Well, even if a certain someone were to shave her head completely, I’d still love her …
But I like hair that’s long enough that I can run my fingers through it. Speaking purely personally.
So at what age is the long hair absurd? I have good hair & enjoy wearing it long, I think it frames my face better this way. Hubby strongly prefers it (he cried once, years ago, when I cut it short in a fit of pique). When does it change from “Hey look at that chick w/great hair” to “Oh, no, who does that old broad think she’s fooling”?
When I was a kid both me and my sister had short hair - my parents said it was easier to keep clean etc. However I got “mistaken” for a boy so many times up until about the age of 10 that as soon as I was old enough to say no to the scissors without getting a slap for my cheek that I grew it long and have kept it that way ever since as has my sister. Both my parents are now mortified if we get haircuts shorter than about shoulder length. Thinking about it I base a lot of my female identity around having long hair - not that I would be mistaken for a boy now mind but still.
I recently had my hair the longest I have ever had it which was about mid back length. I have really really thick dark hair that grows incredibly quickly and I loved the feeling of it on my back but I reached the point of in 3 months time it will be ass length and I will be sitting on it. So I took a deep breath and went for the chop 6 inches lighter I still have long hair (my dad would kill me - I even had to send a photograph home so they could check I hadn’t been scalped!) I can still tie it back if I want to but I still look and feel like a girly. Happy ems 
Tanookie I have to say I never saw it before as an extension of my feminitiy for two reasons:
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I never had it shaved before… sure I had it short, elfin style even … but shaved takes any style out of it - then its just hair. I didn’t realise how much I felt my femaleness was tied up in it (again I do have a bit of hair thing going anyways so I am a mite obsessed about it).
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I don’t really like my body at all. My hair was always the bit I could be proud of. I never knew HOW proud until it was gone - then it was Holy Shit, where have I disappeared to :eek:
I was very ill 5 times in my life and the eventual surgery I had was to resolve two holes in my skull that had been developing for years (the illnesses they felt were an outcome of having that breach - passage for bacteria etc). But I totally get your Grandmothers feelings… when you’re ill, you really don’t want to concentrate on whats the matter with you (you can do that and go mental in the process cos its not something you can really control). You CAN control how you look whilst your ill - you don’t want to be defined as a “sick person” but you will if, for example, your hair is falling out in clumps or you have to get it shaved.
When you’re ill like that, you really want the rest of your life to remain the same as it was - this included, in my case and your Grandmothers its seems, your hair.
I don’t go mad over it but I do like my hair and I feel better when it looks good - like the way other girls like shoes, or handbags or whatever… I like my hair and it makes me feel good.
I can understand your Grandmothers point of view - but I wouldn’t have until I lost my hair. Does that make sense???
I think you’d have to take it on a case by case basis… I’ve seen women in their 60’s even 70’s with really good hair and it suited them - their face shape, their body and their lifestyle.
I think when it becomes maybe too thin for the length (shorter hair does look thicker and I believe a lot of women cut it so they can achieve that illusion) or when it just isn’t in any style at all…
It really depends on the woman I think… I doubt I’ll look good with long hair when I’m in my 60’s … but we’ll see.
I love long, straight hair on women! I like long hair that goes about halfway down the back, especially if it is accompanied by a nice, round, shapely ass. I also like seeing women who have enough hair to put it up in a ponytail; that looks cute to me. Curly hair is nice, too, as long as its long. I don’t really care for short-haired women, just not my thing.
Rhino’sHoney I found your writing very moving and true. Enjoying my hair is really important to me - and it’s interesting, b/c I now weigh the most I ever have in my life, but I also get more compliments & appreciative glances than ever before. I’m actually having fun!
This is a sad story but it seems appropriate. A friend once told me about a woman she knew who’d been in a terrible automobile accident, with extensive and awful burns. At first the woman struggled with feeling immodest when doctors and nurses had to treat her skin, and she would try to cover herself. But then after a while she quit caring - that’s when the medical staff knew she’d given up hope, and that she wouldn’t make it.
Women need their vanity.
Thank you fessie blushes … I agree women do need to feel good about themselves and I believe we all feel better when we think we look better (no matter how others perceive us, if WE think WE look good, then WE look good to ourselves).
I saw some programme a few years back about where they had beauticans come into hospices for the terminally ill and give them treatments. It helped the women there because they were more relaxed and a bit more at ease. I think sometimes its just easier to focus on the smaller things than have to deal with the big things in life, such as our own mortality.
Ohhhhhh I just went all serious on ya again didn’t I? Oops @ me lol…
Absolutely. What I love the most in a woman (next to eyes).
The longer the better. There’s no such thing as too long. Butt-length is wonderful. Knee-length is better.
What ianzin said. I couldn’t have said it better. I can only endorse his fine sense of aesthetics.
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- I used to be heavily predisposed to girls with long hair. Now it doesn’t matter, really: I hate it when my own hair gets long enough to get in my own eyes, and eventually realized that anyone else might feel the same.
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- I used to be heavily predisposed to girls with long hair. Now it doesn’t matter, really: I hate it when my own hair gets long enough to get in my own eyes, and eventually realized that anyone else might feel the same.
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- When I was like 20, I had this mental image of what “the perfect girl” looked like. By the time I was 30, I had met too many beautiful b!tches and plain-looking enjoyable girls to bother with judging much of anything by a person’s looks.
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Hair or no hair what is the differance as long as she can use her head for somthing other than talking./
Until mid-September last year, I had hair that was down to my waist.
I loved it, yet hated it. My hair was beautiful, yes, but I’m the type of girl that will NOT spend a lot of time working with it. I will keep it clean, and TRY to keep it tangle-free (HA! That was near impossible with my long hair), but I rarely do anything other than that. My hair would also take 7-8 hours to dry, since I hate using a blowdryer (made my hair poofy and damages it too). It’d always get in my way at school… getting caught under my bookbag straps. After it got caught under a strap and I ripped out a good bit of it trying to get my bag off, I decided it was time for a haircut.
I had around 14 inches cut off, to around shoulder-length and it looks nice, dries quicker, and is easier to deal with, but I miss my long hair!
Sure I’d have to use more shampoo, but I loved my hair. I used to sit on my bed (to use my comp… no chair!:eek: ), rest a hand behind me and just play with the ends of my hair. It was kind of relaxing 
So! I WILL have my long hair back! I don’t think I want it past my waist, but the length I had it before was quite nice.
I can never forget this friend I had in college. I sat behind her in freshman intro to philosophy class, and I sat behind her again in the next philosophy class we took. She wasn’t pretty at all, had a dumpling face. Skinny and flat as an ironing board. But she had this absolutely sublime long straight hair, nearly to her waist. When I sat behind her in class, I used to wrap my hands in her long glimmering hair and just stroke it, feel it, and go into ecstasy. She was also very nice to talk to and the one time we hugged, it went on for maybe a half hour while time stopped for us. I regret never having dated her.
Even though that was over a quarter century ago, since then not a day has gone by that I haven’t thought of that girl.
The hair should be long enough to be able to make cute pigtails. It could be the ones that Britney Spears had in her first video, or the ones where the holder is near to the tips of the hair. I can’t put it words, but theres this something that girls with long hair have.
Hey! I’m offended by that comment!
Don’t tell anyone, but my hair’s not actually blue.
It’s her hair, she can do with it as she pleases and I will still love her. That said, she knows I prefer it long and will generally accomodate that preference.
zombie or no
how else get he climb up?
I do not like long hair on girls. It makes them look too feminine.
/checks zombie raiser
/checks join date of zombie raiser
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Long hair? Yes!
Short hair? Yes!
In between? Yes!
I’ve not only dated women with hair of all lengths, I dated one woman who went from very long hair to very short, and several lengths in between. Last time I saw her, long afterwards, she was back to very long, saying she thought she’d do it once more “while she still could” – and looked great.
Is it still a thing, that women of a certain age shouldn’t have hair of a certain length?
The only downside to long hair is that it can be inconvenient in bed. I’m willing to work past that. 
Oh pfft. I got zombied!