To put my hair in bunches?

[Kasterborous]

I've recently grown my hair out after years of having it short, and it's finally got to a long enough length to tie it back. I tried a ponytail but it won't stay in so I put it in bunches. A couple of people have said to me that only girls have bunches made me feel a bit . I know I'm 40 but is it really that bad?

I'm nearly 38.

Have long hair and still wear them in 2 low plaits.

Hair is to long and thick for bunches but if i'd straightened it I might do.

Wear your hair how you want OP.

Friend of mine had her hair in bunches recently-tied with bobbles/go-gos??

She looked fab.

She's 50.

unCharted they are somewhere in between the two.

I wear low bunches sometimes.
People at the door sometimes ask if my mother is home.
I care not.

Bunches are totally appropriate in a 40 yr old woman. It's just that not everyone gets away with it. YOU DO.

A couple of people have said they make me look younger too. Maybe it's because my wrinkles have been pulled tighter. Also I am only the same height as a ten year old girl at 4ft10in.

i think you're fibbing about the low bunches, OP

Dear god, I can't believe the number of people who have an actual opinion as to how other women should wear their hair. Do whatever you want.

I am 31 I used to wear my hair in low bunches at the back hopped up and back through iyswim? Makes it look less little girlish I think?

I wear bunches, pony tails, knots - what ever I want!

I think bunches look daft on anyone over 12.

Do you actually give a shit? That's a bit sad really.

My friend still wears bunches when we go out. We're all goths mind. I say, go for it!

Bunches on women older than their very early twenties look ridiculous. Just dreadful.

I wouldn't wear them to work or a wedding or evening do, but for daytime, sport, yoga, housework, dog walking or a casual pub lunch I don't see the issue. It's a very casual style but so what?

I think they look ridiculous on adults tbh.

But, if you like them then that's what matters surely?

I do it occasionally! (I'm 32) I have fairly long hair and wear them fairly low and far back, like the first three pics here (not like Britney, ehem) -

lasthairmodels.com/2012/05/29/hairstyle-with-bunches/

WHO makes the rules that a certain way of tying your hair back should stop at a certain age? Hogwash.

It's only fashion that dictates that bunches are for little girls.

I, for example, have short hair. In Victorian times, my hair would've been deemed suitable only for a man. I would've seemed eccentric in the extreme.

In 100 years, who is to say women won't be wearing bunches as a formal hairstyle suitable for the office?

If you like them, wear them. You might start a fashion!

I wear bunches sometimes.

I have longer hair so twist them a bit like the first pic here

www.myshineproject.com/2013/04/3-ways-to-style-pigtails-so-you-dont.html?m=1

Or messy fishtail braids

No one has ever commented on them

Freddie that's like mine