| Long hair on older women
Posted: 3/31/2007 8:27:59 PM | | I'm just an ordinary guy, but long hair on a woman is definately attractive. There're tons of really beautiful women here with long hair, and at least to me, they all look super. It's all up to the woman herself, if she likes it and is comfortable, then why not? | |
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| Long hair on older women
Posted: 3/31/2007 8:51:22 PM | | I have worn my hair long most of my life, with intervals of cutting and having a short cut. I liked both as the short cut was a flippy do, and cute. But there is something romantic about long hair, and it is in MY head. So I try to keep a discerning eye when I look in the mirror to make sure that I look appropriate for me. I believe there are styles long or short that keeps us youthful, with the bottom line is we are all going to age, so I'm thinking keep a updated long look, keep the color reasonable for me, and yes, I love it when a man compliments my long hair. Besides I have the discerning eye of my daughter who I've grown to trust her judgment. If anyone has influence on what I do with my appearance it would be her. | |
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| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/1/2007 12:25:32 PM |
Ooh I love this question because everytime I see a woman with long hair I immediately check out the face to see how old it is!
Long hair really drags down the face and ifs it already looking "aged" long hair does nothing for that look
Bite meh!!!
*bows down with humble apologies.... NOT
I have had long hair the majority of my life..Just because AGING has defiled me...and robbed me of what you consider only tolerable, youth...will not induce me to have to cut it...
Regain my youth? Nothing can do that... and that is a sad reality...I certainly do not think my hair is going to...What a pompous ass!! | |
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| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/1/2007 12:44:23 PM |
Ooh I love this question because everytime I see a woman with long hair I immediately check out the face to see how old it is! (snipped for space) Regain my youth? Nothing can do that... and that is a sad reality...I certainly do not think my hair is going to...What a pompous ass!!
I see I have a sister I didn't know about. 
So long hair shouldn't go with an "old" face, because long hair is a symbol of youth...but long hair ages a woman. Both of those cannot be true.
And the respondent is entirely correct. Who says "aged" automatically equals "ugly"? There are lots of beautiful older women in the world...and some butt-ugly young ones. | |
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| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/1/2007 1:10:55 PM | I think it depends on the woman.
Some women in their 40 and 50's look great with long hair.
It starts to look terrible if it is grey or on women in their 60's onwards. | |
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Bunn
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Joined: 2/12/2007
Msg: 306 | |
| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/1/2007 4:23:03 PM | | The hair in this profile pic?? Looks great far as I am concerned but I would not consider it as "long hair" | |
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Bunn
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Joined: 2/12/2007
Msg: 307 | |
| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/1/2007 4:28:53 PM | | No that is not exactly what I meant..I just mean that when I see a woman walking in front of me with really long (and often really bad long hair) I am curious to see the face that goes with it. AND if it's the face of an older woman who does not suit that longer hair, I am always surprised and wonder why they insist on hanging on to it when it only makes them look much older. Now before you all go and get pissy with me I appreciate there will always be EXCEPTIONS to the rule .BUT generally speaking look around you.. alot of women over the age of40 DO NOT suit really long hair!!! If you are one of those exceptions, then Party on dude!! | |
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| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/1/2007 4:36:35 PM | Faces, necks and other body parts are what make people look older, not what they frame their heads with.
If someone sees long hair from behind and assumes that the person HAS to be young, and looks at the face from the front and the person is older, then they should be learning that hair is just hair and nothing to do with age.
If all you see is the back of someone hair, and they happen to have long hair down their back, until you see the front of the head, you don't even know if it is a man or a women if the hair is just hanging down long. | |
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Tansi1
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Joined: 2/15/2007
Msg: 309 | |
| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/1/2007 10:25:45 PM | Well, in my opinion, attitude has as much to do with how the woman of age looks with long hair as physical attributes. If she just wears it down and scraggly and doesn't present well, nothing she does or says will make her any more appealing. If she keeps it well and has a youthful attitude she should be able to carry it off.
Mine is to my butt and always has been. I know people who pass by are looking back to see the face but............"What other people think of me is none of my business".
My pictures are current and I think they show that attitude goes a long way to show ones self confidence. "Let it grow , let it grow , let it grow."
~Tansi~ | |
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| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/2/2007 8:31:00 AM | | Long hair that is white or gray. Seems to make the woman look much older. Dyed long hair on a older woman is just fine. It keeps you looking young | |
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| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/2/2007 2:20:12 PM | "It starts to look terrible if it is grey or on women in their 60's onwards. "
Can't agree with you when I look at my 60+ mother, whose salt-and-pepper long hair looks very nice on her.
Any statement resembling "a woman over X number of years doesn't look good with long hair and should cut it" is a generalization. It's the same as saying "all men think with their pants." If I made such a blanket statement, the men who are exceptions (most of them, I'm sure) would have every right to take offense. It's not "getting pissy" on someone. It's stating facts. Generalizations are false. (Yes, I realize that "generalizations are false" is a generalization.)
Now, I'd like to see someone take this one: Say a 60+ woman does have long, stringy, frizzy hair that doesn't look good on her and makes her resemble a Halloween witch, but she likes it and wants it that way. Whose business is it?
As we often say at my favorite long-hair-appreciative website, for which a couple of you have received links, "I am not here to decorate your world." | |
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| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/2/2007 4:32:43 PM | I think of youth, I recall certain arrogance as I stood at the threshold of my entire future cast before me at 18 or 19. We believe we are invincible for one, and can be adventurous and daring as we feel we have the world by the tale, for most the hard knocks that life gives us hasn't happened to most. Not yet. So it is easy for awhile to see that we are the conquerors of the world, we are going to prove our predecessors before us that we are the shiny new improved model…. So we also have a notion of beauty, and who can wear what length of hair or hemline on our skirt. The predecessors after all seem ancient to youth…
I think as we age we realize that hey, we had some of it just plain wrong. I went through some of this with my kids as teens. They saw me as a dinosaur. I went through a time of wearing my hair shorter, then one day my daughter said Mom, please grow your hair back out. I was ready to anyway. And happy too do it for her. Because the time also comes that we don’t want to see our parents age, and you know something I feel like that 18 or 19 year old INSIDE. The years fly by fast, and why not enjoy what you like without judgment being passed on you.
I think about a woman who had very long hair, and by some wouldn’t be considered a beauty, and more like the Halloween witch. But she is the nicest woman and her hair just seemed to fit her so perfectly. One day she came in and confided in me that she has cancer. They started her chemo and her hair is gone. That long, long hair that she most likely has had forever, she wears a scarf around her head now. She is a fighter, and I hope she is given the opportunity to grow it long like before. So to say to a person she is this or she is that tells me that you haven’t lived long enough. Hopefully some day you will… | |
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Bunn
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Joined: 2/12/2007
Msg: 313 | |
| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/2/2007 7:31:22 PM | | sorry Id rather forego the chemo treatments that might come down the road later on from using the HRT just to grow my hair? LOL | |
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| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/2/2007 11:02:16 PM | | The wheel of fortune stops at a better place for some of us as we age, but it doesn't for all of us. It becomes the luck of the draw... Bunn may you never face such a trial in your life. | |
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| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/3/2007 11:03:13 AM | To answer your question, I have long hair because I like it. I like the feel of it against my shoulders, my neck, my chest. I like running my hands through it when i wake up in the morning. I like brushing it. I like swinging it when I dance. I like draping it over a guy's face when I'm on top of him. I like having a bouncing ponytail when I run. I love the way it feels on my ears right now as I type this. I like it against my arms. Heck, I just like it.
And yes, I feel safer with it. Short hair always made me feel exposed and vulnerable.
And yes, I like hairy guys too. Not necessarily hair as long as mine, but at least hair touching the collar.
We like what we like; it's not much more complicated than that. | |
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Bunn
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Joined: 2/12/2007
Msg: 316 | |
| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/5/2007 10:05:08 PM | | And hon (not to offend) BUT you would look at least 15 years younger if you did cut it to shoulder length... | |
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Bunn
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Joined: 2/12/2007
Msg: 317 | |
| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/5/2007 10:07:54 PM | | Oh lordy here's another one>> perfect example of why you really should considering cutting it off to shoulder length..It's too long and you could easily look 15 20 years younger!! Dont mean to be offensive just my personal opinion and observation! | |
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| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/6/2007 12:22:57 AM | | Bunn, we don't know specifically who you're talking to when you tell them they should cut their hair, because which posts you're responding to doesn't come through in your reply. However, I must remind you than no one here is your eye candy. If we're old enough that you think we should cut our hair, then we're certainly old enough to make that decision ourselves. | |
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| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/6/2007 8:29:28 AM | Long ... longer ... or short ... shorter ... all sort of value judgments and not very specific.
I have always been amazed that at 40 something so many women all of a sudden cut all their hair off and now are into that male problem of .... If I let it grow again ... I get hat head.
[so they don't and are stuck with short hair that makes them look a bit dykish]
I prefer longer hair on almost all women ....
some women can pull off short pageboy looks but most can't with out the above problem.
Just my opinion .... but when my ex cut hers ...[wasn't my ex at the time]
I didn't really like it but of course went along with it though I'm sure it did have an effect that didn't help our relationship. The intermediate stage was too much for her ... so ... well ... she still has short hair ... ten years later. though I found an old picture in her left behind stuff with the comment on the back .... "why did I ever cut my hair?"
easier to wash? [it sure didn't look better]
[just my opinion] | |
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ryn48
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Joined: 2/26/2007
Msg: 320 | |
| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/6/2007 10:24:52 AM | | Timely post. I have worn my hair short short and blonde for 10 years or more. I was getting tired of it and so gave myself one year to grow it out (when I was young I did have long long hair) to my shoulder to see what it looks like. But I have a face that can wear long or short ok. If anyone says longer hair takes no more work, they are wrong! lol! When my hair was short(see profile) I could take a 3 minute shower and have scrubbed from top to bottom. Now I spend 10 or more minutes in the shower shampooing, conditioning. Not to mention I do need to dry it quickly or have an ice cube for a headdress..so I blow dry it. Before I used to just gel and go. It would dry in 3 minutes. lol! My bf enjoys the longer hair...but I am still undecided...my year is not up yet. Colour is another thing. As I am a Swede the blonde looks natural....but I would like to try red....guess I should try a few wigs on first to see if I like that type of colour. | |
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ryn48
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Joined: 2/26/2007
Msg: 321 | |
| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/6/2007 10:33:09 AM | | Just another word. I have seen 50 year old and older women with stunning silver or white long hair. I am not afraid of that. If I get the silver of my mother I would let that colour (or lack thereof) rule. If a woman my age wants longer hair, then she should take care of it. Sometimes when you see a woman, of any age actually, who has straggly hair, with no obvious care or style to it...the rest of the woman is the same....not kept up. | |
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Bunn
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Joined: 2/12/2007
Msg: 322 | |
| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/6/2007 8:42:56 PM | | and bad hair usually either way Male or Female but we ARE discussing bad hair on women..Lets not even go there with the male species! LOL | |
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Bunn
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Joined: 2/12/2007
Msg: 323 | |
| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/6/2007 8:44:14 PM | | Again,, it depends on the face sporting the long hair and the condition of that long hair. Some women will grow it out and its ugly and they think they look fantastic when they really just look like old haggard hoes! | |
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Bunn
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Joined: 2/12/2007
Msg: 324 | |
| Long hair on older women
Posted: 4/6/2007 8:48:43 PM | | But of course and its not a dictum /its just my opinion and that IS what this forum is discussing. Is it not> we are all entitled to our personal opinions and those were mine. I say if the "shoe fits, wear it" If you are a woman who clearly looks much older with the long locks then you need to be aware of that IF you are interested in changing that. If not , so be it. to each his /her own. Let's not read more into these posts than necessary its all just opinons! | |
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Bunn
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Joined: 2/12/2007
Msg: 325 | |
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