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'.

I have a mid length bob something like this, with some soft layering around the face. It doesn’t need daily washing and blow drying, I wash it once a week.

I find exactly the opposite. When my sharp asymmetric bob is freshly cut I look ten years younger than when it needs cutting. I looked like a crone by the end of lockdown. The only way long hair would work for me now is putting it up and I really couldn’t be arsed with that every day.

I remember when girls had short hair, and long was an exception, cultural. And I remember the difficulties we had when they started coming in with long. "You can't do PE/gym with loose hair." "Mummy won't let me fasten it back." "Well, going on the apparatus is dangerous with long hair, so you can't do it." Eventually they gave way on fastening back in some way, but the mums had strong opinions. Curious as I recalled children who wanted long hair, and their mums wouldn't let them grow it.
What do people with ong hair do at night? My hair is due for a cut, somewhere they know what layering is, as during the night mine gets in my mouth, and it's
only collar length.
I wonder if the development of better nit controls has anything to do with the change for children.

On the flip side, I find that so many men freely wander around looking like potatoes when longer hair would suit them so much better.

So many men just don't have the features to be beardless and with short hair.

I am 54 and my hair is long layered and thick, l get loads of compliments on it, l mostly trim ends myself and colour it myself so save a fortune. I keep it in good condition. I have always had long hair, l like it and it suits me, when l get older l will wear it in a simple side plait.
Almost all the younger girls and women l work with have very long hair, very natural looking.

So true

Ten years??

I've had long and short hair before - when I had it short, it was an inverted bob (short at the back and longer at the front) and looked lovely when newly done and perfectly straightened. Unfortunately, my hair is naturally curly and has a mind of it's own so it took a lot of effort to get it looking perfect.
I've also stopped straightening my hair so I prefer how it looks when it's long. I also like playing around with hairstyles - braids, ponytails, buns, pigtails etc - so long hair gives me more options.
I get my hair cut by a curly hair specialist every 3 months and wash it 2 times a week (maybe 3 if I have an extra sweaty workout during the week).

Oh, I'm 34 as well :)

I watch women’s rugby occasionally and notice that the players, almost without exception, have long ponytails swishing about. Seems very impractical to me.

Saying long hair is nasty is an odd comment. You don't have to put others down to make the point that you prefer to have short hair.

Agreed. I’m 55 I’ve had short hair (various different styles and colours) since I was 12. In the early 80s at high school we all had a wide variety of hairstyles. I work in schools now and I’ve noticed all the girls have long hair. A lot of them look like clones of each other tbh.

I’ve a short pixie cut, had it for more than a decade. Used to have very long hair, but I had to wear it up for work, and found that I hardly ever wore it down any more. Once day I looked, really looked at my long hair, and with my age,it had become really thin, and looked awful. Had it all cut off, and sent to the Little Princess Trust, would never had long hair again, short is so easy and requires nothing a but a quick cut every few weeks, and washing daily. Don’t even need a hairdryer.

But, like you , I’ve noticed how few women have very short hair, and no girls at all. Everyone except me seems to Instagram ready, but as I don’t have Insta, that’s okay 👍.

Yes ten years.

Stop with this shit about girls looking like clones. Many young girls (and boys) follow trends, always have, always will, be it brand names, clothing or hairstyles. Presumably they have different coloured hair, different skin types and facial features so no, they aren't clones they are young people doing what young people do.

It’s not shit. In the 80s there were many hair trends - Diana cuts, wedge cuts, big hair, bubble perms, bobs straight or curly, but the long hair trend has been in for about 20 years now and it’s getting boring.

We've had a few 1990s revivals - it has never really gone away - but I expect there will be one with the short hair/androgynous styles along soon.

I think partly long hair has persisted as it is so much easier to style it and look after it now in the last 20 years. Better products and better hair styling devices, more You Tube Videos. Decent straighteners changed my life in the 2000s. Mind you, it also made it easier to have short hair at times too- though when it is short I have to straighten it to get it to go into the style, and when it's long I can just leave it.

A good haircut can literally take years off you.

I agree about straighteners, they’ve made it possible for me to manage a bob style which I never could before they were a thing. I’d walk out of the hair salon feeling a million dollars but when I tried to do it myself it stuck out everywhere. I know you could get tongs and steam stylers but they weren’t much good on my hair. Like these, cordless and fuelled by butane!

I agree as a short haired women.

I don’t actually give a shit if men like it or not, my husband does like it though.

I have noticed (here and elsewhere online) that many women like to say men don’t like it. I even read somewhere that Damian Albarn must be gay because he dated Justine Frischmann who had short hair and was somewhat androgynous. I mean WTAF.

I have a theory that men with a strong preference for long haired women probably have quite, shall we say, traditional views regarding women in other respects.

The usually spot on Daily Mash ran this the other day.

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/mum-hair-actually-designed-to-ward-off-men-2013030862130

Apparently it means you want to ward off men if you have your hair cut short.

While I agree with the sentiment about wanting to be left alone to read novels and not be chatted up (Elly Griffiths rather than Rose Tremain in my case) I don't need to actually have my hair cut to achieve it.

I totally agree with this. The only time I keep my hair short is when I have hairdressers who I trust to do a great job, there’s only ever been 2 of those. 1 moved back to Brazil so I grew my hair then I found another so my hair is short again, he’s from Birmingham so hopefully will stick around 😀

Yes, same with those who prefer their wife to keep their hair a certain colour.

Mine obviously gets full marks. I had a silver buzz cut when we met and he’s never seen me any colour other than grey.