Long hair on older women

Dear Luckylegs
Just please yourself - there may be a hint of jealousy going on!

Ha ha roses! Talk about damning with faint praise
I agree with you though!

I hate Judy Dench style hair, not a good look ( even on JD.)However, she gets away with it as she has a soft rather Miss Piggy sort of face.

There's an interview with Lulu in Good Housekeeping magazine. She is 67 and has never allowed grey hair to show. Hers looks pretty good. It's fairly long and straight but cut in a choppy style with a fringe. It's a style that could look good on grey hair too. I do think 'curtain hair' is very unflattering on an older face. I can't help wondering though, if Lulu has had some surgical help or airbrushing.

WilmaK I agree with the last para in your post. I let my curls do their own thing now instead of trying to tame them with straighteners etc and my hair looks and feels much better.

I'm glad it worked out well for you! You were brave, though.

Had something of this conversation with my hairdresser the other day. I'd wanted a change from my eternal bob and she took a little off and shaped it but it still didn't really work for me. I queried doing something spiky, asymmetrical and radical but her reply was 'Not yet, until we've tried a few more things'. She cut it more 'choppy' and as it's quite thick I could see the difference, but I commented that it still curls out where I don't want it to when I comb it. Ahah! Ban the comb! I'd never grasped that what it wants is to be finger combed and bounced up so that it fluffs out a bit and does its own thing, not combed and sprayed to death to be tidy (and therefore elderly). Much softer and several years off me, just like that. Much more casual, comfortable and easier to maintain!
By the way she has far more clients my age asking for a Judi Dench than any other celeb!

Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble! Might does need a good trim but I hate going to hairdressers....I imagine them saying to me "You're too old for long hair!"

Thank you "Wot" - and I think yours looks fabulous, too .... we witches should stick together!

I prefer long hair. I had quite a few inches cut off mine but regret it. Like someone said in an above post if it is long there are so many ways to do an easy style, bun, french plait etc. I have never been good at blow drying my hair and find styling it is a pain! Swimming and beach holidays are so much easier in my opinion with long hair.

I've always wanted long hair and would love to have it long and up in a nice do. It feels nice up and I think it looks ok but for some reason I get unsolicited opinions about it, some people tell me it looks nice and some of the family tell me it makes me look older grrrr.....

Can't help Wot. I was never able to shape my hair into a bun - too thick, too straight, too heavy.

It looks very elegant if it is worn up, but it is very aging when just worn long.

Oh thanks, Wilma, I'll have a good look at them then. I haven't got much patience when it comes to hair!

Luckygirl exactly! That's why long hair can be the better option.

wot you can buy things that make a bun really quick and easy to do - they're cheap too.

I used to use one of these and you can get them anywhere, the big supermarkets, Boots Superdrug, Claire's, etc. -

Bun maker tutorial

There's other bun makers too - check out eBay and YouTube.

I really dislike long grey hair. The 'W' word comes to mind. (The one that rhymes with 'bitch', which is probably what some ladies think I am.)

Up, it looks lovely but when it starts to straggle round the face...quelle horreur.

Is it a snood thing, this bun maker/clip???

could you tell me how to do a bun, please? I've tried putting in a pony tail and then twisting it round but I'd need about 20 hairgrips to hold it.

I had a silver/blond hair (went grey very young)I had short spiked cut which most people liked then had dreaded chemo it now grows very slowly with no style to speak of just grateful to have some I say have hair as you want it's a personal choice for most .

Just a baby at only 56, but love my stringy won't do what it is supposed to long hair, we are kind of in simpatico :0) I usually wear it up in a bun at work, yet on the odd occasions that I leave it loose people say I look younger, love janeainsworth's link hopefully it will give you inspiration to decide how YOU want YOUR hair :0)

"Products and techniques" - no thank you!

I agree long hair, especially long grey hair can make your face look droopy or drawn, but I think it's all about how you style your hair that matters, not the length or colour (I mean style in the simplest sense i.e. what you do with it).

So many older women get their hair cut short and love it when it's first done, but then they often don't keep up the styling aspect that made them look so good. It takes time to learn how to work with the products and techniques used and some just can't manage to get the same results. So they end up blow drying it into the same (non) style we see thousands of other older women wearing, making it like the uniform someone else mentioned.

Long hair is more adaptable , but it still needs care and attention to look good.

A hairdresser told me years ago the best hair styles for anybody are the ones where you don't fight the hair's natural tendencies. Stop fighting your hair and you've won half the battle.

I have longish hair, it was even longer a couple of months ago. I have it dyed a honey blond colour but because there's rather a lot of silver showing through I'm having it dyed on Thursday white blond with purple streaks. As the saying goes, you're only as old as you feel. Plus I do things for me not to please anyone else so if folks don't like it then bugger em.

Galen where can I buy the bun net and hair clip sounds what I need thanks .

I think she looks great and if you want long hair go for it