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In reply to the discussion: Women with long hair approaching 60? A no-no? [View all]Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)is that I don't have to look "professional" most of the time.
Since childhood, I have always felt that the real me has long hair, but my parents always had it cut short when I was a kid, and when I was a teenager, my hair was a source of screaming fights. I wanted it long, while my mother and grandmother believed that there were two kinds of hair: 1) long and 2) "cute." ("Cute" was their highest form of praise.)
While I was teaching, I felt that I needed to look "professional," so I had perms and short hair and all sorts of things, but once I went free-lance, that was over--except for one venture back into a short bob. However, shortly after moving to Minneapolis and its humid summers, I started pulling my hair back in order to keep it off my neck. I haven't cut it since except for periodic trims.
I usually wear it up, but sometimes I wear it pulled back, never loose.