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Curly bob. There’s a reason many older women choose to have chin-length hair, instead of longer tresses: “Long hair drags the eyes down, emphasizing drooping facial features,” Butterworth says.
There are some great hairstyles that just work when we’re over 60 years old, and they are just as stylish, elegant, and easy as ever.
Click through our collection of the best short hairstyles for women over 50 to find variations on shoulder-length cuts, bobs, and pixies that are perfect for women of any age.
This style is most common among women. Bouffant: A style distinguished by smooth hair that is heightened and given extra fullness over teasing in the fringe area. Bowl cut: Named for the shape of the style as much as for a once-common method of achieving it (i.e. using a bowl to style the cut by placing it on the head and trimming the open hair).
Between 27 BC and 102 AD, in Imperial Rome, women wore their hair in complicated styles: a mass of curls on top, or in rows of waves, drawn back into ringlets or braids. Eventually noble women's hairstyles grew so complex that they required daily attention from several enslaved people and a stylist in order to be maintained.
Adding vertical volume on top of the head, by combing the hair back and up above the forehead, is a trend that originated in women's hairstyles of the royal court in France, first in the 1680s, and again in the second half of the 18th century, long before and after Madame de Pompadour.
Here are the 40 best medium-length haircut and style ideas for women over 50, including bobs, lobs, and face-framing layers with bangs. These Medium-Length Hairstyles Will Look So Gorgeous on ...
Beehive styles of the early 1960s sometimes overlapped with bouffant styles, which also employed teasing to create hair volume; but generally speaking, the beehive effect was a rounded cone piled upwards from the top of the head, while the simple bouffant was a wider, puffier shape covering the ears at the sides.