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Well, if we have lean well-shaped faces we can let ourselves cut the hair really really short to show off the well-sculpted head. Majority of us, though, are less lucky and have a lot of sagging skin, shapeless ears, thick ugly turtlish necks etc. Se we opt out for more high-maintenance hairdos to mask the traces of aging.
Long hair does nothing to disguise or detract from saggy skin and turtlish necks unless you wear it two feet long and wrap it around your chin and neck like a scarf.
To get her hair to look like this probably requires hours to style and massive work to maintain but then she's a model so is presumably ok with it.
Here's the same model with less glamorous look, and probably more realistic.
Here she is with her hair pulled back so you can get an idea of how she'd look with short hair. I think she's lovely no matter how she styles her hair. But truth be told if I had long hair that looked like that 2nd pic, I'd take a pair of kitchen shears to it.
Interesting posts. We all make judgements about other people's appearance, and you're just lying to yourself if you think you don't. Some people condemn women's choices of clothes, styles, how much cleavage they're showing, or if they dress like a hooker. Most middle class people will be leery of some black guy who looks like a gang member, or part of a motorcycle gang. They make judgments about people if they have on expensive or very nice clothes. We assume all kinds of things because of someones clothes. Think of how people react to someone who dresses like a firefighter, or a police man, a military officer or as pastor. We even make judgments based on whether someone is obese or thin, tall or short, in shape and muscular or emaciated.
I just find it interesting that a person who has a particular look, completely changes it later in life.
It's VERY rare I notice what other people are wearing! I have plenty going on in my life and don't worry about what others are wearing or doing. I see people all day long and couldn't tell you what a single person was wearing today! I think one lady was wearing a jacket...maybe denim....maybe leather.....have no clue really....then again it might have been a shirt she had open. I honestly don't remember and she's my neighbor who I see all the time!
Does shaving count as a male activity? Man, I'd love to give that up just so I can be a girl!
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Anything which most people are not used to seeing is going to be jarring and unattractive until enough time has elapsed to get used to it. It is not about people's "rights". In our society (at least until quite recently), as in most societies, there are men's hairstyles and women's hairstyles. All the OP is saying is that he finds the ultra-butch look jarring and unattractive. Why does that merit such vociferous condemnation?
Just as all of us, men and women, have the right to choose any hairstyle, so all of us, men and women, have the right to our opinion about how various hairstyles look. There sure isa lot of testiness and over-reaction in this thread.
Well, men have had long hair for decades! Did that mean they had feminine hairstyles?
Butch? Now if that doesn't just scream condescending!
Who knew that every style of hair cut was either male or female!? So what is it if one shaves their head?
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Perhaps the testiness reveals that Old women are not so carefree about their hair as they like to think.
Perhaps they are more worried about what other people think of their looks than they like to admit.
You're ASSuming that we're all old women! Very wrong assumption to make!
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I mean this in the most non-rude way possible (lol), but when will people realize that, when it comes to someone else's lifestyle choices, whether it be haircut, sexual preference, shoes, iPhone or Android, car, length of finger nails, favorite sports team.....YOUR OPINION DOES NOT MATTER. nobody gives a **** what you think.
The world would be such a happier place if mankind as a whole could grasp this concept lol
^^^THIS^^^ +20 MILLION reps....I can't even give you one...darn it!
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Pretty sure I'm gonna wear my hair the way I want to when I'm in my 50s and older, so that it suits my lifestyle, needs and preferences. If I care what anyone else things, I'll consider that a life fail.
Why wait until you're in your 50's?
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Oh my gosh, I think older women with short hair-cuts look a billion times more attractive than men in the same age group with a comb-over...those comb-overs are so ludicrous to me. who are they fooling? Buzz it off, gentlemen! Or not...gives us all something to ponder--especially in a breeze.
Oh come on! Comb overs are totally sexy....said no one EVER. My father-in-law had a comb over wrap around turban. Looked absolutely ridiculous! The crazy old fart thought no one noticed he was bald....ummm yeah only those who had eyesight could tell!
Kind of feeling like I need to cut my hair off now.....and it has quite a bit of grey....it's past halfway down my back....maybe I should consider shaving my head....then we can have a whole new thread about stupid things....oh wait...
For those who can't be bothered clicking through, it's some of the women who've been rocking their short hair since the 1920's, including dames Helen and Judi, and a couple of Lizzies, only one of whom is the Queen.
You had me right up till Meg. She doesn't look like herself anymore and she has long hair!
I think long hair looks hot even on older women. It's versatile if you have some creativity and it looks more powerful than short length hair (both feminine and powerful). There's female bias on CD towards cutting woman's hair in the fashion section so it doesn't surprise me to see the bias here. Most men chime in such threads about younger ladies stating uniformly the same: Women with long hair look better. So there you have it... there's a major split in opinion. At the end of the day (or near the end of your life as well), it matters not what others think... it's your hair and your look.
It took me a very long time to get to the point where I realized as a guy I was never going to have the classic/media-idealized Aryan/German look (that coincidentally just a few years after WWII somehow became how all models look *making one think hmmm*). I simply don't have those features or hair pattern. So I embrace what I have instead. Since embracing my own look, I've had zero issues being perceived as attractive. Everyone is in the same boat and should do likewise. Make the best of what you have and be happy.
Most men chime in such threads about younger ladies stating uniformly the same: Women with long hair look better.
Who cares?
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it matters not what others think... it's your hair and your look.
To me it does matter - very much - what DH and my family and close circle think. DH especially since he has to look at my hair all day every day. I want to be attractive to him. Happily he thinks my short tousled silver do is gorgeous (especially when I wear red lip gloss and silver earrings, which I do all the time) and I adore his shaved head and facial scruff so all is well is biscuitland!
I think such---long, grey/white hair on someone 60+, is pathetic. It looks like they don't know they have aged, and are trying to still live in their youth.
If they were trying to still live in their youth, they would have dyed their hair.
Some people just like long hair, no matter what color it is.
Long hair is versatile. (and short hair can be easier and maybe more fun/hassle-free, etc.)
Long hair is not a sign of youth, at least not to me.
My 99 year old great grandmother had silver hair all the way down her back. I remember watching her brush it and wrap it all up in a bun. She was awesome. And I loved her hair.
She was, in no way, shape or form trying to still live in her youth.
She knew she was 99 years old.
I think people attach way too much meaning to things sometimes.
It's really.. JUST hair.
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Capris look like someone ran out of fabric when sewing the things. They also remind me of the high water pants that kids wear when they are in a growth spurt. I dont wear them because I dont like to call attention to my big feet and because I dont like wearing the cute shoes/sandals that seem to go with them.
But there again I dress to please myself, not the old geezers that seem to feel they should tell me how to dress and cut my hair.
There you go. I know what you mean about the high water pants- some capris go almost but not quite down to the ankle, I prefer those that are a little shorter, especially for our hot humid Florida summers. My mother calls capris high water pants, now that you mention them, LOL. I know she doesn't like them either. But I didn't expect her approval of my wardrobe choices, so its all good.
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But truth be told if I had long hair that looked like that 2nd pic, I'd take a pair of kitchen shears to it.
