Long, medium or short?

kerri_gt

paulineb wrote: »

Ha, thats hilarious.

My pet hate on hair is people who have really dark hair who dye it with a home dye kit (badly) and end up with their hair looking a similar colour to a satsuma. Or people who over straighten their hair and the ends look like they are breaking in 12.

Long hair on women in their 30s and over is really way down the bad hair scheme of things in my opinion.

I had satsuma colour hair in my late teens thanks to the wonders of sun in, harmony hair colour and tubs of 'pillar box red' from Camden market. Oddly my two friends used different dyes and over time we all turned the same shade of orange :A fab photo of us like three tangerines at Glastonbury.

I've had long, short, long, short, long, etc over the years. It's long now and layered as very fine and straight but I find it much easier than shorter styles to maintain. Thankfully I also have a good hairdresser so even though it's highlighted, it's not badly damaged.

Go with what you want and feel comfortable with, life's full of too many rules already.

tinkerbell28

paulineb wrote: »

I have long hair and am in my mid 40s. Im not trying to hang onto my youth. I just dont want to cut my hair short and I have wavy hair and a bob doesnt and has never suited me. Theres a pic of me on my profile after my last hair cut and colour which was around 6 weeks ago. (Hair is straight in that pic as it had just been straightened when the hairdresser cut and coloured my hair).

I dont think my hair ages me either. When I do feel its time to get it cut a bit shorter then I'll do it, but I wont do it because of my age, I'll do it because I want a change. And it wont be a bob simply because my hair is too wavy and Im useless with straighteners.

Nothing wrong with bobs, my mum has one, shes in her 60s, but she has hardly any grey hair, she's young looking and she has poker straight hair which I dont have, shes also had it short and suits it short as well.

You don't look your age!

elisebutt65

I used to have gorgeous long, wavy, chestnut hair down my back until last year when I had chemo .

It's growing back super thick & a lot less grey in there now but I bloody miss the length of it! It was always curly but the weight of it used to stop it sticking up. Takes me forever in the morning to stop it looking like I've stuck my finger in a plug socket, whereas I used to have loads of pretty barrettes to clip it back, or French braid it for work. I'm taking those Inner Me vitamins for Luscious Locks, in the hopes it comes back faster :rotfl:

I'm hitting the halfC next year and I look like my bloody gran with short hair. Urgh!

Cottage_Economy

I have waist length hair and barring illness or injury, i will have it until the day I die. No other hair length suits me and I gave up trying to find another style 12 years ago. I've had everything from two inches all over to varying lengths of bobs, perms, waves and layers. No more. None of them suited me and I hated it all. I'm looking forward to one day having long grey hair. My mother's hair is a beautiful light soft platinum colour and if I'm very lucky I will have that colour too, which will look stunning when cared for and styled well.

I don't think I will ever cease to be surprised how het up people get about long hair on older women.

paulineb_2

kerri_gt wrote: »

I had satsuma colour hair in my late teens thanks to the wonders of sun in, harmony hair colour and tubs of 'pillar box red' from Camden market. Oddly my two friends used different dyes and over time we all turned the same shade of orange :A fab photo of us like three tangerines at Glastonbury.

I've had long, short, long, short, long, etc over the years. It's long now and layered as very fine and straight but I find it much easier than shorter styles to maintain. Thankfully I also have a good hairdresser so even though it's highlighted, it's not badly damaged.

Go with what you want and feel comfortable with, life's full of too many rules already.

I should have said satsuma with black roots, you see it quite a lot round these parts.

I used sun in in my time as well, from what I can recall it stank something awful.

I must have driven my mum round the bend, she never knew what colour my hair was going to be from one week to the next.

zaxdog

I have bra strap long auburn hair (I'm 38) with a blunt fringe (a la NCIS's Abby) that I wear in a high ponytail for work and down when I'm at home. My hair is fine but there is lots of it in a kind of red cloud lol!

Now I tend to call it "free range" as opposed to flyaway or unmanageable

Mr Zaxdog's hair is nearly to his waist, thick and wavy. Blonde going to silver (he's 35).

paulineb_2

tinkerbell28 wrote: »

You don't look your age!

Ta much

I knew I shouldnt have put up that photo of me from 1995:rotfl:

Nah, joke, was taken the last time I got my hair done which was about 6 weeks ago

Getting it done again tomorrow, got talked into it by the hairdresser, they need case studies for their course, generally if my hair costs more and £35-45 is the going rate around her for a cut colour and blow dry depending on how many colours you get put in, I tend to leave it longer in between colours when Im skint

Sarah Jessica Parker is someone else who is in her 40s with long hair, think shes about 47 or 48.

Julianne Moore I think still has long hair, I think her hair looks good as well

Georgiegirl256

zaxdog wrote: »

I have bra strap long auburn hair (I'm 38) with a blunt fringe (a la NCIS's Abby) that I wear in a high ponytail for work and down when I'm at home. My hair is fine but there is lots of it in a kind of red cloud lol!

Now I tend to call it "free range" as opposed to flyaway or unmanageable

Mr Zaxdog's hair is nearly to his waist, thick and wavy. Blonde going to silver (he's 35).

I miss my husbands long hair. I cried when he got it all cut off.

Your hair sounds like mine, fine but lots of it, and natural colour auburn.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

I agree with the person above, go for a bob or a really good cut touching your shoulders. Theres nothing worse than long hair on middle aged/ older women, it makes them look older and that they are trying to hang on to their youth.
Grow older with class, dont be like Madonna.

Oh, I don't know. There are a few haircuts that scream 'I'm middle aged now'. So much so, you can bet from thirty yards that the woman in front is probably going to be pushing 50 and has been told that they should try to look 'a bit classier'.

dandelionclock30

^ Which ones, I need to check that I havent got one of them.