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Can anyone say weather they think long as oppossed to short hair makes them look younger or older?...just be honest..!
i just think id look younger with short!..anyone?..
I think most people look older with long hair.
Yep definitely a more mature look with long hair
I definitely look older, and am in my 50's. Still, I prefer it long and keep it that way. I have yet to see anyone of a mature age who looks younger with long hair, but they all look BETTER.
I beg to differ! Not EVERYONE looks older, I hope! I'm a bit of an old geezer myself and hope I don't look TOO much older with long hair, lol!
Actually, I think younger guys look older and older guys look younger with long hair, it helps to bring both groups looking closer together agewise. It's the same with beard, on older guys, it can disguise facial wrinkles, etc. and can make older guys look younger. For younger guys, a beard can make them look older.
David
I disagree. I've met a lot of older guys at temporary labour offices with big, busy beards that add a lot of unneccesary years to their already worn and aged faces.
My uncle had a big busy grey beard at the age of fify and it made him look 60 or so.
He has a mustace again and he looks a lot younger.
I agree I think everyone looks a little older with longer hair especially if you're older already.
I still disagree! I'm 53 1/2 and frankly, I prefer to think I look younger than my years by having long hair. Just look at Justin, he has outstandimg long hair and NO ONE could guess his age (and I'm not telling!), he looks FAR younger than his years. I also agree with EdG, he also looks far younger than his age. For younger guys, long hair, and especially a beard, gives them a more mature look, but for older guys, long hair and a beard bring back some of the youth that is always there at heart.
David
I fell for a Buzz cut over 4 years ago, in my case I looked much much older. And,I KNOW that what I have now has disguised the number of years I've been around. This photo was taken last week. Pretty good for one born circa 1895. LOL :-)
Thanks for backing me up and providing the picture for the "doubters" out there, Justin! Remember, we're only as old as we feel, if we feel young, we ARE young!
And NO one is going to deny me the pleasure of long hair, even if they DO tell me I look older, lol! Frankly, I like long hair too much now, like how it looks, how it feels, and I DO think I look younger!
David
Wow, and I thought you were around 28 years old!!
Yeah David, i have to agree with you that you truly look younger now with long hair than in the other pics where you had short hair, but that also depends on the person:)
I'm agree with you too David
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I think if you are young you look mature with long hair, and if you are old you look younger. I think old man with little or no hair looks somewhat disgusting.... (and alot of them wants to look that way for some reason....)
I associate long hair with people in their 20s to early 30s. So long hair can make teenagers look older, and middle-aged guys like me look younger!
Ed
I agree with you. Myself, I look younger with long hair & clean shaven. My beard adds a few years. I don't think long hair makes you look older, but beards add a lot of years especially to older guys. I've known a few guys who if they shaved off their beards they'd look a lot younger.
My wife associates long hair with skaters and bikers, two age extremes right there.
I've been told that I look younger with short hair.I wouldn't know as I haven't had short hair in a long time,like 25-30 years.I was a lot younger then any way.Even now people usually guess my age as 5 to ten years younger than I am.
Arrick
On OLDER guys, VERY long hair worn straight down without any headbands or
without a beard makes a man look older. (with very rare exceptions)
Yound guys are not affected in such a dramatic way.
Older guys need ponytails, buns, headbands, bears. Period.
Long hair drags down the face. That's why old grandmas never wear their hair
loose...because it doesn't suit their faces.
Think of how they portray witches: They don't wear their have in a bun.; it's always down and loose and usually while.
An OLD Wozard needs a beard or a wizard's hat.
That's because the more gray hair they see, the older you look. Gray hair on some guys also doesn't lay together as neatly as does younger hair, so it looks more wild, and simply bigger, if loose. I actually look more dressed up and less casual wearing a band around my head than not, despite the thought by some that bandannas are very casual.
Bears? Wow, I do look younger!
Of course the photo is ten years old, and that may have something to do with it. Also, I was still growing my hair out then, and there wasn't much gray in it yet. [g]
Yeah, I look younger with the wizard, too! Also ten years ago and with no gray hair, though. [wink]
Bill
Long hair without a beard can make you look older. I am talking about
really LONG HAIR--not just down to your shoulders.
That's why few OLD ladies wear their hair hair loose and down. Usually they put it up
in a bun or make a braid, French twist, etc.
Same cn hold true for a man. You need a beard or a ponytail.
A young guy can just wear it loose and it's fine.
Those are my obsercations.
Also, A Wizard's hat, a head band etc. can make long hair look okay when worn
down BUT that's still restraining the hair in some way.
Long hair on an older person drags down the face. Ask any really good hair stylist or make-up artist.
So I assume, from what you're saying, that as long as there is a decent beard on an older guy (as I now have), as does Ken, Bill, Karsten, and now Justin, that in these situations, long hair doesn't out of place. I assume the comment about long hair looking bad on older guys refers to totally beardless older guys, if I'm not mistaken.
David
Beardless older guys also look more feminine, whether they have long hair or not, because the face loses some of its more masculine features with age. There are two ways to counteract that. One is to cut the hair in a traditional male (i.e., short) style, and the other (suitable for longhairs) is to grow facial hair.
The facial hair will likely be gray, and more gray hair can make you look older, but most guys would rather look like an old man than an old lady. [wink]
Bill
I guess I would say I look younger as do all of us, but then we would wouldn't we! I can't see us saying "well I look like an old fart but I like it anyways!!"
But for me at the ripe old age of 54 I want the respect accorded
to a 54 year old. The fastest way to get me to grow my hair
long is treat me like i'm a lot younger than 54.
Everyone says I look younger with shorter hair, which is why
my hair is now long.
At the age of 54 I got extemely insulted when I was
mistaken for someone younger.
Why would you get insulted by somebody thinking you were younger? Most people would take that as a compliment.
With age comes respect.
Because with long hair I was treated with the respect that
a 54 year old man would normally get. With short hair I
got the respect that someone in their 20s would get. (read:
treated like crap.)
I would think that long hair doesn't make you look older or younger..but for some of us,long hair MAKES us FEEL younger,and THAT's what matters!!
beards on the other hand will make an older person look younger IMO..because it hides wrinkles! :)
I think my long hair makes me look older than my years. I've been growing my hair out now for 17 months and LOVE the results. Feels and looks great, I think. I'am 43. But when I look at pictures of me taken as recent as 2 years ago when my hair was short, compared to now, I look a good 10 years older now. BIG BUMMER!!! I really like having long hair and have fun with it, but seriously, I may end up cutting it off this summer. Time will tell
I honestly don't know what makes one look older or younger really, but as for feeling, perhaps long hair makes one feel younger.
I rather feel good than look good any day!!!
I think it just does not matter, Life is life.... Live it to the fullest and don't fret the small stuff or your hair will turn gray. You would never guess that I was 28 would ya?
Fun Question !
I am 60+ (and I am not saying just how "plus" HA!) Most folks don't think I look that old. Of course, they don't see that gray/white haggard, skulletted old geezar that reflects in my mirror at 2 AM ! SCARY !! HA!
I would honestly have said you were late forties, so I agree long does make YOU look younger.
I think a person looks the age they look, regardless of length of hair.
That said, a heavily salted beard or head of hair (especially if the white hairs come in early (30's or 40's), it could add the appearance of age. This wouldn't matter if the hair was long or short, though.
Another consideration:
While long or short hair per sé won't add or reduce the years a person appears to be, I must say that longer hair which is against the norm would suggest a more youthful, less conventional outlook (whether or not you are a crotchety old stooge at heart).
I haven't had time to read all the other replies yet, so if I am just rehashing the other opinions, I apologize.
Shawn (Mr.Crow)
(http://www.myspace.com/manlocks) - Mr.Crow's photo archive of growing hair
I read all the comments, and you were the only one who said it didn't make any difference. I think that's more or less right. Certainly I don't think that cutting/growing your hair can disguise your age.
Some people just age better or worse than others, and then there is grey hair, which is a totally separate issue. I inheritted youthful looks from my father's side, but greying in middle age from my mother's side. So until the white hairs really came in I looked younger than I was, and then I looked older than I was. Growing my hair made no difference as far as I could tell.
Grey hair is fixable, though. My excuse is my wife doesn't like grey hair (that's true, though, she doesn't), so I use henna and henna mixes to change the colour of my hair. I tend not to do it often enough, or put enough on, or leave it on long enough (pure laziness) so it doesn't cover all that well. My wife would rather I used synthetic dyes, but I won't, because I have seen women have lots of hair hacked off after dye jobs gone wrong!
As for beards, I don't think a short beard adds age, but I think a long beard does.
A lot of this is "feelings stuff" - very subjective. For some reason, reading that someone has "grey" hair makes them seem older than if they have "gray" hair, and that's just a matter of which common spelling of the word they pick!
Bill
My wife says I look older, but that might be just a ploy to get me to cut my hair. I don't know if I truely look older or if I look younger, but I feel younger!
Keep on growin'
Bruce
That is a common ploy, so we do have to take such comments with a grain of salt. I've been told I look like an old hippie, but if I were to forgo the hair, I'd then just look old. I can't get around the "old" part. And I don't mind the "hippie" part!
Bill, proudly flyin' the freak flag
I think I look just like an old GEEZER, --- and I'm DAMN PROUD of it!!!
- Ken
Ken, you may think you're an "old geezer" but you have some of the most beautiful long hair I've ever seen in my 47 years on this planet! And your spirit is certainly YOUNG AT HEART!
When i think of my age in years - I'm 42yrs, I think thats pretty ancient, but most people i work with have no idea of my age, and a couple of young ladies in the office upstairs were convinced i was around 30!!! How cool is that!!
sorry....lol...didnt mean to stir up a hornets nest!!...anyway it was pretty funny reading some of the comments..