<p>My S has decided to let his GF start cutting his hair…looks really bad! But what can I say. He still has a couple years of college left - hopefully they will break up or she’ll get better by the time he is looking for a real job :-)</p>
<p>I love long hair on guys, if it is NICE hair. For example, Val Kilmer’s hair in Willow. Come to think of it, Val Kilmer in anything is awfully good…[shakes self]…well, ahem. S’s hair unfortunately grows directly forward from his forehead, and doesn’t part nicely. Unless he would be willing to use product in it, it really isn’t going to look great long. Yet he persists in getting it cut maybe twice or three times per year, whether it needs it or not.</p>
<p>The last time he got it cut, it sounds as if the stylist may have convinced him to use some kind of product. Hope springs eternal…</p>
<p>Cbug- I think I know what your S’s hair looks like - just like my S’s hair!
I don’t like it either, but I’m willing to let it go. not the worst he could do.</p>
<p>syrsrstress, I too think the worm is wearing his hair too short these days. We talked about this the other day. Funny, how styles change.</p>
<p>My MIL has a framed picture of my H with her and his dad at his college graduation. H has a full red beard and long, flowing hair. My SIL calls it H’s “I was a teenaged Jesus” look.</p>
<p>One of my sons has beautiful blonde hair that has natural, Shirley Temple curls, which he leaves wild and furious looking. One of his nicknames is Harpo. He also has a full Amish beard type thing going on under his chin and on his neck. That is GROSS but it’s only hair. He’s only 14, I can’t imagine what he’ll look like when he’s 15! His older brother has 3 little hairs on his upper lip. When he lets his hair grow, it gets what we used to call in the 70’s, the “Jew-fro.” He prefers his hair a little shorter and will ask for a cut.</p>
<p>My oldest son has gorgeous strawberry blonde hair that’s wavy (sort of in between his brothers in texture) and which he wears way too long as well. Like his younger brother, he’s got the beard look going on, too. What really scares me is that his gf is studying cosmetology - and HER hair is grotesquely colored. But she’s not my D - yet!</p>
<p>My BF LOVES to grow his hair longish… he also has a beard and mustache… I’ve never seen him without the beard/mustache… I never TELL him to cut his hair because it looks ok long and it is his hair… but I do have to admit it does look so much more handsome when he cuts it short… </p>
<p>One trick I have learned is that if his hair gets ‘too long’ for my liking I can go cut mine an inch shorter then his and the very next day his hair will be all nice and cut short again. He won’t stand for my hair being shorter then his. :)</p>
<p>My S hasn’t figured out who I am on CC-- but now he’ll think I’m the OP-- Cbug!</p>
<p>Thanks Cbug! You have sent him thinking he has found me for sure as cbug. Thank you thank you ; )</p>
<p>Son currently has short hair and no beard- job interview… Last spring he went to family weddings on both sides with long curly hair (chin length? he loses the curl when it is short). Being a teenager/young adult in the late 1960s /early 1970s long hair on men doesn’t phase me. Am reminded of a college guy whose nickname was “Brillo”. I wonder, how many men with long hair in college will have little or none when their sons are of college age? It is only hair and can grow again and be cut again. When he was young he always had short hair- a mother’s answer to never combing it.</p>
<p>My younger S has been walking around with helmut head for the past 4 weeks. I’ve asked him once if he wanted to cut it but he didn’t want to- until the past 3 days of 80 degree weather and playing basketball outside after school. At 6am he asks me to cut his hair short again. The pile of hair after one of his haircuts looks like a small, very furry animal.</p>
<p>After 4 kids, I really have the attitude that it doesn’t matter in the end- it is just hair. My now 26 year old D cut her own hair in high school and died it different colors all the time. She also pierced her eyebrow, lip, nose, a million places on her ear, etc. At the same time, she never got in trouble, got good grades, was clean,was always very polite and helped around the house. We let it go because we figured it could all eventually grow out or grow over! Her twin brother always looked very conservative- short hair, well groomed- but barely scraped by in high school and was always on the edge of trouble. (Whenever people asked me “oh, are you Matt’s Mom?” I always had a feeling I should say no-lol). It just goes to show you that you really can’t judge by looks. That daughter now teaches high school for at-risk kids and has long well groomed hair and not a single piercing. Her kids do notice the small dimple where her lip used to be pierced and comment on it occasionally. Fortunately, our “conservative” son also turned out great and is an engineer. Our 15 year old son has extremely curly hair which he has always worn long and in kind of coiling curls. I was happy that he cut it recently, but apparently many girls were not- I just saw a whole list of comments on his FB by girls lamenting the loss of his curls. I expect that he may let it grow out again.</p>
<p>Both my sons have long, curly hair. S1 dropped the beard with his current GF. S2 used to have a “Jew-fro” but now he has long, dark brown hair and a goatee.</p>
<p>It could be worse. Much worse.</p>
<p>I guess I got lucky.</p>
<p>When my son was a freshman in college, I nagged him during one break about getting a haircut because he had gone for about three months without one and his hair looked unruly and sloppy.</p>
<p>A couple of days after he returned to college, he sent me a photo of himself by e-mail. He had gone to the barber and gotten a very short buzz cut – almost to the point of having a completely shaved head. The e-mail said something like “Are you satisfied now?”</p>
<p>Actually, I was satisfied. The extremely short hair looked great on him. And as it turned out, he thought so, too. He has been wearing his hair that way ever since.</p>
<p>Has anyone seen those magazine advertisements, I forget what for, maybe some kind of insurance, that used yearbook pictures from the 70’s? Omilord, nothing they can do now can hold a candle to those “we haven’t heard of layering yet, we part our long hair waayy over to one side then it goes flatly across the top of our heads, and oh by the way, don’t these ‘wings’ on the sides look cute?”</p>
<p>I look through my own HS yearbook (76) and I can’t believe it’s not a parody, the hair styles are so hilarious.</p>
<p>So, yeah. Nothing really changes. (don’t get me started on the styles in my mom’s circa 40s yearbook!)</p>
<p>Listen garland - I ROCKED the Farah Faucett look, and you can’t tell me otherwise! Just because my mom said it looked like sausage curls along my face… and my “body wave” perm eventually caused all my hair to break off so I had to get a short, layered hairdo…:rolleyes:</p>
<p>I’m waiting for someone to bring up Tom Brady’s hair. Hot topic around here last fall. At first I thought it looked sexy longer - like he was channelling Tim Riggins from Friday Night Lights - but now it’s just gone too far. That teeny little ponytail is ridiculous. Folks here are blaming his wife Giselle Bundchen, but she’s saying Tom’s hair is Tom’s choice and she loves him no matter how he looks (So easy to say… He’s TOM-FREAKING-BRADY!) :p</p>
<p>Re the “Jew-fro” several people have mentioned: I always heard it called an “Isro.” (Pronounced IZro.) By my BF who had one, for example. :D</p>
<p>I wish my son would let his hair grow a little longer. He has gorgeous curly hair, with soft ringlets, although nobody that has only known him since middle school would know since he keeps his hair very short. I am hoping that he will let it grow out a little bit when he joins the work force, it looks so much nicer with a little length.</p>
<p>As long as it’s a natural color and it’s not holding the job situation back it wouldn’t bother me. Both my older boys went through long hair, one with a beard although they both cut their hair for work when they were working in restaurants both front side and back side. I do know that hair, like clothing, in many workplaces can signal position so it can be an issue for some people depending on the company culture for a young in the workforce adult. I still see some colored hair (men and women) and long hair (men) among the analyst and desk side IT/IS crews but IMO I think it’s a fading trend.</p>
<p>Haircuts for my boys will always be associated with specific and cherished memories.</p>
<p>My dad, ex-Air Force fighter pilot always, since toddlers (1st haircuts) took the boys on base to get their haircuts done by his barber. Mid to late 80s this was especially memorable as dad was doing an exchange as an Instructor Pilot at Miramar, CA NAS at Top Gun. So boys went on a 3 week basis to get their tops and sides touched up.</p>
<p>Spent hours, which turned into days, weeks and years on the flight line, in the simulater and at the O club with my dad. So getting a haircut was the coolest thing on the planet for my boys. Plus the time spent with my dad. And yes, 1 of them hopes to be in pilot training very soon! Two of them were accepted to the academy as well.</p>
<p>They have graduated/will graduate college and still wear the same haircut. If dad is showing up anytime soon, they race off to the barber to make sure it passes inspection. Same with a shave, and yes if it is a dressy event their shoes are shined and polished. </p>
<p>My dad’s “rules” still exist for them 20 years later, no whistling in a building, hats (covers) come off in a building, yes ma’m, no sir, white t-shirts under all shirts except work-out/practic gear, groomed/cut nails, no tatoos, no piercings…all thanks to my dad. They don’t even address him as grandpa (never have) it is either sir, or by his first name.</p>
<p>If they have gone a while in seeing him, the greeting hello or good-bye is always a hand shake and the formal “good to see you, sir” and “I will miss you, sir”.</p>
<p>HUGE, HUGE contrast to my bear hugs/kisses from dad. Privileges of being daddy’s little girl! Of course I make up for all the hugs and kisses for the boys!! Boys say being with my dad is a breath of fresh air. They can just “be themselves” with him.</p>
<p>So haircuts round here are very special. You could say the path to their dreams was all because they went to “get their ears lowered” -dad’s version. Still says the only difference between a bad haircut and a good one is…3 weeks.</p>
<p>Kat
** also all 3 boys played hs football and 2 went on to play college ball so having short hair helped with the helmet and sweating badly, all 3 have really, really thick hair…</p>
<p>At least I expect how ever they wear their hair- it isn’t this bad. 
[Donald</a> Trump explains how he does his hair](<a href=“http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2011/05/13/donald-trump-explains-how-he-does-his-hair/]Donald”>http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2011/05/13/donald-trump-explains-how-he-does-his-hair/)</p>
<p>In 1975 I had really long hair. I was about to go to college. I was very spoiled as well. My father would not buy me the car we had been looking at for weeks unless I cut my hair. Being the stupid stubborn teenager that I was I decided to take a bicycle to school and he could keep the car. This went on for weeks. I did not live on campus and actually had to ride 5 miles or so to class. This did not bode well for my attendance record. A few weeks later I went home to visit. My mother had devised a compromise. If I was determined not to get a haircut, then she insisted that I have a “body wave”. I asked if that required any hair to be cut and she said no. My hair was long straight fine hair. When I got through with the “body wave” it was waving everywhere. I looked like a girl from the back. I had just pledged a fraternity and upon arrival back at the University all my fraternity brothers called me BODY WAVE for the entire semester. I did end up with the car even though my father said I had gone from bad to worse with the “body wave”. We laugh about it to this day and my parents do not know why they were so insistent on a short hair. I’m sure it had something to do with the Vietnam War, hippies, drugs, rock and roll, etc.</p>