Long Hair Don't Car e I?m 56, I have long silver hair, and I don?t care. Because I?m rebelling against two societal myths: one, that I should keep dyeing my hair to hide any signs of ageing, and two, that women should cut their hair short as they age because it?s a style only younger women can pull off. I?m pretty sure if you?re reading this excellent magazine, you are already in the silver hair camp, if not transitioned already, so we can all agree that the taboo of silver hair is being broken. Let?s talk about the second one about long hair being seen as unsuitable if you?re over 40. ?40 or older ? above t he shoulder? Can you believe this is actually a saying? What an astounding assertion. It begs the question who made this stupid rule? Who on earth has the right to tell anyone what to do with their hair at 40 or older? I?m guessing you?re thinking ?no one?and you?re absolutely right. I wrote an Instagram post on this recently and had such a strong response in support of long hair at any age, I couldn?t resist talking about it with you. When it comes down to it, hair isn?t terribly exciting is it? It comprises thin keratin strands that extrude from our scalps, and if you grow it nothing dramatic is going to happen. There is no legal age limit imposed on it, no long hair police to come along and chop it off. Somehow, though, special meaning has been attached to it by society and a whole lot of shame and age segregation has been imposed on women who, frankly, have enough to deal with without having to think about this. The root s of t he idea Science tells us that hair length is linked to health and fertility, and long hair signifies that a woman who is healthy enough to grow it, is therefore able to bear children. This must ultimately have filtered through society to imply that an older woman doesn?t need long hair as her childbearing years are over.
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