Close your eyes and imagine a woman on the other side of mid-life. Does she have long, flowing locks whipping behind her like Lady Godiva, or does she have a short pixie or a pert bob?
a short pixie or a pert bob? Chances are you pictured her with the latter. Whether adopting a stylish crop like Robin Wright’s or an old school “mom cut,” many women choose an abbreviated hairstyle when they reach middle age. This change in length is cultural, seeming to signify a graceful slip into life’s third act.
The cultural pressure that Birns describes is a real phenomenon: After a certain age, women often want to hide, rather than peacock, through the world, and the shorter style is part of that., global creative director for Alterna Haircare, says that even though women are more independent than ever in 2015, there is still a lot of peer pressure among middle-aged women to go short.
Intrinsic aging, Wilkerson notes, includes decreasing diameter, density, melanin and lipid production, and that means that one’s hair is naturally thinner, less shiny, less pigmented and less springy as the years pass. Extrinsic aging—the environmental factors of “mechanical, thermal, chemical and environmental stresses” —can also lead to a limp, dull look.
Yet despite the fact that a short cut can make a woman appear younger, some women still choose to keep their manes. There is something ultra-feminine and powerful about length, and lately many women are choosing to embrace it. Beauty oil guru—who is 67 and still sports long silver braids —is one such example. “I will never cut my hair. It’s just so much more romantic to have it long,” she says.
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