My 65 yo friend looks amazing with her dark brown well kept long hair. It's always neat and I can't imagine her with short hair.

There are plenty of older women with thick hair over fifty. If your hair this there, let it grow and flow.

Some can pull it off, most can't. Yes it's ageing.

Oh, please, no long hair after 40. Hair is aging, same as the skin. Just because it is hanging long, it doesn't mean that it is pretty, healthy shiny hair. Even if you don't have any grey hair, the structure of the hair just look old. I don't know why would anyone wants more of that. For me it is like adding more folds of sagging skin to your face or body. Having sex has nothing to do with the length of the hair. I really feel bad for woman who had this experience in life and think they can be attractive to man only with the long hair.

If you are tired of having sex OP, cut your hair off. No one will want you.

Anonymous wrote:It is probably mostly important to make sure you can't be dated by your looks -- particularly makeup.

For example, Melania Trump's makeup makes her look old. She isn't the young one she used to be, but the caked nineties makeup makes her look older than a more lighter modern style would. The youthful hair with the old face makes her look older than her years, if you ask me.

Not relevant here. And she's just in her forties.

It is probably mostly important to make sure you can't be dated by your looks -- particularly makeup.

For example, Melania Trump's makeup makes her look old. She isn't the young one she used to be, but the caked nineties makeup makes her look older than a more lighter modern style would. The youthful hair with the old face makes her look older than her years, if you ask me.

The important questions before you wear long hair as you age:

is it thinning?

is it still nice and shiny?

are the ends breaking off?

The reality is, not everyone has the features for short hair. If there is any roundness to your face, it makes you look chubby, frumpy and...not feminine.

Anonymous wrote:don't be so judgmental OP. Maybe you want to look like a boring soccer mom, but not everyone does. Too many women just give up and get that awful short layered cut with the buzzed net and hair half way over their ears. I don't want to look like a boy...never did.

Maybe a short cut makes you look like a boy, but that's not the case for everyone. If it's true for you, however, than I somehow doubt long hair will turn you feminine either.

don't be so judgmental OP. Maybe you want to look like a boring soccer mom, but not everyone does. Too many women just give up and get that awful short layered cut with the buzzed net and hair half way over their ears. I don't want to look like a boy...never did.

I wish I could have kept it really long but it either emphasized my droopy face or tied back constantly was contributing to hairline thinning.

Andie McDowell and Brooke Shields are my role models for aging with grace and still looking beautiful. They don't seem like they are hanging on for dear life with surgery and excessive dieting, but they have long hair, still look youthful. Doesn't hurt that they have the bone structures of elite models, I realize...

I'm a 53 year old African American and still have long hair and it still looks great on me. It's been long all my life, I wouldn't know what to do with short hair.

Anonymous wrote:Many women start losing hair and long hair just does not work with thinning hair.

I think this is why curly's can keep it long as they age. The visual impression much more full, even if it would be thin if they ironed it flat.