To wear my hair long at 40

Rice water shampoo and conditioner, solid bars from Kitsch alternated with Cornish Seaweed Bath Company shampoo and conditioner. (Get the 3 for 2 offer)

you need to give it a month to strip away the old chemicals from
your hair and the. It will start to lather up
well.

satin or silk pillow cases… or satin bonnet .

After a year of this the transition is massive. I dread to think how it would be now if I had done nothing.

Seeing it or searching for it?

As far as I’ve seen and heard in real life no-one is saying people over 40 should cut their hair unless they specifically ask for personal hair advice.

I use Shea Moisture shampoo and conditioner and argan oil. They're less than a tenner for a big bottle on offer and seem to work well.

I'm 48 and have long hair. I think its fine. My hair is still thick, healthy and dark. I've had friends cut their hair much shorter in the past several years because their hair had thinned, changed texture or they feel the condition has been badly effected by repeated colouring. Others just wanted a change. I don't think anyone specifically went short because they felt they were too old for long hair.

Is this online? Read one and the algorithm will present you another one , it thinks it’s giving you what you want to read!

What’s wrong with short hair?

No no no this is just as misogynistic and ridiculous as "women over 40 can't have long hair".

Women of any age can wear their hair however they bloody well want FFS.

I'm in my 50s, long hair past my bra strap, I wear it a variety of ways and always get compliments, especially from younger women which always makes me so happy!

I will never have short hair and neither will my sisters or my sister in law.

We are all of a certain age and love our long hair.

My great grandmother had looooong hair way past her bum. She was very old school and always covered it all under a scarf. I remember when I was little I saw her getting ready so before the scarf went on, and I was amazed by this glorious sea of white hair. She was in her 90s I think.

I'm in my 40s and my hair goes down to my lower back. I don't do anything with it really and it looks great. I only use cheap shampoo etc from Aldi but use a little hair oil in the summer if it starts looking really dry. I might reconsider if/when it starts thinning but it's OK for now. I've heard this thing about women and long hair in their 40s but I'm not cutting mine any time soon.

60s with long hair here.

I am 52, with long hair. It's below my shoulders, mainly grey now but used to be blonde. It's quite thick so dyeing it would be a pain.
I once had it short in junior school but never liked it.
My mum did used to make the odd comment about my age/appropriateness of long hair but I ignored her!
Once you get to perimenopause etc I promise you won't give a toss what anyone else thinks!

Yes that's the conditioner I'm using. Still feels like straw.

Make the most of it. It will dry out and get frizzy before long (unless you're Kate M obviously)

I have been sucked into buying a highly expensive seaweed shampoo that promises to defrizz and stop shedding. It's still a frizzy mess. For a brief shining moment (2 years or so) up until last November I had the best hair I'd had since I was a teen - shiny, well condition ringlets and LONG. Now it has gone to total shit.

Pretty much every woman of every age has long hair these days

I never hear that said. I have long hair at 58 and my younger colleagues can't understand why people get their hair cut as they get older.

I’m 43 and have always had long hair. It does take a bit more effort to keep it looking good than it once did. I take collagen which really helps with condition and stopped some of the shedding.

Stop reading stupid articles about how long your hair should be then Op

Clearly most of us haven't heard the same

Yea I don’t use heat on my hair - no hairdryer or straighteners

I think thickness is the main thing. Thin hair is a problem at any length but if it’s short and choppy it looks thicker. Thin, long hair does nothing for ageing features. Short hair is not frumpy, it’s the cut that’s important.

I could have written this

No problem.

wash my hair with normal shampoo.

pat dry my hair so it’s damp not soaking

warm the jar of coconut oil in a pan of warm water- so it’s liquid.

using my fingers I massage into my scalp and the entire length of my hair

I leave at least 2 hrs before wrapped in a towel turban thing (before DH I use to leave overnight but he hates sleeping next to my oily hair)

wash out again and use a good quality hair conditioner to finish.

you can add essential oils like rosemary to it- I don’t.

I have been doing it since I shared a flat with 3 Indians girls at uni and they introduced me to it.

i buy a large tub from the local spice shop and works out very cheap.

Ok
First: label.m does great hair products. I use the oat and honey shampoo, it looks after my hair without irritating my scalp. Check them out.
Second: Stop believing crap on the internet.
Third: nope, that's it!

69, with hair past my waist. I wear it up because once it's up, I don't have to think about it for the rest of the day. It's mostly white now). I'm not interested in wasting my time or money at a hairdresser's, which I would have to if I cut it. I occasionally trim it myself if I think it's too tatty and endy because then it's hard to put up neatly. I never thought about cutting it at 40. That's so arbitrary. I've recently started using a shampoo by John Frieda, which has the word thickener in the name and I like it mainly because it doesn't leave my hair tangled or rough feeling which my usual shampoos had started doing. I also like Faith in Nature shampoos but as I used to wash my hair in washing up liquid as a teenager, I'm easily pleased!