Long grey hair

The Toast one I mean.

I think that's Daphne Selfe. She's 82. She's got the bone structure to carry off any hairstyle though.

I thought it was Veronica Lake come back from the dead.

My Dad used to ask whether she only had one eye.

That style was banned in wartime factories - women were getting their hair caught in the machinery . . .

this is the one from Toast Perhaps I need straighteners.

Has Yasmina Rossi got only one eye – or is it her hair stylist who has got only one eye?

Yes Mishap. It is a lot to do with face shape.

Still don't think it looks right, even on her.

No Ana. Mine's just about shoulder length.

there's this woman too. Mind you hers looks very styled. And salon coloured.

Mine is white and almost shoulder length. Sometimes I wear it up, but never seem to get it just the way other women do - you know, with wispy bits coming away at the sides? It's either a clump or dragged back like a schoolmarm.

Each to his own - I have nothing against long grey hair.

Having said that, I have let me hair grow while I have been less able to get out and about and I quite like it - I have no grey hairs and my hair is very dark brown - I thought I might as well let it grow while it is still brown, then see how I like it when it starts to go grey. If I don't like it I will chop it off!

I do think it is more flattering long, as I have quite a thin face and it gives a bit of balance.

In last year's Toast catalogue, there was a model with long grey hair in a loose but well-groomed style. I thought she was absolutely beautiful. She would have been older than me.

Have you got long grey hair, jingl?

There is a model who I think is in her seventies with long grey hair who looks stunning, but again I suspect that she's at it with the straighteners most mornings.

(Sorry can't remember her name)

Yes. I agree it's up to Mary Beard what she does with her hair.

I'm just thinking about long grey hair in general. (Got up wondering whether I should have a haircut yet)

I know lots of older women with unflattering hairstyles. Come to that I know men with unflattering hairstyles too - ponytails dragged back from balding crowns, very short cuts which emphasis the ugly shape of a head, comb-overs, lanky forelocks dipping in the soup.

I wonder if they get more attention for their lack of beauty than for the quality of their work?

I don't think she does care, Ana. I don't think she feels that she should care - such is Mary Beard.

looks better in this picture where she's put a bit of curl in it. But you couldn't keep that up everyday could you.

Of course any woman has the right to have whatever hairstyle in whatever colour she wishes, but I don't think long hair suits Mary Beard and I'm surprised she still keeps it like that. It's not as though she wears it up at all, is it? (At least, I've never seen her with it up).

I think a shorter, layered style would take years off her - but perhaps she couldn't care less about that...

The online vitriol that this poor woman has experienced after her appearance on Question Time is, of course, completely beyond the pale. (There is a previous thread touching on this)