The long flat, middle part hair style

Insipid cunt.

R1 is Gwynnie.

It looks terrible on 98% of people OP.

It does but it appears to have staying power. It's not any easier than blow drying either.

Not JUST for women (in Fall 1996 at Gap!)

Gap models setting trends!

Yes, it will be nice when it goes away along with the drawn-on Groucho Marx eyebrows.

Only women who look good with that style are Asian women with naturally thick, glossy, smooth, and dark hair This sort of hairstyle do not work with chemically straightened or thin hair. Also when wearing this style, women need to have natural or barely there makeup with dewy skin (no matte face) or else you look like Morticia or suburban goth chick circa 1990.

It’s ugly and unflattering on most women. I always figured they just have limp hair and aren’t sure what to do with it.

R9 the latter is true

Case in point...Gwynnie Paltrow. Hasn't changed her style in years. Long, flat, limp and makes her face look long. She'd do better to adopt something more like her mother.

Is hair style for cunts.

[quote]It's not any easier than blow drying either.

How is parting your hair and then getting on with your day "not any easier than blow drying"?

It's ugly on that woman too, R8.

That flat look takes a flat iron and product to get it that smooth R13. It would actually look better if it wasn't flat ironed.

I agree, R8. It really is not flattering and even the hottest person usually looks better without it.

Not everyone had to flat iron their hair, r15, but I see what you mean now. Many of my friends who still sport this look just comb it and go, because their hair is naturally straight and limp.

The queen of all this is Demi Moore.

That hag hair has got to go. Even that cropped hair from 'Ghost' would look better than this; she is not an unattractive woman.

Demi carried off that short boyish cut well as did Gwynnie in Sliding Doors.

Michelle Phillips!

Babs.

This could go along with "women who never change their hair styles".

I remember my black babysitter being obsessed with Cheryl’s hair on Soul Train. Cheryl was the Asian dancer on Soul Train. I remember watcher ST as a young child with my babysitter and she always went on about “that good hair” whenever Cheryl would wear it straight and parted down the middle

R21 Yes, she looks hideous with that hair.

^^ Not to mention that ridiculous choker.

The middle part may look better on Asians because most of them have round moon faces and this style elongates the face. But it still looks harsh. It’s been overdone to death at this point and rarely does it look flattering on anyone, though it’s amusing to see women who are convinced it makes them look sexy when it ages them terribly.

It's not bad when it's natural-looking, like on Asian women or early-70s hippie style. The problem is when it's ironed and then cut with those wispy jagged ends. Ugly and mechanical looking.

It only looked good on Marsha Brady and Laurie Partridge.

It looked good on a lot of natural beauties of the early 70s. Peggy Lipton, Olivia Hussey, etc.

The current style had all the naturalness and beauty ironed out of it - it's a perfect reflection of the mindless, soulless globalist-capitalist zombie world that started in the 90s.

None of the youth styles look like they have naturally developed out of a feeling or inspiration. They are either an attempt to stamp out those things or to overlay pretentious, pasted-on crap like those ridiculous lumberjack beards on the skinny urban twinks.

Gwyneth thinks she has the face for it. She doesn’t.

Kummy K., Ivanka, Paris Hilton, Gwynnie Paltrow are among the flattened, ironed hair aficionados.

[quote]The problem is when it's ironed and then cut with those wispy jagged ends. Ugly and mechanical looking.

Even worse is when they flip the ends up, but the center part area is still flat.

Or beachy waves with crisp product to give it that salt fried look. One look at that and you know the head under it is dumb.

The last 15 or so years have been dreadfully boring for girls and womens hair. It's always the same long, dull mermaid hair. They're petrified of bobs, pixie cuts, or layers . Every American female from 5 to 45 has the hair of a member of a Mormon polygamist cult.

Even the bobs have the same unlayered look nowadays.

Is there a good style reference to look to for mid-length thick layers? Especially timeless classic ones that are easy to maintain.

Asking as I have a hair appointment on Monday to take care of my ridiculously long quarantine locks, and thought I might update my look at the same time. My hair is thick and wavy-curly (naturally dark gingerbread blonde, uncoloured, tendency to split, wide 2C curls I believe), and atm is all one length down to mid-back with no fringe. I keep it long because it weighs down the big ringlets and means I have to wash it less often (washing stresses my hair, seemingly).

Long, straight hair with a center part isn't actually a style. It's what the hair of 99% of white, Asian, or Latinx women does natually if they just wash it and comb it. It actually takes effort to wear your hear any other way.

it's called lazy and not wanting to spend one's life with a blowdryer, curling iron, or at the hairstylist.

there are better things to do with one's time and money, especially nowadays. i have been waiting for all of that shallow bullshit to fall by the wayside. maybe now that the Corona is making people review their priorities, it will.

bring on natural haircolor and minimal-to-no makeup, and homemade clothing next~!

This style is also known as Skanky Actress Hair.

My roommate, before the lockdown and work from home, got it a bit like Melania's hair. Slight side part over the right eyebrow and teased a bit at the crown with the ends a bit wavy from a blow-out with a brush. I always thought it was a great look for a petite woman with a Natalie Wood style face and eyes. Invariably, the women at work had the flat style and Graucho Marx eyebrows and labelled her as vain. Honestly, in their 20's, most women look aged with that hair while she looked sexy and fresh. The middle part is harsh even on young women.

You know what needs to come back? Bouffants. And I'm talking the real sky high bouffants, not those pathetic little bumps that were big circa 2005.

R41 sounds like a Hair-Hopper to me!

It always reminds me of the Manson family women

People will look incredibly bad as long as “it’s the style” or “on trend”.

I love when I see someone with a style that works for them, regardless of what everyone else is doing.

Women are so terrified to cut their hair because “men love long hair”. Overall, that’s true, but you’re so willing to look like a stringy mopey mess for some guy who’s only going to look past you at something younger, anyway? Ugh.

Was just the hair style that Ted Bundy looked for in his victims

Ah, yes; the ‘Serena van der Woodsen’ look.

R46 that one isn't bad. I'm talking the painfully flat ironed, limp shit like Ivanka. At least your pic has some wave and body and layers.

That style makes women’s faces seem more harsh and severe.

^^^Unless you're Asian because Asian features are more round and youthful looking. But for the likes of Demi and Gwyneth it's a big no.

No, R49, the style doesn't look good on Asian women either unless they're young. Anyone past their late 20s looks desperate and ridiculous with the style.

[quote]Long, straight hair with a center part isn't actually a style. It's what the hair of 99% of white, Asian, or Latinx women does natually if they just wash it and comb it.

Do you actually know any Latinx women? Cause "straight" is what their hair almost never does naturally.

It's also a myth that all Asian women all have naturally straight, smooth hair.

I'm posting from 1972. Can I please have my hairstyle back?

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R18 Demi Moore is not attractive woman? Are you out of your mind? Her attractiveness single handedly carried Charlie’s Angels Full throttle..and I think she’s still attractive for her age 17 years since that movie.

Sadly it is what straight men want. For some reason they think long hair equates to femininity.

An estimated 65 percent of women have naturally curly or wavy hair.

It's been in style WAY too long. I hope bangs make a comeback.

Well, YOU bitches may not be able to handle it, but it's certainly stunningly sensuous on ME!

Straight men didn’t always like long stringy hair. Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and all the other fifties bombshells had shoulder length or shorter hair.

Didn’t Ali Macgraw pioneer this look in the 70s. Was she really that attractive? I still remember that episode of Oprah where Oprah was goin on and on about how attractive she was...and blah blah blah and oh she was married to STEVE MCQUEEN...! I think it was an episode on faded beauties which also included Cybil Sheppard if I’m not wrong.

Ali Macgraw always had incredible personal style. She worked at VOGUE before her acting career took off.

But I agree that she was distinctive looking and idiosyncratically glamorous. There were many other more classically beautiful women in her day.

Well I think it looks good on Kim K and and the woman who apparently inspired her..Naomi Campbell

Ali McGraw was a Gap model for Holiday 2002!

Ali McGraw was a Gap model for Holiday 2002!

I never realized until just now but I would not be shocked if Kim K went to her plastic surgeons and said make me look like Naomi Campbell..but with a big ass.

R8 you’re actually best off having fine hair thin or thick — perfectly straight. But if you have frizzy Jewish kind of hair (which actually most people have period) its way more effort than it’s worth.

Ironic, as Naomi Campbell suffers from severe patchy hair loss: you have almost NEVER seen her in 100% natural hair. Always a full-head wig, fall, or hairpiece.

I don't think mule-faced Kim K is doing herself favors with that hairstyle. She's no stranger to wigs, either.

R68 yeah but she can work that wig honey! I think she did have natural hair in the very early years of her career -late 80s and very early 90s. I guess there weren’t enough black people in the industry then to advise her to take care of her hair.

Speaking of the microbladed brows upthread — That’s an even worse trend. It’s the stamp of every “influencer” who thinks she’s fashion forward but really just looks janky.

am SO tired of this look

Stop copying me.

Stop copying me.

The hair loss is not necessarily Naomi's fault. The modeling industry can brutal to a young person's face, hair, and body: one day they're bleaching your hair white-blonde for an afternoon's shoot, the next you're walking the runway with heavy itchy extensions sewn into your re-dyed hair. And styling product. And hairpieces. And more product, almost impossible to remove without a blowtorch.

Oh, and BTW: your hair needs to be long and lustrous-looking all the time, just in case.

Models like Naomi, Tyra Banks (another wig aficionado), and Veronica Webb often had to deal with "stylists" who had no idea how to deal with a black person's hair, and the results could be ghastly. I'd heard that Naomi started experiencing hair loss almost 30 years ago.

The other queen of this look Courteney Cox..she’s rocked this for over 10 years

France Nuyen (South Pacific, Joy Luck Club), half-Vietnamese/ half-French actress wore her hair like this in 1958. Gorgeous woman who also pulled this hairstyle off in the 1970s.

This hairstyle with a shorter length is actually a preppy look and is a very modern style to this day. Nancy Kwan's example here from the early '60s.

France Nuyen was gorgeous, still is.

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No, it’s not r77. It is a painfully, painfully ugly hairstyle and looks like 70s lesbian poetry professor hair.

I really dislike how it looks on Kim Kardashian and Naomi Campbell. It's very artificial, and the makeup doesn't help. But I guess straight men like that sort of thing.