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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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OsloGin · 18/04/2015 13:16

That sounds amazing U2. Where did you get it?x

mumofthemonsters808 · 18/04/2015 13:18

I do like long hair, not on me because I'm way too old, but I do like to see flowing locks on a teenager. My Mum insisted I kept mine short and as a teenager I had a basin cut, so I think my fixation on long hair stems from there. I also adore all the hair jewellery that is fashionable.

OsloGin · 18/04/2015 13:19

Oh God. No idea where the x came from. I may be justifiably banished to nethuns.

Notso · 18/04/2015 13:20

I don't mind the long hair but the bedraggled looking messy buns and pony tails are wearing thin.
DD looks like she's been dragged through a hedge backwards most of the time.

That said it's probably a bit better than the scraped back hairsprayed to death high ponytails I favoured as a teen. Or worse the giant hairspray quiff.

I think parents through the ages have been Hmm about teens hair and clothes.

Shodan · 18/04/2015 13:23

I rather like the trend for long hair on girls, although I do wish the younger ones would wear theirs in a nice plait. Or at least some Kirby grips Grin

I've had long(ish) hair most of my life, although did have the obligatory Lady Di cut in my teens (closely followed by a lame attempt at a Goth-style 'do Grin). I can't bear fussing with my hair on a daily basis, nor the feel of wispy bits around my face. Plus when I train, I need as much hair off my face and neck as possible, due to the sweating!

And I recently bought this little doohickey, which is brilliant. I got DH to trim my hair for me the other day and it looks great and only took two minutes. My parsimonious idea of bliss Grin

cluecu · 18/04/2015 13:34

Cheryl's hair is still long enough at the back to cover her neck....I thought that was quite unusual but I suppose would hide the tattoo quite effectively. I think it makes her look fresher, not that she has never looked 'unfresh' Envy

HydrochloricTulip · 18/04/2015 13:43

I love it, mine has had long hair for the last 10 years now (minus a year where they had it short and then grew it immediately), it's long enough to sit on. Sometimes it's curly, sometimes it's straight, plaited, up, down, whatever. I think long hair is good (though mine is very, very short)

Momagain1 · 18/04/2015 13:49

As the mum, you can insist the hair be pulled back for gym class or other such activities, and when helping in the kitchen, and that it will be kept combed and cared for, with the penalty of uncared for long hair being cut to shoulder length.

At least mine did. Cut it off herself when I was 14, because I wasnt caring for it in just those ways. from then on I did, and it was long again before I finished high school.

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 18/04/2015 13:50

I cant grow my hair long because its too thin. So I have to the bottom of my neck at the back and longer at the front with asymmetrical fringe.

Momagain1 · 18/04/2015 13:58

Long hair = porn? Not necessarily. These things go in cycles. It's just time for long hair again.

Besides, the Duchess of Cambridge's long locks are surely an influence. As well as any number of mainstream actresses/characters, including cartoon characters.

blondegirl73 · 18/04/2015 14:00

I think overly long hair is minging, and I also think girls/women look a bit strange when they all have exactly the same hairstyle. Check out Sharon, Roxy and Denise Van Outen (who knows what her character is called!) in EastEnders at the moment as an example.

When it comes to little girls, I think as long as they tie it back, then it's fine. Pigtails, bunches, ponytails, plaits, whatever, all look so cute. I HATE seeing little girls not being able to run around or swim or do little girl stuff because their hair is flopping everywhere and getting in their face or eyes.

Lovecat · 18/04/2015 14:05

DD and I have noticed this on our morning bus ride - we go past a senior school on the way and not one girl has short or even shoulder length hair, it's all waist or bum length.

I don't think it's porn, I think it has a lot to do with Kate Middleton, the royal wedding and just generally wanting to be a bit princessy. DD wanted long hair and I let her have it (bitter memories of my own enforced pudding bowl bob) but it's very fine and tangle prone. At 10 she decided for herself to cut it to her shoulderblades and it looks so much better.

Lovecat · 18/04/2015 14:06

X-post, momagain!

expatinscotland · 18/04/2015 14:12

I love DD's long hair.

squoosh · 18/04/2015 15:23

Definitely think Kate Middleton swishy hair is an influence. People want that thick, shiny, bouncy hair. Eastenders hair which is more like ultra long, ultra blonde, crispy extensions looks terrible.

blueemerald · 18/04/2015 16:38

I just associate very long very straight hair with certain religious groups. I've always liked the idea of lovely long hair but whenever I see it in real life It just seems a bit... creepy?

AIBU to hope this fashion for very long hair dies soon?!
IHaveBrilloHair · 18/04/2015 16:42

13yr old dd has waist length purple hair and I love it, she looks gorgeous.

OoompaLooompa · 18/04/2015 16:59

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squoosh · 18/04/2015 17:02

Yes she's definitely got a few sneaky extensions.

Eastpoint · 18/04/2015 17:11

Ultra long hair isn't fashionable amongst my dds & their friends, nor with the women I know in their early-mid 20s. We are in London.

Jackieharris · 19/04/2015 20:07

Yes, I agree the km effect and the Disney princess influence is also part of the trend,

Wotsitsareafterme · 19/04/2015 20:17

Dd1 has really long hair. I only insist on a trim when it's a bit ragged from chlorine. She wants to be rapunzel and its blonde and wavy and we love it. I insist on plaits for school though she's only 5. I'm never making her have a square haircut Grin
I have really long hair too Grin

Coffeethrowtrampbitch · 19/04/2015 20:43

Dd has bright red hair to halfway down her back, it is lovely and wavy. She is six and if she wants to cut it when she is older, that's fine. But I had memories of the dreaded page boy cut and swore I would never do that to my own dd, so until she wants it short it will stay long and I get to brush it

Coffeethrowtrampbitch · 19/04/2015 20:45

Wotsits I've got long hair too. And my mum has stopped complaining about it finally and it only took about twenty years!

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