No, she had long hair in Breakfast at Tiffanys-she just wore it up most of the time.
And I LOVED her little pixie-ish bob! So freaking cute!
I wish I could do shorter hair-chin length flippy little bobs. Unfortunately, I inherited my grandmother’s stick straight, baby-fine locks. When I was little, my hair hung down my back, but then I got it cut to shoulder-length so I could get a perm when I was nine. I’ve tried growing it back again, and it just looks AWFUL-all scraggly and tangly and yuck. My hair got a wee bit thinner after puberty, I guess. sigh
Sooo, nowadays I keep it in a layered, shoulder-length cut and get it permed. It’s awesome. I’ve had chin-length before and I loved how it looked, but it was extremely high-maitenance in that I had to curl it every day or it looked like crap, and I couldn’t pull it into a ponytail or a bun so it was always in my face.
So even when I don’t have a perm, I usually tell my hairdresser I like it just long enough for a ponytail.
(Oooh, that reminds me, I need to color it this week!)
kiz, you need to tell your husband that long hair HAS to be trimmed. If you don’t, you end up with split ends and it looks bloody awful.
Are you actually saying long hair makes you helpless? I hope not. Beside long hair for many is associated with earthiness and youth. Not Class. It is the styled hair and the rest of the crap, I associate with no manual labor. Just braid long hair or put it in a pony tailed and does not interfere with manual labor. I think it is bizarre you would equate long hair with the rest of your list.
Seriously, I have tried and apparently failed to explain it in a dozen posts in this thread. Re-read some of my posts and then question those answers if you like.
To be fair, I went over your posts again and I don’t know that you explained why you like it so much as reiterating * that * you like it, which is perfectly fine; I’m just saying.
Mayhaps ** Walloon ** is looking for more specifics, such as you think it frames the face better, or you love he way it cascades all over you while having sex or whatever. Am I getting close?
That too ;), but I explained in at least one of the posts, that long hair is a probably the most visible sexual feature observable at distance. This has a lot to do with it. Obviously I relate it more to the Hippies of the late 60’s and early 70’s but long hair has always been a sexual trigger for men. {No I won’t provide cites, you can probably Google for it as well as I can. Here is a decent start.}
In American society at least, long hair as been built up in our culture as a standard of femininity and robust youth. I believe this influences a lot of men and probably myself.
Short hair as many have mentioned can look cute or sexy or beautiful but I believe it is more associated with older women and lets face facts; we in the USA are part of a youth worshipping culture.
I hope that helps a little, because you are right, there are too many posts to read back through.
The sad part about being an older Generation Xer is that the women you wenbt to high school with, women who watched MTV when they were young, are now starting to appear with mom hair; something that resembles an upside down pear, layered and piled all above the ears.
to the Linux geeks out there, think rm -r sensuality.
That’s an interesting question. Why do males of the Species Home Sapiens find such things as large and/or firm breasts, tight buns, long legs, pouty/full lips, and/or long hair 'sexy"? It’s a question that Anthopologists ask, too. However, here, it is enough to say that most red-blooded males do find those things sexy- it’s hardwired somewhere in our genes/hormones.
I think the breast attraction is because they appear to be better breast-feeders thus better mothers for the DNA the males hope to pass on to their progency.
But really, here in **IMHO **it is enough for a man to say that -IMHO I (and many other male posters here) do find those things sexy. Perhaps a thread in GQ as to why Homo Sapien males are hard-wired that way might be more productive?
Incidentally, I find short hair attractive only on petite “pixie-ish” women.
Anecdotally, and partly in response to this and partly in response to Indygrrl’s assertion —
While the one woman that I shouldn’t have liked to see with shorn locks is fairly substantial, I think it has more to do with the geometry of her face. She has a prominent nose which looks kind of roman and sophisticated and goes nicely with long, vertical tresses. I think, though, with short hair it would just look… big.
On the other hand, one of the girls that drove me most out of my mind had a low center of gravity and kept her hair either bobbed or spiked. Seeexxy. Something nice about an exposed neck and ears, wot? I can’t really picture her with long hair.
Precisely why I go to my stylist. She has long hair and she is my ally in keeping it long. Just today we mutually agreed to take off an inch and a half to improve the overall look. That’s the most I’ve taken off in years. Normally it’s more like two inches. I can trust her to give me good-looking length.
My theory of why most of them have short hair is: They practice on each other. Pretty soon they all have short hair, so their skill is concentrated on short styles.
even sven, I bet I spend less time on my butt-length hair than you. I am the quickest girl to get ready out of all my girl friends and most of that has to do with how easy my hair is to take care of and deal with. I can leave it down, braid it in seconds, throw it up in a bun in a minute, or pull it back with a hairclip. Whenever I have short hair I have to go to a hair stylist regularly to get it trimmed and to keep it from looking like that girl in the picture that was linked. I haven’t cut my hair since December - not even a trim and it is still doing fine. While short hair may be simplier for some people, it isn’t easier to take care of for all of us. If my hair was short I’d be spending a hell of a lot more money and time on it.
I’m not a man, but I was saddened when my boyfriend cut his butt-length hair to just past chin-length (but not quite shoulder-length). Well, I guess saddened isn’t really the right word, it’s not like I sat around crying or moping… it’s more like, “Aww, it’s different.” It’s hard to explain why. It’s just gone. Something that had always been there is now gone. I’ve always had a thing for long hair on guys, though. It’s not that I only like long-haired guys, but I do tend to notice them first. I guess that’s my most prominent superficial preference.
Oh well, long hair or no, he’s still the prettiest.
I used to have long (waist-length) hair, and when I wanted it cut, every hairdresser I asked for opinions said, “WHY would you want to cut that? Don’t cut it!” Did I listen? No. :smack: I’m still growing it back in now, 7 years later, because I keep slipping up and cutting it.
I think I look good with shortish hair (like this kind of thing, maybe a little shaggier around the back), or long hair, but this middle-length stuff is crap on me! It’s about armpit-length now. This is the longest I’ve made it since I cut it!
So, based on rinni’s comments and other stuff that’s been said, it’s more about the amount of hair itself, as opposed to how it adds to the person’s face? What I mean is, we’ve discussed this issue before, and when people post pictures, it’s usually a shot of the back, showing how long it is. From the front, once your hair reaches your shoulders, whatever it’s doing in the back is of no consequence to how you look. (Am I making sense?) I think **rinni’s ** guy looks quite nice with his new hair and I don’t see what benefit the longer hair was to him aesthetically. He’ still got long hair; still looks like a rocker. Gals, those of you who like long haired guys, is his hair long enough, in your opinion, or do you like it better in the before picture?
I’m with you. In fact, I think his hair looks about 100 times sexier in the second photo, but that’s just me. The only thing worse than women with long, stringy, frizzy, unkempt hair is men with long, stringy, frizzy, unkempt hair. Or a mullet. shudder
Hehe, don’t get me wrong! I still think his hair is great. It feels so much healthier now and I can’t keep my hands out of it (when he doesn’t have it in a ponytail). And about that pic, I took that right before he went out to have it cut - he wanted a picture of how long his hair was. It’s also a little shorter in the back, angling to longer in the front. He doesn’t like it because he thinks it’s girly and he’s thinking of cutting it shorter.
It’s just that he’s always had long hair. It was long when I met him (and mine was short!). I practiced fishtail braids and updos on him. Then it was gone. If his hair had been this short or shorter when we met, I never would have missed it or wished for more. Know what I mean?
As it is, though, it’s just fine! I didn’t mean to seem like I was complaining.
And admittedly, probably due to my childhood crush on Sebastian Bach, I actually do like long and unkempt hair. I guess I’m just weird like that.
I like long hair, myself, but when I first met pepper Mill she had already cut it short, and has no intention of letting it get long again, so it’s a moot point.
I’ve seen old pictures of her with long hair, and it changes her surprisingly. In fact, she looks quite a bit like an old girlfriend of mine.
