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Pixie Cut:
Cute and perky
or
Satan’s spawn?
The vast majority of women I know in real life do not have their hair cut in bangs.
There are a LOT of five-head women out there who really, really, should have bangs. Even just some longer side-swept bangs would look nicer than a giant swath of skin that’s the same size as the rest of her face.
As with all hairstyles, it depends largely on the shape of the face. IMHO if you’ve got a face as broad as a barn door, a pixie cut is the absolute last thing you should be getting. On the other hand, if you’ve got a relatively narrow face and high, fine cheekbones, it can look stunning. I get that some men prefer long hair in all cases (I do not identify with these men in any way. You, and your tastes, mystify me, long-hairers.), but there are some facial structures that are objectively better suited to short hair than others.
I will echo the assertion that bangs go particularly well with a large forehead - and I must caution from experience that bangs together with a small forehead will cause otherwise bright, stunning women to look like they’d struggle to tie their own shoelaces. Bangs more than any other common hairstyle can be supremely unflattering. Bangs are meant, in a sense, to bring balance to a face with perhaps slightly more of forehead than is proportional - certainly not to obscure your forehead entirely!
I understand that for a lot of people it’s political.
They don’t like to be seen as too friendly with the fringes.
Rhiannon8408, you’re absolutely right :smack: And I should know this. I’ve seen and read AiW and know darned well she doesn’t have bangs yet for some reason that has always been my name for that hairstyle.
And for the record, I’m probably a great candidate for bangs. I have a large forehead and a side sweep of bangs actually suits me but the nature of my hair does not allow for it. In the context of this thread I’m really just talking about heavy, straight across the forehead bangs. Think Mary Hartman.
This is not exactly new. In 1906, the Devil’s Dictionary defined the word “bang” as follows:
[QUOTE=Ambrose Bierce]
BANG, *n. *The cry of a gun. That arrangement of a woman’s hair which suggests the thought of shooting her; hence the name.
[/QUOTE]
I love this 
‘Five-head’ women?
More than forehead.
It might be from the Tom Petty video for “Free Falling”. The Alice in that video has bangs… and is very cute.
Oh well, I guess i must be at least a six-head man.
Usually a woman picking out a perceived flaw to hate in another woman is the “bitch eating crackers” syndrome. This is where one or both people dislike each other to the point of every little thing the other person does is a hateful offense. Even to the point of one of them eating crackers is enough to drive the other nuts.
In situations like these I have definitely zeroed right in the bang hairstyle as a thing to pick upon. It’s the hairstyle of least effort for the so-called “basic bitch” and doesn’t stand out in any way. Then, to top it off, it makes many average women look childish and airheaded. I personally would never wear bangs. So when I fall into “bitch eating crackers” syndrome, and they have bangs, I think…well, look at those ugly, awful things, huh?
I find that take funny, because bangs are an extra step. They have to be dealt with daily. So as far as I’m concerned, if a woman has good bangs (and granted there are some ratchet ones out there, deserving of mockery) she’s indicating she’s taking more time to put herself together. Obvi, bad banks should be mocked. But bitches with dem bangs on fleek? They’re better at hair than you.
Least effort? Oh, good lord, no. The very short period of time, many years ago, that I had bangs, they were very time consuming. They have to lay just right or be curled a certain way. Definitely much harder than long, all-one-length hair.
The only bangs that drive me nuts are on Rose Byrne in Damages (having just watched seasons 4 and 5). The rest of her hair would change length but her bangs remained that just-a-little-too-long, in her eyes length throughout.
This happens in Little Town on the Prairie, but she’s referring to bangs in general, when Laura asks her permission to cut some for herself. Ma finally agrees, and says she didn’t do a bad job.
TV show I suppose?
I don’t remember that from the book.
Pssst, I believe you meant “Don’t Come Around Here No More”, with this Alice (no “Eat her out” jokes, please)
I’m holding my copy as I write this. It’s in chapter 17, “The Sociable”, which is a party Laura is going to with her friend, Mary Power. Laura’s a bit envious of her, because her clothes are nicer and she “did her hair in the stylish new way, with bangs.”
Both her parents call it a “lunatic fringe”, but since she wants bangs so much, they allow it. There’s an illustration by Garth Williams of her doing it.