My friend got bangs cut into her hair some time over the winter. I didn’t think they were an improvement over her previous look, and thought it gave her a kind of “mean girl” vibe or something. Or “bitch mom” maybe. Or perhaps I just didn’t like that she looked different.
Anyway, when asked I said something like “I don’t think they are better than what you had before,” and she laughed and then I guess told someone else that I didn’t like her bangs and it became a whole THING like how DARE I say I didn’t like my friend’s bangs or some nonsense. It was this whole ordeal for a little while. My friend didn’t care either way (I am the last person in the world who can criticize hair) she knew I was just being honest. I’m a woman too, FWIW.
But yeah, bangs are some sort of touchy topic it seems. My friend didn’t get hers re-done, either.
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. [/QUOTE]
That’s possibly the strangest piece of reasoning I’ve read in a long time.
There was actually a time in my life (the short-lived “bang era”) when I carried around a butane curling iron in my (of necessity large) purse. I have wavy hair, and if it rained or got too humid or my forehead got sweaty, my bangs would start to swoop every which way and I would have to fire it up. I finally gained the wisdom to know that if you fight with your hair, the hair is going to win. I think wispy bangs actually suit my face, but I am sticking with long all-one-length because I know I am just not willing to fuss with my appearance the way I used to.
I never thought about disliking someone over a hairstyle, I just notice if I think someone’s hair is particularly pretty or looks weird to me for some reason. Some people have fun experimenting with different styles and colors, and I think that’s cool.
On most women in my age range I think bangs tend to look kind of childish and outdated. I work with a lovely woman who has the Thelma from Scooby-Do cut and it detracts a bit from her otherwise professional look. I have a male colleague, also middle-aged, who sports little-boy bangs; it’s def. not a great look.
I’ve nearly always had bangs and think they look good on me. Last year, I decided to grow them out and now all my hair is about the same length. Now I think I want my bangs back, but I look around and it seems like almost everyone has the same hairstyle I have right now.
I am a clueless old-school dork…and I’m afraid if I cut my bangs everyone will know it! Especially after reading this crazy thread. Thanks guys.
It’s a fashion phase. Now, bangs are out. Soon, bangs will be back in.
A fashionista, writing an article “proving” bangs are ugly, will get some stock shots of people with really terrible bangs. Obvious they are bad, isn’t it?
Then, when they come back in, the same fashionista will write the opposite point of view. This time the stock photos will show people with very good hairstyles with bangs.
Bangs, overall, are neither good nor bad. Some may be bad, but most aren’t.
Color me surprised that they’re difficult to take care of though. They were very popular for girls when I was a child, and I figured, if bangs were so much work, why did all these mothers let their kids have bangs? The idea carried over when in college, girls who looked like they had rolled out of bed and did nothing but brush their hair before leaving, had perfectly fine hair, complete with bangs hanging normally. Of course, that was all public, so…I guess I don’t know what work goes on behind the bedroom door.
I’m a dude. I hate bangs on women. On dudes too, now that I think about it. I just hate them. I think they look awful. If you ask, which you did, that’s my official stance on the subject. Please keep in mind that I think Grace Potter is hot as hell, so it’s pretty clear to me that I don’t know what I’m talking about.
So weird. I just caught a bit of the TV show where Laura is asking this Mr. Edwards to be Rose’s godfather, because after her parents, he was the one who taught her the most about life. I remember absolutely nothing about a Mr. Edwards in the books.
But yeah, Laura cuts the lunatic fringe and then curls it with a metal rod heated on the stove IIRC.
Yeah, it really depends on what kind of hair you have. Mine is wavy and tends to frizz, so bangs would require a hair product and blowing them dry, and then maybe hair spray. I imagine folks with straighter hair can probably do less since it will dry lying straighter and flatter.
Super-straight hair in the 60s and 70s was not easy either!
Mr. Edwards appears in Little House on the Prairie, when he “meets Santa Claus” and brings Christmas gifts to Mary and Laura, and in On the Shores of Silver Lake, when he helps Pa stake his claim to property (by holding back a man who was trying to cut in front of him) and leaves a twenty-dollar bill to jumpstart Mary’s college fund.
Mr. Edwards was a particularly batchelorly batchelor fellow, quite rough around the edges, who had a neighboring claim. He and Pa helped each other out some. I doubt he had bangs; probably really long hair, like Willy Nelson, or hair cut with a knife.
According to Wikipedia, he is felt to be a montage of several folks who were kind to the Ingalls.
I have concluded I have no idea what you people mean when you say “bangs.” In my use of the word, 90% of non-bald non-long-haired persons have bangs. Hair that hangs down over your forehead? I have a pixie-like cut and always thought I had bangs. But now not so sure. They certainly don’t need any kind of maintenance or attention other than getting them cut back now and again.
