To think not many women have short hair

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I know there will be posters on here who have, but just thinking of people I know in real life.
Thinking of a group of 7 friends I've had since school, not one of them has above shoulder length hair. One tried a pixie about a decade ago, but grew it straight out and none have ever had anything less than a very very long bob.
I vaguely know of 2 women with buzz cuts, which suit them, they're my partner's colleagues, but otherwise I know nobody.
Working across secondary schools, it's very very rare to see girls with short hair. Maybe 2 in the whole year group.
I may be wrong but I've never seen anybody on a show like Love Island with short hair, always flowing extensions.
I have it, but sometimes wonder if I'm considered more unattractive for it, not that it matters, I do it for me.
Does anybody else notice this?

Men definitely prefer women with long hair

What, all of them? I very much doubt that, somehow. That’s like saying “Women definitely prefer men with beards”.

I have very short hair, and I agree with you, OP.
None of my friends or colleagues have short hair, and I don’t see much variety in hair amongst young girls, or women these days, like there was when I was growing up. Everyone seems to have flat, straightened, looooong hair, with Instagram ready make up and scary brows!

Since following the culy girl method my hair has almost halved in length as real corkscrew curls have developed. I get lots of comments on my hair now - but never the beautiful curls, always the fact they now look only chin length.

I'm not bothered, though - it's my hair and I have forever done what I wanted with it 😁

Also, I mean, does it matter? There will be a man who likes your hair as it is, so even if we accept that many men like long hair is that any reason not to have short hair?

I can't afford short hair.

I had a pixie cut for years but it required a salon visit every 5-6 weeks. I can't afford that now.

DH is charged £10 by his barber. 5 years ago a trim to maintain my cropped style was £25, goodness knows what it would be now.

I can't afford female hair salon prices now, so my hair is long.

My hair is currently very short, I really like it. People say it suits me. I often grow it, wear it long for a while and then go for a short bob or a pixie. I like changing it up!

I don't think you have to be brave to have short hair. But I do think you have to be confident.

My hair is far too long for my face shape but I hide behind it because I hate my side profile. I never ever wear it in a pony tail or off my face unless I'm running.

I love my hair short. Mine is so much easier to look after, I can just wash and go. I'm late 40s and occasionally think about growing it longer for one last time (I know if I don't do it soon I never will), but I can't be arsed to be honest. It took ages to dry when long and my curls + hairdryers just didn't get on.

I don't think it ages me, the wrinkles do that... 😀

If I had straight hair I would have it short, but it’s curly so I keep it long. I wanted very long hair for years so was dedicated to growing it, I didn’t realise for many years that everyone else just got extensions! 😬

Go to a barber too! I've had short hair most of my adult life, and for years I had a very short crop with a tousled top and a fade on the sides, I went every 4 weeks to keep it looking sharp. I used to get loads of compliments on it, and now I'm growing it out I keep having longings to get it all cut off again.

I didn’t realise for years that celebs use extensions/weaves to make their hair.look longer/thicker.

I work with older women (mostly over 70) and most have shorter hair. One younger friend has very short hair

I find some of these posts highly hypocritical.
Some acknowledge short hair was the fashion in the eighties so accept girls were generally following a trend. But many of the same posters have a sneering tone for girls who are just following the fashion for long hair, calling them identikit etc.

Generally, people find a hairstyle they like and then stick with it of it suits them. So I'd assume if short hair was a trend in your youth and you tried it you'd be more likely to keep that style when you got older. Haircuts therefore age. The Rachel, for example will be very much the old lady style of choice in vogue I'm about 20 or so years because people stuck with what suited them and a lot of people tried it.

I don't think it's a nice trait to write off women with long hair as lacking agency or victims of the patriarchy

In my experience women with short hair are either older women or women who have a cool, edgy style. I think it's quite difficult to pull off. I would certainly look like a potato.

I find it odd that people say short hair is a Bob or shoulder length (I googled the love Island girl mentioned a few pages back) and that’s not what I’d term as short. Short to me is cut above the ears…

I had a buzz cut a couple of years ago - aside the “brave” 🙄 comments, one particularly lovely individual told me “I hope the cancer gets you soon”.

I don’t go longer than a Bob because long hair in cushions/pillows/baths/sinks/floor gives me the boak. 😂

I work with about 40 women of all ages and only 7 of them have short hair that i an think of. They are all over 50 but I'm nearly 50 and have long hair. I don't see many women under 30 with short hair which is a shame as when I was under 30 I had short hair. Must be the fashion nowadays and I think it can look striking.

I work work in an NHS setting with about 15 women aged 25-70. Half of us have hair short enough not to be able to put it up.

What do you classify as short hair? Mine is in a bob about chin length at the moment. I don't class that as short as I had hair two inches long max for years.

I have a chin length bob with blue highlights weaved in at the sides. I'm 50 and my hair just won't grow longer than this without looking weedy and thin. I've recently had it shorter as well. I liked it, I got lots of compliments, in fact I might have it cut short again soon.

Diana had short hair and she was a fashion icon and the world’s most photographed woman.

My friends and colleagues are late 40s to mid 50s all have long hair.

I have never thought about this but you're on to something! All my female colleagues and clients who are female have long hair. I have short hair. Haven't had long hair since the early 90s but did have a bob about 14 years ago. No-one ever comments about it.

In the 1980s and 1990s. Do you think perhaps fashion has changed since then?

I was countering the notion that short hair is fundamentally frumpy, ageing and unflattering which seems to prevail on these threads.

I was countering the notion that short hair is fundamentally frumpy, ageing and unflattering which seems to prevail on these threads.

Sticking with 80s / 90s fashion in 2022 is ageing.

It's not aging , it's just how you choose to judge people for not conforming

people should be free to wear their hair how they like not bound to constraints of fashion

And I don't for a moment believe that women fundamentally and innately all like long hair