Old ladies' hair styles

[Le Chat]

This was on Rhod Gilbert's questions the other night and they had a bit of a laugh with it...but why do old ladies have the same, short, blowed or rollered back hair style?

[smurfchops]

Because its an easy style to keep for elderly people, looks thicker when its curly, it stays curly all week cos they have a perm, they only have to comb it through and when they have a posh 'do' they go to the hairdressers for a wash and set. I should know, I used to do these hair styles in the 60s ! No, mine is not like that by the way !

[Le Chat]

Wow Smurfchops! the only answer but it couldn't be any better explained! Now we know. Thanks!!

[mickrog]

i hate the blue rinse brigade

[B00]

Ya know, never really thought about it, but they do- don't they?

Wonder if that'll change when our/future generations reach the OAP stage? Or will we acquire a new do? The Croydon Facelift perhaps?

[sara3]

I'm hoping to keep my long curly bonce.. I may stop dying it red, though!

(obviously this is looking ahead some years!)

[firewatch]

i know my nan never had one of these set hair styles, she had it natural and wavy in a shorter style. she died when she was 80 and know she hated the blue rinse brigade lol

[jno]

you don't want them too high-maintenance

http://www.funtoxin.c.../09/10-1378447446.jpg

[smurfchops]

Well I'm an OAP with a blonde short bob ... hair shouldn't be too long on 'older' women (and men of course) as hair gets thinner as you get older and anyway I don't want to look like a pensioner. Saying that, some 40 year olds look older than their years in the way they dress, no makeup, long hair centre parting. I could go on ..

[tamborine]

Anne Robinson has it right imo. Nowt worse than long locks on a wrinkly face.

[boxtops]

I remember well the hairdresser where my mum and her cronies used to go every Thursday - they all came out wearing mauve rinse "berets".

[pastafreak]

Gosh...according to tambo I'd better get my head shaved ;-0
Mine is wavy and just about shoulder length. Every now and again I consider a shorter style.....then discard the idea as I don't want to look like a woman who has given up on her hair. I see no reason why a woman has to have short hair when she reaches a 'certain age'.

[tamborine]

Germaine

http://www.google.co....=0CDEQ9QEwAw&dur=5964


Anne

http://www.google.co....=0CDEQ9QEwAw&dur=5964

Wears it in a bun & washes it twice a year !

http://www.telegraph....air-for-50-years.html

run your fingers through that – no way !

http://www.google.co....=0CCIQ9QEwAA&dur=2632

[tamborine]

ooops - anne

http://www.google.co....ed=0CC0Q9QEwAg&dur=57

[pastafreak]

Never mind Anne's wrinkly face....her arms!!!

[tamborine]

just to show her age, pasta - you gotta admit she looks good ?

[pastafreak]

Hasn't she had 'work' done?

[Mosaic]

My mum was one of the clones churned out at the local hairdressers - permed, set, curled and fried to a brittle helmet under a big sit-under dryer. I so wanted never to look like this that I have never learned to do much with my hair.
I feel I'd like to simply have a number1 cut but then people would view me as a bit butch or a victim of illness. So it's a problem. And I really resent going to hairdressers - as I go so seldom, I'm treated as a freak...so I rarely go back....so the cycle continues and I'm not getting any younger.

[tamborine]

yes but she's in the spotlight, like Lulu but the hair is lovely & easy daily maintenance with regular 6w tinting.

Judy

http://www.google.co....d=0CC4Q9QEwBA&dur=162

[daffy654]

Mosaic, I have pretty much decided I am going to shave my head in the new year. Possibly a number 7 cut rather than a 1 though. My poor hair has suffered such abuse over the last 12 months and is in terrible condition and very hard to manage. I also have the added problem that I am going through the menopause and having horrendous hot flushes where my hair just sticks to my neck. I would like to get my hair back to it's natural colour (fairly grey) and then use temporary dyes on it rather than the permanent ones which have damaged it so much.
As I never leave my house due to my illness it won't matter that my hair makes me look a bit butch for a few weeks until it grows enough to have a decent style.

[Mosaic]

Inspiring , Daffy - I will research number 12 cut and see what it may imply for me....