Will cutting my hair shorter make me look younger?

Question: Melody wrote, I have really curly hair and it gets afro like when I don’t put some mousse in it. My hair is medium length and I am considering cutting it shorter but I am afraid of looking childish or younger than I am. I’m 20 years old and I don’t want to be mistaken for a child, I rather look older than younger, so what do you think?

Answer: Hi Melody… what a cool name… thank you for writing in your question.

Well I haven’t gotten too many e-mails from people that want to look older rather than younger but, I can dig your situation. You’ll appreciate looking younger than people your age one day but not today so let me see if I can help.

Longer hair is appropriately worn by the younger gals. Once a woman gets a certain age, she tends to cut up the length of her hair; A client told me once that he interrupts that as a sign of giving up on the youthful femininity (what ever that means). Any way, if your hair is extremely curly, you will probably do best by keeping it long (that’s my personal opinion).

With long hair you can tie it up in some nice sophisticated quick up do’s that take no time in achieving: up do’s give a serious look about a person adding some years to their appearance. I don’t really mean that it makes a women look older, I mean it makes a women look serious and sophisticated some how. I wear my long hair up a lot and I get looks girl, good looks.

One thing to keep in mind is, what do you want? Do you really want short hair that has to be managed on a regular basis? Or do you want long hair that has to be managed on a regular basis but with an option for an up do or braid or pony tail?

Before taking the cut off plunge of no return any time soon, take some time and invest in your hair. Buy a good moisturizing shampoo and conditioner developed especially for your type of hair. Get some hair sticks to tie you hair back with, you know those hair sticks that the oriental girls use on their hair, the ones that look like chop sticks? These are great because they work on every type of hair and securely hold the hair in place, I love them they look so cool. Don’t be afraid to sport a nice apple jack hat or a hanky some times, as long it’s not pink or purple (little girl colors).

Good Luck with your decision. I’ll be posting this reply on the site in a few days so you can tell your friends to check it out!

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