short hair on girls: classic or dud

but on girls with very thick, very straight hair (especially dark hair) cropped short, it is major classic, see 60s truffaut films for examples. i love the twiggy/edie sedgewick look, as well, but just CANNOT pull it off, which makes me very sad. my hair just won't go that straight.

Short hair on girls. Nice. Particularly on little short girls as it exemplifies pixie-ness. But don't like the shaved head look much. And no short-on-top & sides, long-down-back mullet crap.

please cut your hair

thank you

love, ron

So . . . I am getting my hair cut on Friday and I'm thinking of going short like really short. I don't know if I have the guts though or exactly how to get it cut. I really really want to do it but I'm nervous!! I am worried my face it too round. I guess if it looks like shit it doesn't really matter because it'll grow but still. Ack!!

was maybe thinking something like this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NO2UOMMYKZ0/SKanABfIQXI/AAAAAAAAAzU/V8akjD4AjZs/s400/Pixie+Cut+-+Short+Hair.jpg

http://www.missxpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/rihanna.jpg

I don't want to look like a boy though. idk what to do. suggestions? halp!

Try out this incomprehensible hair simulator website!

Short hair on girls is soooooo classic. As long as it's not a "mom-do", if you know what I mean.

I know!! The problem is I'm afraid the stylist lady will wind up giving me some horrible mom haircut and then I will cry. Ahhhh.

OK, I am totally doing that site right now.

How short is your hair right now?

F'rinstance, I always thought Amy Adams was cute, but her look in Julie And Julia is just ridic (in the best way possible):

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HGypXgqw_FY/SnCC5TChBqI/AAAAAAAAC2g/y0xbg-JAIvE/s400/Amy_Adams_in_Julie_and_Julia_Wallpaper_7_800.jpg

And would you need to use more products with short hair? are you opposed to more hair products if that's the case?

x-post - it's a little below chin-length which is pretty the length that it always is. No, I'm not opposed to products.

OK what language is that site in? This may take a while to figure out.

Actually, I think it's Finnish! You may be able to find a translator on the board!

Remembering a photo you posted here, I would say go for it. It would look cute on you.When was the last time your hair was really long?

You know, yes: I can imagine that short hairdos on women are about the hardest thing for a stylist to get right. There's such a fine line between cute and mom. Plus, it seems like it'd be really hard to know for sure what your hair in particular is going to do when it's short. It follows a whole new set of physical laws than the ones that you're used to, pretty much.

Really long . . . when I was 14!! I'm not really a long hair type person.

Ok, trying this site.

Here's the mostly translated site, for what it's worth.

My mom has long hair, but I'm trying to imagine a typical short hair mom cut.

Here's another simulator that actually looks better. I kinda want to try it to see what I'd look like with hair period. Ha!

Jacob, lookit here:

http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2009/05/JON20KATE20PLUS20EIGHT.jpg

Pretty sure this ^^^ is exactly what E is looking to avoid.

That almost counts as a mullet. My mom is an ex hippy so her hair hasn't changed since I was....born.

lol hippie I meant.

FWIW, I found that mega-short hair on me with my square, wideish face wasn't a look I liked too much. I have a short bob, but I dont think I'd ever go back to a cropped cut like these. Its hard to know if it'd suit you E, just musing on my own face shape!

OK I found a different website and IT'S AWFUL but LOOOOOOOOOL look at my awesome new hair:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/Makeover.jpg

As bad as the site is, I'm thinking maybe I can actually go short? hmmmm. Fuck it, I think I'm going to do it.

I am so deleting that picture in about 5 mins, btw. Also, haircut will not look ANYTHING like that - hopefully.

lolllllll!!

do it.

Despite the awfulness of the simulation, I think it's a really good look!

http://www.gonemovies.com/WWW/MyWebFilms/Drama/BoutPatricia1.jpg

oh boy!

i mean, girl!

yeah e sorry i had nothing more valuable than a lol--you should srsly do it.

nothin' to add to current discussion — i would just like to note that the answer to the original question is of course 'classic'

(BTW, it's frickin' 2009, people. Are you really telling me that someone hasn't whipped up a functional Flash hairstyle simulator by now? One that looks like it doesn't belong on a Geocities page?)

OMG this thing is so amazingly bad - I just had permed fire engine red hair that was really something else.

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I think I might go for it. O_O

If I don't chicken out, of course. lol.

tbh I don't find short-hair on girls attractive. if they're a cute girl, they'll still be a cute girl w/ short hair, but I can't think of a situation where I wouldn't prefer long hair.

me: imo you shd get a traditional english number 2 shave
soccer hooligan stylee
Erica: hahahahahah

Go for it!!! You've got nothing to lose...but your hair! Which is totally replaceable.

And you will rid yourself of that nagging "What if...?" doubt that you know would otherwise linger forever.

If I had hair, I would try so many awesome expHAIRiments. Do it for those of us who suffer in silence and hairlessness.

i'm a sucker for a short haired girl with a pretty smile
she gots to have ideas yeah and she gots to have style

On the other hand - I could grow some emo hairs:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/MO2-1.jpg

LOL

i think i know more women with shaved heads than 'soccer hooligans' with same

dud

rong

I mean in general, of course.

Not that you're wrong in general - just about short hair on girls.

OK, gonna do this . . . probably. Thank you for input!

I think I'm drawn to girls with longer hair, but really it doesn't matter. It's always that something I can't define that attracts me to a girl.

it depends on the girl duhhhhh

lol erica ^_^

u like?! ;-)

as in - if she is among the top 1% of hot girls in the world she will be able to pull off the short hair. other wise... no.

xposts

erica is possibly pushing that 1% is the thing n/c

maybe 3% if i'm feeling stern, which i generally am

ahhhhhhh so many haters! btw - I wouldn't go as short as Jed's pic more like the Rhianna one which I think would be A LOT easier to pull off.

I mean, I've had pretty short hair before - I don't know why I'm so nervous:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/IMG_2202.jpg

I think just this time it wouldn't be so long on the sides but more long in the bang/fringe area.

Aw LJ - you too kind.

i think super-short would look great on you, erica!

I had super short hair at one time like pretty much shaved I really liked it but I decided to grow out my hair since I have never had long hair. I miss those days It's SO EASY

x-post thanks HS. We'll see if I have the courage to go through with it come Friday.

removed pics cause really nobody needs to see those makeover ones

thermo u are wrong it depends on height, facial structure, all kinds of things. it's a legit better choice for many girls!

tbh I don't find short-hair on girls attractive. if they're a cute girl, they'll still be a cute girl w/ short hair, but I can't think of a situation where I wouldn't prefer long hair.

― iatee, Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:35 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

^OTM! Exactly this. It may not be dud in itself. But long hair is always better.

If you wanna go for short hair, the Rhianna style will probably look good on you. I think you should avoid something the first one you posted. :)

hahahah, you think? The first was never really an option.

OK then. BTW I didn't know you could remove pictures? Are you a moderator?

I think there's some evolutionary reason or something why short-hair is just sorta less physically attractive? a quick google search seems to support that. it's like big boobs or something. I dunno, it's not something that's worth basing your life decisions on - it's just a more or less constant that from a purely physical POV, most guys are gonna be more attracted to a girl with medium-long hair.

(seems to be cross-cultural too)

I wish I could cut my hair like what jed posted

Dud. Though of course some beauties can surpass any stylistic handicaps.

i r vindicated.

friend of mine did this a while back, it was a hot look. do it!!

Total, utter classic. Prefer it to long hair on girls 90% of the time.

short-hair partisans u are all ign'ant.

i got the pixie a while back. it was alright for a while but then i grew it out. a decent experiment. was not a big deal.

ps no one mistook me for a man

Daavid no I am not a mod . . . yet. ;-) I deleted them at the source.

I think there's some evolutionary reason or something why short-hair is just sorta less physically attractive?

I think it's probably less evolutionary/biological and more sociocultural. The big boobs/full lips thing is a sign of fertility but I'm not sure that is true w/ hair. I could be wrong though - it might be.

idk - I have never been a long hair type person it just feels weird and wrong to me if my hair is much past my chin. Actually thought about growing it and two days ago declared I was going to do so but I just can't. It's driving me nuts.

honestly what are you worried about?
you're pretty, just do it.

aw, thanks Lecera - more nervous about getting a crappy short haircut than a short one in general but yeah fuck it, I'm going to go for it.

errr Lechera

I think it's probably less evolutionary/biological and more sociocultural.

Think so too. It may just be that for some men, what's attractive are qualities regarded as feminine in our society, simply because we're conditioned to like them. I know it makes me slightly uncomfortable to see women wearing something I identify as masculine, like ties. I'm not saying it's wrong and it's seems pretty clear that a lot of men don't see things the same way though.

Yes, that's basically what I was thinking too. Even if it's not a conscious thing I would venture to guess that many men equate long hair with femininity and short hair is sort of automatically the less desirable option on a woman for them.

if it doesn't work out, just have it cut shorter. it'll grow back!
ps -- me llamo amanda

wow that was a horrible sentence but you know what I meant

x-post - hey amanda :-)

yeah just do it -- if nothing else it is an act of rebellion. just don't expect everyone to love it because they won't and that's ok.

Exactly.

http://www.ondarock.it/photo/OConnor.jpg

She looked better with a shaved head tbh!

Erica IMO that hair is not way ridic short. I had hair like that once and I loved it x1,000,000 – it's way easy to style & you can do so many difft things with it (and pretty quickly, too). You are so smokin' smoulderin' hot you cld really do most anything w/yr hairs but I think it would not only look COOL, but also GOOD. And if you didn't like it it wld grow out to a length/style closer to the one you have pretty darn quick, defs in time for holiday pics w/the fams.

I say you do it!

http://www.evolutionpsychology.com/research_2.html

Three evolutionary hypotheses were tested (covering hypothesis, healthy mate theory, and good genes model), of which good genes model was supported by our data. In the light of this theory, those individuals can afford the high costs of long hair who have good phenotypic and genetic quality. In accordance with this hypothesis, we found that only long and medium-length hair had a significant positive effect on women’s attractiveness, the other hairstyles did not influence the evaluation of their physical beauty. Furthermore, these two hairstyles caused much larger change in the dimension of health than in the rest of dimensions. Finally, male raters considered the female subjects’ health status better, especially if the subjects were less attractive women.

In another recent study we found that the physical appearance of long-haired women was highly rated, regardless of their facial attractiveness being judged high or low. The advantageous hairstyles improved the image of health only for women who have disadvantageous facial features. Furthermore, hair condition – quality of hair – does not seem to correspond with physical attractiveness; beautiful women were not more likely to have strong, stuffed, healthy scalp hair than less attractive women, as the redundant signal theory expects. All of these results seem to support multiple fitness theory rather than redundant signaling theory. If scalp hair and facial features signal different or even opposite aspects of physical attractiveness, their interplay brings about a huge variety of physical appearance that are, nevertheless, limited by the subjects’ reproductive interests. It was revealed that less attractive women are more likely to have long or medium-length hair, whereas more attractive ones seem to change their hairdos more frequently. These results suggest that women deliberately – although not necessarily consciously – opt for a particular hairstyle, or change their coiffures in a way that helps them to shift to a category of more valuable and desirable mate (Bereczkei and Mesko 2006).

(this is not an argument to not get your hair cut ENBB - I just think that there's more than a sociocultural bias towards long hair. you don't even really need studies to prove this, if you think about how girls have long hair and guys have short hair in a majority of cultures across the world)

x-post - OK Abbott here's what we're gonna do. You're going to webmail me your phone number and on Friday if I start panicking I'm going to call you and have you force me to go through with it. OK? This is what I did with my bff when I got my first tattoo and it worked! I totally would have chickened out otherwise and regretted it forever.

ps - You're talking about the Rihanna pics, right?

classic if it is part of public meltdown
http://www.maladaptedmedia.com/user/files/britney-spears-bald.jpg

I think that something like this would look cute on you! You deleted all the pictures I can see.. :)

http://www.audiencias.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/samaire_armstrong_2.jpg

You can rock short hair! You have a great bone structure.

Velko - as soon as I saw that pic I knew that was you before I scrolled down and saw the username.

Iatee - I'm sure there is some evolutionary bias to it as well (thick long hair being a sign of health and therefore fertility or something along those lines) but I do think the sociocultural aspects are pretty important.

FFM - that is actually very very cute. TY!

that blondie's hair isn't really much shorter than your usual length, is it?

Enough so that it would make a pretty big difference. A couple inches off already short hair can seem like a lot.

no woman ever rocked the baldie look as well as persis khambatta
http://theyoungandsassy.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/persis_khambatta.jpg

yeah but she'd look better with hair

10 reasons why i will never have short hair

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2439/3813778464_49238ba1b1_o.jpg

I am looking through my old pics right now & apparently I have a black eye in every photo of short-haired me.

http://img512.imageshack.us/i/blackeye1.jpg/
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/889/blackeye2.jpg

Sunny despite the awful graphics some of those aren't THAT bad!!

Abbott - awww.

oops
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/5186/blackeye1.jpg

I also looked happy sometimes.

awww, that's adorable tbh

what happened to yr eye?

I had a black eye once. Not so fun!

Wait we're talking about short hair on the head right? Because obviously I'm not voting for long hair below the belt.

Photo 1: bike's brakes broke, steered into a wall to avoid hitting traffic & fell off bike = black eye
Photo 2: walked into a pole (the third time in my life I got a black eye from walking into a pole)

OUCH!

Oh wait - i lied. I've had two. One from walking into a pole (!!!) and the other because some asshole hit me.

Anyway get the Rihanna cut, it will at least be a nice cooling summer cut. Long hair is a pain in the ass to deal w/and quite the insulator.

Yeah, the heat was really what made me even think about doing this in the first place.

Forget your eye, that girl's eyebrow is missing.

It's white!

Oh. Even better.

joek?

No serious. I had two or three white eyebrows since I was 5, not gray, white.

I'm gonna confess I just spent some time on that hair simulator website, erm, trying a couple hairdos... kind of cringey but fun.

erica, you should totally do it

one horrible time, many years ago, i volunteered as a hair model for hairdresser who needed a 'razor cut model'. she explained that i could pick the style, it just needed to be a cut that involved a razor, so we settled on a 'do that meg ryan was sporting at the time (kind of a choppy pixie bob type of thing). 6 weeks later i turn up for the cut at the school. she doesn't have pics but says she knows what she's doing.

1.5 hrs later i looked like kate gosselin or whatever her name is. not kidding. i was so fuckin traumatised. there are pics somewhere, but not in this country.

does anyone remember when that was a lesbian haircut? those were the good days, for lesbians.

Seems more of a black girl haircut than a lesbian one to me, the Kate Gosselin geometric thing.

yeah i remember - it was right around the time I had that haircut

I'm gonna confess I just spent some time on that hair simulator website, erm, trying a couple hairdos...

You aren't the only one:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2439/3813934488_101cd7dac9_o.jpg

I can imagine that short hairdos on women are about the hardest thing for a stylist to get right.

It is imperative that you go to a male hairdresser! I had a pixie 'do for years, and the guys tend to be much better at giving you a nice wash'n'wear style that grows out better. Female hairdressers get kinda fussy with short hair.

I have long hair now, for only the second time in my life, and I think it's a lot less work than super-short hair. Short hair has to get wet everyday.

But you should still go for it, Erica! It's supercute!

I've always thought one needs an elfin face to rock a really pixie cut.

It sure dont look good on me :(

wow Abbott your friend has a striking resemblance to a friend/high school crush of mine

hella classic btw

Sunny, no. 3 of your hair simulator pics looks exactly like the interior designer who did some stuff for our flat! She's now dyed it dark though.

I had a short-short haircut for a year or so (had looooong hair all through school, then cut it to shoulder length which was the worst length for my face, then urchin-style bob, then Zoe-ball style crop). On good days it looked ok but I didn't have the best styling products then, just lots of wax, so it got weighed down and did always need cutting.

Also I don't think I have the most feminine of faces so perhaps it wasn't the most flattering.

Now I have a classic bob with fringe and don't think I'll ever change. I absolutely hate having long hair down my neck now (it's not long enough to tie back).

it's a little greazy here, but this is short cut #1
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2150/2350855012_470ac9e7ce_m.jpg
and this is the only decent picture i have of the shortest it ever was and i look kind of deathy (and almost like i have a black eye!)
http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v349/7/48/805893068/n805893068_869641_4761.jpg

I like! I'm thinking more like #1 but not even that short. The back and sides, yes but a little longer on the top/bangs.

i had hair like the first one a month ago and it all grew out. i should go back on friday. i think enbb should do this because if it's bad it'll just grow back.

it sucks though because i think my hair really grows 2x as fast as normal people's and with short hair when it grows out it's all ruined!

i prefer short hair on women in case my opinion needs to be considered and why shouldn't it

your opinion has been noted

My hair grows super fast, too, I think. Growing up, whenever I got my hair cut my regular lady would go 'ahhhh, we just cut this three weeks ago!' I've cut it myself now for a long time, and I don't know why, cuz I'm not very good at it.

Both are a good look on ya, Lech! xposts

i like women

even THATCHER?

id cripple her economy

The lady would be for turning...if she was into that.

DUD. it should be banned i think.

btw answer to thread question: amazingly classic

if titchyschneiderMk2 hates it i'm fer it

i just googled "awful haircuts". :|

Yeah, I'm not going to do that. I'd probably never go through with it if I saw those.

My favorite shorty short hair product by a long shot.

So I guess it's a good thing that I'm getting this done at an Aveda salon then?? :D

i loooove the men's grooming clay (aveda) -- it's matte, so it doesn't make my hair look any more greasy than it is

Classic.

classic

"depends where on the girl"

aaaaaaaaand i'm back on ILX

did you do this yet, E?

Nope, Friday morning. :-)

cool!

uuuuhhhh

it's just shock, Erica....

I know I know

but . . . IT'S REALLY FUCKING SHORT . . .

HI DERE I have no more hair!

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/IMG000345.jpg

The other side:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/IMG000347.jpg

I really like it, I think. I'm just - in a lot of shock tbh. I knew I was getting it cut really short and yet somehow didn't think it would be this short?!

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cute! you'll get used to the shortness. just walk tall and feel good because your hair looks stylish.

short hair brings a lot of other issues . . . what kind of earrings do I wear!?

It is cute! Aces, enbb!

(no idea on the earrings, sorry)

i wore little earrings, nothing that looks old lady-y

Erica, you look sexy and elegant and gorgeous! And wear long earrings of your choice.

your PS3 looks real nice btw

Awww, thanks guys. I'm still getting used to it. Just caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and was like, "What the . . . ?!"

i know i've taken a very hard anti-short hair stance - and i am not backing down from that - but your hair does look very lovely.

xpost ha ha!

LOVE IT!!

also: long skinny earrings, or cute button earrings. but don't wear the long ones if yr wearing yr glasses

broads w/short hair own

It was bugging me who ENBB reminded me of in that photo above. Then I realised maybe it was the Jean Seberg lookalike in Saint Etienne's Kiss and Make up video (from about 0:52 and 1:53 and so on).
Good vid featuring short haired girls anyway. And big earrings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UZyfEl4fF4

awesome!

DavidM OTM And the Haircut looks awesome on you ENBB, really.

you look really great, Erica!

Ohhhhhhhh, that looks totally cute! You made the right decision, fer shures.

ditto!

a+++

Looks great!

!

dont take this the wrong way, but u could pull off a helluva kenneth the page halloween costume w/ that cut

excellent haircut!

I had never heard that version of "Kiss And Make Up". It's not Sarah Cracknell, is it?

great hair dude. i got mine cut this morning too, we're almost twins like

it's even the same color!

pix or it didn't happen

; )

Wow seriously thanks everyone. It's sort of a huge adjustment so positive reinforcement is particularly awesome. :-)

v. pretty, if i can say so without being creepy.

what's the name of the haircut rosemary has in rosemary's baby? she named it after someone for some reason (satan?)

Very cute haircut, E. I recommend diamond stud earrings. Can't go wrong with those.

eh, diamonds sound expensive. these, on the other hand, GLOW IN THE freakin DARK:

http://i28.tinypic.com/2wp4iz5.jpg

supersuperHOTT!!

if it glow is goes (on my ears)

it

Your hair looks great, it really suits you.
I think roberto should treat you to diamond earrings

ha

Hey Abbott - I got that Defining Whip stuff. It's what she used on me and recommended I get. It smells awesome. :-)

today the hairdresser guy told me about a sassy new show on lifetime about a lawyer who is channeling the thoughts of two dead people. i don't even know how to pretend to be interested in these things. this is why i hate getting haircuts tbh

LOL. My lady didn't talk much which was pretty great tbh.

yeah i love the ones that don't talk!

mute haircutters is an exciting business opportunity

I think you should look into this as a possible business venture tbh. Would utilize services.

Wow ENBB. I think your picture provides the answer to this thread's question.

RS is bang on about the earrings btw.

this chorus needeth not mine voice but getteth it shall...this is actually even better than before imo

Ah but with writing as amazing as that, every thread needs your voice Louis. ;-)

Y'know, as silly as it sounds, I still don't consider myself a shorthaired girl even though I have a short haircut. BUt anyway, to answer the question on ENBB it looks ROWR. heh

so my girl just got a short hair cut (chin length from like mid back length)--she hates it, says its a mom haircut, that she looks like a lollipop, shes never going to leave the house again, etc. i think it looks pretty good but i understand, i get pretty bummed when i hate my haircut but i can always #5 it or whatever. what should i do to make her feel better/make her like her haircut/distract her

i dunno tell her someone on the internet named harbl said whenever she gets a haircut she feels like the ugliest person but the next day she feels a lot better and realizes it's not so bad

yeah thatll probably go over well

i hate every haircut i get at first - it makes it really hard to thank the hairdresser - so it's possible it'll wear off tomorrow when she's a little more used to it?

xpost haha yeah what harbl said

nah i mean shell get over it in like 48 hours, she looks good, and its a good haircut, i just want to have fun and put her in a good mood

well as always there may not be much you can do. you just do your boyfriendly duties by telling her she's beautiful and then wait. if that is ACTUALLY true, then great, but it's the same either way. i am of the opinion that short hair is always classic so

does she have spiky hair on the nape of her neck now? playing with that is pretty much the best thing about new short haircuts.

You could buy her some new hats!

i get mad at the hairdresser for being such an annoying guy and also for putting gunk in my hair so the first thing i do when i get home is wash it with something harsh like dr. bronner's and not even blow dry it. i feel like i'm getting back at him.

^^ sure fire

xp

nah i mean shell get over it in like 48 hours, she looks good, and its a good haircut, i just want to have fun and put her in a good mood

drinks

well as always there may not be much you can do. you just do your boyfriendly duties by telling her she's beautiful and then wait. if that is ACTUALLY true, then great, but it's the same either way. i am of the opinion that short hair is always classic so

― cialis morissette (goole), Monday, October 26, 2009 5:22 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fuk u, u reasonable piece of shit

just go out somewhere. she can't constantly scrutinize it if she's out in public and doesn't have to look at a mirror every time she walks past the bathroom or whatever. that's the thing about having something wrong with your face/hair/head. you don't have to look at it because it's on YOUR HEAD. (this applies to zits, rashes, bad hair, whatever)

harbl, you seriously wash it straight away? i won't even touch my hair for at least two days after a haircut because I know it's not going to be that fancy-looking again for the next two months or more. i just get mad grumpy from having had to look at my own horrible face in the mirror for like half an hour, and being told off for having split ends or having cut my own hair or going grey or whatever i've done this time.

going out = gauntlet of shop windows and bar mirrors to stare at your head in! i vote videogames.

yeah i do because he uses the flat iron on it and i hate when it's flattened against my head like that. i don't have the heart to tell him not to do that.

a bad haircut is two weeks away from a good haircut

--Benjamin Franklin

and i hate the feeling of having lots of waxy shit in my hair. my hair is kind of wild though, it's like really coarse for blond hair and has unruly waves in it and i prefer to just let it do what it wants. footloose n fancy free

yeah that's true, benjamin franklin

Be like: "Girl you always look good with JBH hair." ("JBH hair" was my ex-boyfriend's term for post-sex messed up hair, "just been had" hair.)

Then dodge the punch!

Aw I bet it looks great and she's just in shock. She's a v pretty girl and I think said haircut would look cute but I'm a fan of shorter hair on girls in general obv. As others said take her out, get her drunk and distract her. She'll feel better about it soon enough.

this thread speaks to me about my life! goole is right; there's not much you can do, max. i eventually stopped bothering other people about how much i hated my haircut (except on the internet, i guess). it's true, drinking is a good distraction.

one of the stupid things about having a dramatically short haircut is even if you attain a reasonable state of mind about how it's not such a big deal, soon enough you run into someone you haven't seen in a while and they have to say something and you have to act really happy about it because otherwise you put them in the awkward position of having to excessively compliment it and it is kind of exhausting. that's no one's fault, though. this is not really a helpful observation, i guess.

maybe you and ari can both join a support group or something

haha i sort of wish i knew her! i have a lot of vaguely depressing things to say about this situation.

ps it's historical fact that benjamin franklin had a suckass haircut but was a champion poonhound anyway

lol horseshoe maybe its good you dont know her

that's what i'm thinking :-/

"its ok that you hate your haircut, because eventually you will hate the whole world, and realize that your hatred of your haircut is merely a drop in a vast and turbulent sea of hatred"

^ this is how i feel and how i get over things i hate irl

I am feeling the itch again

I think you looked great with short hair.

otm

Aw, thanks guys. I'm thinking about it. Have some pictures printed out. One is shorter the other is short. We'll see what I have the guts to go with come 4 pm.

DO IT :D

I'm getting my hair chopped in a couple of hours, it has gotten so long I fear it has become sentient and is trying to kill me.

Yeah. I can't wait for her to get this stuff off my neck.

yeah, a friend took a picture of me recently and when i saw it i was like ahhh what is this that thing! need a haircut.

Gotta say it's not really my thing. I'm lucky I have a wife who agrees with me.

Maybe my mom once yelled at me in front of an Anne Murray poster or something, I don't know.

lol I remember Sunny posting once about how you'd probably leave her if she cut her hair short.

Obviously she was joking but you're not alone, a lot of guys really dislike short hair on women.

Michelle Williams:

"I've really grown into it - I feel like myself with short hair. And it's been a really long time since I had long hair, five years...

Of course, the only people who like it are gay men and my girlfriends. Straight men across the board are not into this hair! I cut it for the one straight man who has ever liked short hair and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it."

otm ime

Ha - I read that quote earlier today.

She wears it so so well. I don't think I'd go that short ever again but it's perfect on her.

ime too Lech. Some straight men definitely do like it but I think they're firmly in the minority.

I like some short hair on some women, but as a general rule, there is no general rule! My wife keeps hers about chin length, sometimes a little longer, but her hair is really fine and she just can't deal with it too long.

short hair gaydar

I'm too fat for short hair. I know that sounds weird.

If you have a really gorgeous face then short hair looks amazing.

i don't know; i've known short hair to look amazing on several fat women.

I love short hair. Actually I have a hair appointment tomorrow morning...maybe I'll give it a whirl again! :D

I just hate my hair right now, getting it cut probably won't make it look any better but it will be less of a hassle.

girls of all sorts often look great w short hair. depends on the girl, hair, stylist, etc.

this i have qualms abt:

http://thriftychicclothing.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/feather3.jpg

those feather things are really awful

ugh feathers

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7IcDtaK0adU/THGJUejZfeI/AAAAAAAABf0/Tk9fOqNSW0A/s1600/susan_powter_weight.jpg vs http://www.topicboss.com/pimages/584581511susanpowter.jpg

xp I think they go with the sort of style that likes "natural-looking" hair, is my first problem w them.

yeah feathers on people was my own personal 'generational turnover' moment

I hear you on the too fat for short hair thing, homo 2. I feel the same about myself.

i think the image of the gamine figures heavily in what we tell ourselves about acceptable short hair on girls, but it's not the only way short hair looks good!

super-short hair does not look great on me, though :(

short hair on girls is great!

girls are wonderful whatever the hairstyle may be!

Fair enough!

Just sayin' that if I had to pick...

all time:
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a32/NCLanceman/Call-AlienResurrection.jpg

yeah well, duh ;)

ime the only way short hair def. does not work on girls is if they have a Rachel McAdams-esque forehead

xxp Yes, that is what "gamine" means.

See, WR is one of those actresses I've never crushed on like everyone else.

I wonder if Ryan Adams ever squinted and pretended she was Matt Dillion.

PP!

pp you're a big meanie

girls are wonderful whatever the hairstyle may be!

live and learn, pp

i like women

― max, Wednesday, August 12, 2009 10:36 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

even THATCHER?

― unban dictionary (blueski), Wednesday, August 12, 2009 10:42 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

id cripple her economy

― max, Wednesday, August 12, 2009 10:43 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAN8CYF5esE

i'd invade her falklands!

the only short hair caveat is that massive hoop earrings + short hair isn't the ideal look. but still: girls = damn!

I say something mean about Winona Ryder and all the girls call me out.

Tells ya something.

http://www.missxpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/rihanna.jpg

this very thread begs 2 differ

xp

I offer a caveat

http://cineplex.media.baselineresearch.com/images/302397/302397_large.jpg

LEAVE WINONA ALONE ;_;

goose?

Gosh, that took two minutes, Mookie.

22 mins, my bad.

INCREDIBLY CLASSIC

I didn't click on this thread until now but who the hell disses Winona?!?

btw watched that Alien movie again last week and <3 u Winona android

I think short hair on women usually looks better than long hair on men, all things considered. Sure, cultural aesthetics and everything but some haircuts look better on people than others

i am probably influenced by the person i'm currently seeing, who has hair about an inch long

CLASSIC

when my hair was an inch long it was like wearing a magical invisibility cloak
kinda fun for a while, but tedious in the long run because it always looks the same

Yeah. It isn't really short. Just my normal chin length again. I think my stylist is a short hair hater. :(

I have a round head with no really defined edges, so hiding the sides of it with hair around my face is a great idea. Never going back to long hair again probs, but I'm never going matchstick short either. If I had a great jawline and cheekbones I might why because it seems like the easiest thing in the world.

last time i got my hair cut i said to the stylist "short?" and he wasn't really into it, so he cut it sorta-short but not really. i thought it was okay cos from the front it's p cute - it curls around my face, which i think works with my fat cheeks - but i caught sight of the back of my head in a changing room mirror and it's just kind of an indeterminate-looking mess at this length, and i am discontented. should have gone shorter! i might go* and whine at him about it.

* odds are i won't

I think hairdressers are probably gun-shy about going short-short on clients bc of potential for 'omg why did you cut it THAT short?" etc. I usually try to show them how short I mean by 'short', and tell them I've had it that short before, I won't freak out etc.

Yeah. It isn't really short. Just my normal chin length again. I think my stylist is a short hair hater. :(

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, February 24, 2012 6:24 PM (26 minutes ago)

Go to a men's stylist.

shave and a haircut.

Winona was pretty hot in Edward Scissorhands, I'll give you all that.

Otherwise, she reminds me of Felix the Cat.

someone compile a list of people who said "dud" so i can give them the stink eye

xpost: >:(

Short hair is classic on any woman that can make it look classic, cute, sophisticated or sexy. I tried it and I looked like Sal Mineo, so it's dud on me.

I dunno, 18 year old actress playing a child role? not sure what game pplains is playing here

it's rotten whatever it is because pp is a rotter.

CHILD ROLE.

C'mon. That's like you saying you didn't notice her beauty in Heathers because she was supposed to be a high school student.

Listen, I know some of you may have short hair. That's fine. We can still be friends even if we're not attracted to each other.

Can't believe I've never chimed in on this thread before, I am a huuuuge advocate for short-haired looks on ladybabes. Probably based on a "90s HOT" influence, cf. the Winona phase that milo z posted, but whatever, it's classic. I used to ONLY crush on girls with these kind of butch tomboy haircut things; in recent years I've been trending a little more towards the femmey looks but still not much longer than chin length, typically.

Dunno how much of it is the striking look of a clearly-drawn haircut (comic book/graphic design influence), how much is the implied lifestyle hiptitude of the girl (shaky metric at best obviously, but these things operate at a lower order of consciousness, sort of like thinking girls who smoke look REALLY COOL even though it means nothing), and how much is the short hair showcasing the chin-line and cheekbones and so on. But classic.

These threads are always weird because I never know the gender and/or sex of anybody on this board whose display name isn't a giveaway. It's like, woah!

also i will hear no criticism of winona, she is all-time *B*A*B*E* with hearts flying around it. Only actress for whose face I've willingly gone to a movie that I knew would be absolutely terrible.

Relevant:

http://pairody.com/images/2011/01/morena-baccarin-abc-television-group-tca-winter-press-tour-1.jpg

girls with short hair=depends, mostly dud, sometimes classic. i think I might have a stink eye now

pretty much hit full-on puberty when this was the style

http://sneil.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54f916452883401310fdbea84970c-500wi

so don't judge me too severely.

except for sigourney in the first movie, i think all the women in the alien series have short hair. (also if you average sigourney from alien 1 and 3 it counts as short hair)

maybe that's shorthand that you're in the future. crew cuts for everyone.

I regret my short haircut of months yore but it's because the guy who did it did such a Z-grade butcher job on it. And when I got it trimmed I got it done by my mom so it didn't start looking awesome after that. Depending on how much product/my luck that day I am on this spectrum of looking like girl Ian McCulloch to girl Carl Sagan.

pp why didn't that cure u of long hair

Do you wish the satellite bangs were still a look?

pp do you have a permed mullet y/n

her hair reminds me of a childhood place where as a child I'd hide.

rotten to the core<3

Short hair on girls sometimes reminds me of elderly women. It seems when women reach a certain age, long hair is taboo, which I've never understood. Also long hair can be made to look short, tie it up. Short hair is just short. Though chin length is nice.

elderly women are women too

Yes I know, I love my Grandma's short hair.

I cut my hair shorter than I liked for a guy because he didn't like long hair and convinced me that I would look better with short hair and bangs. I thought a change would be nice. I didn't go too short, just to my chin and had a Prince Valiant page boy that I ended up hating and just wore "hip" pigtails until the bangs grew out, then I kept it that length until we broke up. I will never again cut my hair for anyone. Although, I did get carded more during that time and in general people thought I was a good ten years younger than I was which is why I think I kept it up.

I got seven inches of hair cut off -- it's still only chin length so it doesn't qualify as super short, but I feel a lot lighter.

pix or it didn't happen

x-post - Yeah! It's awesome, isn't it? I can't wait to wash my hair tomorrow morning and feel how much less there is. Kinda pissed she didn't go as short as I wanted in the back but I'll just bring better pics next time.

Short hair on girls sometimes reminds me of elderly women.

reminds me more of middle-aged women. i think i still see a lot of long-haired grannies.

My wife had short hair when we met, but apparently the haircut traumatized her son so she promised never to do it again. I really miss her short hair. : (

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ9Ba-8gaWHiQaLqGb9zID_T4QojrmRjDID1QI9ETZ7K2ntk3KR

So this is the end result: http://i56.tinypic.com/513rrq.jpg which is p standard for me but I guess still what most people would consider short? I like it a lot it's just not what I had in mind when I went in. In any even it's way better than before. I honestly do not feel like myself with hair longer than chin-length. It's weird.

You look great with shorter hair! For me it is the opposite.

this is pretty literally classic:
http://manolobeauty.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Louise-Brooks_4.bmp

Brooks and Hepburn own it.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BmFDu6YVBOc/TeFx7L7H9II/AAAAAAAAAGY/XS3cStK-dA8/s1600/Audrey-Hepburn-7.jpg

supercute ENBB, the layering is A+, looks like it frames yr face really nicely in front <3

Thanks vg. I do like it it's just not what I had in mind. Yours looks cute too, BTW.

Yay for cute short hair!!

in yr face, pleasantplains lol ;)

i still see girls with that louise brooks severe bob fairly often but i really like the looks long but is actually short blown out verz thats around now cf. like marni 2012

i am always impressed with girls who will cut their hair really short idk why

My nephew's wife's hair has grown back out post-chemo to about 1/2" and it looks really really adorable at that length.

I looooooooooove short hair

http://i.imgur.com/jjqlu.jpg

the louise brooks do is such a perennial hipster-y/boho look, always paired with vintage duds. not a bad look per se but it could use a rest.

E, your bob is a bit similar to mine except I like it cut way short at the back while still keeping a 'line'. There's a very narrow margin for my hair length to look good - too short or too long by 1/2 cm and it looks super unflattering. That cheekbone-length bob thing is awesome but I think very few ppl could pull it off.

Yeah, I wanted it shorter in the back too. Next time!

I think dayo just posted an image from one of my all-time favorite films

Yeah, is that from Chungking Express? I just saw that for the first time the other day, and had a megacrush on her.

the louise brooks do is such a perennial hipster-y/boho look, always paired with vintage duds. not a bad look per se but it could use a rest.

imo it will never be played!

I got a haircut yesterday and the stylist did a weird center part w/kind of wings, like a 19th c busker, or Archie, or what we used to call "butt hair," because the hair formed the shape of a butt on your forehead. Important lesson learned: never google image search "butt hair."

hahahahaha

i just did it, against your advice, but i don't regret it. a google image search for "butt cut" is a little better.

Did you have safe search on?

in a summer program I attended, we used to make fun of my roommate for having butt hair

nope, safe search off for life

http://mynameiscola.blogspot.com/2009/02/our-perfect-butt-cut.html

Mama requested our butts to be cut really short & she loved it.

I kind of understand - dogs don't wipe their butts. I've always found it gross how dog owners are okay with their dogs not wiping after pooping!

if someone pooped on your arm, you wouldn't be ok with merely wiping it off with a paper towel. you'd probably want to wash it with some soap and water at some point in the near future. but yet we're ok with wiping our asses with toilet paper and walking into a business meeting.

all i'm saying is that i think i want a bidet for my birthday. ok, back to haircuts, sorry.

yeah but the two cheeks hold in the bad stuff - I think you want to imagine what would happen if somebody pooped into your armpit

hold on, still imagining

shit hair on girls: classic or dud

Our Lhasa Apso Chop-Chop used to get poop on it's but hair all the time. It was so gross. Those dog owners are geniuses imo.

its not it's, dammit

I have been tempted w/the short hair to bleach my hair again – last time I had it this style + blonde everyone called me Abb13 Warhol, which was awesome. I don't think I can be blonde in AZ w/out invoking BREWER SPIRIT tho.

thinking about this:

http://cdn.buzznet.com/media/jjr/headlines/2012/01/mae-whitman-nbc-tca-party.jpg

cute!

well i probably won't get the guts to do it, and if i do, i'll be miserable about after a week, but i am certainly feeling the urge!

i think that would look good on you!

although i think i could pull it off better now then i did last time i had it super short - i was totally incapable of styling it in anyway, something which i'm way better at now.

although i think that girl needs a different hair color because that ashy blonde is not well-matched to her skin tone at all.

lol @ althoughs

there's a mail-order eyeglass shop that lets you "preview" how their glasses would look on your face --
isn't there something similar for hair?

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/beauty/virtual-haircut-makeover

this is truly frightening technology...
http://i.imgur.com/ltFXv.png

He should consider bangs

lolling so hard at that pic

lol it's like the hair changes my interpretation of his face from pensive to grouchy

someone has called me jesus once a day for teh past three days while I've walked down the street, I need to cut my hair or shave

maybe you are Jesus?

on the third day he shaved again

Jesus shaves

short hair and alpaca sweaters on girls: classic or dud?
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/430634_10150705025632457_711617456_11591490_680496392_n.jpg

classic!

^^^

Not really a fan of short hair on girls but it is girls' decision to make, so good for them

see that's not even short hair to me
short is like SHORT cannot tuck behind ears short
that's just a normal bob!

a cute normal bob!

here it was at it's shortest:
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/270295_10150325132412457_711617456_9721539_888421_n.jpg

short hair and alpaca sweaters on girls: classic or dud?

booming post

short is like SHORT cannot tuck behind ears short

this is my take, really. ENBB's hair is shorter but not really short hair

my hair is relatively-average-male length but has been longer than my sister's twice in the last few years!

I agree as well but many people wouldn't. To me short hair is the pixie cut pic I posted upthread 2 years ago.

pix or it didn't happen

If I can ever get over my "Don't look at me, I'm hideous!" attitude towards photos, I will.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/32b1191dc6f8199436d9fa4a5fda2a94/tumblr_moenoxbOEt1qh1z3go1_500.jpg

^ as shared by Kate Beaton on twitter

This would have been a really useful infographic to hand to my barber a few months ago, when I finally chopped all mine hair off.

"Third over, third down, please."

I just watched the first episode of Orange is the New Black (dreadful) and the flashbacks to Piper with short hair, that haircut is like WTF

(tried to GIS it to no avail)

Brooks and Hepburn own it.

― nickn, Saturday, February 25, 2012 9:15 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink