Long hair

I have longish hair, dark brown going grey. I tend to wear a hairband (one with teeth) to keep it back of my face and like, in the summer, to wear sunglasses on top to give some height. It is fairly curly and there's lots of it so it is quite full at the sides. I never thought it was anything special but hairdressers rave about it which is very gratifying! In very hot weather I will wear it up but it tends to make me look somewhat severe so I prefer it down.

I've always had long hair just except for a very short while 10yrs ago when I had a shoulder length bob which I soon let grow out as it was to much fuss to keep it styled as it should be.
I wear my hair in a big bun on top most days or a messy plait if going somewhere smart I will have it up in a french pleat type roll or a black bull-dog clip which I have loads of.I find it so easy to manage when its long,at present it is past my waist with a full thick fringe so I can do the trimming myself every few months.

Boheminan
There are blue rinses and blue rinses!Yours was very subtle.
Yes,I used to be Gorki.My daughter didn't like the fact that this is what my grandchildren call me and this is well known at their school.She thought someone might recognise me!

I've had long hair most of my life. I twist it up and pin it to the back of my head most of the time. Sometimes have it in a plait down my back or just gripped into a ponytail. That's been my style for about thirty years: easy, no fuss.

Before that I wore it in two plaits when plaits weren't fashionable. Sometimes I wrapped them round my head in what I thought was Heidi style.

I'm 62 and my hair is just passed my shoulders - it's very fine and has been so many colours and styles over the years as all old photos show! As it's now definitely grey at the front I've opted for it to be blonde which doesn't show the regrowth so badly and I have it coloured every six weeks. I generally wear it fastened up with a clip with the side bits pulled down - I have always had a fringe too. I've just bought one of those straightening brushes which works ok but doesn't seem any different to the normal hair straightener I've had for years. I'd love to dye it purple and blue but then would worry that I'd have to dress to match my hair

Well! Thank you Greenfinch. When I was in my 20's I always vowed I'd never become 'one of the blue rinse brigade' - so there's an advert for never knowing quite what the future might bring (have you changed your name by the way?)

I remember meeting bohemian at one of our Oxford meet ups and can confirm that her hair looked great. I think it was purple then as that was our colour of recognition

Great Bohemian - I have always said that I will go pink if I go grey!

My straight hair's halfway down my back and is at the moment purple, blue and pink! I wear it up in a gripper with whispy tendrils that escape of their own accord. It's very fine now, so when I do wear it down I'll put it in little plaits to sleep in overnight, and when dried and brushed it leaves my hair quite bushy and 'crinkly'

I have long hair, usually at shoulder level or slightly longer, it has thinned a lot recently so looks straggly if longer. Has always been difficult to style and I hate styling it, so clean and straight is fine by me.
It is going grey so I dye it back to slightly lighter than the original colour, a light gold brown (almost ginger).
I find it very low maintenance and I don't really mind what others think it's my hair! I'm 60.

I am trying to grow mine, only just below chin, very thick and bushy, though I have found a lot of hairs coming out recently! I'd like it several inches longer. Am scared to go for a trim, as they always cut too much off and I never get it longer.

I find it easier to manage when a bit longer, can put it up in a clip etc. Also I like feeling it swishing around.It looks very unfeminine on me when short.

luckygirl I'm not envious of many things in life but the discription of your hair made my green eyes go even greener. I was blessed with very good teeth, though. Please don't tell me you have those as well, that's not fair

I am 68 and have long dark brown greyless hair. I like to wear it in plaits best, but a bit too girly for some occasions, so I sometimes do one plait at the back or a very loose pony tail with the band at about shoulder level.

I have an assortment of beak clips and other grabbers, and I wear it in all sort of different ways.

Sometimes I create 3 beak-clipped whirls at the back and I like that; also the sort of roll at the back like the 1940s if I can be bothered with the fiddle-faddle that requires.

I do not care one jot about what suits my age!

Incidentally I wash my hair in the shower whilst it is still in plaits - it is so much easier to towel dry with less dripping about like a wet dog!