Short hair

Thank you 😭😭

I know there's MN love for buzzcuts but omg,
it's savage! 😮

You look amazing!!

I'm definitely giving it some more consideration - ty!!

Since the 1960s I’ve had my hair long, extremely short and everything in between as fashions have changed drastically along the way. Short hair always seems to emphasise my prominent chin and large forehead. I look far better with shoulder length hair because it softens my features and frames my face. Some women do look amazing with short hair but sadly I’m not one of them!

My mum was of the view that older women shouldn't have long hair (a woman of her generation) so perhaps this is why the older generation have short hair, and we'll see more and more ladies with longer hair as this idea 'grows out'.

I have curly hair cut quite short and do absolutely nothing other than wash it, rub in a bit of curl crème and then leave it. Every day the result is different.

I have a fair amount of grey and being curly it blends in ok; I have no intention of colouring it again.

Me out on Friday in my dungarees 🤣🤣 kids were all wtf are you wearing? Are you going out like that?

I'm 54. I don't wear makeup.

My friend is approaching 50. She makes a bit more effort tbh but not a great deal 🤣🤣

I also have the overweight potato fear 😆 plus I'm in my 50s...

But I also think it would make experimenting with colour a lot of fun with no maintenance issues...

@ISeeMisledPeople I did mine March 2020. My friend has spent 3 years telling me she would love to do it but she's too fat/looks like a potato/it wouldn't suit her.

About 2 months ago she went for it. She absolutely glows and it suits her so much. It's amazing how utterly liberating it is. No more worrying about what hair looks like because I don't have any 🤣🤣

We both have very different face shapes and it suits us both so well 😊

If I do go for short hair, that's exactly what I'll be doing! I've been contemplating it for a couple of years...

Depends how short you go tbh. Grade 2 requires nothing but a run over with the clippers every couple of weeks 🤣🤣

Short hair can also take more styling than longer hair (I wasn’t expecting this)!

Short hair is far too expensive and needs to be cut regularly. It's simple economics

I do think fashion plays a big part. There have been several periods in history where short hair has been more fashionable than now, the 30s and 30s certainly, in the 50s everyone wanted to copy Ingrid Bergman’s famous short haircut in a film. The 60 Twiggy and Mary Quant were style leaders. I certainly remember having my hair cut short in the 80s, it looked great.

i have just come back from France and I think women with short hair is much more common.

Having long hair does seem to be a bit of an obsession in Britain, but unless it’s thick and well looked after it can look awful and sometimes ageing as well.

Yes, when someone tried to argue that girls/women didn't have short hair in the 80s, I nearly posted that they should watch that documentary!

Yes, I think George himself had a Princess Diana hairstyle for a while 😂

Yes this. I do associate shorter hair with more mature women but it’s not being ageist, it’s simply because far more older women have short hair. Growing up, literally all the older women around me had very, very short hair. It was extremely rare to see an older woman with long hair. I’m not saying they ought to have had long hair as it’s completely up to them but when it’s all you see, you do tend to associate that style with a certain generation. That doesn’t mean younger women can’t or shouldn’t have short hair by any means but it IS a style predominantly preferred by that generation. I don’t quite understand why people are so enraged by that.

I watched the Netflix documentary about Wham last night and, having read this thread, what really struck me was how the majority of teenage girls wore their hair short - and yes, some Princess Diana hairstyles there too!

I know a couple of women with shorter hair including me

I would love to have longer hair but my hair is so fine it looks straggly really quickly and looks much healthier when short

I tried so hard to like having short hair, but I feel more ‘me’ and more feminine when it’s a bit longer

I always had short hair when o was younger. Then I developed curls so grew my hair but hated it as it was frizzy and shit and I generally wore it tied back.

Start of first lockdown I got the clippers and gave myself a grade 2 all over. Absolutely love it and have kept it the same ever since.

I love not having to think about my hair ever. Makes my life so much easier. It suits me people can't imagine me with hair now. Husband loves it because it makes me so happy.

Friend of mine with super curly/frizzy hair has just gone for a grade 2 and absolutely loves it. She's positively glowing since she had it done and wishes she'd done it years ago.

Have had short hair for about 15 years. Pixie cut style. It’s fab. Am also lucky that it suits me, and I like the fact that it is fairly distinctive.

Day to day it’s really low maintenance and practical and looks stylish and put together. expensive at the hairdressers though- esp now it needs dying too. I go religiously every 6 weeks…. If it’s short it has to be well cut and regularly cut.

Short hair was to be fantastic , I had it for ages , from teen to early 30s and then in covid, grew the whole thing down and now just tie it

I didn’t feel very feminine when I had my hair cut short. I find long hair has more options and is easy to tie back on busy mornings