A couple of years ago at the hairdressers

[Sparklysilversequins]

I went to a new hairdresser and asked him for my usual bob. It had grown out pretty long and he kind of did this face and said "why don't I cut a few layers in, but keep the length and see what you think?" I was a bit hacked off that he was questioning my "style" but said ok. He told me that I should try and keep it long because I had perfect hair for length.

He did it and it looked completely fab, I've had so many compliments and a few friends have grown, lightened and cut layers in to their hair so it looks like mine. He obviously knew better than me and my hair has never looked better.

I was just wondering if there is a compliment or comment made about your appearance that has always stuck with you and you still consider it now?

Is there any way you could post a pic of how it looks? I'm stuck in a bob rut...been just getting it bobbed for the past three years now and want to have a change. It's reaching just shy of where my neck meets my shoulder but it grows pretty fast...
Thanks, and so glad you're happy with it - I feel like crap when my hair goes wrong! :)

Can I ask what your hair type is too? Mine is very fine, reddish-blonde, prone to frizzing and flyaways...:(

I wore a pink cardi one time when I was about 8 and my grandmother said pink really suited me. That has always stayed with me and I clung doggedly to the belief that it suited me for yeeeeaaaars . I don't actually think it does, now. A deep fuchsia maybe, but not the baby pinks or shell pinks I kept buying tops and dresses in.

And somebody on the school bus once said I looked really nice with my hair back off my face. I have never forgotten that, either.

My grandmother telling me that I am 'good looking but not 'pretty' has always stuck with me! Maybe because I've never understood what she actually meant

Classic grandma-style backhanded compliment IME.

Maybe she meant you are what used to be referred to as a "handsome" woman, meaning striking, strong, regal? Rather than the more frail and girlish notion of "pretty".

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When I was in my late teens and maybe carrying a little bit more weight than I should have been, I remember my nan saying, 'You have good legs' by which she meant 'fat' Nannas!
This is the same nan I visited in her care home the other night and who asked me to remove this -little thing of her son - from her blouse because she was genuinely frightened it might blow up:

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I couldn't stop laughing!

Maybe Spooky...but seems unlikely given that another of her "compliments" was 'you have a good shape...you wouldn't want to get any fatter though.'. Lol. Thanks?

Haha, that's a granny thing! My dad's mum, whom I only met once (he was adopted), upon meeting 17-year-old me, slapped my thigh and said approvingly "well, at least you've got a bit of meat on you!"