Side partings are ageing?

[Thirtyrock39]

According to an article I've just read apparently side partings are totally ageing and out of fashion and flicking through Instagram there is a definite age divide in partings. Most under 30s all have a poker straight middle parting.
I had a middle parting myself till I was about 30 and then changed to side which I think suits my face -oval, big nose-better than a middle parting but I've just tried a middle parting and honestly think it knocks a good five years off me...possibly as I look more like myself in my 20s though....also the lawyer woman in the undoing who is Nicole Kidman's friend looks younger than the other rich mums and I was thinking it was her middle parting- is this a general hair rule that I've missed ?!

After I dried my hair tonight I decided to try a centre parting. I put hairspray on the frizzy bits to calm them down & actually it looks alright.
Not sure I could pass for 25 though haha!

OMG finally something I'm cool & hip for....shame I have a fringe but it does insist on trying to part at the centre rather than be a fringe!

As a few have said there's so many fucking rules and for women I can't keep up.

I changed from a side to centre parting about a year ago and I feel and look better for it.

It's not that I want to look younger (I'm 48) but the side parting suddenly felt very ageing. I wish I'd done it years ago.

My hair is past my shoulders and naturally curly but I often blow dry it straight and it works either way.

@thewinehasgonetomyhead

Does anyone feel like they look naff with both a side parting AND a centre parting? I only feel I look mildly okay-ish with my hair up and away from my face, ponytail or half-up-half-down. Even then if I see photos of myself I think that looks shite so feel like I should retry another way, and it just goes around in circles!

Have you considered a pixie cut? If it suits you best off your face and neck. No need for a parting with some pixies!

@45Degrees I have quite a round face which unfortunately doesn't suit a pixie cut. I have very fine fluffy hair which just doesn't ever sit right.

@thewinehasgonetomyhead

Does anyone feel like they look naff with both a side parting AND a centre parting? I only feel I look mildly okay-ish with my hair up and away from my face, ponytail or half-up-half-down. Even then if I see photos of myself I think that looks shite so feel like I should retry another way, and it just goes around in circles!

As I get older I think my hair looks better pushed back from my forehead so there's no visible parting. It probably makes me look ancient but I couldn't care less

My hairdresser is always trying to give me a centre parting, one tiny gust of wind though, and it's gone. Just slightly off centre, it's less effort

But I'm Generation X, so,irrelevant. And I hate emojis

Side parting-ed Gen X here. I have my hair cut as a centre parting but then flip it off centre (the direction depends on how my hair is doing style wise on any given day!). Also gives a bit of volume, whereas the centre parting just hangs. So it's all about being practical and nothing about giving toss

Slightly to the side. Too much to the side and my hair looks a bit thin on the side of the part which has less hair because I have a blonde (almost white) streak by my ear. Not down the middle because I've a slight cowlick and like to be able to push my hair back easily,

Me with centre parting. To be fair, if you’re of an age to know who’s in the picture, then you’re probably gen X anyway, in which case the debate is n/a

Typical mumsnet style and beauty thread. I came on to it thinking 'what's this bollocks then' and am about to leave so I can fanny on with my parting

I'm watching 'he's just not that into you', which is quite an old film now and Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Connelly, Jennifer Aniston and Drew Barrymore all have centre partings. Well, JA's is a little off centre but not by much. So how can centre partings be a sign of today's youth?
I'm gen X and have always had a side parting - it just looks better on my face. All the actresses above look very different from each other and yet the centre parting looks great on all of them. Is that just because they have very expensive hair cuts?

themildmannered spot on! My thought was ‘oh for gods sake what are women now being judged by?’

Cue experimentation yesterday.
Result - I don’t care if I look dated - centre parting makes me look like a haggard witch - not a look I am aiming to increase. Not helped by no hair cut for around 18 months now !

Is it because 'Friends' is so popular again now? In the later series the three women have long, centre parted hair.

I think it all goes back to young people having no recognisable style of their own. Previous generations broke away and found their own way of dressing - it was a rites of passage - but this one doesn't seem interested in doing so. Instead they complain about their parents dressing like them - when it's really the other way round - and they resort to increasingly obscure clues: the brand of your trainers, the position of a parting, a phone cover.

I've gone centre parting this morning after washing my hair purely out of fear of being seen as past it.
I hate that it bothers me so much! I want to continue to look like I've got my finger on the pulse but not look tragic. I don't particularly care about looking old but I don't want to look like I've stopped caring.
I'd already clued myself in about skinnies.
God I'm pathetic 😆

A number of media outlets are running with story after it gained traction on platforms like TikTok. It stemmed from a discussion re: the American election, where it was noted the Republican women had stiff helmets of bleached-blonde hair with vigourous, deep side-parts, and women on the left had nicer styles which happened to have middle parts.

A number also noted that the middle part was less flattering but that this fits in with current trends for layers and loose clothing - to eschew those previous markers of what 'beautiful' was by choosing items and styles that are deemed unflattering and then still looking 'beautiful' because you're a 16 year old model, obviously.

I'm not sure everyone can throw on some wide leg jeans, platform trainers, middle-part our hair and suddenly look fashionable. I think it's a look that requires youth to pull off.

I think that many a young girl, with a centre parting is actually fighting against where their hair wants to be (including whether it wants to be straight) and some look down right strange. Obviously it suits some, but not all! I can remember having a talk with a chap years back about men and baldness and he said that it was not going or being bald, but whether being bald suited you!

I've always remembered that and it applies to all regarding any trend, including hair styles. Do what suits and makes you happy and ignore articles based on little more than a passing fancy that flicked between the writer's ears!

A part? What’s a part? Do you meaning parting?

I changed to a centre parting about 5 years ago as I wanted a change and noticed that this was the more current way of styling long hair. I prefer it this way and actually find it a bit annoying when other people have side partings with long hair, it looks wrong somehow. I'm interested to hear that centre partings show one's age though, what are the yoof of today doing with their hair??

You're annoyed by other people's side partings?

Ummm...

Yeah, I honestly think most people look better with centre partings! Hairstyle depending obviously.

Well I'm going centre parting today and I cut a long blended fringe in so it doesn't look too witchy. I really need to get my hair cut properly, I'm desperate, but it will do for now. As for the skinny jeans thing, I've heard low waisted slightly flared are in. Don't think I'll be following that trend any time soon.