Lemme just show you what I'm trying to say...cause a lot of people are just...completely not getting me.
^ This is lady. Lady look good with long hair.
About 50 years later...lady cut hair long time ago...but then--doon doon doon...Lady lets hair grow.
Lady look like "AAAAH!" even though the peac*ck thing on her head adds to the "AAAAH!"...any other "long style" woulda been just as..."AAH!"
A few years later...Lady cuts hair...
Horrid facial expression...nonetheless lady is pushing 70-something...Personally, I think she looks younger ^.
I'm talking about cases like these...We're all gonna get like ^ one day...unless we die...And some people get like that faster than others. When you get like that...that you are obviously "older"...and you just can't hide it anymore...long hair look...eesh.
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About 50 years later...lady cut hair long time ago...but then--doon doon doon...Lady lets hair grow
I can't see the evil after shot.
Regardless, I'll see your lady and raise you a Sharon Stone. Granted, Sharon isn't the greatest example because she uses extensions and rarely takes a bad photo, but here is a 2004 Before and a 2005 after. She just looks younger with the softer, longer hair.
Lady got surgery and looks like she's a different race to what she started as. Doesn't look her age but not neccesarily her ethnicity either.
LOOL! What does that have to do with anything?? LOL! She's Mexican...so she doesn't really have a "race"...She didn't look her ethnicity to begin with. o.^
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It's not that we're not "getting" you, it's that we don't agree. There's a big
difference.
You're saying there's an objective standard that short hair makes one look
younger and more sophisticated. We're saying (or at least I am) that there
is no such standard. Saying that short hair is categorically more
sophisticated than long hair makes about as much sense as saying that
brown eyes are more sophisticated than green eyes. Absolutely no basis
for either claim, IMHO.
iibangduckiez wrote:
Horrid facial expression...nonetheless lady is
pushing 70-something...Personally, I think she looks younger ^.
She definitely looks older in the third picture to me. Hair or no, there's no
way not to notice the wrinkles and sagging skin around her neck.
(Although, only the first picture has long hair. That tragic 80s hairstyle is
definitely unflattering, but not long. It barely reaches her shoulders.)
However, opinions on her age aside, I think we have fundamentally
different views about the purpose of long hair. Judging from your posts,
you think it must be a tool for hiding age or whatnot, whereas I just like
having long hair. I'm not trying to hide behind it or look different from my
actual age. If it made me look 150 years old, I'd still have long hair,
because *I* like it. If it made me look 8 years old, I'd still have it. Again,
because *I* like it, and I couldn't care less what others think about it. Life
is too short to spend all your time making other people happy.
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Omg...-tear-...You called my favorite actress wrinkly!! -cries-
Okay...fine she is wrinkly...but she looks a LOOT better on TV!!! xP
And she's awesome... Hokay had to get that out! xP
Yeah of course. I understand...and it's like I said you feel comfortable with long hair...and that's just how people are different. Me...I'm just one of those people who has to look a certain way all the time to be comfortable...you know? Like...I-gotta-get-my-heels-just-to-go-get-the-mail-type person. LOL...And I know as young as I am right now...I definitely wouldn't feel comfortable with short hair either...but I also love short hair...and I'm experimental...So it's exciting for me to think one day I'll get some short haircut, and look the way...I "want" to look when I get older.
It sounds plastic...but I'm not plastic...trust me! LOL...Like I don't spend hours doing my hair, and I don't wear too much make-up...and always whine about being fat, or whatever....I'm just a certain way...just like you are a certain way.
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Ok, I'm happy everyone got thier opinions out, and resolved.
I can see both of your sides regarding hair and age, etc...
I'm not going to take sides, but I'm happy we are all different. I mean, wouldn't this world be boring if everyone thought the same about everything? I think so,..;)
No worries everyone! I wish all the Best for You all!!!!
Take care, and God Bless,...
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After reading the (second half) of this discussion, I must add my opinion.
I agree with both parties, so I'm not trying to start trouble, I just think this
is a very interesting debate. I am 22 but I feel stongly about the
preconceived notion that older women must wear a short style. IBD, it
seems as though you feel long hair is something that represents
youthfulness and sexiness, and anyone who is "old" and wearing long hair
is only doing so to feel/look younger. This may be true for some,
however it cannot be a generalization. As DBF said, she wears long
hair *because she likes it*, not because she wants to appear youthful. I
think a neatly placed bun or a single long braid are more sophisticated
than those typical short-old-lady perms. In other words, there is a way to
wear long hair as an older person without looking "young". There are also
other elements to consider, like how does the person dresses, act, even
down to the way they style their long hair... I mean, if I see an older lady
with twin braids, I must admit that's kind of dumb looking because it's a
hairsyle that belongs on a little girl. (even being a young women and
wearing that style makes you look like a little girl, which is the point
sometimes, guys are totally into that!) If I see a women who is well over
50 wearing a chic layered hairstyle, a baby tee and bellbottoms, yeah I
think she is probably trying to look young. Yet, I've met several women
who have long hair, look their age, and look beautiful.
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Yeah...there's definitely woman well over fifty who pull off long hair...It's like there's women well over 40 who look orgasmic in bikini's...you know?...It's not really a thin of age...I ment it more as a thing of...like...a certain point that everybody reaches at a certain time in their life when...they just you know..."look better with the one piece"...it's a similar concept.
Also...I was looking up hair lenghts...and I read that short hair is like...really short o.0...To me "short" is like when hair is like right above your shoulder.
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I think Dave means he was asked for his ID when he tried to purchase alcohol...meaning that his long hair makes him look YOUNG!!! (extra emphasis added for iibangduckiez, hehe)
Im sorry but I just cant believe that you guys have been carded when you dont even look young from the back! Im with the duck! Not to be mean or anything but you guys look like you have mops on your head. I think that long hair does make people look older sometimes. Long hair is nice but not when it just sits there.
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