Short or longer hair?

Mine goes long, short, long, short, long...........You'd think at my age I would have found a style that suits and stuck with it but I haven't.

The only style I think is not a good look for ladies of a certain age is thick, long hair which is all one length. I do think a few layers looks better.

What about Mary Beard's hair? She gets a lot of stick for her style but she obviously likes it. I think it might look better up?

Hair ??? Ah yes, I remember now.

My hair is my asset. Good thick hair. Needs thinned regularly. I spent many years with short and spiky.

Now it is slightly longer. No bother growing it out because I keep the layers and grew it down to between ears and chin. Use gel and finger dry with hairdryer blasts. Break it up with some product so it looks a bit messy. Fringe is a must and I cut and thin this myself. Fringe must be long and angled down over right eye to the ear. Use straighteners selectively here and there to make it interesting. A spray of Elnet and it's done until bedtime.

Tidied trim about every 6 weeks to thin it while growing cos it can sprout overnight and looks like a mushroom.

I've been known to often thin it myself.
Wearing it messy ....you can get away with a lot.
But it can be blown dry nice and smooth if wished.
Used to be ginger....strawberry blonde, now blonde with blonder meshes/foils.
Love it when I get vouchers as a gift.
Same Local hairdresser for years....No faffing.
Cut and blow dry £18.
Dry trim £13.
Cut, colour, meshes, blow dry, £40 and out in one hour.

Sometimes I put on a nice n easy myself for a few months.

Mine is too fine and thin to grow, it was long until I was about 25 then cut to just touching my shoulders. I've had a shorter and shorter style over the years it's now short and layered. Think Dame Judy.

Personally I don't like long hair on older women, unless the hair is in beautiful condition.

Mine is mad - it has a life of its own! It's naturally curly but I keep it in a shoulder length layered cut and use 'product' to tame it. Curls have their advantage though in that I can wash it, give it a quick blow dry, a handful of mousse and it's done. It's also just long enough to put up in a clip at the back which can look nice as well.

Mine reaches just past my shoulder-blades and is white and quite thick. I last visited the hairdresser about 2 years ago, I think! I cut my fringe myself and wear it loose, in a plait or up in a 'bit of a knot' - depending on mood. I think it depends on condition of hair and the confidence of the woman, Anya!

I think the most important thing is to find a style that suits you and you are comfortable with. This might be different from how you wore it when younger. It seem that hair changes significantly with age. A good hairdresser, who you trust is quite important. The cost and trendiness of the salon is somewhat less important!
I have a natural curl in my hair, which was the bane of my life, when young.
Now, less curly and largely white, I have it in a layered bob and coloured a soft blonde. ( I was naturally chestnut )
Damp sends it into a frizz! I am an avid user of Argan oil and organic shampoo.
I know very few women who are 100% happy with their hair. x

Unfortunately there are a lot of 'older women' who don't realise the hair style they had in their 20s looks awful as they get older. what were long flowing locks when they were young now simply look like long straggling hair hanging down their backs, unkept, unstyled and unflattering.

I had short hair in various styles for 40 years - the last time I had long hair was in my late teens. Working full time and raising a family I always thought that short hair was easier to look after but I was wrong. My hair started to fall out and get much thinner in my late 50s and having short hair it became very see through and patchy and my scalp was visible in places especially in the summer. So when I retired I bucked the trend of most older women and grew my hair, now just past my shoulders, and it's the best thing I ever did and I just wish I had done it before. I no longer have to wash my hair daily because it has stuck to my head when I was asleep a quick blast with a hair dryer revives it and I now wash it max twice a week. If I am feeling lazy I can just tie it back or put it up. But the best thing is that the quality of my hair has improved so much - no see through patches any more. My DH swears it's because I used to wash and 'mess about' with my hair so much that it became so difficult. But I think that maybe less stress since retiring could be a factor.

Like you phoenix I prefer short hair for convenience. Mine is fine and although I grew it in to a bob (with shorter at the back) it flew all over the place when windy weather and irritated me like mad. When I saw myself in a shop mirror that decided it!
Now back to layers, 10 minutes maximum to wash and dry and I think it makes me look younger [deluded mare emoticon]!
When longer it only looked good for 5 minutes, and I had to wash it every day.

I love long hair a lot!! Though short hair are easier to manage but long hair gives such an elegant look!

I also agree that short hair is best for seniors and is less ageing. Whilst having my hair done the other day an older lady was having her grey, long hair coloured - I shouldn't say it but she looked like a witch - and old with it!!
PS I would like to add that if long hair is somehow 'put up' it can look very elegant.

Just looked at your photo and I think the style suits your face.

Mine is a bit longer than that, but I can finger dry it if I am in a rush (and that seems to straighten it out more as well). Due for a cut next week!

I had my hair restyled yesterday so that I can grow it a couple of inches, with a new hairdresser. He was great and really got my hair.

Phew!

I have an appointment booked for tomorrow, I think I will end up going back to the shorter layered cut, a bit like the photo on my profile, as it's a lot easier to manage.

When I start back at work I will need to be up and out at what will seem like a very early time, and the less I have to do to make my self presentable the better!

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Well, I think it looks rather fetching, Penstemmon, especially with the piece of holly stuck in the middle.

I really have no choice but to wear my hair short. If it gets longer than about two and a half inches it begins to corkscrew round and is unmanageable.

It would only look reasonable if straightened every day and I CBA with that.

I had a perm inthe 70s! My hair got curlier with each pregnancy! Tanks gor the compliments. That is why I pay out to my hairdresser otherwise I look like my pic on GN!

I've seen Penstemmon's photo on one of the get-together threads, and that curly style really is very attractive! I always wanted curly hair - loved it when perms were in fashion.

And I have met Penstemmon, and I can vouch for her very pretty hair!

And very pretty it looks too Pen! (I keep seeing your pic on fb)
I am not a stalker!

ps best thing about kitchen salon is not having a mirror in front of me!

I have curly (unruly) , chin length,layered hair which I wash and leave (approx 3 x week). I add Argan oil daily as it is very dry. I have it cut and coloured every 6-8 weeks by a hairdresser I have had for 24 years and is now a friend . He comes to the house and spends the day as my DDs, DH and sometimes a friend or two also come to the kitchen salon! Costs a bomb but I don't care!

If I had left mine in the slightly layered bob which I tried to grow it into, it would have looked like an untidy haystack after the damp and rain today, even if it had started out as a sleek style after blow-drying this morning.

After two years of struggling to grow it, DH commented that it looked like a 'thatched roof', so that is when I gave in with the struggle and had it cut short again.