This haircut. Yes or no?

[Bookaholic73]

I’m a 40 ye old slightly overweight woman. No, my name isn’t Karen.
I work in retail, so don’t have to think about a professional style.
I’ve always wanted to get my hair cut short, and really like this. What do you think?
What do you think

@Bluesheep8

What’s this “it will look like a Karen haircut!” What the fuck is that?!

Exactly - I've already asked who Karen is,I don't get it either

It's a nasty misogynistic slur used as a way of denigrating women.

Karen has come to mean a woman who speaks up and complains about poor service etc - it started from a deeply hilarious meme about a “Can I speak to the manager” haircut (a graduated bob) but now it’s used by twats everywhere so that women are reluctant to speak up and complain about stuff in case they get called a Karen. So well done everyone.

@PuppyMonkey

Karen has come to mean a woman who speaks up and complains about poor service etc - it started from a deeply hilarious meme about a “Can I speak to the manager” haircut (a graduated bob) but now it’s used by twats everywhere so that women are reluctant to speak up and complain about stuff in case they get called a Karen. So well done everyone.

Exactly. And look at all the women on this thread who are happy to use it. Jesus wept.

I have a similar style. My hair is fine but curly so I get a lot of volume. I was most days, its quick to style with a Dyson aircraft on the round bush with a quick go on the straightners. It does need regular trims or the back goes funny.

Clearly not an aircraft!

It looks good on one side, but couldn't be doing with hair draped over my eyes on the other side. I have seen quite a few young women wih this kind of style though.

Do it, you can always grow your hair or get extensions if you don't like it. I think it's fab!

@girlabouthome

I agree, having had this haircut and similar over the years it is not low maintenance.

Obviously tying it up is out of the question and unless styled with body it can look rather drab

And me! Ok if you have thick hair probably. I found it high maintenance.

Same model from a different angle OP. I think it looks great !

I have very fine, straight hair. There is no way my hair would ever look like this, even with hot rollers, blow drying, root lift, ten cans of hairspray. Possibly if I dangled upside down from the bars in the playground. Maybe. If still upside down.

I like the style though. Fine hair - no way.

It looks very old fashioned to me, and tends to look harsh in real life. So no.

Evening all!
So as you may have noticed, we try to discourage using 'Karen' as an insult on our boards. We're going to go through and delete a few posts that do this from this thread, so that others chancing upon it when googling 'cool haircuts for 40 year old slightly overweight women' don't think it is okay to come on and throw the word about with abandon. Other than that, as you were.

ps fwiw I love that haircut!

I've got fine hair and have had similar styles over the years. It's actually only now that I find it a bit too harsh as I'm getting older (in my 40s), so I've grown it out. I will say it can also be less flattering if a bit overweight. However, although it might not have looked like the model pictures (when has that EVER happened anyway?!?), I found it very low maintenance, 2 minutes blasted with the hair dryer and I was good to go. No round brushes, no straighteners. I definitely have to do loads more to my hair now it's shoulder length (although at least I don't need to wash it every day now).

I like it apart from the bit that flops over the eye, what's that all about?

I’m wary of what hairstyle…

I chipped mine up a couple of years back, I was determined to get a “lob”, kinda scruffy, messy… I even had pictures.

Jesus it was a nightmare. It was boring as there was only one ‘look’ to go for when I wanted to do something with it anyway one day I was wandering through David Lloyd on a week day (normally there weekends with my kids) and these swathes of 50s/60s ladies who lunch types were there… an they all had my hairstyle. Ooooh.

I grew it out. I’m not there yet.

I'd go with no. She's beautiful and edgy looking and her hair has had extensive styling so she carries it off, just. I think on a real person it would look at best a boring generic short haircut, and at worst a limp fringed mess, like a 90s teen boy.

@DonttouchthatLarry

For all those saying this won't work with fine hair - please share some photos that would! I too have fine hair and would like a maintenance free style - the most I do is blast it with the dryer while my head is upside down .

YES! I’d love to see photos of styles that work with genuinely fine hair. (That don’t require tonnes of styling and products)

• I fear they don’t exist 😕

Yes fine hair styles please!

Thanks EstherMNHQ!

I've had mine in a similar cut, fat and over 50. Loved it, but it was quite a lot of work to maintain as my hair wanted to kink out all the time. It needed regular cuts, and I ended up growing it out over lockdown.

For those bemoaning their fine hair, this is the holy grail of better hair.... though don't overspray it as it goes tacky.
www.nioxin.com/en-GB/products/hair-styling/thickening-spray

I have fine hair, too.

With hair as fine as mine, I'd look like a string mop that had done several rounds in a cement mixer - and the stuff at the crown would part forwards so that it would look as though I'd been partially scalped.

What did really, really work for me, though, was a just above collar length cut with a long side fringe - that gave enough lightness for my hair to actually go wavy naturally, whilst I was able to tuck my hair behind my ear if I wanted to - without it hanging down like a skullet round the sides from being too short/fine or having to use copious product, clips, grips or as though it was already growing out on the day it was done.

I didn't even know that I had wavy hair until then.

Since that point, I've always had it cut to a similar length and it dries looking styled from just a patdown with a towel. If it gets longer than collarbone, it goes flat and lank, if it's shorter, it goes flat and lank. But in that zone between collar and chin, all is perfect.

It’s very middle aged in my opinion. I had my hair like this about 10+ years ago when I was still a teenager and my jawline was a lot sharper. I had to blowdry it every single day.

I love it, OP. I think some of the naysayers are missing the point tbh. No, the OP's hair will not look just like the model's. But those of us cursed with fine hair can still vaguely aim at a style we like. Fine hair is what it is. None of the models in photos of so-called 'haircuts for fine hair' ever look like they actually have fine hair! I could pick a million different hairstyle photos and my hair could never look properly like any of them!

Examples of how to get a bob which is not just flat and boring please? Mine is due for a cut, I want to change it up from my dull one length bob but definitely do not have the aforementioned sharp jawline. I also have fine flat hair that won't hold a curl.