QuoteReplyTopic: Ageing, hair length and extensions Posted: April 01 2005 at 11:59pm
Disclaimer: This isn't going to impart any wisdom concerning application technique or hair selection...just a thought I wanted to share.
I'm sure you've heard the old adage "once you're 40, you shouldn't wear long hair, it ages you"... When I was in my 30's, I probably would have agreed. (kind of like when I was 15 and I thought 35 was really old)
I can't think of a better way to retain a more youthful appearance than hair extensions. As collagen production lessens, our hair becomes thinner and dryer. What better way to maintain healthy looking hair! Granted I've left the more adventerous colors behind...but I still love softly layered longer hair.
On an episode of Beverely Hills Dr. 90210 this over middle-aged woman spent a small fortune having her face lifted, lips plumped and a chin implanted to look younger...and then she keeps the helmet hair...huge mistake. IMO a healthy lookin' mane would have improved her more than anything. Just a thought
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I am going to be 39 in may and since putting in the extensions my clients and friends say I look ten years younger! My daughter (11) thinks I look 18...........I Love her!!!
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I dont think there is anything wrong with you wearing extensions. Everyone wants to feel young and beautiful no matter what age you are. I have seen lots of women in their forties and up with butt length hair. It almost always looked great..they looked like adult women who felt good about themselves.I think a short haircut on an older woman can make her look even older.I dont think you should cut your hair shorter than chin length.And long hair as far as I'm concerned is timeless.
I totally agree. The conventional wisdom that women should cut their
hair short when they're above a certain age is pretty ridiculous, imo.
More often than not, I think a little length makes women look younger,
not the other way around. :)
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i think that goes along with just "letting yourself go". i'm 37
and i think i look a lot older b/c my kids have just worn me out.
so makeup and hair color and style are important....along with trying
to keep fit.
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my daughter and i tried the shrinkies this AM, but she just didn't get
the fact that you couldn't fuse them an inch from the scalp...and that
SMALL sections of hair were just that....SMALL.
so i decided i'd color my hair instead.....and the guy at the liquor store tonight did one of those "you are 21, right?"
...uh yea, last time i checked...at least my 16yo knows i'm 21....as
i'm standing with my 46yo hubby. Of course i tease him for
robbing the cradle.
my oldest sister (55yo) has been hair colorless for years, yet she gets
a facial every two weeks....she has minimal wrinkles, but mostly salt
and pepper hair just plays havoc on her visual age. sure i'd love
to not have to worry about roots, etc.....but i like running into the
school for my daugher and people thinking we're sisters. (no kidding -
we live in a very small Catholic town....families are HUGE and can span
like 25 years for siblings)
here's to just caring enough about ourselves to look good!!
has someone been swimming in the shallow end of the gene pool again?
I agree, the conventional wisdom does not always work. Yes, sometimes
long hair makes women look older; but more often than not, it's the
old-lady haircut that does it! An old-lady style is an old-lady style,
whether it's short or long. And I think short hair is actually -more-
associated with age, since so many middle-aged and older women cut
their hair short. I mean geez, when I did my mom's extensions and then
introduced her to my friends out here, they all thought she was my
sister at first. :) In conclusion...conventional wisdom be damned.
"Staying young" means wearing what -you- think looks good on you, not
what other people say you should wear.
You guys. What should and shouldn't be, what we should and shouldn't do are only valid through concensus; they are not real.
Only you know what works for you and your life. When people tell you what they think you should do, thank them for their opinion. Then do whatever you want.
Dreads, colors, piercing, extensions, nails...if you feel beautiful, I'm enrolled. I think you're beautiful, too.
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