Cutting hair at that point of history was done so it could be sold to make money. They're insinuating they were broke nobles.
If your reading the story right, she cut her hair because she hates its color and cutting seems to be the only possible way to atleast GET RID of it. There are no ways they can color it different because there is no hair coloring method during that day. She felt abit happy now that she doesnt need to show how bright her hair by cutting it. Her maid had to leave because she was from foreign country and many people doesnt like that she is working with the davoville she felt that she was a hindrance to her master who also had a hard time losing her mom and her apprearance to be not of the standard at that time.
Seems like she’s was being bullied/picked on for her hair so she cut it. Also her maid was foreign but the place she came from was like under their control or something and they weren’t looked/ viewed very well, the maid stayed because she had just lost her mother and because she did care for her ofc but ig the maid thought it was better to leave now rather then later ? Ig there was some rumors that ppl from her country would like rebel? Idk plus politics stuff was happening as well with the princes. She wasn’t poor? That I know of and she didn’t sell her. Cutting her hair was the result of her being bullied by those girls
I don't understand why she cut her hair and how she is being 'broken'.? Why did her maid have to leave? The are has always been so beautiful, and when a new story started I was like, hmmmm? But I really like it.
Edit, haha, I don't know what I was saying in that second to the last sentence?? sorry.. Even tho I've had two answers to this.. it's possible it was because she sold her hair because her family became poor? And that's also why she couldn't afford her maid. Because honestly, people must have been saying things about a foreign maid all this time, but she didn't leave. Still, it's very poorly conveyed what is happening and why.