Went from pixie to butt length. It depends on how fast you can grow out your hair IMHO. Some people just forget their hair for a couple of years and all of a sudden it’s at their waist.
I’m one of those folks who had long hair growing up (it was short when I had it cut off to my mid-back), and when I was about 16, I got it cut off to my chin. Ever since then, I’ve let it get longer, have had it cut shorter, etc, etc. Right now, I have this razor cut bob that just about covers my ears. It looks a bajillion times better than when I had long hair. As for level of effort, I’d say it’s a little bit more than having long hair: I can’t just wash it and go. However, there are some people that long hair just doesn’t look good on, and as much as my husband loved my hair long, he agrees that my hairstyle fits my personality much better now. People who see pictures of me with long hair all agree that it looks better short, and I look about 5 years younger this way. Different strokes and all that, I guess.
Yes! I had forgotten about that.
Hmm where is my hairdresser’s number…
Men are permitted to admire women’s very long hair on the condition that they too grow their hair that long.
If they like women in high heels and miniskirts, fine, as long as they’re willing to undertake the same.
Men who like women in jeans, tee shirts, and sneakers luck out this time.
What are you babbling about. Thankfully you do not get to make the rules whoever you are. The second line is borderline insane and not even pertinent to this thread.
Jim
Hmm, does anyone need their satire-o-meter adjusted?
That was satire? If you say so, I will believe you, but I see no indication it was satire from your post.
I checked my meter, it looks okay, I think you forgot the “Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity.” part of your post that would have made it good satire. Try the 
guy next time.
Jim
I love long hair. Most men do. A Good man will support you, love you, and lie to you * when you have your hair cut. But remember that- they are lying to you (in most cases). Most women go to a hairdresser (few of which have long hair, and they hate women with long hair) and the haridresser talks them into cutting it short, then they go home and their man “takes one for the Gipper” and bravely says “Sure, Honey, I love it like that”. But I will bet that if you asked first, and in a non-leading way, most men would say “keep it long”.
- “Honey, I am tired of this long hair, would you still love me if I got it cut?” will not get a meaningful answer. Try “Hmm, do you think I’d look better with long hair or short hair?”.
HOWEVER- very few men fixate on hair- or boobs, or eyes, or any one thing. As long as you are you, we’ll still love you, so if that’s what you really want- discuss it with him then do it. But- don’t cut your hair because some harpy hairdresser or jealous girlfreinds talk you into it.
Having certain preferences I can understand. It’s the “all women look better with long hair” mentality that irks me. Obviously beauty is subjective and there really isn’t a right or wrong, but men who talk about how women should never cut their hair strike me as odd and a little bit sexist. (I don’t really mean that I think you are all sexist, that’s just the first thing that comes to my mind;then I realize that’s not a fair judgement to make and I commence with the self flagellation )
Husbands, I need some “why” here. Why would you cry? Would you cry if your wife normally wore her hair short, and then grew it long. Explain what this long hair “thing” is.
Well for many of us, it is not that all women look better with long hair. It is women with long hair look better. I know this is not much better but there is a difference.
From a distance, long hair is much, more eye catching. For many men, a certain style/color/length of hair is more attractive. This does not mean a man who prefers long hair would not find a woman with short hair attractive. It is just a preference. Just like some men go nuts for Blondes or Red heads. Some men barely notice a woman’s hair and are primarily attracted by a body feature. You have to have met men hung up on “large boobs” or “long legs” or some other feature.
We vary in taste and this should not be surprising. It also does not mean that long hair alone is enough to want to form a relationship. In my case, my wife is smart, well educated, (smarter and better educated than I am), she is a fellow environmentalist, has good taste in music, she is musical, she is a nice person and as a bonus is very pretty and has beautiful long brunette* hair that initially attracted me to her. I also love the fact she does not use cosmetics. She is what she is and presents her real face to the world. I love her and her hair is part of it, I will still love her if she cuts it, but I will be sad.
Jim
- Now turning grey.
If I find a woman beautiful, that will remain true regardless of the length of her hair. However, if she can grow her hair long and have it be healthy I will always prefer that look. If I had an S.O. lop off her long, beautiful hair, I would be supportive and complimentary – after all, it’s not me who has to take care of that long, beautiful hair – but I would be disappointed.
A thousand times yes. When I had long hair it took until I was mid-20s before I realized what it was capable of, completely by accident. I had always brushed it out or dried it wavy but one day I showered and went back to bed with my hair wet and completely unstyled. When I got up I looked and it was in these amazing waves and curly ringlet ends. Who knew!! So my routine after that was shampoo, comb conditioner through it in the shower, rinse, wrap it in a super-drying towel and after dressing let it down. Gently move locks with fingers if needed, but no combing or brushing. Once it dried I could poke at it or flip my head upside down and poke at the roots to “volumize” them a little, but that was it.
Huh.
Me, I certainly like nice long hair, but I’m not too fixated on it.
Bobbed hair is often crazy-sexy; I likes me some nape.
I can only think of one woman I ever went out with who’s cropping would have distressed me at all – her hair totally suited her face & body, and I’m certain that a short hairstyle would look totally “wrong” on her. (She must be certain, too – it’s been really long for the entire… uh… twenty years that I’ve known her. Wow.)
Everyone else, though – it really wouldn’t matter to me at all, one way or another.
A woman with a pretty face and a slim figure can look fabulous with short hair, or no hair at all. Women who have bigger butts need bigger (or longer) hair. Overweight women always look better with longer hair. Overall, the prettier and/or thinner the face and body, the less hair necessary.
It’s a superficial world, that’s just reality. Cut your hair however you please, but don’t have an attack of shock because someone states their preference and it’s not the style you wear.
My hair kind of sucks. It won’t grow very long at all, but I’ve learned to live with it and my other attributes more than compensate.
I can see what your saying about a lot of hair balancing out a generous butt. However, I believe I actually look better with short hair, because long hair worn down pulls the eye down to my multiple chins. Short hair keeps me looking more uplifted.
Or at least that’s what I keep telling myself.
You are of course entitled to your preference, but this is by no means a fact.
This thinking is what leads so many women (and some men) to walk this world with hair that simply doesn’t look good on them (in my opinion).
Sad but true story.
I’m not troubled with what any given person (up to and including my boyfriends) thinks about my hair; my curiosity is more about the mentality of men who have a fixation on long hair (I said “fixation”, not just a casual preference) and the women who buy into it.
Note: I am not overweight and I have had my hair long, short and everything in between.
Is it the lack of length that makes you think you hair sucks?
Nah, my hair is ok, but I’ve always envied those women whose hair just grows out of their heads looking gorgeous and golden, thick and shiny, flowing like a waterfall. You know, like those gals on the shampoo commercials! 
Mine’s just boring old hair.
Long hair- on most women- is attractive, “sexy” - to most men. It’s like boobs, legs, butts, lips. Hair is just likely 5th on most men’s lists.
I don’t think most men would “cry”, but then they don’t cry when their mate’s breasts get saggy, even though nearly all men prefer then pert or firm. Women like a nice six-pack, good butt, and even hair, don’t they?
Impracticality is the oldest fetish in the world. Having a wife who can spend time and money doing beauty practices that make it obvious that they do not do manual labor has always been a sign of status and eventually festishized. Helplessness is sexy, even in the deeply stylized ways that shows up in our culture.
Long hair, long fingernails, high healed shoes, veils, pantyhose, footbinding, miniskirts, preferences for suntans/pale skin (depending on if the primary form of labor is indoors or outdoors), clothes without pockets, skinnyness/curviness (depending on the availablilty of food in the culture), handheld purses, breast implants, cumbersome jewelry, etc. all says the same thing- my husband is of such high status that I can afford to do things that make me less effective at work or everyday tasks.