How old is too old

[caranfin]

Your hair looks shoulder-length, or a little past, in that pic. Is that how long it was at the time, or is it just the garb that makes it look shorter? Anyway, I think the color looks fantastic - you have very dramatic coloring, and if you lightened your hair, it would be the same color as your face, and would make you look washed out. I bet you'll have beautiful salt and pepper hair when you do start to go grey.

[Amanita]

I'm 27 and have hair down to my waist. So I only have 3 years left before I have to cut it? I don't freaking think so. I've hated every short haircut I've ever had- at least the maintenance aspects of it. I don't like spending 45 minutes with a curling iron, nor do I like having hair that flips outward framing my face. It just looked ditzy and stopped being a problem once I grew my hair a little.
I like the long hair, and I'm naturally dark brown. Blonde would look awful with my skin colour.

The heck with all those stupid rules. Maybe the reason you've got such nice hair is the fact that you havn't done all that stuff to kill it, like perms and constant colouring. It's gorgeous and looks awesome with the rennaissance garb, keep it

[CosmicPossum]

My mom is 83.  She thinks the same about hair length.  A lot of her friends do the hair color thing, too.  We're in the deep south, USA, if that helps.

[Suze]

If you cut your hair off, I personally will hunt you down and kick you.     You've got a beautiful head of hair, it's healthy, it's full and thick... it's something to be extremely proud of.  It's gorgeous! 

And I will be right behind her. 

Most women would KILL for that color and shine - I know I would.  (my hair is a mousey brown with a FEW red highlights)  It suits you.

Tell friend to worry about her hair and you will worry about yours.

[Scritzy]

I had a interesting comment made to me by a friend yesterday. I am too old for my hair color and cut.

My friend told that women our age (mid 40s) and older shouldn't wear long dark hair. That is only for young women (under 30) and we are now too mature for that. I thought that she was joking, but she wasn't. According to her we are at an age where no woman should have hair long than her neck and never darker than medium brown preferably blond.

Is your friend my mother? Gad, how many times did I hear such nonsense from her. It finally toned down when I began wearing my hair short as it is now. She likes my hair short because that's how I wore it as a child. However, she still doesn't like my dyeing my hair black or using the straightening iron.

I recently had a free "makeover" from my favorite cosmetic counter. I asked the makeup artist if he thought I could carry off wearing liquid black eyeliner, or was it too harsh for me. He laughed. "With your dark hair and your dark eyes? Of course you can wear it!" (My nieces loudly approved when they saw me with the eyeliner.)

[merkay]

There is middle ground between long hair and short hair.   Cutting long hair doesn't mean you have to get some sort of pixie cut.  Shoulder length hair in the form of a bob or something similar is probably what your friend is talking about. 

I don't have long hair anymore because I found it was very hard to look mature and sophisticated with it.  I have a nice bob, that still gives me some length, but looks much more professional.  I'm only 29, but it is important to me that I look polished. 

That said, if long hair suits your lifestyle and the image you want to project, rock on. 

[Alida]

Here is a recent picture of me in my renaissance garb.

Absolutely beautiful!

[Suze]

any chance to see a pic of you in the "rest" of your garb?

It looks beautiful

[JoyinVirginia]

My mother had naturally dark brown hair with NO GRAY until she was in her late 70s. Her sisters who were gray earlier and dyed their hair, and some friends, had difficulty believing she didn't color her hair. She never has dyed her hair. I think people should be happy when they don't have to color their hair.
joy in VA

[Scritzy]

My mother had naturally dark brown hair with NO GRAY until she was in her late 70s. Her sisters who were gray earlier and dyed their hair, and some friends, had difficulty believing she didn't color her hair. She never has dyed her hair. I think people should be happy when they don't have to color their hair.
joy in VA

I so agree. Mother still hasn't gone completely gray and she's 83 now. She used to complain all the time that people thought she dyed her hair. She wanted to be gray!

Unfortunately, I took after my maternal grandmother, who went gray early. Nanny got a "Lily Munster" gray streak in her coal-black hair at the age of 25. That's about the age my grays started showing up. And dang if I don't have a streak of stubborn gray right about the place Nanny had hers, according to Mother.

Chip has a similar streak in his hair, and he says it's all my fault. Hmmm, I wonder what he means by that? 

[kathrynne]

Is your friend my mother? Gad, how many times did I hear such nonsense from her.

I was going to ask the same question! My mother firmly believes that women are supposed to cut their hair short the moment we turn 30, so imagine how it kills her to have two daughters and a DIL who all wear our hair long--at least to the bottom of our shoulderblades. We kids in our 40s just refuse to listen.

Then again, I have a genetic perm that gets curlier and more unruly with every inch I take off, and I don't want to fight it every day. I'll never wear bangs again, either, since they always curl and always insist on curling OUT--so I'm wearing a ducktail on my forehead. I've also had some fun watching the white hairs grow in and hoping they grow into a stripe. It's pretty cool realizing I have white hairs that are 18 inches long.

I want to be the woman with brown and white hair in a long ponytail--and a small green parrot on my shoulder. Accessorizing is important, after all.

[Brentwood]

Is your friend my mother? Gad, how many times did I hear such nonsense from her.

I was going to ask the same question! My mother firmly believes that women are supposed to cut their hair short the moment we turn 30, so imagine how it kills her to have two daughters and a DIL who all wear our hair long--at least to the bottom of our shoulderblades. We kids in our 40s just refuse to listen.

Then again, I have a genetic perm that gets curlier and more unruly with every inch I take off, and I don't want to fight it every day. I'll never wear bangs again, either, since they always curl and always insist on curling OUT--so I'm wearing a ducktail on my forehead. I've also had some fun watching the white hairs grow in and hoping they grow into a stripe. It's pretty cool realizing I have white hairs that are 18 inches long.

I want to be the woman with brown and white hair in a long ponytail--and a small green parrot on my shoulder. Accessorizing is important, after all.

My mother loved her long hair. She went gray in her 30s, just a beautiful, silvery shade of gray that looks fantastic on her. She's been wearing it long and pinned up for years. She fell in a parking lot and broke her arm late last fall, and she wound up having her hair cut short because it was just too difficult and painful to do her hair each day. She's 67. She's healed now, and I hope she will grow her hair long again. (She did wear it short in the '70s and '80s.)

[VorFemme]

My grandmother got the white stripe started in her hair about the time Gloria Steinem had her book published - with the highlighted "streaks" in her hair.  She made at least one comment about skunks (shorter black hair with a white stripe).

Some lady at the church didn't believe the minister's wife when she insisted that her hair was as God had made it.  The stripe was too perfect and too fashionable NOT to be artificial.

The stripe is still white, although at 93 the rest of her hair is more light gray than the salt and pepper it went in her fifties. 

The hair style that I liked the best was my Grandpa's double cousin's (brothers married sisters) wife.  She wore her LONG graying hair in the most perfect "Gibson Girl" style I've ever seen outside of the sketch of Miss Manners on the front of her books.