Anonymous
Post 10/02/2025 10:00     Subject: Ladies - did you switch to a short haircut for career reasons?
What do you mean by short? I switched from long hair to shoulder length when I turned 40 or so, to look more professional. Is that what you are asking?
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2025 09:57     Subject: Ladies - did you switch to a short haircut for career reasons?
I don't think it's the length as much as how it's styled. Beach waves and messy buns look just as bad at the office as a frizzy bob or overly gelled helmet pixie.

Make whatever haircut you have look neat, and you'll be fine.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 22:53     Subject: Ladies - did you switch to a short haircut for career reasons?
Not to bring race into this, but I have to ask is this a white woman thing? Short pixie styles, chin bobs and even nearly bald styles look gorgeous on African American women. We’re just reluctant to pull the trigger because so much baggage is tied to our hair.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 22:44     Subject: Re:Ladies - did you switch to a short haircut for career reasons?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If by “career reasons” you mean being too busy to deal with long hair then yes?


Yes - to save time in the mornings. Also, for the more professional look. Long hair is fine but it is more common to see short-haired sr management ladies.


News to me
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 22:43     Subject: Ladies - did you switch to a short haircut for career reasons?
Anonymous wrote:Short hair looks awful on most women.


After 50 no one looks at you anyway so I would rather please myself than you
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 22:27     Subject: Re:Ladies - did you switch to a short haircut for career reasons?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If by “career reasons” you mean being too busy to deal with long hair then yes?


Yes - to save time in the mornings. Also, for the more professional look. Long hair is fine but it is more common to see short-haired sr management ladies.


I entirely dispute that short hair is more professional. That seems like something a very old person would say. Now long hair is back in fashion, and even though it's been co-opted by the MAGA gang, it goes far beyond it. Many women all around the world, and not in any way associated with US politics, are sporting long hair.

I am glad. The short hair look doesn't flatter every face. We should be allowed to wear our hair however we like.



Unless you have very weird beliefs about how employers shouldn't care about dress or grooming, you don't actually believe that.


They don't care about the length of your hair.

Big long speech today about hair length from the employer of 3 million Americans.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 22:24     Subject: Ladies - did you switch to a short haircut for career reasons?
Anonymous wrote:Y’all are out of your minds. Women in their 40s trying to keep girlish hair going just look absurd. Get something grown-up. Sexy and less hassle.

What is “girlish hair”? I don’t wear pigtails.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 22:20     Subject: Re:Ladies - did you switch to a short haircut for career reasons?
Never. I absolutely hate short hair or even should length bob I tried one time not for career reason, but because I was tired washing it.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 22:19     Subject: Re:Ladies - did you switch to a short haircut for career reasons?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If by “career reasons” you mean being too busy to deal with long hair then yes?


Yes - to save time in the mornings. Also, for the more professional look. Long hair is fine but it is more common to see short-haired sr management ladies.


I entirely dispute that short hair is more professional. That seems like something a very old person would say. Now long hair is back in fashion, and even though it's been co-opted by the MAGA gang, it goes far beyond it. Many women all around the world, and not in any way associated with US politics, are sporting long hair.

I am glad. The short hair look doesn't flatter every face. We should be allowed to wear our hair however we like.



Unless you have very weird beliefs about how employers shouldn't care about dress or grooming, you don't actually believe that.


They don't care about the length of your hair.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 22:15     Subject: Re:Ladies - did you switch to a short haircut for career reasons?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If by “career reasons” you mean being too busy to deal with long hair then yes?


Yes - to save time in the mornings. Also, for the more professional look. Long hair is fine but it is more common to see short-haired sr management ladies.


I entirely dispute that short hair is more professional. That seems like something a very old person would say. Now long hair is back in fashion, and even though it's been co-opted by the MAGA gang, it goes far beyond it. Many women all around the world, and not in any way associated with US politics, are sporting long hair.

I am glad. The short hair look doesn't flatter every face. We should be allowed to wear our hair however we like.



You are not allowed to wear your hair however you like?
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 22:14     Subject: Ladies - did you switch to a short haircut for career reasons?
Anonymous wrote:All the women I know with short hair end up looking very butch. Not a fan.

Maybe that's the goal for the "career reasons"
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 20:51     Subject: Re:Ladies - did you switch to a short haircut for career reasons?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If by “career reasons” you mean being too busy to deal with long hair then yes?


Yes - to save time in the mornings. Also, for the more professional look. Long hair is fine but it is more common to see short-haired sr management ladies.


I entirely dispute that short hair is more professional. That seems like something a very old person would say. Now long hair is back in fashion, and even though it's been co-opted by the MAGA gang, it goes far beyond it. Many women all around the world, and not in any way associated with US politics, are sporting long hair.

I am glad. The short hair look doesn't flatter every face. We should be allowed to wear our hair however we like.



Unless you have very weird beliefs about how employers shouldn't care about dress or grooming, you don't actually believe that.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 20:37     Subject: Re:Ladies - did you switch to a short haircut for career reasons?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If by “career reasons” you mean being too busy to deal with long hair then yes?


Yes - to save time in the mornings. Also, for the more professional look. Long hair is fine but it is more common to see short-haired sr management ladies.


I entirely dispute that short hair is more professional. That seems like something a very old person would say. Now long hair is back in fashion, and even though it's been co-opted by the MAGA gang, it goes far beyond it. Many women all around the world, and not in any way associated with US politics, are sporting long hair.

I am glad. The short hair look doesn't flatter every face. We should be allowed to wear our hair however we like.

Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 19:40     Subject: Ladies - did you switch to a short haircut for career reasons?
Cutting your hair for work is a boomer move.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 19:36     Subject: Ladies - did you switch to a short haircut for career reasons?
I've had a short pixie cut for many years as a professional woman. The key is to make sure you have a good stylist who will give you a cut with a feminine look, and also to get it cut very frequently. I really need to get my pixie cut every 4-6 weeks or it looks shaggy. If you're not prepared to do the maintenance for that, then maybe skip it.