Elle est belle, Miss France. 🇫🇷

Callistemon21

Oreo

Well, it looks fine on her, but do any of us look as glam as her?
Short haircuts can look a bit brutal on older women.

Oh, I just had mine cut the other day.
The hairdresser was a bit scissor-happy because she was in a rush.
It was so easy to style myself 🙂

Do I look like Rosa Klebb now?

😂 I don’t know, you’ll have to post a pic.Tho you really should stop wearing those shoes with knives in the toe caps.

'Inclusivity and diversity'? Hardly; she is typically French. I was surprised to see some of the news headlines, "A Victory for Diversity'. The previous year's winner who was from Guadaloupe would have a better claim for that victory.

Yes, it is unusual for a model/pageant winner to have short hair, but that hardly makes her diverse. She is very beautiful, and I do think that many women suit short hair. Femininity should not be defined by the length of one's hair. (apologies if I have misused the apostrophe.)

You are allowed to moan Callistemon!

Kate1949

There is too much talk about hair. As someone with alopecia totalis (total hair loss) it makes me weep.

Sorry, Kate
I nearly lost mine through taking a certain medication years ago but I was fortunate and it grew back.
I shouldn't moan about it being unmanageable.

Oreo

Well, it looks fine on her, but do any of us look as glam as her?
Short haircuts can look a bit brutal on older women.

Oh, I just had mine cut the other day.
The hairdresser was a bit scissor-happy because she was in a rush.
It was so easy to style myself 🙂

Do I look like Rosa Klebb now?

Kate1949 please do not stop posting, I have never thought your posts to be bitter 💐

Actually I much prefer your hair to Miss France’s, Kate. Truly.

How lovely of you both.

Kate, I’m so pleased to see you posting again. I’ve missed you. You have never come across to me as bitter, but Lord knows you have reason enough. I remember the photo of your lovely hair which you posted a while back. Whatever it costs you, it’s worth every penny.

Please keep posting.

You don’t sound bitter Kate.

It is easy for those who haven’t suffered with any of the problems and issues that others have to underestimate how they feel, whether it be hair, weight, ailments, family concerns, anything really.

Sometimes we all need to walk in another’s shoes to understand.

Not unlike my cut. I have clippers used on the back so that it’s sits into my neck perfectly.

Thank you both.

Marydoll you too. Best wishes. Xx

Oh Kate1949 you don't seem any more bitter than the next poster. I enjoyed your comments recently on the Strictly thread, it was good fun. We all make threads about us, I know I do and (apparently!) sometimes sound boastful, when it isn't that all. I know others are going through horrendous things, I've had my fair share in the past, and can understand.
I hope we can all find some enjoyment in each other's threads and lift morale.
PS I've decided not to brave the coiffeur in France for a beauty queen chop after all! Another time.

Kate, please don't stop posting. I haven't posted all week, (until today) because I was very unwell and I realised that I was allowing my constant ill health to define who I was and it was reflected in my posts.
I didn't want to seem to be constantly moaning, so withdrew.

However, I have been overwhelmed by the kind posts from people, who have missed me and sent good wishes.
There are lots of posters on GN, who genuinely care and will not judge you.
I can totally understanding how you are feeling. No need to apologise. 💐

Thank you Candelle and Mary. I am sorry about your friend. I have a hair system which is expensive but amazing but has to be taken off regularly for conditioning and I am totally bald. It is the psychological effect of my hair loss that is the hardest to deal with, especially since I had all my teeth removed aged 11 through neglect.

Apart from today, I have stopped posting on GN as I realise I have become bitter and this was showing in my posts. I also tend to make all the threads I post on about me, as I have done here. I should be ashamed (and I am) as there are people on here going through horrendous things.

My hair is (probably) medium-length. With strategically-placed hair combs I can make it look short. I do think long hair is easier to manage rather than short, but, to be honest, at 93 am grateful I still have hair!

Kate1949

There is too much talk about hair. As someone with alopecia totalis (total hair loss) it makes me weep.

Kate my friend is like you, so I know how devestating it can be.
However, a few years ago, she started wearing wigs (not cheap), but at eighty years ols, she looks fabulous. You would never know she is wearing one.

I will never forget the night when my dear friend, dying of cancer, removed her wig in front of our small group of friends, because she felt comfortable to to it.
We didn't realise, she was saying goodbye. She did a few days later. .

To Kate 1949: I made a 'new' friend recently and was astonished when she lifted off her hair; it was a wig. I really had no idea.

Apparently this lady buys wigs on-line from the States and they are very inexpensive. I think they cost around £20.00 each, obviously plus postage.

If you would like details, I am happy to obtain further details, just P.M. me if you should be interested but no problem if you are not!

My observation of French women is that almost every woman has their hair worn short after the age of 45 - 50. A few wear their hair longer but always 'up', never chin length or longer.

Many wear similar clothes, too - more stiff and old-fashioned than in the UK (straight knee-length pencil skirts and twin-sets, etc.).

Short hair in older women was one thing that even my husband used to comment about. That and the fact that there seemed to be many more elderly couples instead of singletons (by death) here. It was quite noticeable.

Obviously there will be exception to the above but these are our observations.

I would quite like to look like Miss France* but alas, that will never be..... !

*Mr C would quite like me to look like Miss France, too!

Yes indeed.

True Kate1949. The beauty queen stuff is very trivial really. (Crowning glory, didn't they used to say about hair?)

Even with my hair tied back I look like a turnip. If my hair was cut short I'd fit right in at Halloween - as a turnip lantern ( none of this sissy pumpkin nonsense!)

I’ve had short hair for years- pixie cuts included.
It’s a lot less ageing and dare I whisper more suitable for grey hair than “flowing locks” or - shock horror - wash and sets.
The sort of “big hair” of beauty pageants is all too reminiscent of Raine, the late Countess Spencer or her mother Barbara Cartland.

Not at all Joseann What I meant was there is too much emphasis with beauty queens etc on hair. It is normal to talk about hair. I am the exception. I didn't mean to make you feel bad. I meant the fuss about this lady, not your post.