Anonymous wrote:Ha, I think I did get the mom bob after my first DC (modeled on Katie Holmes bob - why isn't she featured in the link? ) I have since grown it out again, partially through laziness and failure to get to the salon frequently, but apparently my DH is the "no man ever" because he keeps asking if I'll cut it short again! I think I'm going to compromise on some sort of long-layered "lob."

Man again. Short hair can look great. The problem is that it requires work to look great. So DW has a mommy bob and when she gets it cut it actually looks pretty good. But within a day or so it looks frumpy again because she doesn't really do with it what she's supposed to.

Also, too many times when women move from long hair to short hair they don't dive in and do it all at once with an actual short hairstyle. No, they timidly take a little off, then some more, then a little shorter, until what they have is not an actual hairstyle, but simply a long hairstyle cut short. It's that strait one length hair that stops above the shoulder. It's awful, ladies.

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When she is older than anyone you would like to date. A 25 year old woman is old to a 14 year old. A 60 year old woman is young to an 80 year old.

It's all relative.

Ha, I think I did get the mom bob after my first DC (modeled on Katie Holmes bob - why isn't she featured in the link? ) I have since grown it out again, partially through laziness and failure to get to the salon frequently, but apparently my DH is the "no man ever" because he keeps asking if I'll cut it short again! I think I'm going to compromise on some sort of long-layered "lob."

As someone who did, when my kid was a toddler, cut my hair very short (not a bob, but stacked in the back and just above chin at the front)...
I found that it took a lot more confidence to make that choice and therefore I felt sexier. Did I still have baby weight that I was working on loosing, yes. But the sexy haircut (and yes, some men much prefer this cut) helped propel me to lose it. I have since gone back to long hair, sim

I need a makeover! I do care, but am stuck with convenient hair.

I've had a short hair cut since my early 20's. It looks better than when I have long hair. I don't have high cheek bones so long hair drags my face down. People say I look younger with shorter hair.

Anonymous wrote:Is the goal for the "young" moms who dread the mommy bob to look great at forty or to try to look like they are still 20? I see beautiful women who look their age at all ages. I think the women in their 30's and 40's who dress in the latest teen/20's trends look silly. My teen girls and their friends always laugh at them and say, "I would be so embarrassed if you dressed like that."

This is a good point, because (man here) people should pursue a look that flatters them. Some women simply wouldn't look good at 40 with long hair. Some might look great.

But the problem with the Mommy Bob is that it's seldom employed (or so it seems) as a mechanism to maximize your appeal, rather it seems more of a lazy "I don't care anymore" tactic.

I walk thru the office here and it's filled with 30ish-50ish women, and I'd bet 80% of them have the same blah hair cuts that make you want to shout, "Don't you care what you look like!!!!!" Now of course I don't as it's not my business, but most of these women could look terrific if they just cared to. They just don't.

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes! What is a mommy bob? I am about to get a hair cut and it has to be shorter as I have very fine hair and it looks scrappy long. Any haircut suggestions or pictures for fine hair that aren't the bob?

http://www.mommyish.com/2014/04/04/mom-haircut/

Hilarious. I actually love some of those cuts (not any of those Posh angled ones) but Gweneth looks great and so does Jenny. I think I may just need to embrace my shitty thin hair and accept that I am a working "mommy" of three. Don't judge me ?

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes! What is a mommy bob? I am about to get a hair cut and it has to be shorter as I have very fine hair and it looks scrappy long. Any haircut suggestions or pictures for fine hair that aren't the bob?

It's not necessarily a specific cut, rather it's simply that shorter cut women go to when they move from "sexy wife" to "frumpy mom." It's generally accompanied by the cessation of makeup, and granny panties. It may or may not be associated with the aforementioned 50 pounds.

There is generally no coming back from the Mommy Bob. Not that it's impossible to do so, but when women go there it's because they just don't care anymore about being appealing to their husbands.

Oh Lord. I am the poster who asked that question and now I am afraid to cut my hair. I think I am the woman you are describing minus the granny panties. I didn't realize that was the message I was sending. I thought I was just content with myself and could just relax and enjoy my life.

Anonymous wrote:Yikes! What is a mommy bob? I am about to get a hair cut and it has to be shorter as I have very fine hair and it looks scrappy long. Any haircut suggestions or pictures for fine hair that aren't the bob?

http://www.mommyish.com/2014/04/04/mom-haircut/

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes! What is a mommy bob? I am about to get a hair cut and it has to be shorter as I have very fine hair and it looks scrappy long. Any haircut suggestions or pictures for fine hair that aren't the bob?

I hate the term mommy bob. I just met a woman from Italy, a 30is mother of a toddler, who had such a chic, short haircut that it made me wonder why the long hair fetish has lasted so long. Hard to describe but it was a bit wavy, one length. and curled up right around her ear. It looked fresh and cute.

Said no man ever.

Is the goal for the "young" moms who dread the mommy bob to look great at forty or to try to look like they are still 20? I see beautiful women who look their age at all ages. I think the women in their 30's and 40's who dress in the latest teen/20's trends look silly. My teen girls and their friends always laugh at them and say, "I would be so embarrassed if you dressed like that."

Anonymous wrote:Yikes! What is a mommy bob? I am about to get a hair cut and it has to be shorter as I have very fine hair and it looks scrappy long. Any haircut suggestions or pictures for fine hair that aren't the bob?

It's not necessarily a specific cut, rather it's simply that shorter cut women go to when they move from "sexy wife" to "frumpy mom." It's generally accompanied by the cessation of makeup, and granny panties. It may or may not be associated with the aforementioned 50 pounds.

There is generally no coming back from the Mommy Bob. Not that it's impossible to do so, but when women go there it's because they just don't care anymore about being appealing to their husbands.

Anonymous wrote:Yikes! What is a mommy bob? I am about to get a hair cut and it has to be shorter as I have very fine hair and it looks scrappy long. Any haircut suggestions or pictures for fine hair that aren't the bob?

I hate the term mommy bob. I just met a woman from Italy, a 30is mother of a toddler, who had such a chic, short haircut that it made me wonder why the long hair fetish has lasted so long. Hard to describe but it was a bit wavy, one length. and curled up right around her ear. It looked fresh and cute.