Is It Really Easier To Have Short Hair?

[WednesdayAddams]

For me short hair is very hard. Half flips over, half flips under. I have to mess with it all day so I don’t look like an escapee mental patient. When it is longer I can smooth everything just by bunning, or I can wear a bun or ponytail if it isn’t looking all that great.

[Dark40]

I've had short for many years, and it was a pain, and it didn't look good on me at all. I'd say short hair is much harder to keep up rather than long hair, and there's also nothing that you can do with short hair. Like, wearing it up in buns, braids, and wearing it hanging down.

[Kelp]

I think it depends on the cut and your lifestyle.

When I had a pixie cut, I had to style it daily to be able to get the look that I wanted. If I slept on it wrong? Forget about it. Bad hair day. It also needed to be trimmed often to keep the shape. However, I never had to worry about babying it, brushing out tangles, it getting in my face, etc. so I think having a pixie is a tradeoff for long hair in terms of time spent managing it, but that could absolutely be due to my hair type.

If we're considering chin to shoulder length, I would say that was even harder to manage. It wasn't long enough to be in a pony tail, and I needed clips to keep it out of my face. I could never deal with that now because my job requires me to always have my hair up and out of my face for safety. Someone who doesn't work a physical job might not need to worry about that, though.

Long hair is easy for me because I can keep it in the same bun for days without having to worry about it. Sometimes it gets tough when my hair is down and it starts getting in my face or tangled up, but I only wear my hair down occasionally and I've started using a serum to tame it.

I think as my hair gets longer it will get harder to manage mainly when it comes to detangling, but the easiest way to get long hair is really by not doing anything other than keeping it protected.

[Arciela]

My hair is now classic length and it has become a lot of work, but only because I have migraines. I also sit on it, it gets stuck always, and if I put it up in any style, it makes the headaches worse.

When I don't have a migraine it's not terrible. My braids are very heavy though and my LWB I do with my hair stick can get heavy.

When I had short hair it was very easy for me. Wash it and it would dry nicely, I got tons of compliments and it felt effortless. However, I have no plans to cut my hair and even if it gets difficult it's here to stay

[GordonMurphella]

My hair is now classic length and it has become a lot of work, but only because I have migraines. I also sit on it, it gets stuck always, and if I put it up in any style, it makes the headaches worse.

When I don't have a migraine it's not terrible. My braids are very heavy though and my LWB I do with my hair stick can get heavy.

When I had short hair it was very easy for me. Wash it and it would dry nicely, I got tons of compliments and it felt effortless. However, I have no plans to cut my hair and even if it gets difficult it's here to stay

Tell me to sod off if you like but I'm curious if it's such a literal pain for you, why keep it long? Particularly if you enjoyed it short? I see this in myself sometimes and would enjoy your insight, if you have any.

[Pilate]

In my opinion, no. When I had short hair it needed to be washed more often, and the bed head was a pain in the butt to deal with. Now I braid it at night and there is no styling required if I want to wear it down the next day (unusual) because the waves are so pretty, and no effort was required.

[Greengable]

It depends. For me, very short hair (until it starts to curl) is more comfortable because I didn't do anything to it. I just put aloe gel to shape it. The complicated thing is that I continually had ear problems and torticollis. I can't wear my hair shorter than my shoulders because of the cold water at the beach or after a shower, and air condition that always gave me neck pain.

[embee]

Short hair for me was expensive, both $$$ and emotionally. I needed frequent trims to look halfway decent (the downside of straight flat hair). So most of the time I looked pretty scruffy (which made me ashamed of how I looked) due to lack of funds and lack of time for salon appointments (which often included hiring a babysitter). Also, as mentioned above, I needed to wash hair Every Day, no fail allowed there at all. Now, I brush, put it up in the morning. Brush on taking it down at night. Mostly NW/SO. For me, *that* is Really Easy!

[clairenewcastle]

When I had a pixie I hated how I could never get my hair to sit right.
Having long hair is easier in many ways, the main one being that I could pull it back in a ponytail and forget about it.

[angel-baby]

I had a chin length bob for a couple years. It was super cute, and I loved how fast it was to dry, but other than that? I spent much more time styling it than I do my long hair. My hair is wavy/curly, but that changes to downright curly when it's short. I would get the craziest bedhead bc it was too short for a braid or pineapple, and the only way to fix it was to wash and style it again. The goal was to get my hair healthier, but I straightened it all the time because I like the look of a pin-straight bob.

Now I just pineapple my hair at night, and quickly refresh it in the morning by scrunching in some leave-in conditioner and rubbing a couple drops of oil into the length. Super easy.