To be upset that fellow holiday goer told me I'm too old for my hair?

Ignore.

She is likely envious of how good you look!

Well done for losing weight and deciding to treat yourself with a holiday.

I used to have people around me like that.

I now know them as narcs, very jealous little demons who pretend to be your friends/family. I also used to have weight.

Listen to this advice and surround yourself by only people who feed your soul

I am currently suffering with the tatty after effects of a very bad bob 😞

What did you do to recover your hair?

Also can anyone please tell me what a ‘glow up’ is and where to get one?

I bet your hair is gorgeous, OP - stay strong and don't be swayed by the comments of a random!

Why someon's hair should bother anyone else enough for them to comment, I just can't think....with the exception of one awful style which I hope has now gone for ever. It's where young women tied their long hair in an excruciatingly tight ponytail and then had 2 horrible, long, grease-gelled strands hanging down at each side, or even over their face. It made me queasy just to look at it - but I would never have said anything. Totally their business!

My hair is too frizzy to be short. Mine will be long forever. Who is going to come and tell me about it, the hair police???

Rather be alone than have friends like that. You need a complete overhaul of your friend/family group (because I’ll bet this isn’t the only nasty narcy shite around you)

Watch your self esteem rocket when you do

Its an old fashioned view that when a women hits a certain age they should cut their hair short.
Ignore her it’s not personal.

Cheeky bi**h

I'm from a more forthright culture, and I would consider that rude.

Just ignore it-it’s an opinion. Don’t sit in your room moping because of an opinion. Accept she’s like that because it’s in her culture to voice opinions and she might have fixed views on how others should look. Don’t let stuff like that ruin your life!

What a rude bitch. But, having said that, I find most foreigners rude - they somehow think that commenting on appearance is OK, as if people are horses, dogs, etc. Through work I interacted with many foreign cultures, the Russians and East Europeans in general are the worst, but then the French and the Germans are not too far behind them. If it happens in the future, I found that saying 'in this country/or in a civilised society one simply does not say that' - it sends them up the wall, usually - this will nip any unwanted advice about clothes/kids behaviour/appearance in the bud. No point being polite with rude swines.

After being in different cultures and seeing how they greet each other with “you’re fat!” “You’re too dark!” then I had to adjust to how forthright they are.. didn’t like that part

Austrian or Dutch by any chance?
DH has Austrian rellies and they seem to believe that tact and kindness should never get in the way of an opinion
Ignore it OP, if you are happy with your hair then thats all that matters, the last time someone offered me an unsolicited opinion I told them that I hadn't asked

True, but I tend to be more understanding with younger women being vulgar as when you're getting older you sort of figure out this is not the way to go.

Where I am from originally it seems every second older woman has the same super short pixie cut. In fact I just googled 'Australian older woman haircut' and pixies were among the first thing that came up. It simply does not suit everyone IMO but it's so ubiquitous that DH commented on it last time we were there 'Everyone has the same haircut'.

I wish I knew what really suited me tbh but whatever that is, I doubt it's short.

I'd have said, thsnks for the comment but I don't remember asking!

OP, you are not, not, not too old for your hair! What you are too old for is letting negative comments from someone who just 'has to tell you something' get under your skin. Her comment is saying a lot more about her murky subconscious jealousy than it is about your hair. File the incident along with the Bad Bad Bob of October 23 under weird stuff that happened I can giggle about now.

You would have be reasonable to strangle her with your long hair.
No matter how old I get I will wear what I want and do my hair how I want. Haters gonna hate 😬

There are some judgemental twats about, these people have something miserable and bitter inside them for them to want to bring people down a peg.
Just remember that.
Look how the fuck your want in this short life!

This is bringing back echoes of my gran telling my mum she should get a short perm and blue rinse when she hit 50, instead of having her hair shoulder length 😂

Ignore her, OP.

Oh what a shame she shook your confidence.

I wonder what on earth made her think that it was in her gift to impart "age appropriate style advice" to you, particularly given that you are from different cultures.

All you can do now is laugh it off - what a terribly outdated view of "appropriate" style she has. Before she said this, would she have been someone whose style you envied?

Please don’t listen to her. I remember being mystified by my grandmother’s generation who seemed to hit a certain age (not very old) and started wearing beige and got sensible hair cuts. It was almost as if they were worried they might be judged if they wore something nice. I was very relieved that my mother’s generation didn’t do this.

I don’t think so. If, as a subsequent poster has suggested, she’s Dutch, it’s not down to some individual jealousy or unpleasantness, it’s culturally fairly normal to share your negative opinion of someone’s appearance.

Your body your choice. We meet so many judgemental people in our lives, don't we? Their problem not yours x

Funny that people could guess it was someone Dutch. I would have guessed English as I got the same remark from my English neighbour. It was extra insensitive as he knew I was about to get chemo treatments for my cancer and might lose my hair ( and I did).