you to understand this, because that is not as weird as it might sound. Brethren, exactly the same principle is at work in regard to the true God. The only difference is that He is the true God, and His standards are correct, and doing them is a blessing for all.