Short or longer hair?

Short hair suits me but I'm fed up with the maintenance. I have grown it to chin length but with long layers rather than a bob. It always seems to look at its best the day before I've booked a trim.

Some women do look good with short hair [but I am not amongst them] so usually settle for a slightly layered bob, sometimes a short bob and sometimes a medium one.If left alone it goes curly, and looks like a bad perm, so I always blow dry it so be straight-ish and shiny.This style works well for older women, easy to maintain but not too short or harsh looking.Very slightly shorter at the back [you have to tell the stylist very sternly that you don't want it too short at the back!] I have it trimmed ever 6-8 weeks in a dry cut which costs £14.Twice a year I have blonde highlights put in, which seems enough to hide all the grey.

Good choice JP . Go long I say.

I am going to cancel my hairdressing appointment this week as I think if I get there I might give in,or he will cut off more than I want.I have bought some 'product' ( sea salt texturizing?)it doesn't seem to make much difference I think I will just have to live with it looking messy until I can get it long enough to trim properly. Looking at the length of the layers on top that could be about a year!

Nonnie I've given up on mine!

I have always preferred long hair, it has been cut many times, but I always let it grow again, usually it just gets put in an elastic band somewhere on top of my head. it has been likened to a pineapple top by others. I usually cut it myself by putting it in the band and just cutting straight across, then it falls in layers. The alternative is gong to a hairdresser here, and coming out with the same haircut as everyone else.

I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and give up on trying to grow it into the style I fancy It's just too damn thick.

At least with the previous style it is a bit easier to manage, if it won't go down, I gel it and leave it spiky!

Lona my life is a WIP

Mine isn't quite waist length, though it used to be. I cut it myself when it needs a trim. This is the method: brush all to one side and twist into a rope, snip the last couple of inches off; brush all to the other side and do the same but twisting the other way. Nae bother and you can do the snipping over a bin so no hair to vacuum up either.

Waist length? Good heavens, mine wouldn't grow that long if I lived to be 100! Isn't it strange how some people's hair grows very long and others' won't grow much beyond shoulder-length?

My DGDs would love to have Rapunzel-like locks, but their hair length seems to be self-limiting as well...

trying to grow mine out too, I had it cut as I get so impatient to get it dry at waist length but I hate going to hairdressers so Im growing it out now. I find using my straighteners is best as even the raggiest ends go straight. I will eventually go and get the bottom trimmed unless I can get DD to do it for me unless I get so sick I get it cut again.

I have curly hair and sometimes I can be @rsed to straighten it and sometimes I can't. Trouble is its chin length with layers longer on top but if I leave it to curl naturally it looks like a permed head and I hate it but I just can't be bothered faffing about with dryer and straighteners every day everyone says the curly mop ages me but mostly I just can't be bothered my granddaughter cuts it for me about every 2mths and if she knows just how I like it and if it goes wrong I can just slap her..

My hair is always a work in progress, and at the moment I've decided to grow it a couple of inches to about chin length.

On Wednesday I'm going to a new hairdresser and I'm quite nervous as I can't stand the 'scissor happy' type, and you never know until they start cutting....................

I am also unable to the do blow drying thing (hedgehog and blowlamp?) so have bought an electric wand thingy which I wind my hair round and it blows it dry. Its the best thing I have ever find for very fine very straight hair. I also use 'product' to thicken it.

I gave up paying all that money for a wash, cut and finish and now get just as good a dry cut for £12.50 and no fuss.

Mine is short and does its own thing regardless of the "style" but luckily it always looks ok so I'm grateful. I pay £8 for a dry cut once a month. My friend pays over £40 and still hates her hair. I had long hair as a young woman but wouldn't want it now. My dad was a hairdresser and remembered when women started having their long hair cut to "the bob" in the 1930s. He said they were often amazed to find their hair was naturally curly but the weight of it had always straightened it.

Mine's long and up too. Hangover from when I was a dancer. Also the easiest to cope with. It gets washed (not every day now; no need), brushed and twirled up. The twirling up takes a few seconds. Can't be arsed with anything complicated that needs 'care'.

I have been growing out the layers in my hair for about a year now. The longest part is now more or less shoulder length while the shortest is somewhere between my ear lobes and chin. It is long enough to clip most of it up at the back of my head, leaving straggly strands at the sides of my face which I kid myself make me look like Joanna Lumley. Eventually, I shall get it cut and restyled so that it is all the same length.

I have a short hair and I love it. I think short hair is the best for seniors.

I have the bob at the front and short at the back style..... love it!

At times I wake up looking like the unfortunate love child of a liaison between Woody Woodpecker and Jedward!

When it was really long my party piece was to brush it all forward over my face and then put a pair of sunglasses on. Depending on my mood, I was either Cousin It from the Addams Family, or a member of ZZ Top!

Must see if I can find a photo of it long............

phoenix, your hair sounds like mine! Every morning it is 'upwards and outwards' as if I have been going backwards and forwards through a hedge all night.

After struggling for two years to grow a more fashionable 'bob' and not succeeding I have had my hair cut shorter in layers. It's much easier to manage and takes 10 minutes to dry into some sort of shape rather than the 25 or 30 minutes it took when it was nearly all one length. It is thick and has just enough curl to be annoying without being maintenance-free.

My hair is very fine but very thick and I have kept it in a short bob for many years. I am delighted to say that the hairdresser I have been using has been sacked- I thought that she had a major "attitude" problem and would not listen to what I wanted, did her own sweet thing. It will be interesting to see what the next person is like. I continued to go there because I refuse to pay £45+ elswhere. My charge was £22 but has now risen to £25.

Mines long and up

My hair is very fine and has no body to it so I like to keep it fairly short. When I had to change hairdresser I was very specific about what I wanted and how much should be cut off - I have been with my present hairdresser for about 3 years now and she knows how I like it, she is very reasonably priced too! I can't style it with a hairdryer and brush so dry it first then use velcro rollers.