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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you think short hair for women will ever come back in style? In the 80s and 90s it was very popular, and even in the 20’s, 50’s and 60’s. Since the 2000’s everyone has long hair. I’m wondering when that will fall out of fashion[/quote]

I wear my hair short, a Mia Farrow/Ellen Degeneres pixie cut. I spend $50 every 5-6 weeks for a haircut, buy one or maybe 2 bottles of shampoo per year, and one container of Bed Head per year. I don’t bother coloring it anymore because I’m tired of the toxic chemicals and it grows out so fast there’s just no point.

Meanwhile if it was really long as is the more widespread fashion at present, I’d be spending a small fortune every year on products to care for it and an incalculable treasure of precious time on the painstaking upkeep. No thanks!

If fashion is driven in large part by marketing (it is), which kind of style do you think market forces want to compel in the majority of people? [/quote]
You spend $50 every 5-6 weeks. I have long hair and use only shampoo and conditioner (I buy big bottles prob spend $100-150/year redken), and get my haircut for $125 every 7-9 months. There’s no painstaking upkeep. Maybe for your hair type, but not mine. 90% of the time I just air dry and it’s fine. Once or twice a month I’ll fix some of the waves with an iron or diffuse it dry if I have to go somewhere when it’s wet. [/quote]

My shampoo is a 12 oz bottle of tea tree whatever from Walmart, $5. The Bed Head I get from hairdresser $22.

When my hair was long I tended to air dry much of the time too, but a great many women do blowouts and use curlers or irons and do hot oil or keratin treatments, intense conditioners etc. and a great many women color, highlight, use extensions, etc. The hair care industry is multibillion yearly industry. Longer hair requires lots more products and maintenance for most women but certainly there are always outliers who DGAF.[/quote]

DP. I've had pixie cuts and long hair. The pixie cuts cost more, due to the frequent haircuts. With long hair I could get away with a hair cut every 6 months, sometimes longer. You can use inexpensive products with either style -- I didn't spend more money on products with long hair, I just bought slightly different products. I washed my hair more when it was short, with long hair there's this dance of it looking better if you wash less frequently (but not TOO infrequently).

However, the long hair takes more time, especially to make it look nice and healthy. If I wore it with my natural texture, I had to budget in air drying time and had to take some time to apply products in a certain way to prevent frizz. If I blew it out, that took time too. And it was just harder to deal with. Other than the more frequent cuts, the pixie was way easier to style day to day.

I currently split the difference and have a bob that falls just past my chin. I think there are people with stick straight hair who maybe don't have these issues? I'm happy for them, but for me, there's really no such thing as a low maintenance haircut unless I accept my hair is going to look kind of terrible all the time which I am too vain to accept.[/quote]

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