I need the weight of longer hair to manage the curl a bit.
So true with curly hair!
Dd has unfortunately inherited my curls but her dads thickness! The combination is an absolute nightmare to manage! At one point she did find a hairdresser who was willing to relax it but she's since moved and most hairdressers won't relax a white womans curly hair.
I noted on another thread recently how we both hate going to the hairdressers and I've mostly cut our hair myself.
If you have ultra fine hair I find in nearly all cases shorter styles look better. that's just your opinion, based on your own hair and bone structure? It's not fact
I'm 48 and my mother thinks it's "unseemly" to have long hair after 40! Ridiculous!
On the odd occasion I wear it down (and someone sees it!) I still receive loads of compliments and "people would pay good money to have your hair" but that's partly the colour too which is a popular one at the moment BUT was a nightmare growing up due to huge prejudice in this country (redhead)
What I HAVE found amusing is the women of my mothers generation (boomers) who laughed at their mothers with their shampoo and sets being a sign of their age...when almost all boomers I know now have a certain style of bob! So that's become a fair indicator of their age!
They also seem oblivious to the fact they've done pretty much as their mothers did and gravitated back to a style they first adopted in their late teens/twenties as that was the fashion then. Shampoo and set became an "old woman's" thing when the women of that era for whom that was a fashionable 'do became pensioners themselves.
I was fortunate enough to know my great grandmothers who were still alive until just before I started high school and they'd have been in their teens/twenties in the Edwardian era and so still had very long hair which they daily put into traditional buns and coils!