Plus Sized Ladies Don't Look Right With Long Hair

tbaby_8 · Jan 14, 2008

honestly, it depends on the facial shape. Full figured divas can wear long hair if they have the right facial shape just like our skinny counter parts.

HOwever, it is your head and if you want to wear it long, then do it. Its yours whether it's real or you paid for it. It doesn't matter, as long as it makes you feel and look good. IMHO :grin:

dlewis · Jan 14, 2008

silkii_locks said:
dlewis, your hair in your siggy pics is beautiful, so shiney and healthy looking!

Thank you Silkii.

Your hair is quite beautiful also.

Suerte · Jan 14, 2008

That is a damn lie.

I hate seeing plus sized women with short hair and big *** faces and rolls on the back of their head hiding in some lil tiny barrel curls.

I swear. People just say anything.

I actually think long hair can make you look smaller because it hides back fat and double chins and big cheeks.

Trust me I know this from experience.

MissMusic · Jan 14, 2008

Personally I think any bad cut can make anyone look bad, length has little to do with it.

DSP · Jan 14, 2008

I hate arbitrary rules like "no long hair after 30" or "no long hair on plus-sized women." I think any style can be modified to suit almost anyone. As someone already stated, it's all about balance. One big girl I've see on the Metro wears long, loosely curled layers with a side part. She's absolutely stunning.

Hair Iam · Jan 14, 2008

sareca said:
Exactly! Big, long hair can help balance out the bodies portions including the face.

You got it sister !

Hair Iam · Jan 14, 2008

Suerte said:
That is a damn lie.

I hate seeing plus sized women with short hair and big *** faces and rolls on the back of their head hiding in some lil tiny barrel curls.

I swear. People just say anything.

I actually think long hair can make you look smaller because it hides back fat and double chins and big cheeks.

Trust me I know this from experience.

So true ...so true ..preach it girl

Traycee · Jan 14, 2008

Thats a first for me ......thats the craziest thing I have ever heard ....Im not plus size but I would have put someone in check for a comment like that!!

FineChyna · Jan 14, 2008

RelaxerRehab said:
Why are y'all acting brand new?

There's PLENTY of "fashion" tips that talk about the kinds of hairstyles, hairglasses, that are "better" for or "shape out" a face, depending on the shape of the face, e.g., long, round, oval, diamond, heart, etc. That may be what the hairdresser was referring to....

http://www.curlyhairsalon.com/hairstyle-face-shape.html

face shape is totally different from being plus size and i would assume any hair dresser would know that considering hair styles and face shapes are one of the topics studied in beauty school

Hair Iam · Jan 14, 2008

Here are plus size beauties with medium to long hair and women in 50's and sixties wearing beautiful long hair ...how you like them now.

Cincysweetie · Jan 14, 2008

I actually feel the opposite. I have held off on cutting my hair b/c I'm larger than I would like to be. I've been working out and trying to change my eating habits and once I lose the weight, I'm cutting!!!

PaperClip · Jan 14, 2008

FineChyna said:
face shape is totally different from being plus size and i would assume any hair dresser would know that considering hair styles and face shapes are one of the topics studied in beauty school

Honestly, I don't think they are totally different. There is some association of face shape and body size. One can have an oval face that may "round out" (not necessarily permanently) due to an increase in body size. I can look at my own face (and others) as a witness to that.

I think the hairdresser is not skilled in the form of being TACTFUL.

For the record, I'm not saying I totally agree with the hairdresser or so-called fashionistas, but to say that it is completely unheard of is a bit extreme.

Softresses · Jan 14, 2008

glamazon386 said:
I've never heard such. But I have heard from some older women that they feel like longer hair ages them.

I hate to hear people say they need to have short hair because of this, this is a relatively new idea that came about in the 1940s and 1950s. Women all over the world kept beautiful long hair all thier lives until salon businessess came about and began making money off women cutting and styling hair.

The hardressers would pressure older women into weekly appointments and lie to them to make them feel they would look bad without haircuts weekly, and that they would look old. This has worked every since.

IMO older ladies, and overweight ladies look beautiful with well maintained longer hair. Especially older women with beautiful chignons, and other updos.

Sorry, soapbox issue for me...

Softesses

runwaydream · Jan 14, 2008

i think it depends on how long. like REALLY long.. waist length long then yea i dont think it looks right...IMO. but when im thinking fat, im thinking like obese.. idk. but i do think REALLY long hair looks better on slimmer ppl. :look:

..just my opinion, dont go throwin stones now...

Hairology said:
This "wisdom" is from my friend's hairdresser. My friend got a recent trim and I told her that she got a lot cut off. She told me that she doesn't mind because she feels she's too old(in her 50's) to have long hair.
She added that her hairdresser told her that fat women don't look right with long hair, if she loses weight then she won't cut off so much.
I thought I heard it all, but this stupidity takes the cake.

*Muffin* · Jan 14, 2008

Umm...I'm plus-sized and I've been told I look better the longer my hair gets :look:

. I don't like it when people make generalizations. Just because plus-sized women with long hair don't look good to some doesn't mean that they don't look good at all. And, in my opinion, big girls look great with long hair.

runwaydream · Jan 14, 2008

but if ur older then i dont see why its a big deal if u have long hair... if its well maintained. ive seen alot of older ppl who have long thick nice hair and hope that my hair can look like that when i get to be their age.

Kurlee · Jan 14, 2008

Hairology said:
This "wisdom" is from my friend's hairdresser. My friend got a recent trim and I told her that she got a lot cut off. She told me that she doesn't mind because she feels she's too old(in her 50's) to have long hair.
She added that her hairdresser told her that fat women don't look right with long hair, if she loses weight then she won't cut off so much.
I thought I heard it all, but this stupidity takes the cake.

that really sounds like a mean insulting thing to say. she needs a new stylist

WhipEffectz1 · Jan 14, 2008

I don't think long hair looks bad on a plus sized divas but I do think that long hair on 50 plus women ages them a bit which is why I'll be cutting my hair in a cute bob between 40 and 50. Real talk!!!

AvaSpeaks · Jan 15, 2008

fluffylocks said:
I was at the mall yesterday and noticed that i saw no older women of any race with long hair. They all had SL and shorter hair, and they were all looked like rollersets. I think i can see how longer hair on a older women can age you, but im still going to have mine

Isn't that funny how other races of women have naturally long hair, and then when they get older or elderly, they have short hair?

My granmother had long hair till the day she died this past October. And she was 91 and she looked good with it! And I also see plenty of East Indian and Middle Eastern women keep their long hair way past their 70's or 80's or even 90's, and they looked good with it. Plus some of these ladies ain't no "skinny-minnies" either.

And look how good Jill Scott and Jennifer Hudson look with their longer hair. Even though she has the personality for it, I couldn't imagine J. Hud looking quite as cute with a short, sassy hair cut on her rather than her flowing locks. Just couldn't see it.

netnet26 · Jan 15, 2008

Absolutely AGREE!!!! :yep:

Softresses said:
I hate to hear people say they need to have short hair because of this, this is a relatively new idea that came about in the 1940s and 1950s. Women all over the world kept beautiful long hair all thier lives until salon businessess came about and began making money off women cutting and styling hair.

The hardressers would pressure older women into weekly appointments and lie to them to make them feel they would look bad without haircuts weekly, and that they would look old. This has worked every since.

IMO older ladies, and overweight ladies look beautiful with well maintained longer hair. Especially older women with beautiful chignons, and other updos.

Sorry, soapbox issue for me...

Softesses

Isis · Jan 15, 2008

FlowerHair said:
Put that hair dresser on "ignore"
Not too long ago in history, all women had long hair.
Healthy, growing hair is a plus for everyone IMO!

So true.

Yellowflowers · Jan 15, 2008

Suerte said:
That is a damn lie.

I hate seeing plus sized women with short hair and big *** faces and rolls on the back of their head hiding in some lil tiny barrel curls.

I swear. People just say anything.

I actually think long hair can make you look smaller because it hides back fat and double chins and big cheeks.

Trust me I know this from experience.

Ain't it the truth?

Bottom line is women can wear thier hair however they want to.

And that -cut your hair when you get older- crap has always applied to white women. It does not apply to us. We have a different type of beauty.

My aunt is a sight to behold with her long mid back length hair. Even younger women are jealous. She is in her 70's

JustKiya · Jan 15, 2008

As Tyra so eloquently said - Kiss my fat ***!!! :nono:

That's about the damn dumbest thing I've ever heard - it's amazing the excuses people will come with as to why they canna achieve....

PaperClip · Jan 15, 2008

AvaSpeaks said:
And look how good Jill Scott and Jennifer Hudson look with their longer hair. Even though she has the personality for it, I couldn't imagine J. Hud looking quite as cute with a short, sassy hair cut on her rather than her flowing locks. Just couldn't see it.

It might be more accurate to describe Jill and Jennifer's hair as BIGGER versus LONGER. It may be long when it's straightened, but from the pictures I've seen of them both, they seem to have styles that are bigger/higher/voluminous versus longer, straighter, and flatter.

madamepink78 · Jan 16, 2008

I think that is such rubbish. It all depends on face shape to me.

bravenewgirl87 · Jan 16, 2008

Aye carrumba

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