ext_3005 ([identity profile] hrafn.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rm 2010-10-22 07:55 pm (UTC)

"when women cut off their hair it means they are finally over their fathers"

WTF?!

My mom decided, when she was getting close to retiring, that since she had started the job with long hair, she was leaving the job with long hair. So a few years before she retired, she stopped keeping it chin length, and it's back to the two long braids I remember from when I was a small child, several inches past her shoulders. (She won't let it get longer, it "gets in the way.")

I had a quite short haircut for several years in my 20s, and finally couldn't deal with the part of my brain that said I look like a boy with my hair that length (the other part of my brain said I looked very cute, and it suited me - and no one but me thought I looked like a boy). So it's down past my waist now; I'm not sure how long it might get, but I don't intend to ever cut it short again.

And honestly, part of the reason it pleases me to keep it long is that short haircuts are expected of women at a certain age, though I also worry if having long hair in my 30s is a bad thing at job interviews, even if it's up in a bun.

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