Long Hair Is Now the Go-To Style For the Over 50s
glamour.combon mot whenever he felt she had had a little too much chopped off at the hairdresser. In reality he loved the hairstyles of his wife and three daughters, a mixture of short and long between us, and would have been horrified had any of us retrieved the tape measure to ensure our hair was proportionally correct.
And yet rules persist, stubbornly so, and the attention received by in Berlin recently only served to remind us that that old premise—that women of a certain age should not wear their hair long—has no place in our modern vernacular, let alone at today’s salon.
Mirren’s extra-long hair swung as she swirled, redolent of her confidence and swagger. This content can also be viewed on the site it from.So have we finally moved on? “I think women are far more in tune with their needs and wants than they’ve ever been,” says Joel Goncalves at Nicola Clarke for John Frieda, who has been keeping my hair long for over 25 years. “Even compared to 20 years ago, they’re less bothered by peer pressure, and far more confident to do their own thing with their hair.” You do, however, have to be able to carry it off.
The kind of guts it takes to swoosh and swing a tumbling mane on a red carpet are second nature to an actress, but long hair is a statement of its own.
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