Old hippie guys, how long did you last before you finally clipped your ponytail and trimmed your scraggly beard? Or do you still have them? And old hippie gals, does that look still ring your bell-bottoms?
I'm an old hippy gal and if you're balding with a ponytail, I think it would look much better cut short.
I've heard "bald top long back" referred to as a skullet.
My buddy's daughter calls mine a "bullet" - for "bald mullet."
Or the Hulk Hogan
Or the “Uncle Gene”
Or Riff Raff
guitar!
It's a...stounding...
I love that -
Agreed. I love men with long hair, but not once it starts thinning.
Just a preference of mine! I always think it looks like their hair is sliding off the top and hanging there off the edge.
I mean, it's not just men: women's hair thins too as we age. Some more than others, but not even the luckiest woman with the best hair genes is going to have hair as thick as it was when she was 20 or 30. Everyone can do what makes them happy, but it's just not always going to look good.
Same. My partner had the saddest look when I told him this. He looked sooo hot with short hair, though. He even got a buzz cut. Great friction 😏
Lol - not the response I expected.
It was in the mid to late seventies, and by then my hair was down to my belt in the back. Cutting my hair was no big deal for me but, somehow, taking off the beard kind of weirded me out at first.
I remember, when I still had the hair and beard, an old woman in the grocery check-out line ahead of me asking if I was a boy or a girl. And she also wanted to know if I liked Charles Manson.
“Most times you can’t hear ‘em talk, other times you can The same old clichés- Is that a woman or a man?”- Seger.
That bullshit was like water off a duck's back, I think, for most of us.
One time about 10 years ago I yelled at my friend,”Get a haircut you dirty hippie”… and it wasn’t my friend. I thought I started my first fight in 30 years but the guy saw my friend laughing at me and believed my story.
Yeah-always came away feeling I must be doing something right!
Saddest moment was clipping the hair for HS Senior pictures to appease parents and become a wage slave in 1975. Scroll forward to retirement, ponytail reaches middle back and no haircuts planned ✌🏼
Do what feels good. I let my pits grow out in retirement.
Retired from the corporate life a few years ago . Tried going back to my long lost hippie look. Long hair and t-shirts ,etc. My wife said I looked silly and I agreed , that's how it felt also. Back to the "businessman haircut" and polo shirts. Not giving up the classic rock music and progressive politics though.
Never grew a beard, but had the long hair from 15-20 years old. Had a job in a factory and it was dangerous. I value my scalp.
I still shudder when I remember the time that a machine sucked my shirttail in and ripped the shirt right off of my back. I had a long ponytail then and I was just lucky, I guess.
This was in a rural area cotton mill in the South and rural Southern industry was dangerous back in the early seventies. After that I got into heavy construction, and I can hardly believe the shit that I did there. The first outfit that I worked for had three men killed on the job the year before I hired on, and they were just a mom-and-pop cowboy kind of deal with maybe 6 or 8 guys in the field.
Worked residential construction for 40 years. I can’t recall a time we even had fall protection. I always said the two worst words in the English language are “ industrial accident”. I’ve seen a few serious ones, only one death, and that was in the early factory days.
We were definitely cowboys! Still am.
The look is still good to me.
Unpopular opinion, but in my opinion, most senior citizens, whether male or female, look haggard with long hair because their hair is too thin or receding.
No. I think you're right. A good cut on grey hair looks amazing. Man or woman.
Haven’t shaved since 1986.
Beard has come and gone, currently rocking a big ass goatee
Hair is long gone. I was like 20 when I realized I was actively losing my hair already so I said fuck it and started shaving it
Bald beardos ftw
I have shaved 4 years in my life, the four I was in the military. Never shaved before going in and haven't been clean shaven since getting out (40+ years). Hair gets cut as needed, but not as often as it should.
Not a hippie a country boy but my dad used to make me wear it short and when I was 19 I moved out and let it grow. Just to piss him off ! But he would introduce me as his hippie son. Still long today. I get compliments from older ladies all the time, it's a silver grey now. No beard just a mustache that Ive had just as long. I have used it in the past to weed out people mainly employers that could not see past the hair. FYI never been out of work or draw a single unemployment check,50 years.
This was in the mid-70s. I was working on the town road crew in the summer. Someone drove off the road, went into a gully, and hit a tree. We went to help the emergency people, put up temporary guardrails, warn other drivers, etc.
It turned out the tree was full of wild honeybees, and they were pissed off. One of them got tangled in my hair. The ponytail was on the barbershop floor that Saturday.
In about 73 I/female had hair to my waist and so did my boyfriend; he also had a goatee. He came to work to pick me up one day and my boss asked me if our hair got caught when we made love. JFC! If anybody said anything like that now they’d get nailed. He was a tool anyway though
Mid-1980s. I worked at a university and all the old hippies were trying everything to keep their hair professional but as long as possible - lots of mullets and ‘staches. Mostly to be different, I shaved and buzzed my head. The dudes upstairs thought I was ex-military and the students thought I was punk.
While I’m too young for that, there were many changes in 1979 where lots of people seemed to turn 30 and cut their hair
I recall in about 1981 before the word yuppie was invented somebody described a guy as "80'd out" and everybody knew exactly what he meant. The haircut, the suit, the "entrepreneurship," everything completely opposite to the past 15 years.
They'd been working a mediocre job and management somehow realized the long hair and beard didn't affect the quality of their fine work ... hippie guy got wind he was being considered for promotion and knew cleaning up his appearance might be the thing that brought him into the office. ;-D
It does. The joke in my crowd is describing someone you are looking for with a beard and ponytail will get you nowhere
I'm "that" 72 year old guy with a pony tail half way down my back.
68 and still have a full head of hair and my ponytail to my belt. Grew it when I got out of the military in the late 70's. I did cut it off the ten years I spent in the classroom but grew it back when I burned out. Always had the beard, just a little shorter while in the classroom. I might add my hair was over my ears and to the bottom of my collar during that time also.
I did donate it it to "locks of love" many times through the years. Always made a lottery of it. Cut my ponytail off at the bottom of the collar. Tickets $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00. Winning ticket holder gets to make the cut. Ticket sales went to co-worker with cancer and hair was donated. Should have seen the VP's face the year he had the winning ticket. Think he bought $50.00 worth.
Shaved the beard off after the oncologist burned a hole it in in 2013.
Kind of funny. When I was teaching I could get lost in a crowd of one. Now everybody knows me by my ponytail.
I've still got long hair. Once I got it cut short. I walked into a room & everyone looked at me & burst into laughter. Some of us look silly as squares.
Old hippie gal here. Not a fan of ponytails any longer especially on top balding guys. I prefer a short haircut clean shaven look. Not a fan of facial hair except maybe a 5 o'clock shadow occasionally.
I know a man who has never cut his hair and he's pushing 70.
As a woman who cut her hair decades ago just because I don't want to deal with it, I can't understand men who still hang onto this look.
After seeing all the longhairs at the Jan. 6 riot l decided I didn’t want to be in that club in any way
Ring a ding ding!
I had to keep my hair short and professional my whole career but I still have all my hair with no hint of balding and next to no gray except a little in my beard. So leading up to my retirement on my 52nd birthday I stopped cutting my hair. Now almost two years since my last haircut and I have a mane padt my shoulders. If it wasn't so curly in the back it would be halfway down my back.
I was a bit of a hippy, but I've always had a very strong preference for clean cut men.
I'm actively afraid of large beards.
I'm a woman who finds beards a bit daunting. They're ok trimmed up. But when the mustache hairs curl over the lips, it's not very sexy. Especially if there's food in it!
My husband has pretty long hair. He got about 6 inches cut off a month ago. He's starting to look a little Einsteinish I told him yesterday. I'd like him to put it in a ponytail. He used to back in the mullet days. But won't now for some reason. He's very vain. Maybe it shows up his receding hairline if he ties it back. He has tons of hair. His forehead is a tad higher but he has tons of hair. He still has the moustache he had when we met in 78.
I'm not sure why he's hanging on to the hair. I did mention I liked Mel Gibson's hair in Lethal Weapon back in the day and that's when he grew it longer. It was actually short when I met him. However, he had it very very long when he was a teen. He still has great hair for an old guy - it was always better hair than I had.
I don't really care what he does with his hair. He is who he is and his hair doesn't make him easier to live with or harder. He likes to have a say in my hair but I've run out of fucks to give. He's not the one who has to deal with it.
I've never had a scraggly beard, always very trimmed up, but it has been ever-present for decades. I'm in the woods a lot and a bushy beard is heaven for ticks. You can't get to them easily if it's long.
The ponytail-length long hair has been here and gone several times, I'm on my 5th and final time now (as far as i know).
First longhair time was right after I moved out of my parent's house in 1978 until '80, then again in 89 till 93, then again in '97 until '03, again in '07 till '10, and then '17 till now. (all appx). Each time it was cut was when I was either trying to fit into a corporate culture, get a job or get a big client for my own business. It was never because I was tired of it or didn't like it and I always regretted each time I cut it but knew it would grow back eventually. Long hair just feels more correct, I just feel more like who I really am mentally.
And I have a full head of hair still.
I liked guys with long hair then, but now like bald heads.
Got a nasty sunburn in 1971,didn't shave again until covid in 2020. Masks fit better on a clean face. Been shaving since. Wife is immunocompromised. Hair is just past shoulder length. I'm 78
Cut off a 12-18" thick, luxurious pony-tail (women often commented how they wished their hair looked as good as mine) three times, in the 80's, the 90s, and the late 10's. I really liked having long hair, but I was tired of the maintenance. Both the hair and the beard are miltary short now, and I have no desire to grow anything back.
Funny, I'm an old guy, and it's my parents who were hippie aged.
Will always prefer a man with long hair, short haired guys don’t even get a second glance.
Some of us are growing the hair we can grow 🤷♂️🤣
I held out until 2000. New Century, New Start.
My hair, cut completely off during my stint in the Army in the early 70's regrew to at least collar-to shoulder length for most of my career. Only a promotion to upper management had me keep it well trimmed. My beard? My chin has seen sunshine only once since my army days. I always kept it trimmed short while I was working, but now I'm growing a big old Grandpa beard. I keep it trimmed, but it is quite bushy.
My hair was always so thick, I couldn't get it past the "medium" stage and still be able to get a comb or brush through it. By my early 50s, it had thinned enough to grow out, so I did, and I've been wearing it long most of the time for the last 20+ years -- most of the time. I bought a bike one year and headed down a steep hill. Turned my head to check for cars, and my hair blew in front of my eyes, totally blinding me. Figured time to cut it off. I never kept it at any one length since leaving school. I'd always let it grow out to the point of being unmanageable, then buzzing it off. So I was a rare cat indeed at times around 1970, when everybody is going for the long hair look, there's me, looking like I'm in boot camp.
I’d cut my hair and beard in the early 80s. When Covid came along I got my haircut just before they closed the barber shops around me. When they reopened I just let it grow. I had it long for 2+ years. At that point it was a small ponytail. I told my GF I wanted to let it get very long. She’d been supportive up until then, but said she’d prefer if I got it cut so I did. The beard lasted about six months longer before I accidentally cut a big hole in it while trimming it so it’s gone now too.
I’m a left leaning gal whose bell bottoms were never rung by the hippie look.
Bald is sexy AF and a crew cut is hot, too. I have hair that reaches my lower back, I don’t have any desire to share hair products with my partner.
Old hippie chick here.
Not crazy about beards but love a guy with long hair - ponytail or not.
It wasn't and still isn't scraggly. I get my hair cut twice a year, so sometimes it's long and sometimes it's shortish. I have a bigger forehead than I used to, but fortunately my hair isn't thin.
Bell bottoms now and forever
I'm not even sure what a hippie is. I don't think I've ever met a real one. Are they just guys with long hair, tie dye shirts, and who smoked weed?
The only thing on an older man that I feel looks ridiculous is the soul patch. Kevin Costner had one, heck he might still have one for all I know, and I just didn’t understand why.
Love, love, love a thin man with long, thick hair. Just something about it is so sexy.
I didn't start growing mine until my fifties. :)
Stll a very good look, IMHO. Ordered from Uber Eats. The delivery guy had long (past the shoulder) , wavy hair and a soul patch. Yep. Just like 50 years ago.
I still have my beard albeit shorter than it has been and neater. A few years ago I tried to reclaim the glory of a pony tail and got to a short one but with so little still on top I decided a year was enough of that experiment and shaved my head. I look good for an older guy I think.
Still have the long hair. It's thick and white. But I did hack it all off when my business was much more formal.
As an aging hippie, I still like the old familiar looks that we all had in those days.
Plenty old boomers have let their hair grow out again. My spouse and half the guys going into Costco lol
I live in an over 55 community and every time I see one of those ponytails on the back of a bald or balding head, I think it's time for them to let it go. Much more attractive to be bald.
“Almost cut my hair” is my story. Bearded still(73M) hair recovering from medical procedure. At my shoulders again by August😎
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