Short hair

[Lykkeli]

Does anybody feel that they don't see many women with short hair? Particularly younger women. I can think of 2 females out of many who've got a pixie cut, but the vast majority of women I know have at least a long bob.
I currently have a short bob, but I just find it bland, flat and uninspiring.
I'm thinking of going for a pixie cut, I know it's just hair and will grow back. Men often seem to prefer longer hair, not all but generally, I guess it's associated with being 'feminine'.

Maybe yours is.

My long wavy hair is much easier to manage than short. Wash and go. And when it's misbehaving up it goes in a bun. Short hair takes so much faffing about to style.

Long hair is so easy to maintain especially mine which also dries quickly naturally

You're accusing others of being ageist, but you don't want your hairstyle making your face look saggy and old. I agree longer hair has the same effect on me but it can be tied up and back to lift the face.

I have the kind of thick wavy hair which would be a nightmare to keep short, which I recently proved again by getting a fringe cut in - it needs daily styling whereas the rest of my hair looks after itself. It needs weight to it.

Im 55 have had short hair a few times then mostly bobs. My hair is very thick and wavy. It grew in lockdown and i left it now its almost waist length. Always get lots of compliments on it but get asked if its extensions a lot. My mum whos nearly 80 kerps telling me to get it cut but i like it longer

I love short hair and find it highlights a person's face better than long hair does. Long hair can be beautiful of course, but so many women have long hair which is not in great condition, looks stringy etc., and they seem to think that because it is long it doesn't need trimming - it does, it really does.

I've always had fairly short hair and it is so much easier to deal with. I couldn't be bothered faffing around - I just wash mine, stick a tiny amount of leave in condtioner in it and go. On the mornings when I don't wash it I do nothing, other than maybe run my fingers through it.

This thread is interesting for those of us that had long hair in the 1980’s when it absolutely wasn’t fashionable.
Literally the same comments but in exact reverse.
I remember arguing with everyone and despairingly reading magazines and watching TV that suggested long hair required lots washing, drying, styling and didn’t feel “hot and heavy” . Neither did it make me a hippy ( as in 60’s and 70’s grubby, drug taking loser) or a witch.

Long hair now comes from looking glamorous and expensive whereas short hair is old lady hair that can’t be bothered.Its fascinating the conviction people have about womens hair but also how linked to societal values.

I wondered if it was extensions. She said she just grew it out over lockdown.

not Really it’s £22 a hair cut every 3 months

long hair still needs cutting properly or it looks rubbish

I've recently cut all my hair off after two years of growing it out from buzzcut to long bob length. It was an impulse decision but I had also been growing increasingly annoyed with my hair, how it took so long to dry and style, and I found myself mostly bunging it in a ponytail.

I love it so much now it's super short again. I have had short hair most of my life and I do feel it suits me better. Also I cut it myself using the longest guards on my clippers so it cost nothing to maintain and I have enough on top to mess up a bit with some texturising putty so it looks 'done' with zero fuss.

You're right about younger women. My 16 year old has hair like Demi Moore in ghost, it suits her so much, and she is one of maybe two or three girls in her entire school with above shoulder length hair.

If you have flat, straight hair like mine, short hair is so much more time consuming if you want it to look half decent. You need to add product and style it, and wash it most days because of the product. And I'm way too lazy for that. So I have long hair.

My daughter has short hair. She has curly hair, and can just wash it and towel dry it, and it looks great. If my hair was more like hers, I would absolutely have short hair

It hasn't been fashionable for a long time. I've had short hair, short bobs but have gone back to longer hair in the last few years, and it's so much easier.

With shorter hair I'm constantly having it cut to keep the style and always have to style it, use products, straighten etc as otherwise it just sticks out or doesn't go back into the style.

With long hair I can style it if I want to and make it more glamourous or high maintenance but particularly at this time of year I can just wash and leave it, or tie it back. And it costs far less as I don't need it cut as frequently.

Short hair is a real faff and takes a lot of work to look good, for me.

I don't see how short hair is any more exciting than long hair. Young girls aren't growing their hair long for boys. It's a trend, most likely off the back of Covid lockdowns.

I think some very short hairstyles do have an association with being a mum/middle-aged. The younger generations usually want to look different to the older ones.

I love short hair and find it highlights a person's face better than long hair does

Well yes, that's another thing. I don't particularly want my face highlighting, and with long hair I can hide it better when I want to!

I've also stopped colouring mine as well and found it isn't even very grey, only the odd grey hair at nearly 48, and it's so much shinier and looks better the less I faff around with it.

Reading this thread has just made me realise something. That the annoying bloke at an activity I do who keeps going on about how aggressive my hair cut is, and the people at work who seem surprised I have a husband - they all share the assumptions around harshness and sexuality shown on this thread.

I’m quite happy to be seen as assertive and I don’t care if people make wrong assumptions about my sexuality. But I hadn’t realised that a pixie cut was quite that big a statement. For me it’s like not wearing make up, just something I do because it’s easiest.

My DD was in Reception year around 15 years ago. she had lovely short funky hair. She was told by others she 'looked like a boy'.
The stereotypes that girls should have long hair are well entrenched.
Including now sadly that a teen girl having short hair means people think ?trans which probably puts girls off shorter styles too.

Long hair now comes from looking glamorous and expensive whereas short hair is old lady hair that can’t be bothered.Its fascinating the conviction people have about womens hair but also how linked to societal values.

Until recently older women had perms and other short hair easy to manage styles, and the prevailing message was that long hair was "witchy" or otherwise unattractive over 35 or something ridiculous like that.

So having long hair as a mature woman could actually been seen as rebelling against the idea that you need sensible short hair as you get older. A lot of other women of my age I talk to with longer hair just find it easier to manage, as I do. It's not high maintenance or high glamour unless you want it to be.

This morning I had a shower then towel dried my long wavy hair and combed through some serum and left it - that's it. If it was a bob or shorter and I did that it would be stuck out like a sore thumb and look shit unless I straightened it or otherwise heat styled it.

I went to school in the 80s (and very early 90s) and I think there were more girls with short hair than long hair. It really suited some people and not others. I experimented with a "Lady Diana" cut and then a perm but both looked ghastly on me (I have a big, wide face with large features and long hair frames and flatters it better). Now the fashion is most people with long hair. Though I'm a long hair fan for myself it's nice to see people choosing short (or long) hairstyles they feel suit their face/personality/ lifestyle rather than following the crowd. My daughter had a very short bob last year and it looked great - she has a small face/features - but she's now growing it long again because all her friends are. Conversely my 18 year old son has quite long (but well kempt) hair which really suits him but people are always rudely telling him to get it cut!

A lot of men find short hair sexier than long. Just like some guys like legs and some like boobs. It’s all subjective. I had a pixie cut and looked like a potato. It really doesn’t suit me. I was devastated because I really love them. (In my case, I also have super-fine, wavy hair that suddenly went frizzy when short and I found the styling of the pixie cut to be much more labour and time intensive than a bob that I can just jam into a bun or braid for work.)

I've had my hair long enough to sit on to up to my ears! the hardest length was short! I felt it was unforgiving to not having regular trims and shaping - whereas my current length (just past bra straps) is very low maintenance - wash, braid leave over night and I have loose waves that sit nicely until the next wash.

Short hair can be gorgeous but I do think it takes more a commitment than I am prepared to make. All the young girls in my sons classes have mid - long hair and there is a lot of braiding/styling that goes on - I imagine it would be a little bit challenging for the girls with short hair to join in.

I had mine cut from bum length to shoulder length a couple of years ago, thick and curly. I now have a no.2 on the back and sides, graduating and blended into a mop of curls at the front. Wash, mousse, done. I absolutely love not having to worry about knots, no brushing and just spritz with water on the non wash days. Cut at the barber every 6 weeks for the princely sum of £14.

I've actually been told that this style takes years of me. I have a love of scarves and caps where the curls show at the front.

Mine is a short bob, comes to just below my ears and I like it, had loads of compliments too. The downside is that it is a bit more high maintenance but if I'm desperate I can get it into a teeny tiny pony tail and pin my fringe back.

Short short hair wouldn't suit me I don't think so it wouldn't be something I would do but some women can really pull it off. Someone I went to school with had a pixie cut and it was like it was made for her. She was generally small all over with petite features.

looks like she's grown her own hair and then uses extensions for red carpet events.

I've got short hair. A pixie cut.

I considered growing it back but I can't be bothered.

For me short hair is much easier. I wash my hair every day, sometimes twice and it took forever to dry and then straighten.

I have fine hair but a lot of it according to my hair dresser.

In a perfect world, I would love to look like Naga Munchetty. Pixie cuts are stunning on the right face. Sadly not on me.