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Originally posted by AnaisSatin AnaisSatin wrote:

Wow DBF! Saaay, it looks like you went for that
herbal dye recently too..?


Yep, I sure did. I put Herbatint on the sun-damaged part. Got tired of the
stark contrast. I couldn't be happier with the results!
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Knee Length...also very impressive. DBF, did you get your name from
"dancing bare foot" at outdoor music festivals? Because that's kind of the
impression I got from the name. I too attend these festivals. Sometimes, I
end up bare foot, lol. (hey, where did my shoes go??) Just wondering!
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Back to the topic at hand...

Another reason I opt for long hair is for the styles. I love the way I look
with my hair up, but if my hair is too short and the bun (or whatever) is
too small, I feel like a sumo wrestler, I dunno. Some girls look cute with a
little mini-tale, but not me. I want loads of hair to pile atop my head.
Also, for long double braids so I can hold on to the ends and dance
around with them. Then I would take those braids and do "Princess Liea"
cinnabuns. There are so many possibilities...
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I like long hair because: ALL of the reasons above plus! I have never cut my hair and my mom has really long hair (knee length) and my sisters have long hair, too. I know lots of girls that have below the waist hair and all of us love it!

In the Bible it says that a woman's hair is her glory, so why would you want to cut your glory off???!! Plus, alot of guys I know love it (My hair is a little below my hips---I even have had some guys walk up to me in stores and such and compliment me on it---women, too, of course---but it's really neat when a guy notices it!) Anyways, (in case you haven't noticed!) I love long hair!

 

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Originally posted by Sugaree Sugaree wrote:

DBF, did you get your name from
"dancing bare foot" at outdoor music festivals? Because that's kind of the
impression I got from the name.


Not exactly. Where I'm from there aren't a lot of outdoor music festivals (or
indoor ones, for that matter), but I do like dancing barefoot (sadly, usually
all by my lonesome at home). I also love the U2 song "Dancing
Barefoot" (which is a cover of a Patti Smith song, actually), so it just seemed
like a good fit.
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DBF, ahhhhhh gotcha. That's cool! Last night I went to go see an all-girl
Led Zeppelin cover band (they totally rocked,btw) During Black Dog I felt
the urge to let my hair down and start headbanging. I think I was
whipping people with my hair, but that's okay. It's good it wasn't longer
though, because somebody might have lost an eye or something.
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Hi all,

 I'm curious, So literally what happens to you when your hair grows long to your goal?

 Do you enter into a long hair contest and win lots of money?

 Or do you simply feel like you climbed mount everest? Seriously, I'm curious.

 I'll tell You all, Back in the day, I wanted my hair to grow long so badly first to look more like my identical twin sister Barb, and also to appease my narrow minded boyfriends, who didn't love me unconditionally.

 Now at age 35 I love myself with a long bob style. The longest I want, is to my shoulders. I can take the heat, I've got big shoulders, if you will.

 My fiance' Steve met me with shoulder length hair, then I put fushia pink streaks in it, then I slowly cut it to a short Bob, now it's longer. Steve tells me He Loves me now matter what my hair looks like, but he said he loves my hair now.

                        So what's the lesson, simply be who you are,

 

regardless of what others think(including myself)

 

 

God Bless,...
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when most people reach their goal, they seem to go yay! And then change their goal...

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Nothing happens to you when you reach your goal, other than a feeling of
"yay, I reached the goal I set for myself." That's it, really. Many people
growing long hair have no goal at all (other than perhaps "let's see how this
goes!").

The important thing to me is to do what's right for yourself for your own
reasons. If that's long hair, fine. If it's short hair, fine. For me, short hair
doesn't work at all, despite people who have tried to convince me otherwise
(telling me I'm too old for long hair, it's "styleless", or whatnot). Short hair
looks truly awful on me. I have no intention of letting naysayers dictate my
hairstyle. I would be doing it for them, and not for myself.
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DBF, I would've never recognized you with that dark hair! It still looks fantastic, but it sure is different for you.

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Let me tell you, it FEELS different, too! I'm really liking it, though.

Your hair is looking fabulous as always, Sunsailing!
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Horselover, UPC by chance?  Glad to hear you're so upbeat on your hair. 

DBF, the haircolor looks terrific!

Sunsailing, your hair has reached waist-length - congratulations!
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Hey, Dave, if you're interested, on the introductions page, I have posted a few pictures....this is if you don't see them first! horselover

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Because I most DEF. look better with long hair.  And when my hair is long and curly, and down to my boobs...I look delicious! xP And I love making people hate me!

JK!

But like...I'm young...and when you reach a certain age...long hair looks stupid on a lot of people...Like it looks like you're trying to look young, and it ages you...So I figure this is the age to have my hair as long as I want...I'll chop it off when I get older.

I have so many cuts in my mind! xD

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I appreciate your reasons for having long hair, iibangduckiez, but I respectfully disagree with what you said about long hair "aging" people who are older....I think it really can't be generalized in that way - it depends on the person and circu.mstances.  (this site won't let me spell this word correctly!)

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Quote But like...I'm young...and when you reach a certain age...long hair looks stupid on a lot of people...Like it looks like you're trying to look young, and it ages you...So I figure this is the age to have my hair as long as I want...I'll chop it off when I get older


Thing is, when women believe these kinds of things, they age themselves not by the particular longer hair style they are wearing, but by conforming to  preconceived notion of what one thinks that they should look like at some arbitrary age. 

Example, a woman could look fairly young with a long hair style at, say 38 or 39.  Once 40 rolls around, she cuts it because she was taught to think that at a certain age, that is what she MUST do.  The new cut then can become aging because it is identifiable with the more "matronly" age set so to speak.


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Well, I never said a specific age...I said a certain age...It's different for everybody...But...After you reach a certain...point...long hair just doesn't look flattering...It DOES make you look older, maybe not in the sense that it makes you look like you're trying to look younger--but it just makes you look older...Short hair makes older (at least older-looking) women look younger and more sophisticated.

Cause...no matter how good you look for you're age...after you reach a "point" you can feel young, but having that "20 year old look" just isn't an option...you know...I'm sure you're gonna want to look as sexy as always, but with a little more sophistication...

Kinda how many kids have mushroom haircuts, or bangs when they're little, and then you get older...and it just doesn't work...

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I just don't agree with you, but you are certainly entitled to your opinion.

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Originally posted by iibangduckiez iibangduckiez wrote:

Well, I never said a specific age...I said a
certain age...It's different for everybody...But...After you reach a
certain...point...long hair just doesn't look flattering...



I see just the opposite. Most "old lady" cuts are horribly unflattering,
IMHO. I can't think of anyone that the Golden Girls poodle 'do or soccer
mom flip (aka 'helmet hair') looks truly good on. And if you think about it,
if society says "Past the age of X you should have only short hairstyles,"
then if you see someone with a short hairstyle, you're much more inclined
to think they fall above that age.

Originally posted by iibangduckiez iibangduckiez wrote:

It DOES make you look older, maybe not in the
sense that it makes you look like you're trying to look younger--but it
just makes you look older...



I guess that must be why I still get carded all the time? I look so old they
think I'm a minor?

Actually, one or two women have told me that I have to "act my age" by
cutting my hair, even saying that I make THEM look old because with long
hair, I look younger than them. Frankly, that's their problem, not mine.
Age has absolutely no correlation with hair (other than going gray, of
course). I look bad with short hair and I'm not going to cut my hair to
make others feel more secure about themselves.

Originally posted by iibangduckiez iibangduckiez wrote:

hort hair makes older (at least older-looking)
women look younger and more sophisticated.



I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, because I really just don't see that.
I don't think any hair length is more sophisticated than any other. Can
you describe HOW, exactly, short hair is more sophisticated?
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Originally posted by dancingbarefoot dancingbarefoot wrote:



I see just the opposite. Most "old lady" cuts are horribly unflattering,
IMHO. I can't think of anyone that the Golden Girls poodle 'do or soccer
mom flip (aka 'helmet hair') looks truly good on. And if you think about it,
if society says "Past the age of X you should have only short hairstyles,"
then if you see someone with a short hairstyle, you're much more inclined
to think they fall above that age. 

Well...I just keep getting words in my mouth cause I never said an "old lady" cut...Short doesn't necessarily mean "old lady"...Psh!...Many "old ladies" have long gray hair in braids.
Society also thinks that just because you have long hair...you look younger and sexier...and that's not always the case.

Originally posted by iibangduckiez iibangduckiez wrote:

I guess that must be why I still get carded all the time? I look so old they
think I'm a minor?

Actually, one or two women have told me that I have to "act my age" by
cutting my hair, even saying that I make THEM look old because with long
hair, I look younger than them. Frankly, that's their problem, not mine.
Age has absolutely no correlation with hair (other than going gray, of
course). I look bad with short hair and I'm not going to cut my hair to
make others feel more secure about themselves.

Well...I don't know how you look so I can't say anything about how old you look...Maybe long hair flatters you really well.  For all I know you can be pushing 50, and looking 20.  And you know, I understand the security of having long hair...I love having my hair long, too.  But hair does have a lot to do with the age you look, and how presentful you look, and we all get age...You can't stop that.  I bet a lot of your friends wouldn't be able to pull off long hair the way you do.

We are gonna have to agree to disagree though.

But for example...take a woman like...Joan Rivers...Picture her with long blonde hair...Does that picture work? 



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