Hair Styles For Women Over Forty (40)
One of the most frequent excuses for avoiding a new hair style is that the man in the lady’s life won’t like it. Not ‘might not’ like it or ‘isn’t sure’ but positively, definitely ‘won’t like it’.
Actually, if you probe a bit deeper, you’ll often find that the lady doth protest too much and hasn’t consulted her husband or boyfriend at all! She is just assuming that he wouldn’t like her to look different.
Now I have no wish to come between a client and her loved one, but I do often ask myself whether it’s more important for the woman to do what she wants to do with her hair or for her to avoid doing what she wants to do, because of possible male opposition, and then bear a secret grudge against the man for keeping her in a straitjacket!
I think women should experiment with different hair styles if it makes them happy, because when a woman is happy, the male partner is happy.
If a woman is genuinely afraid that she’s going to cause a row by changing her hair style dramatically, for example from long to short or from straight to curly, then she should reconsider and make the changes slowly.
By changing gradually and working from one style to the next over a period of time, the transition won’t be so obvious – at least not until the photograph album comes out the following year!
Some people confuse change with regression when it comes to hair. Over and over again women who have just had a baby come in and ask for the style they had when they first got married, or when they first met their husbands. They’re frightened they have aged with motherhood, or that they will turn into cabbages. ‘Make me look like I used to look!’ they plead. Invariably I try to dissuade them.
This isn’t cussedness on my part, though I know hairdressers are frequently berated for not doing what the client wants. I am thinking of the client. If she brings in her wedding photograph she’ll see what I mean.
Normally, that photograph will show a hair style that is either dated, unreal (in that it was a special occasion hair do) or, by today’s fashion standards, boring. I always try to persuade the client to look ahead, not backwards, and go for a new style and a new feeling, that will make her appear to be as young as she felt before but which will fit in with today’s ‘look’ and her new, time-consuming life as a mother, wife and friend.
We sometimes have similar problems with women whose marriages are going through a bad patch. They think that by re-creating the person their husband first fell in love with they will also re-create the romance. Wrong.
This sort of charade may pay-off in movies but it doesn’t work in every day life. It is better by far for the wife to adopt a completely new hair style, smile as best she can and face up to the future bravely and without nostalgia. What’s past is past.
There may still be a future though, nine times out of ten there is, so why not look forward, forget yesterday’s clothes and hair styles and make a new beginning choosing your next hair styles for women over forty (40).
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I am a woman and I can tell you that it is indeed true that a woman very happy if she goes to the hair dresser and it is a good way to her husband be happy.
Why do men equate long hair with being feminine? I have heard MY husband say it, his friends say it, and it seems MEN in general seem to feel this way. For some reason MEN seem to want their women to have long hair. When I met my husband I had short hair, grew it out cause he wanted me to. Wore it that way for 10 years, then got it cut to a medium length. Now after five years he wants it long again. I hate it, but am trying to find a “happy place” where we can both be satisfied. Not too short but not too long. I feel awful with it the way it is…I would never begin to tell a man how to wear his hair. Why do men feel the need to do it to women?
hairstyles reflect one’s personality and it is really essential that women should opt for hairstyles that represent them and their self. there is no harm if you give a new look to your hairstyles, it is important that it should complement your face.
It’s definitely true that women feel very connect to their hair. Just look at how many people are buying the as seen on tv Instyler hair iron. Unfortunately, it’s just a sign of our times that many people feel their personal worth and self esteem connected to their appearance.
Thank goodness, my man loves my short hair. Some women are just way cuter with short hair. Personally – long hair makes me look frumpy, short hair makes me look SEXY even though I’m over 40 and overweight.
Hello,
Personally speaking I am a fan of having longer hair. That is to say longer hair past my shoulder (but above my waist). Why is it the older a woman gets the more society tells her to cut he hair?
i cut my long hair into a really short pixie cut in one fatal swoop and i love it. i was extremely ready for the change though. it is still easy to get up, wet, put in some mousse, and let it air dry as i run out the door.