Ellen Pompeo (from Grey's Anatomy)

I know it's much more curly than usual in this picture but I think she must have had at least a foot cut off:

With long hair she looks like a high school girl. With shorter hair she looks like a grown woman in her late 20s or early 30s.
Being in my mid-30s myself, I believe women in their 20s and 30s often can look more beautiful than 16, 17, or 18 year old teenaged girls. Teenaged girls can be beautiful, but usually teenaged girls look more cute than beautiful in the grown up sense of the word. A beautiful woman really comes into her own when she is in her 20s, and then into middle age.
I am 36 year old lady these days, and I feel as beautiful as I ever have. I am enjoying being the age that I am.


Edited by Carolredskirt - December 05 2006 at 12:36am

I believe that is an updo, not a cut, no way is her hair that thick without help.  Although just about any change would make her hair look better.  In a way, the longish, thin, pulled back in a pony tail hair she usually wears is probably the most realistic of the female doctors on her show, although not the best looking (which goes to the stunning Katherine Heigl)

She cut it.  This is from just a couple of days ago: