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I just answered a thread and something made me think (oh no she's thinking!!) :)
I answered this from Wayne -
"It is nice to know that some women like men with long hair, but i have never met one personally"
with
"Maybe you have but havent realised it - we are around :) And maybe we're a bit quieter & shyer than others, you never know"
I've seen so many posts on this board (over the years) with blokes who say that feamles (gf's etc) dont like their long hair and how they've never met a female who does, yet many of you out there have partners who love it. Is it because us females who do like it are quieter and less vocal than those who dont?
Put it this way, I'm not a girly-girl. I have zero interest in shoes, handbags, make-up and I'd rather spend a Saturday night in the local pub, glass of wine, good company (or in bed haha) than get dolled up and pick up a man in a nightclub.
I've also noticed that, even in my own group of people, those females who shout the loudest are the ones who say to my bf 'why not cut your hair' etc.. and they tend to be the fashion concious ones. This drives me nuts as no-one has long hair unless they want it and what right does someone have to tell others how they should look? But it happens constantly.
So being bombarded with stuipid comments from bolshy females like this - does it make you feel that 'all' females think like this? I'm just wondering if you should open your eyes & ears and notice us non-bolshy ones a wee bit more... :)
Or do men only notice the hair & make-up?? (and big mouths??)
In high school I had a huge fro (natural fro) that my "girly-girl" of a girlfriend adored (and this was the 90's early 2000's). That being said, she was a bit of a hippy.
In college I turned the fro into dreads and also was dating a girly-girl, but I think this one was with me for the novelty of having a white guy with dreads.
Beginning of veterinary school had another girly-girl (trend?) who encouraged me to grow out my hair again, although this one was also a bit of a hippy.
Now, I'm dating a non-girly-girl who didn't like my long hair, but now wants me to grow it out again (after I mentioned missing it). However, when I mentioned maybe wanting to grow it to terminal she balked at the notion...
So as I've gone through my periods of long hairedness the most accepting girls of it have been the loud, girly-girls, but with a hippyesque quality to them. The quieter less girly-girl one has been the least supportive. So I guess there are no set rules when it comes to what girls like. I think in the end a lot of people (women and men) like what pop culture tells them to like, and its the people who are free thinkers that choose for themselves what they like. What I have learned through my hairy adventures has been to not care what others think, but to live my life how I want to... if I want to grow my hair to terminal and my current girlfriend leaves me when I do then forget her, the hair doesn't make the man, the man makes his hair!
I'm most attracted to natural, hippyish looking women and fortunately they're the ones who tend to like long hair on men the most.
I like a bit of makeup on women sometimes but gobs of it is not attractive to me.
Like Jason, I'm attracted to the natural looking girls, which is exactly how my girlfriend is. She loves my long hair, and I think it may just be that kind of person.
I would always be on guard if a girl only liked me for my hair, long or short. I would rather a girl with a good heart and soul than a stunning beauty that was a pain in the arse!
Cheers Dave
Hi there
...sharing my two cents...
...yea, I 'have' noticed that the quieter, less 'fashion-driven' girls seem to be more 'tolerant' to men with 'less-than-standard' looks.
Still, I remember one of my ex-girlfriends, who actually changed fashion-patterns every six months (literally), was actually very tolerant of me letting my hair grow, and being a bit more 'bold' with the way I looked, back then.
I dunno, I guess it depends on the person...?
On that other issue, I think women look best when they use makeup the 'Goldilocks Way' ...
... Not too little, not too much... juuust enough ...