It seems like everyone cool has a bob.

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Should I get one or will I regret it?

It’s the best! Had one for ages, easy to style, non ageist, suits most face shapes.

I’ve never regretted a bob. Can you try it out on ChatGPT?

Will it suit the shape of your face? Try out some AI images.

You can always grow it out afterwards if you aren't happy. .

Lots of variants so pick a style that works with your hair. And how long you want to spend styling it.

Only one way to find out if you'll regret it, and that's to try it!

You will look like a Labour cabinet member

@JacketPotatoFoodOfTheGods
Ive had different versions of a bob for years:
All one length with a side parting.
A lob
Asymmetric
Undercut
I now have collar bone length at the front, little shorter at the back, slight graduation.
I did the AI photo thing and it came back that a bob would suit me 😂
Its so easy to style, I wear it straight or a few curls or use salt spray to "mess" it up.
To make my hair a bit more interesting I have blonde highlights with a brunette root smudge.
Definitely try uploading a photo in AI

What’s your hair type? How much styling can you be bothered to do?

My bob was gorgeous but it’s the only style I’ve had where I had to properly blow dry it every time. If I air dried I looked like Little Lord Fauntleroy caught in the rain.

It was best when it grew out to a shoulder length lob; easier to manage and more versatile.

I have a bob (I'm not cool though) and it's my favourite ever hairstyle. I've had everything from a pixie cut to really long with lots of layers. It's currently just below chin length and blunt cut..... I flipping love it.

Just had mine cut after years of not bothering with it. Other people seemed to like the long hair, but I think it's just bland and ordinary. Local stylist did a great job - I was sceptical, as I've had some truly ghastly cuts locally - and another customer in the salon liked it so much, she asked for the same 😂

I always have mine layered; it's more versatile and doesn't need smoothing down to a glassy dome. It has a slight wave, which probably helps - depends on your hair, I guess.

The stylist suggested one of these. It's brilliant! Straighteners that dry your hair!!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0953WDLMN

I have a chin length bob and love it. I looks good straight but better in messy waves, which is how I usually wear it.

Do it. Game changer in this weather

Just had mine cut a few weeks ago. I had really long hair for ages and I was bored of it. I got a blunt cut just past shoulders (long bob) and love it. Can still wear it up, straight, wavy and curly. No going back ☺️

I had long, very thick hair, and was fed up with looking like a scarecrow as it's go incrasingly frzzy in the last few years. I took the plunge and got a short layered bob in february.
I looked uncannily like Grayson Perry and have been growing it out ever since!

I have wavy thick hair. I’ve had a choppy bob for the last 15 years and it’s great. I’m very much wash and wear - hate product and might give it a quick blast of the hairdryer but might not. And it looks good every time. Needs the right stylist though - moved up to London and after trying FOUR I now travel back to my old one 80 miles away (I don’t make a special trip - my son lives near there).

I've had many bobs over the years, it's about as long as I go these days before I get bored and cut it all off again. If you currently have long hair and have never had short hair be aware that your hair will behave differently when you cut it so e.g. if there's any wave that will become more obvious. Ask people who have nice short hair who cuts their hair and go to them, most hairdressers have specific areas of skill so e.g. a good colourist isn't necessarily going to be the best person to cut your hair shorter. Build a relationship with your hairdresser over multiple visits, they will get to know your hair and its strengths and can advise on what will suit (this is probably part of the reason why hairdressers don't like giving you a drastic cut, doing it in stages gives them an opportunity to respond to your hair and cut it better).

I think it depends on how long your hair is now and whether it’ll be a dramatic difference.
I have fine hair and had extensions in for a couple of years. Had them taken out and about six inches cut off my own hair. I went to collarbone length, so technically a “lob” I guess. I loved it. Looked thicker and healthier. Could still get it up into a (short) ponytail or a clip for days I couldn’t be bothered to style it.
I am now growing it (purely because the condition was really bad from the extensions and I have been on a “hair care journey” of trying to get it healthy again, so this is an experiment). It’s currently about three inches past the collarbone now. I’d have no hesitation in having it cut off again though and back into a “lob”. Am also tempted to go for a full bob. I tend to wear mine waved, so it has a bit more volume and texture. It looks quite bland straight. I think you need to have decent thickness for a bob or “lob” to look good worn straight. I’m considering having a few tape extensions put through it for extra thickness.

You paint quite a picture! 😂😂

@ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews sadly all too accurate 😆

I'd need to spend 20minutes battling it into submission or I'd look like Wendoline.

I do this every few years and it is always a disaster. My hair is thinning at the front but thick and frizzy elsewhere. When it’s long the weight pulls it down but in a bob my hair is light and therefore fans outwards in a ridiculous bell shape.

I have realised that women with exciting bouncy unbothered curls have actually put a lot of effort into making it look natural - left untamed to air dry my end result is frizzy, out of control, wild and ridiculous. So I scrape it all into a bun and wait for it to grow back 😫

I have a very short, nape of the neck length bob, with an undercut shave on the left side, which is the side I tend to tuck behind my ear.

I LOVE it. I spent years having mid length, blah hair which did nothing for me at all.

Now my cut accentuates the best bits of my face, and what's more it looks good when I style it straight, but I can also leave it au naturel, because it's short enough to look like 'beachy waves' rather than the previous 'unruly kinks'

#teambob

I went for a chin-length bob (after having just below the shoulder length) two summers ago and OMG it was a massive mistake! I think it really depends on your age, your hair type, your overall style, the exact cut and length you go for, but I looked really middle-aged and frumpy with a bob and I couldn't grow it back out fast enough. It's become known as 'the summer I wore a cap', because I literally did for two months until it had grown out a bit!

Just gone for the chop myself. I had lovely long hair but I always tied it back. Now I just wash it, let it dry and tease it a little if it’s not sitting right, and it’s good to go. Lovely and fluffy though I could blow dry it straight if I wanted to.

What’s root smudge?