Sigh. Somebody always beats me to it.
So wait, I had bad taste in Glasses in '92 but good taste in Women?
I can live with that. 
Jim
I would love to be able to cut my hair to around shoulder length, have bangs and get a cool style and spend less money on hair product. But the guy up at post #3 has threatened that if I cut my hair, he cuts his mustache and gets a crew cut, so it stays long.
YES, but its always looked good after.
PLUS then when you do the nasty its like doin’ it with a whole 'nuther chick!
Now, I can only speak for myself (as I would see such an offer as a golden opportunity), but gentlemen:
If she cuts her hair and it looks horrible, give her the $500-$1000 to get some good extensions. I mean, assuming it means that much to you. I would love to get good exenteions and my hair is all the way past my boobs- it would just be a neat opporunity. Stupid expensive hair.
To all you women with ass-length hair: applause. How the heck do you manage it? Mine only reaches almost to my boobs (all the way to my boobs, if I wear it straight and hoist the girls with the help of a Wonderbra), and already I find the maintenance a pain. Blow-drying, straightening… Thank goodness I’ve given up coloring it!
For me, cutting it to chin length wouldn’t be a drastic change, but if I know my man would be secretly crying inside because of it… I’ll keep the length.
Of course, if I was very much decided on chopping it all off, he’d just have to live with it. But since I’m really on the fence about cutting it, this makes my decision easier. Why not take the option that’ll keep the man happier? I know he likes playing with my hair, and I doubt he has a hidden passion for the pixie haircut.
Now, what can I get from him in exchange? 
As someone who has had it ass length and ultra short, I gotta say the longer hair is tons easier in the maintenance department. If you don’t want to mess with it you pull it up, problem solved. With the short stuff you HAVE to style it. you can’t pull it back in a ponytail when in a hurry or it’s just not looking like you want. I spent about 20 minutes a day on my shrt hair, when its long I spend 5 minutes max. All that blow drying and straightening you’re talking about is by choice, your hair will look better in the long run if you let it go natural. I used to go through all that with my long hair but now that my pixie has grown out I’ve laid off the harsh treatment and just let it be, and my hair is way healthier than it ever was when it was super long. If I keep treating it so nice I’m hoping when it gets really long again it will look great. 
Heh, I have a female friend who had blonde hair down to that place where her legs meet her back, and when she joined the Air Force she got her hair cut short (think Sarah MacKenzie on JAG short) so she wouldn’t have to worry about pinning it up under a hat when she was in uniform.
To this day she claims not to understand why everyone doth protest so much in her decision to cut her hair. 
See, lots of people tell me this. Then, just for fun, I show up someplace with my hair au naturel, washed and allowed to dry on its own with just a little brushing to take out tangles.
Then they never suggest it again.
This is not a picture of me, but it’s sort of what my hair looks like if I let it do its thing. Mine’s not quite as puffy as that, but for some reason the top part stays smoother and flatter, leaving me with a triangle head: flat top and puffy ends. Worse, I get little tiny flyaway hairs at the top, so I have a halo to add to the look.
I’m asking for a layered cut this time, because that helps balance the frizz, but if I don’t blow-dry, I will be Triangle Head anyway. Could be worse, I guess. At least I’m not a trapezoid.
Not sure how to put this other than I like a good haircut. I’ve seen women go from eh to WOW in the flick of an eye. I always make sure to complent women with a good cut to avoid the topic at hand.
Am I the only one here that finds it more than just a little disturbing that a guy would care so much about hair? As someone whose hair grows pretty quickly, I’ve had every hairstyle under the sun, from waist-length to half-shaved and in corn rows. Any guy that cares that much about my long hair can wake up an hour early every morning to wash, dry, and style it for me. I wear my hair in a way that makes me comfortable and is pleasing to me. Any guy that would cry over me getting it cut, either literally or figuratively, is pretty creepy, in my book.
But it’s more of a preference thing. For example, I love my man’s beard. I think it’s super sexy. So, if I ever came home and found that he’d decided to shave it off, and was going to stay that way for a while, I’d be disappointed. Sure, I’d adjust, and of course I’d love him anyway, but it would be a shock and I can say with all honesty that I’d be a little sad about it.
I think it’s the same situation for all these guys who love the long hair on their women. Take away something they really really like, and it kinda sucks.
But a guy who gets really worked up over a woman’s haircut, yeah, that would be creepy.
I cry inside knowing that I’m going to have to spend a great deal of time assuring them, whether it turned out ugly or not, that waves of villagers brandishing flaming torches & pitchforks are not going to chase them onto the castle balcony where they will have to pitch themselves off.
Apparently, this is what women fear when they change their hairstyle in the slightest little bit and it’s up us guys to assure them it’s not going to happen.
Or if it does happen, we’ll catch them, run off into the forest and love them anyway.
I’m sorry you feel that way. But hair is a major attraction to many men and a good percentage of those men like long hair. Not scientific, but I can remember way back to when I was in the Navy and floating out at sea and we were discussing* woman’s hair. Out of about 30 guys watching TV all but 1 liked long hair. On average we were about 22 years old and most of us were single.
You could almost apply your statement to guys that only like girls with large breasts or guys that only liked Blondes.
I would never leave my wife over something like cutting hair or get angry at her for it, but as long as she solicited my opinion, I was quick to state my preference. I would have been upset if she cut it short. I love long hair.
Why is that creepy? It is the first thing I noticed about her when I first saw her all those years ago. I still remember quite clearly being awestruck with how beautiful she looked and I was shocked a few months later when I realized I had a chance to ask her out.
BTW: She doesn’t style it, hates hair dressers, cried when she was the Bridesmaid at my Brother-in-Law’s wedding and had to sit through the (to her) torture of get her hair dressed.
She washes and conditions it. She brushes it and then either leaves it loose, braids it or puts it in a Pony Tail. She trims off the split ends as needed.
If it took you an extra hour, I can understand why you wouldn’t want to keep your hair long, but for many/some woman it does not take that long.
Jim *(At various times we discuss every portion of a woman’s body, we were at sea for 100+ days back in the days of Combat vessels being all male)
With that hair I’m thinking of a classic pull-back. Not sure of the name of it. Kind of looks like a horses tail… a pony tail that is bunched at the end. Full bodied hair looks great that way and it requires no prep if you’re having a bad hair day.
It’s creepy because it’s one of the last things I would want someone to remember about me, especially someone with whom I was romantically involved. My hair, the clothes I wear, the color of my eyes, these are things that have absolutely nothing to do with who I am as a person. They change with my mood, the season, or for no reason at all. I can understand having a preference, but to ‘cry inside’ because someone changes their appearance in a manner that doesn’t suit your preference? That’s creepy.
I AM NOT UPTIGHT AND IT PISSES ME OFF WHEN PEOPLE SAY SO!!
And Mrs.Nic cut hers to the shoulders a few days ago and I supported whatever she wanted to do. As a nurse it was always in the way and tying it back gave her headaches.
Ooh, ooh, I have hair like yours!
I never learned to blow-dry it straight and whenever I try to, the brush gets all tangled up and I burn my ear. But after all these years I have figured out how to make it look good: I got layers. Yay! Also, after I wash and condition it all I do is comb mousse through it with my fingers and shake my head out. It’s hard to get the front right (I often pin the top parts back) but aside from that it’s really about two minutes of work for pretty decent hair.
To me, as a hopefully-not-all-that-superficial guy, the big difference is not between down-to-ass and down-to-shoulders, it’s between down-to-shoulders and SHORT short, although I don’t know the technical term. Down-to-shoulders is still FEMININE, and much as I’m all for challenging gender roles in business and industry, I vastly prefer feminine haircuts on 99.9% of women.
Blow dry? Straighten? That is your problem right there. No, really, it is. Stop fighting your hair.
A good cut is key. The second key is knowing how to best take care of your own hair. With very long hair that’s even a tad more than light wave, you must not brush it once it’s dry. Use a wide-toothed comb and lots of conditioner in the shower to remove tangles, rinse out most of the conditioner, and then gently pat the moisture out (don’t squeeze, and for Og’s sake don’t rub!). Then leave it alone. Once it’s totally dry, you can use your fingers to gently separate any curls, but do not take any instrument to it when dry - no combs, no picks, no brushes, nothing. If you have the halo of whispies, then use a leave-in conditioner worked through wet hair with only your fingertips.
Any bristle contact with dry hair will cause frizz.