Why don't Hollywood women have short hair anymore?

I am seeing short hair more and more . Its a relief after decades of dangling tendrils .

Big hair is POWER.

Demi Moore's Nicholas Bradford bowlcut in "Ghost" started a short hair trend that lasted throughout the 90s

Most of those cuts are horrendous.

Goop and Veronica Sawyer pull it off.

Will Smiths wife is better off bald

👙 How bout that skinny, skanky bitch put on some underwear ?

Goop, Berry, Turlington & Moore pulled it off effortlessly.

here is one

another one!

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C-TURL is one of my favorite models, but this seasoned curly-fries hairstyle is probably the least flattering look she has ever had

Peak Winona Ryder, r7

Vidal is spinning . . .

Oh Anne He-He. Great hair, messy brain

Short hair ages women.

Le Mistress de Material

R4 Agreed. Halle Berry looks older in that picture from the 90s with that haircut than she looks today.

[quote] "Demi Moore's Nicholas Bradford bowlcut in "Ghost" started a short hair trend that lasted throughout the 90s"

I had to double check R3, because I thought "Single White Female" came before "Ghost". I was wrong. "Single White Female" was released two years after "Ghost", In 1992.

Most of the styles at the link are hideous, and (Goop and Ryder aside) reek of 1991.

Cate Blanchett has a very lesbian energy.

Because very few women have the facial structure to pull it off.

[quote] "Why don't Hollywood women have short hair anymore?"

Linda Evangelista by Julien d'Ys is a hard act to follow. But many did. And most failed. Apparently, Linda's signature haircut happened during the same year as Demi Moore's: 1989.

Ultimately, I don't know which came first. Even so, one was only within a few months of the other. It was definitely part of the zeitgeist though. Especially as 1980s big hair trends began to fall out of fashion (which was also changing, with the onset of Grunge).

young woman do not like this hair style and older women will not be able to grow back their hair. I think the bob is in because actress and models have fried hair and they have to cut it off and use extensions. If someone is caught between extension appointments, they want their real hair to be cool. It is the bob.

The best she ever looked.

Because short hair makes most women look like men.

Um, hello... 🙄

Short hair is for boys and men

Most straight men have a strong preference for long hair. They prefer skanky looking desperate housewives extensions like Kimberly Guilfoyle’s to healthy, natural looking medium length hair. They actively dislike short hair. A much smaller subset are the same way about blondes.

I don’t understand it because once hair hits the shoulders, what difference does it make how long it is? But it just is.

OP. I’ve been considering going full on short (bet very femme), for a few weeks now. This thread has sort of inspired me.

TY.

Because too much money has been invested in skanky beauty salons which sell weaves and long-haired Korean wigs. How are they supposed to make money if everyone goes back to short, chic styles ?

Don’t look at me.

We're all looking at Joy Reid.

That one Roseanne episode with Eddie and Patsy, and Jackie looked like a man.

Like the above poster said, most straight men and women don't like short hair. On top of it, you have to be exceptionally gifted in the facial structure and beauty dept. to get away with it. Plus, short hair you have to wash and do every day, all over. With long hair you can go a few days between washings.

You have to be young with good bone structure. Older women start sagging around the jawline and look butch with short hair. That's why a chin length or slightly longer bob looks better on middle aged women.

That's why a chin-lift is a must for women over fifty.

And, apparently no bra....SLUT!

I can see her dirty pillows.

Those long tendrils are passe now. Only trashy girls still wear those silly ringlets.

Long hair on older women looks much worse. ...especially when they hang on to their long hairstyles from their younger days

I've had both. Chin length bob and a couple of inches below my shoulders (where it is now). Shorter hairstyles require more frequent trimming and daily styling so they look good. Longer's also more versatile. You can wear a pony tail or put it up in clips.

I remember a Youtube clip of a recent Miss Universe pageant posted here. The YT comments about Miss Singapore, who had a cute pixie she could actually pull off, were scathing.

Because it’s extremely unforgiving - unless you are beautiful with near perfect bone structure it’s near impossible to pull off.

Older women can’t grow their hair? Lol

I’ve gone short before, and honestly? I’m not trying to brag, but it looked damn GOOD.

But I was much younger. I have big eyes, a small nose, and decent cheekbones. My chin works well with the rest of my face, and when I was younger, I had perfect skin.

People say I look much younger than my age, but I believe men who say this to me are just younger guys, who are trying to get laid. LOL!

But my face has held up pretty well. I look good for my age, but imho, do look my age.

That said, I’m not sure if I can pull off short , short hair at this time. I can definitely pull off a chin length bob, maybe even a tad longer.

My long hair was my pride & glory. I regret getting so depressed, that I didn’t care for it like I always did before, but that’s OK. It’s growing back.

For now? I’m gonna do the wigs, until I figure out what I want to do with it.

I need to lose about 20 lbs before I can decide what I will do, because my face will look different after I lose the weight. That’s why I want to lose it slowly & replace weight loss with muscle, rather than becoming stick thin.

My one hope is that Halle Berry looks AMAZING at her age. I don’t look like her, but we share some similarities, including what my body looked like until I began overeating a little over a year ago.

Aging doesn’t necessarily suck, but it changes everything, which is why it’s so important to become mentally and emotionally resilient as we get older, as well as learning to accept ourselves as older versions of ourselves.

I’m NEVER gonna be in my peak 30s again, but I can be on my peak 50s. I’m going for it. Hair has little to do with it, when looking at the bottom line.

I love you old bitches. Thanks for helping me accept aging with humor & grace. ❤️

Then there are the women who have their hair grow longer in their mid-70s and decide to put it in a pony-tail ala Ruth Ginsberg in their 80s. (I'm looking at you, Judge Judy!).

Bradley Gregg's wife, Dawn (who is also Ricky Shroeder's sister) recently went short.

Fuck you!

R45 Is Bradley Gregg transitioning?

The wokes and big butch lesbians ruined short hair for feminine women. Short hair was very popular in the 80s. Many sexy women had short hair. Rachel Ward in the 1984 movie Against All Odds is a good example.

R48 the wokes? You sound like an idiot.

I'm sorry R49, I meant The Freaks.

Charlize and Halle are the two gold standards for short hair. However if you're not gifted with a good bone structure, having short hair limits the kind of roles that one can take, unless they want the wig the actress (wigs can cost $10,000-$20,000, and usually you order 2-3 for rotation and backups).

You need to have great facial bone structure to look good in short hair. Linda Evangelista, Sharon Stone, Halle Berry, Demi Moore were all able to pull it off back in the day. Today's filler-injected faces and gigantic lips just don't go with short hair.

R22 I'm 53 and my hair grows just as long as fast as ever. Older women can grow long hair indefinitely.

Because long hair screams that we've arrived, that we're here!

I loved the Jane Mancini. People expect transing if you’re gender non-conforming.

Why don't women show off their nipples anymore? Since when is that a shameful exhibition?

Why don't women look like women anymore?

Meg Ryan had a great little short, layered cut in the 90s. I loved that cut. I always thought the pixie cut looked very chic and showed confidence. Meg's debute of that cut was in movie, French Kiss.

Meg didn't have a pixie cut. Her cut was sort of a shag cut.

Turlington is not a "Hollywood woman".

I think women look good wearing hats. Maybe that trend will come back someday.

Raquel in the 90s

It's mostly women in the Republican party who wear their hair unnecessarily long or with long extensions like their going to their senior prom. It's really become a tired look that has become on-brand for MAGA women. A lot of women and hairstylists in Hollywood have wised up and are moving away from this look.

R58 and interestingly she didn’t have the “bone structure” (cheekbones etc) that is considered required for that kind of haircut and get still looked her best in it so who knows

[quote]Turlington is not a "Hollywood woman".

The Supermodel Trinity were a huge part of the cultural zeitgeist in the '90s. They may not have been in movies, but they were certainly appearing on magazines, in music videos, and on TV back then... and their looks were certainly being talked about and influencing people.

Gayest thread ever....why don't women want to look like boys/men anymore?

R66 they look like boys/men more than ever... unless they look like strippers. Today, it's one or the other. Back in the day, women looked like women.

What a silly thing to say, R63. The majority of women, period, have long hair. Not just Republicans. Take a walk down any street and you'll find most girls and women have long hair.

Please remember this thread the next time someone bitches that DL is a forum for GAY MEN and he doesn't want all these chick topics clogging up the board.

If talking about women were forbidden here, 70% of the threads would disappear.

Karens wear their hair short.

Short dos go put of style quickly, long hair is a classic look.

DLers are always recommending a bob haircut. I don't understand it. I kind of hate it. It can easily head into wine mom or Karen territory. IMO, it makes you look older, not younger.

[quote]Gayest thread ever....why don't women want to look like boys/men anymore?

Take these transphobic questions elsewhere!

Go to any house of worship and you'll see plenty of dreary, dull, helmet-y looking attempts at a fucking pixie cut on women of a certain age. It's like they just gave up and let something die on top of their heads.

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OP is talking about Hollywood women though R74.

It's like when DLers bemoan the lack of women who age gracefully ie no fillers, Botox or surgery...just go to your average Midwestern town and you'll find most women aging naturally. Not gracefully, but naturally.

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OP = Jada Pinkett Smith

Well, certainly there have been Hollywood women who have tried it and NOT been able to pull it off, like Michelle Williams, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ginnifer Goodwin.

You need a really beautiful, feminine face to make it work.

[quote] The majority of women, period, have long hair. Not just Republicans. Take a walk down any street and you'll find most girls and women have long hair.

True, a good majority of women have long hair, but don't wear it ridiculously long and impractical like MAGA women do. Kelly Loeffler, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Ann Coulter are just a few examples of this. They also do wear their hair styled like a Disney Princess or bridesmaid on wedding day like Kayleigh McEnany and Lara Trump. These are usually dumb, superficial women.

You forgot Ivanka Trump and her brittle looking extensions.

What about Ultra-MAGA Kari Lake's short 'do?

In the picture at r25 I doesn't look to me like Jada has a patchy scalp. It looks like she has a mostly even shadow of hair growth.

Her hairline is set back quite a bit but a lot of Black women have that from all the things they do to their hair.

[quote]True, a good majority of women have long hair, but don't wear it ridiculously long and impractical like MAGA women do. Kelly Loeffler, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Ann Coulter are just a few examples of this. They also do wear their hair styled like a Disney Princess or bridesmaid on wedding day like Kayleigh McEnany and Lara Trump. These are usually dumb, superficial women.

That type of Barbie hair is very popular among tacky women of all stripes, including almost every female reality star I can think of. And a larger number of IG 'influencers.' Again, not just a Republican thing. If you are actually thinking of the MAGA women at any Trump rally, for example, they are usually old, fat, and have have old woman short helmet hair.

R80 is correct, the women who wear huge long clumps of other people's hair on their head in octopus curls look ridiculous, particularly after forty.

But most women don't look great with short hair. And most women don't want to change their style every time trends change (short does go out of style fast), and most women want something that looks okay with a wash-and-go but which can look glam with a little effort. Hence the enduring popularity of long hair on regular Janes.

I think androgyny is coming back. Somebody pointed out to me that Sigourney Weaver in the original Alien film would not look out of place in today's world.

1968 was a year of tumultuous change and Mia Farrow started the short hair trend that year with Rosemary's Baby, which began only to fade in 1971 with Jane Fonda in Klute.

Liza Minelli has had the pixie cut forever.

So gay men prefer the boyish/masculine look.

I tried it and it only destroyed my career!!!!

Because women have to have great bone structure and super feminine features, OP. Otherwise they look like guys. Old ladies often have short hair not because they care for how they look, but because it's difficult for them to wash long locks.

I agree that long (more than a four or so inches past the shoulders) is a bad, bad look for women over 45/50.

[quote] Charlize and Halle are the two gold standards for short hair

Charlize and Halle who ?

R88 doesn't understand a damn thing. Short hair doesn't look boyish or masculine on a beautiful woman. In fact, it often enhances her beauty and femininity. Unfortunately, short hair today has been hijacked by butt-ugly women so now people associate short hair with ugliness and female masculinity.

[quote] butt-ugly women

AKA "lesbians"

R92 I do 'understand a damn thing'. And it's that this is gay men talking about women's hair. You naturally prefer the masculine look while straight men and lesbians mostly like the feminine look of long hair on women. Butch lesbians favor short hair because they're on that borderline between male and female just like how a lot of gay men have high voices and femme characteristics.

All of you bitching about short hair on women making them look masculine, are you the same folks that believe in strict gender roles? Girls should wear pink and boys blue? Girls should be secretaries and boys should be engineers?

Next thing you know, you'll be advocating for women with short hair to call themselves "non-binary" or take testosterone.

This entire conversation is counterintuitive coming from gay men. But then again, gay men fancy themselves experts on everything female in spite of the fact that they'd rather die than perform cunnilingus.

Just sayin'.

Shouldn't lesbians have their own board, somewhere far, far away ?

Jolie looked like carb-face supreme in Hackers with short hair. Even pumping up her lips couldn't save the look. And those bits of hair in front of her ears are quite Star Trek when you check out the other pics at the link.

Jolie laide

[quote]lesbian with common sense and short hair

And you're probably ugly to a lot of lesbians. They like femmes.

Are you another gay man who's a lesbian expert, R99?

I never liked feminine women. Ever. And I've been gay and out since 1972.

And R96? We had our own section here on DL, but it's been gone for years. Perhaps you could ask Muriel to bring it back.

R100 Great but most lesbians still like femmes. If you're a lesbian you'd truly know this. If you don't, then okay but you live in a very small bubble.

R94, still can't understand. Still retarded. "You naturally prefer the masculine look." No, idiot. Women with short hair were never masculine. In the past, short hair on women was seen as feminine and attractive. Watch older movies and tv shows. It's only today that short hair = butch because today ugly, fat, masculine women have short hair so the pretty, feminine ones are afraid of having short hair. So when gay men say they like short hair on a woman, they're not saying they like the masculine look, they're saying short hair looks nice on beautiful, feminine women. Get it now??

[quote]Women with short hair were never masculine. In the past, short hair on women was seen as feminine and attractive. Watch older movies and tv shows.

Well, this just simply isn't true. You can pick out a few exceptions but on the whole it isn't true. Women are more likely now than in the past to have short hair.

For some women it's all about being sexual and youthful and appealing. It's Farrah Fawcett's look updated perpetually. I think it looks terrible on a lot of women, and even a tad dull. Personally I thought some of the 90's cuts were great, Drew Barrymoore pulled off the look well in Mad Love. A "waterfall" look requires a fair amount of maintenance.

Barrymore, my bad.

R103, yes it is true. There were plenty of beautiful short haired women in the past. Today, it's all ugly women who have short hair.

Short hair is extremely high maintenance and takes many expensive salon appts to keep up. Long hair can be thrown in a bun on a ‘bad hair day’ instead of struggling with a products to keep it in line. Women hate short hair for a myriad of reasons. It will never come back. Sorry.

R107 this is false.

Bitch please.

Long hair seems to be a cult thing, a Christian thing, a western movie prairie thing, a sexpot thing. I like the person who described Aniston's hair as an emotional support animal.