to want DH to notice that I have had my haircut

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3 inches off and highlighted.
Not once has he ever noticed a haircut!!!
He's not stupid, how can he not notice?!!!

Bad husband !

Kick his arse, what do you need a big feckin sign on your head...

on the bright side: . . he's not going to quiz you on how much you spent.

true!!!
and he knew I was going!

DP didn't notice for a week (in fact, he never noticed) and I had 5 inches of hair cut off. People I hardly knew noticed. (I might as well have put a big feckin sign on me head.)

YANBU

i once had my hair cut from waist length to a short bob - the PIL didn't notice.

DH only ever noticed my haircuts when we had a joint credit card and he used to do the whole "HOW much?" thing. Now that I don't use the joint credit card anymore he never says a word.

I met my husband for lunch a while back and he said to me 'you're having your hair cut this afternoon aren't you ?'. I'd had it cut and coloured that morning, men !

Oh please! Most men wouldn't notice if you shaved all your hair off and dyed your scalp blue!

I had mine dyed from Highlighted blonde to dark brown last week. Dh still not bloody noticed.

I read something fascinating ages ago which claimed that men and women have different distribution of rods and cones in our eyes and thus we really do see things differently - men apparently see 'the whole thing' i.e. their wife just looks like a wife shaped being, they actually can't see the individual bits of her like new hair, new dress. Whereas women hone in and focus upon individual elements and immediately notice any small change to someone's appearance.

Apparently this is why men look in the fridge and claim not to be able to see the butter, even though it is right in front of them.

I wish I could remember where I read it, as it was v interesting and if true, would explain A LOT.

hmmm, spero I remember reading something similar... however my dh never notices if I've had my haircut, but did notice immediately each time my breasts had grown throughout pregnancy (sometimes before I noticed!)
selective eyesight?

Hmmmm. That would appear to be a fly in that theory's ointment. Maybe breasts/bottom are the exceptions because they protrude?

grasping at straws

LOL Spero
SO.... the trick to getting dh's to notice haircuts is to have some sort of hair accessory protruding from your head

Pity, I quite liked that theory.

I think further research is required to see if men are really biolgically disadvantaged by how they see or just lazy gits who can't be bothered to notice/compliment their partners.

My experience has been that men are quite quick to comment on something that they don't like the look of , but rather more slow to say 'you look gorgeous darling, I do like your new hair'. I don't know what that's all about...

StarExpat could try putting a comedy breast on your head, and guage the reaction

And yes, I noticed the negative more than positive thing, too... like when men see things they comment on what is daft or they don't like...etc. whereas I will point out things I think are beautiful or interesting quite often.
Big generalisation to say this is true of all men/women, though. So I won't say that.

At least he didn't say "but do YOU like it" which basically means it's shit.

Well he finally noticed!

did he ask how much you spent?

ha ha... no he didnt!!!