Sorta had a Peter frampton thing going. Since University I don’t think it’s ever been longer than about a 1/4 inch. There’s less off it and grey, but shit happens over 25 years
Hah! This is why you should never listen to “them.”
When I was a kid, I had very, very long hair (past my waist). I had it cut for the first time on January 4, 1998 (during my freshman year of high school), to a few inches below the shoulder. It then kept getting cut progressively shorter, until it ended up as a pixie cut in the summer before senior year.
I started dying it blue the summer after I graduated high school, and it stayed short through college. I buzzed it into a mohawk in December of 2005,* and I kept the mohawk through August of 2006, at which point I buzzed the whole thing off (except for some little bangs on the very front) and stopped dying it so that I’d have “normal” hair when I needed to start job-hunting after graduation.
My hair’s been mostly growing out since then, to the point where it’s now a couple inches past my collarbones. But I am not now, nor have I been for over ten years, “locked into” any hair style, let alone my current one.
*Side note: There are few non-lethal-or-injurious things stupider than cutting off 70% of your hair in the middle of winter in Wisconsin.
I posted a thread sort of on this topic some time back (don’t feel like searching for it), wondering if there was some sort of change with this in the mid-'80s. I asked because I’d seen so many people, say, 10+ years older than me who to this very day are still wearing roughly the same hairstyle that was popular when they were in high school. That is, women in high school in the late '70s/early '80s still wearing “Farrah Fawcett” hair, guys in the same age group still wearing their “feathered” disco hair, all the way back to men who were teenagers in the '50s/early '60s still doing either the Bryl-Creem “wet look” thing or a military WWII buzz cut.
I contrasted that with people my own age (graduated HS 1984); when I went to my 20-year reunion I saw very few people wearing their hair the same as they wore it in high school. Most had very up-to-date hairstyles. And not just at the reunion, but also when seeing people my age elsewhere. I did consider the fact that mid/late 1980s hairstyles were ridiculous and pain-in-the-neck to maintain, and my generation decided to just dispense with it once they got older (and of course, witness the “backlash” of the much simpler styles popular with these kids today).
I hate my hair long, it annoys the crap out of me - for the past 3 years, it’s varied from being chin length to pixie short.
Every once in awhile, I’ll get a wild hair (heh) and decide to grow it out, then end up hating it and cutting it off in a fit of pique (happened just yesterday, in fact).
Right now, it’s about like this, which is nothing like it was in high school - I had shoulder-ish length hair with bangs, back then. Not big mall bangs, those were out by the time I got to high school - I had those in middle school 
Ooh ooh ooh, did you ever do the thing where you’d take a comb and hairspray and try to get your bangs to kind of stand up and wave to one side? Kind of a rainbow shape, for lack of a better term?
I wonder if it’s related to being more used to change in general. If you graduated high school in the '80s, you grew up during the time when we were first starting to enter our current state of rapid, constant technological change. I was born in '83; while I’m sure the technology 20, 40, 50 years in the future will be very different from what we have today, I’m sure I (and others of my generation) will have no problem using it. Contrast this to my grandparents, most of whom despite being very intelligent people have major problems using even simple things like email.
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I also had the poofy, poodly curly kind at some point, too - quite the contrast to my stick-straight hair!
I had a Barbie with those. 
Somewhere around here I’ve got a VHS tape I recorded in '94 or so of a female comedian talking about those hairstyles. She said something like, “What is up with teenage girl’s hair these days? You know what I’m talking about … that satellite dish on the front of their heads? Newsflash, girls: life is in 3D! Comb it out, 'cause we have to look at it from behind.”
Hmm, oddly enough, I’ve just realized that my hair does pretty much look the same as in high school (early 1980s): shoulder-length perm (though not as huge! more relaxed), but grayer and without the bangs. (My mom thinks I should have bangs because “your forehead is too high.” :rolleyes: I think I SHOULDN’T have bangs because I have two giant cowlicks at my temples that, with bangs, make me look like Dagwood Bumstead. With all long hair, they actually create kind of a cool swoop in the front.)
This is not to say that I’ve had this style the whole time. The summer of my freshman year in college I chopped my hair very short (and got contacts to replace my Coke-bottle glasses), and wore it that way for about 10 years. I started growing it back out when the gray started showing up, because I hope to get my mother’s and aunts’ natural silver. I kept coloring it with burgundy and auburn tints until a few years ago, when I decided it was time to go natural again.
Got out of the Army in 1987, been wearing it long in the same style since.
In part because of this thread, I got a haircut over the weekend and allowed the lady to cut it for a side part like she always wants to.
Looks about the same.