Long hair on older women

Of course it's personal choice whether to wear your hair long or short. Mine is platinum, bobbed and shingled into the neck just below my ears and I get loads of compliments. However, if I go far over my 6weekly cut, it adds years to my face - it really does drag it down and emphasises wrinkles. Sadly the neck's ropey but the style seems to distract from it, or maybe that's just me ignoring it! If you're not sure about going short, try a wig and see how it looks. I think there's an app too that shows what you look like with short hair..

I inherited poor hair. It runs in mum's side of the family. Now I notice my daughter's hair is thinning. I'd give anything to have nice thick hair, and would wear it long if I felt like it. Hair, it's the bane of my life.

Yes. Long hair looks aging hippie.

I was always told you had to get your hair cut by 40. I kept mine long until I was 42 ?now I wear it flicked out and blond? I am now 64.

I think shorter hair as we grow older is far more glamorous and appropriate. Think Helen Mirren and Judi Dench.

Surely it's all about what looks good on you and what you're comfortable with? Mine's wavy, shoulder length, greying at the front, still really dark brown at the back. I went through a phase of having blonde and brown foils put in but I'm letting it grow out and once the colour has gone I'm growing it longer. I love to leave it loose and flowing (I'm a bit of a hippy at heart!) and my OH loves it long and feminine. The grey doesn't bother me or him and I don't care what anyone else thinks....

My grandmother had long hair all her life - she lived to be almost 103. It's all in how you wear it, and what you do with it.

Enjoy your lovely long hair Luckylegs9. Wish mine was nice enough, but since the menopause it's thin & receding so in medium length layers now.

My hair is shoulder length, fine and very shiny - really grateful to God and good conditioners for that! Sometimes I consider having it cut short, but because it is so fine it would just lie flat. Also, I think long hair makes my face seem less fat, haha! Age is just a number, wear your hair to make yourself happy!

Keep it, please! You will only regret it if you cut it all off. You can wear it up or down now, but if you cut it you will have no choice. Sticking up, out, or sticking to your head. You'll need to style and curl it every day. Why bother!! Much better long I say.

My hair is nearly to my waist. I am 65 and always had long hair until I had a mad day and had it cut to a long bob about forty years ago. I hated it and never had it cut short again. My hair started going grey about fifteen years ago so I dye it as close to my natural colour every few months. My kids and grandkids wouldn't recognise me if it was short. I put it up one hot summer and my daughter said she didn't know me from a distance as she always sees it down. I have straight hair which only gets plaited when going swimming.

My neighbour had her now greying long hair cut recently into a stylish bob and looks amazing. As well as looking 15 years younger she looks sophisticated instead of dated.

Long hair on the more mature....I'm currently growing my hair and as from last year joined the ranks of a sexagenarian. My advice is, if you want to have longer hair, then just do it. You can always have it cut if you really don't like it. Life is for living...I don't see hair coming with an age tag.

I am desperately envious of women with thick long hair, or even those with thin hair that they can wear up, which looks very elegant. I took a pic of Julie Walter's short spikey hair-do to the hair dresser's and she attempted to replicate it on my pin-head: I looked like a man in drag! Dying my hair has made it very dry, but going grey isn't an option yet, as my pink scalp would show through. I use a battery of hair thickening products to little avail; when I catch sight of myself in shop windows I wince. What's a girl to do? Conquer by force of personality...

Go for it you lucky folk who can wear it long. I'm envious.

Hair and face should complement each other both colour and style-wise. I wore my hair long in my hippy days but these days it doesn't suit me longer than just under the chin. If I could wear a fringe it would be better and would hide my high forehead, but my hair is too fine. I found short, layered hair a real faff. I'm thinking of getting a wig too, as, no matter how well dressed and made up I am - that doesn't happen often - my hair always lets me down.

I cut my fringe by combing it down then holding it up in the air and taking just the tiniest wisp off it! I do that every couple of weeks so it never looks newly chopped.

I cannot understand this idea that long grey hair is so unacceptable - what is that about? Mine is long, but I have no grey yet. I do not plan to cut it short when it does go grey. It is so very much easier to manage long - none of this "styling" lark when you wake up looking like a hedgehog. Plait it or swish it up with a clip - work of a moment. It does not need to look like a spinster schoolmarm if you put it up then pull a few bits out and muss it up a bit.

Also, if you cut it short at the instigation of others and then don't like it, you have a long time to wait to get it back how you like it! - and we all have less time left!!

i'm 69 this year and still wear my hair long - and it's coloured too!!

i like the feeling of long hair swishing around my shoulders and, as i'm tall and rather "large" i'd look silly with short hair .......... like a pin!!

so i'll continue to colour my hair and keep it long - when i'm old and gaga [although i don't intend to do this!!] i won't know what's being done with my hair and probably won't care.

but until then i'll wear it long.

I meant Wow

Long hair is very versatile. I tend to keep mine shoulder length so I can put it up in hot weather. I think we should wear our hair any darn way we want whatever our age. People are too judgemental about a lot of these things. If you are happy with your style/dress whatever your age then go for it - you are not hurting anyone!

If you like your long hair keep it - I took the plunge to have my "just below shoulder length" hair cut short because I thought it would be easier to manage. I hated it, DH hated it and I am now on the slow and unstylish road back to growing it out again. Not everyone suits long hair but then not everyone suits short hair. Be happy in yourself whatever your age ?

I used to have long glorious locks in my youth. At some point I had impulsively bought a wig in a very similar style, while I still had the long hair.

I'm someone who goes for extreme changes of hairstyle every few months. And then discovered that a shortish hairstyle reaching around my jaw /chin line was far more flattering for me. So whenever I was subsequently tempted to grow my hair long again, I would just put my long wig on and instantly know that it wasn't a good look for me.

Grey is fashionable now even for the youngsters - a 16 year old of my acquaintance has recently 'gone' blonde on the way to going grey. Emmy Lou Harris has looked fantastic for years with her grey hair. I love mine which is thick fine wavy, shoulder length and GREY, because I can't be bothered dying it and the roots showed through within a week when I went red in my thirties. I use Argon oil on it which makes it shiny. I agree with those of you that we should do what we want at our age as long as it hurts no-one.

these things are very good

I cut the bottom of my DD's hair using one of those. Looks very professional and saves her a fortune.