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Daily Inspiration Quote by Kylie Bax

"I wish I had more hair on my head. Maybe if I sprinkled fertilizer on it, it would grow"

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Vanity is supposed to be effortless in modeling; Kylie Bax punctures that fantasy with a joke that’s almost aggressively ordinary. The line lands because it takes a glossy industry built on “natural” perfection and replaces it with a mental image worthy of a backyard: a person hunched over their own scalp like a struggling houseplant. It’s self-deprecation, but not the sad kind. It’s pragmatic, a little dumb on purpose, and that’s the point.

The intent isn’t to confess insecurity so much as to deflate the pressure to perform certainty. Hair, in fashion, is a proxy for youth, health, and camera-readiness; admitting you want “more” hair is admitting the body is a project, not a finished product. The fertilizer punchline turns that admission into slapstick, making the desire legible without sounding needy. It’s a neat rhetorical dodge: she gets to name the demand (thicker hair) while also mocking the idea that there’s a simple consumer fix for what’s essentially genetic luck and industry preference.

The subtext is a quiet critique of beauty culture’s DIY promises. Fertilizer is the wrong tool, hilariously so, echoing how often beauty advice veers into pseudo-science and desperate hacks. Coming from a model, it also humanizes the job: even the people paid to embody “having it all” are still bargaining with biology, flirting with absurd solutions, and trying to stay funny about it.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bax, Kylie. (2026, January 16). I wish I had more hair on my head. Maybe if I sprinkled fertilizer on it, it would grow. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wish-i-had-more-hair-on-my-head-maybe-if-i-124889/

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Bax, Kylie. "I wish I had more hair on my head. Maybe if I sprinkled fertilizer on it, it would grow." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wish-i-had-more-hair-on-my-head-maybe-if-i-124889/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I wish I had more hair on my head. Maybe if I sprinkled fertilizer on it, it would grow." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wish-i-had-more-hair-on-my-head-maybe-if-i-124889/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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Kylie Bax (born January 5, 1975) is a Model from New Zealand.

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