Maybe this guy is a control freak? If so, RUN!
Ferrous is right. A woman with short hair will definately turn my head. Long hair has it’s place, but OHHHH MY. Jellen, do what YOU want to do. If he truly likes you he’ll adapt…
Mr Cazzle loves short hair. I have mine short at the moment, and he thinks it’s wonderful. When it was longer he said he liked it, but he told me he prefers it shorter.
His (somewhat “interesting”) brother onced waxed lyrical to me about the beauty of bald women. Nothing so attractive as a woman with a shaved head, he tells me. Ahh, the beauty of it all. Hmmm. Mr Cazzle won’t go so far as to praise baldness in woman, but both are attracted to short hair.
Which is weird, considering their mother has really long hair, and makes both their little sisters wear their hair long at all times. Guess they’re not looking for a girl just like Mum, but can’t figure why, since she’s a wonderful person. Except for the Long Hair Nazi thing.
For that matter, both the little sisters prefer short hair, and beg their mother to let them cut theirs short, but she won’t give in. Her original plan was to never cut their hair, and Mr Cazzle teased them when they were little, telling them that it hurt when your hair was cut, and that sometimes your hair would bleed. They were quite some years old when they first had haircuts, and it’s only through persistant nagging that the oldest one got hers trimmed to just below shoulder length.
My ex used to bug me about my short hair. I explained that i had short hair long before he came around and if he kept it up I would have short hair long after he was around, too.
Long hair isn’t a fashion accesory. It is a major commitment. I don’t think that people understand that when they ask us to grow our hair, they are asking us to
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Spend signifigantly more time in the shower
Walk around with wet hair or spend time blow drying it
Spend four times as much money on hair products
Get our hair constantly tangled up and caught on stuff
Surrender our chance to change our hair style regularly
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and all kind of other annoying, expesive, time consuming things. Long hair is cool if that is your thing, but it is not for everyone. I had long hair for a while and I couldn’t stand it. It weighed me down. It was a pain in the ass. It was always dirty or tangled or messy. I chopped it off.
I eventually broke up with the boyfriend that nagged me about my hair. He didn’t really seem to appriciate mei personally, and had a long list of things that he disapproved of, most of them being that I wasn’t femmanine enough for his tastes (the man could never figure out why I didn’t want to wear cumbersom skirts and expensive jewelry. He never really learned that people are package deals- you can’t just sit around complaining about a wonderful girlfriend because you “wanted one with long hair”. I really hope it doesn’t get to that point with your SO.
I gotta go with long hair. Not ass-length long, I find that freaky, but shoulder-length ro mid-back. I do agreethat some women do look better with shorter hair, but not REALLY short hair, that just freaks me out as well.
I’ve-had-my-hair-so-long-I-had-to-pull-it-back-out-of-the-waistband-of-my-jeans.I-also-had-to-make-sure-it-didn’t-land-in-toilet-when-I-sat-down.It-was-omnipresent-and-nearly-everything-I-did-I-had-to-figure-out-what-to-do-with-my-hair.Washing-conditioning-and-combing-it-took-forever-and-the-only-styling-options-I-had-were-braid-or-ponytail.
Coloring?Forget-it-Not-with-three-feet-of-hair-to-deal-with–it-took-three-or-four-boxes-of-the-stuff.
The-best-thing-I-ever-did-was-to-cut-it-to-chin-length.I-used-to-be-terrified-to-do-anything-with-it-cause-I-had-so-much-time-invested-in-growing-it-out.Now-I-color-it-every-5-6-weeks-and-can-do-fix-it-hundreds-of-ways.I-went-from-butt-length-grey-wall-of-hair-to-chin-length-blonde-and-fabulous-hair.My-husband,family-and-anyone-who-knows-me-says-I-look-years-younger.I-agree.
I’m-beautiful-dammit!
If having short hair is a sin, then I’m going straight to hell.
Short-haired women: date me! I will love you and appreciate you like no other man can.
The best gift I got from an ex-GF is once when she showed up at the airport with her shoulderlength hair clipped to behind-her-ears length.
Short hair on women = Sexeeeee to stuyguy! The shorter, the better.
Personally, I like long hair - about to the shoulder blades, then it begins to look a touch excessive. Long hair in a ponytail or ball in the back looks downright sexy to me, and I still cry over the mental image I get of my previous love walking around school, long hair barely blowing about in her movement.
Long hair, to me, gives a sort of graceful, concealed, closed-in look, especially with glasses. Short hair is far more revealing, vital (as in vitality) and alive.
But short hair also looks good to me, on certain women. I saw a photo of one of my favourite singers (Meret Becker), dressed up, earrings, whatever hair she had in a bun-like structure, and the rest around her eyes - wow…
Incidentally, most of the European women I’ve met (five Germans and counting) had shortish hair. Is it more popular there than here?
Personally, it doesn’t make an ounce of difference to me about the hair. If I’m in love, she can shave her head for all I care.
Ditto, ditto, definitely ditto on the butt-grabbing.
Thanks for the opinions, folks, as it’s making me a LOT more likely to chop off the hair I’ve been growing out since my divorce in '98. I’ve been wanting to donate it to Locks of Love, but 9" shorter than my current length is a bit shorter than chin length, and I was afraid to go that short. But, as it turns out, the current Corr-friend is all in favor of short hair on chicks, AND his mom’s a hairdresser. Hmm!!
Corr, who’s tired of getting her hair caught in the car door
Just my two pennies in the pot–I thought it might be prudent to throw this in. If a man or woman does something (like style his or her hair) to the liking of the SO, don’t assume that there is a control issue there. When I grew out my hair for my hubby, the FIRST thing my sister-in-law said was that NO man would ever tell her how to wear her hair!! I could NOT convice her that he hadn’t handed down an order, but had expressed his preference for longer hair and that I did it because I wanted to please him. She still felt that I was obeying orders. When she got married, she began to grow her hair long–because her hubby loved long hair. She felt that her reasons were somehow different than mine–until I said, “This is the reason I did my hair this way, too!” And she finally understood that pleasing your mate is something you do because you WANT to!
Incidentally–part of the deal with growing my hair was that he agreed to grow a beard–something I had wanted him to do for a long time, but he hadn’t yet done because he felt that he wouldn’t be able to grow an adequate one. He could, and did, and I LOVE it!! So pleasing your SO cuts two ways and it doesn’t mean that one or the other is suffering from an overbearing b/f or g/f. I just wanted to say that, because I think that too often, expressing a desire or preference is looked at as “trying to control” someone else.
I just want to say – I love having my hair grabbed during a kiss. Not hard enough to hurt, of course! Just hard enough to hold me still. It’s very passionate.
-Another
p.s. I’ve been blessed with thick wavy hair and people say it must be a hassle to deal with it long. But, no. All I have to do is wash it, brush it out, and wait for it to dry and it looks (usually) great, or at least I think so. Wild and Joplin-esque, without her frizz. It’s one of the things about myself I’m vain about.
Note to self: update vanity search frequency. 
Note to self: Post more compliments before Wonko beats me to it again.