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AIBU to hope this fashion for very long hair dies soon?!

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GraduallyGoneInsane · 17/04/2015 17:22

A light hearted one..

Just back from taking the younger DDs for their back to school hair cut.

Neither DD3 (14) nor DD4 (11) wanted a hair cut at all. Both insisted on the world's tiniest trim. DD3 has hair which is past her waist already.

AIBU to hope this trend passes soon? The hair doesn't look nice, it goes thin and scratty past a certain length on just about everyone. It's not practical - she virtually never ties it back so it's always flopping around and drives me and her teachers mad. It costs a fortune in conditioner. I accept that long hair is pretty, but surely just below bra strap length is much nicer?!

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KingJoffreyFanciesDarylDixon · 17/04/2015 17:25

When people say bra strap length do they mean the underboob band?

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GraduallyGoneInsane · 17/04/2015 17:39

I meant where the strap crosses on your back, when your hair is down and behind you.

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70isaLimitNotaTarget · 17/04/2015 17:42

99% of the girls I see at my DC school have lovely long straight shiney hair. especially the ones in the Dance/Drama groups. (DD used to have bum length hair , now it's bra strap length - her choice)

Unfortunately some of the male pupils seem to favour long hair, they walk along like one of the Muppets, flicking their hair out of their eyes and risking a whiplash injury.

KingJoffrey at the back, where the strap sits I reckon.

tobysmum77 · 17/04/2015 17:44

Well as a family of people with thin scratty hair yanbu. not that it's possible to grow hair like ours to that length regardless of what the 'fashion' is ......

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 17/04/2015 17:44

Oh, BTW, very short hair costs more to maintain.
When I had longer hair , washing once a week and a trim when I Could Be Arsed.
Now short, wash/condition/some sort of product daily/alternate days and 6 weeks between cuts at the most

MoustacheofRonSwanson · 17/04/2015 18:26

Would either of them fancy a fringe or an undercut?

Mistigri · 17/04/2015 18:41

I agree that the identikit haircuts are tedious, they almost all have the same hairstyle. Don't teens these days want to look "different"?

DD bucked the trend for a long time but she's grown her hair (to bra strap length as it happens) this year. But as she has wavy hair she tends to wear it up in a messy bun most of the time as she can't be bothered to dry and straighten it.

StarlingMurmuration · 17/04/2015 18:48

Is it fashionable to have long hair?! How nice for me... I have a five month old DS and haven't had chance to have my hair cut for ages. I thought I just looked frumpy.

Jackieharris · 17/04/2015 18:51

Yes detangling it is a pita!

But I do think it looks nice and I don't need to pay for haircuts!

ilovechristmas1 · 17/04/2015 18:51

well a few of the girls around here have hair extensions,ages 14yrs + Shock

SqueezyCheeseWeasel · 17/04/2015 18:52

Really lonng hair isn't that fashionable around my way. Most of the girls I see (inc those in DD's secondary school) have bra strap length.

SqueezyCheeseWeasel · 17/04/2015 18:53

Sorry for typos

LotusLight · 17/04/2015 18:56

More girls round here are Indian or Pakistani than not and their hair is absolutely gorgeous however long and genuinely is not scraggly and thin when long - just glorious.

ConfusedInBath · 17/04/2015 19:19

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shewept · 17/04/2015 19:24

I don't get hair trends. DD has long hair, because she wants long hair inly one of her other friends has long hair. The rest have various lengths.

I have short hair and while I love the style is a pita and has to be washed and styled everyday as when I wake up its all on end and won't go down. DDS hairs takes about 10 minutes for her to do. I have to have mine trimmed every 4-6 weeks , she has hers done twice a year.

So I think long hair is easier

hidingfromthem · 17/04/2015 19:38

yes, the current trend with tweens and teenagers is for very long hair.
as long as they can get it.
similar to the 1970s.

in the early 1980s, i remember the trend was for short hair.
by 1987, that had passed.

i saw a senior schoolgirl recently with short hair and she looked amazing.
so fresh, so different and very pretty.
she really stood out, in a good way, from all the hairy mollies.

leccybill · 17/04/2015 20:42

All the teen girls I teach have big, bouncy wavy hair which us very long. They flip and flick it all over the place.
Some of them put the top bit
in a bun and curl the rest. It all looks very time consuming!

RB68 · 17/04/2015 20:54

My 9 yr old is desperate for longer hair but its just not the right type of hair really. She has mastered messy buns, plaits, bunches high and low and a variety of other hair dos as well. She is NINE - when did teen years extend to that age....

ImNameyChangey · 17/04/2015 21:13

I was in Macdonalds the other day (sue me) and I sat at a table which was next to a higher level...a girl was sitting at the higher level and she flopped her hair aggressively over her shoulder resulting in it DANGLING ONTO MY FOOD!

I was so annoyed!

CalleighDoodle · 17/04/2015 21:15

Extensions.

ImNameyChangey · 17/04/2015 21:26

Oh yes..it probably was! Bloody lucky she moved it immediately or I'd have dipped it in my coke!

squoosh · 17/04/2015 21:30

Long hair is drifting out of fashion now. Lobs (long bobs) are the future.

squoosh · 17/04/2015 21:32

I'm just about to break the news to Sharon. She won't be pleased.

AIBU to hope this fashion for very long hair dies soon?!
revealall · 17/04/2015 21:43

Well long hair is a classic female look as well as being a fashion so it won't totally go away. I think it looks great especially now straightness has given way to waves.
But of course it will change eventually. Hopefully the the more relaxed approach won't revert back to the rigid styling of straight bobs or Rachel cuts that means lots of effort to look the same as everyone else.
Aren't girls destined to end up with the same style as their mothers in the end though?

squoosh · 17/04/2015 21:45

I don't look at women with super long hair and think it looks relaxed. It's often set in 'beachy waves' that wouldn't move in a hurricane.