Heh. :dubious: I know you are joking. I am just picking on you.
If you like your hair long, wear it long. That age rule has gone away like the dinosaurs.
FTR, my light brown hair sits on my shoulders and has a natural waviness to it. I find at this length I can do the most with it and it compliments the shape of my face.
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it’s MY hair and I’m the only one who’s allowed to decide what happens to it.QUOTE]
The second quote contradicts the first and frankly gives me chills.
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Yeah. When I decided to cut my hair short, and my husband said he didn’t like it, I told him it was my hair, and I was the one who had to live with it, and work with it, and if I wasn’t happy with it, he wouldn’t be, either. I then told him that if he wants me to have long hair so much, we could go pick out a wig in a flattering style that he can pay for, and I’ll wear it around him.
He hasn’t, and he hasn’t left me over the length of my hair. Just like I didn’t leave him when he grew a beard, or a goatee (which he didn’t keep).
I think long hair looks good more often than short hair, although I have seen exceptions. When I was in community college there was an older woman in one of my classes with long, brittle looking gray hair that turned an ugly shade of mustard yellow at the ends.
I’ve had short hair since I was about eight. I’m growing it out (finally) at the age of 27. I want it to be long enough to put up in a ponytail and look nice. Right now I can get two tiny pigtails (maybe 2.5 inches each). It looks basically like this Winona Ryder. It used to look like this Winona Ryder.
I’m not obessed with Winona. I just love her hair, and it’s usually the same color as mine.
I’ll be grey by the time I’m 35, and I think I’ll just go with it, probably shortish.
I consider long hair on other people as anything shoulder length or longer. Long hair on me is anything below chin length.
I like long hair, but I prefer short hair on women, usually. Unless it’s an afro. I think women with afros are gorgeous.
I’m a girl, 27.
I do too! Much easier to manage…
For pictures of drastic before and after cuts, check out this website. I think Crystal looks amazing with short hair. Then again, I thought Melissa looked better with longer hair.
I’m a femme lesbian with hair down to the middle of my back. I like butches with short hair or no hair. My best friend shaves her head and she looks so beautiful that way I couldn’t imagine her with hair. She does have the right head for it. However, I like really long hair best, the longer the better, and a woman with loose hair falling to her thighs puts me in a special level of aesthetic ecstasy that nothing else can. My guilty pleasure is retro Victorian fashion, and that was the best era for ultra long hair. Also, this is still practiced in India, and Indian women are the most beautiful in the world. So I’d have to say it’s all good. 
I think long hair is pretty when properly groomed. There’s a current ad campaign for something I can’t remember which features an older woman with the most beautiful long silver hair. I’d never before considered silver as a color, but perhaps in 10 years I’ll be silver. Being blonde, I’m naturally getting white hair. Damn those white eyebrow hairs!
I’m recently 40 and have been going thru my mid-life crisis, I think. In the last year I’ve done some quite uncharacterist things such as a tattoo and playing with hair color.
Most recent is my platinum hair. It was bright red a mere four weeks ago. I’ve been coloring, on average, about every three weeks! :eek:
Oh, and my length is just past shoulders. I notice more women my mom’s age adhere to the short-hair old-woman thing. I have no intentions on getting a pixie or similar, ever.
That old-lady short hair tradition looks like a 20th-century whitegirl thing. Women from lots of other cultures, including American Indians, Mexico, Asian Indians, China, etc. still accept older women with long hair. When I lived in Missouri, I also noticed that older women from the Ozarks backwoods wore their hair long, which I believe is a survival of pre-20th century customs.
I wonder if it was popularized by 20th-century hair stylists because of the changed texture of silver hair. I saw Joan Baez in 1985 and she had just written a song about “silver women” inspired by hearing the phrase from her hairdresser. She hadn’t worn long hair since the mid-1960s. When I saw her, her hair was at a length between butch and pixie. She gave the texture of silver hair as a reason for keeping it that way, although she’d worn short hair for many years before she went silver.
I had this to say about women and short hair several month ago.
Call it mom hair, pear hair, minivan hair, the bulb, or small market female television news anchor hair - the poofed-up, layered, all-above-the-ears pear-shaped hairdo sends a message to me that a woman is devoid of all sensuality, isn’t very fun, has no sense of adventure, and has almost no identity beyond her motherhood or professional image.
I agree that what you describe is unattractive but it isn’t the only way to wear one’s hair short.
I can just as easily say that a woman with overly long hair has no sense of adventure and no identity beyond living up to mens ideal of femininity. I might even throw in that she may be using it as a sort of security blanket.
By the way, as you may have guessed I wear my hair short, that is, a sylized bob that hits just above my jawline. Oh, and it’s the color of red wine, so hopefully I’m not going to be confused with a soccer mom any time soon. But if so, c’est la vie. For me, it’s much more flattering to my facial features than it was when I wore it long(shoulder length).
Not all short hairstyles are “soccer mom” hairstyles, though. I go back to the pictures of Winona Ryder that FilmGeek linked to. Not at all “mom-ish.” She looked extemely sensual, fun, adventurous, etc., with that ultra-short pixie cut. Other examples: Mia Farrow when she first cut her hair short (just days before she married Frank Sinatra - I’m wondering if he divorced her soon afterward because of the haircut), Catherine Bell, Keira Knightley, Halle Berry.
BTW, I thought most of the women on kimera’s linked website had hair that was too long to have any of those attributes (sensuality, fun, sense of adventure, identity) - to me, when it’s that long it just overwhelms the person and it’s all anyone notices, and they all look pretty much the same. Of course, just MHO, YMMV, no purchase necessary, offer void where prohibited, etc.
Or, what WOOKINPANUB said! 
(I’m male, 54 years old and my hair is relatively long for a guy - about 4 inches below the collar) Okay here’s my opinion.
I love long hair on women. (I think most guys do). I like women with waist length hair though down to the hips is also quite appealing.
As far as age, I’d say it is a matter of how good a woman’s hair looks. If someone has “scraggly” hair then they shouldn’t grow it long (be they 20 or 70).
Oh, I know. I do find some short hairstyles rather attractive. However, around these parts, short hair that has personality is the exception, not the norm. The textured, layered and sometimes frosted bulb reigns supreme, followed by the “cut it all short like a guy” and “Princess Diana” looks.
kittenblue had a great quote from the thread.
I’m 40 and I like MINE short.
But I like long hair on women, mine just doesn’t do anything. And on “women of a certain age” it is fine as long as it doesn’t look like one is trying to hard to look twenty.
I have ultra short hair and it is far easier for me to manage and style.
When it is long, it is flat and lifeless.
I gave up my addiction to my hair dryer years ago.
I’ll probably grow it out again for fun in the near future.
I don’t care what length a woman’s hair is as long as it isn’t the femullet. GAH! It makes me want to do an intervention on these women.
