Poll: what is your opinion on pixie cuts?

[JustAGirl10101]

I love them!

It depends on the girl's face

I never like short hair on girls

I feel indifferent

See results

[redeyemindtricks]

Ahhhahah nothing like the topic of short hair to bring out the hysterics from male GAGers...

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A few things, in no particular order.

1)

A lot of the dudes here are clearly overreacting -- and many of them probably aren't even being consistent with *themselves*.

What I mean is this:
• Lots of women with hair around shoulder length -- where it's short enough to fall over yr shoulder and get in the way of everything you're trying to do, but long enough to actually GET in the way of everything you're trying to do -- wear ponytails for literally 99.5 percent of their waking hours.
If a woman wears her ponytail high and sort of messy, it's almost indistinguishable from the look of a short haircut. Like this high/messy pony:
www.thebeautyinsiders.com/.../ponytail-6.jpg

... OK. So, all these guys who are flipping their shit about women with short hair... Do they throw just as much of a hissy-fit about women who wear ponytails all the time?
Because if they don't, then their complaints probably aren't so much about the look, and are probably much more about what the look seems to "signify" (in their mind, anyway).
Like one poster here who thinks that short hair "makes you look like a feminist". (Does that even mean anything? The most strident feminazi-types I know ALL have long hair and wear very traditionally feminine clothes.)

If a guy is hating on short hair AND ponytails, then, fine, mb he really does have an aversion to that look in general. But how many people do you know who hate ponytails ahahah.

2)

As many on this thread have pointed out, yr "success" with a shorter haircut is going to depend on yr face.

What NO ONE has pointed out yet -- and what definitely needs to be pointed out -- is that it ALSO depends on yr makeup skills. Might depend on that even more than yr actual facial shape.

In general, women who really *rock* the pixie-cut look tend to wear MUCH more dramatic makeup than women with longer hair.
More importantly... much more dramatic than the makeup they'd wear *themselves* with longer hair.

Like these women:
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cf.girlsaskguys.com/.../...0-9d90-1ad454687569.jpg

www.eshorthairstyles.com/.../...anna-Pixie-Cut.jpg

Notice the high drama of the first two women's smoky eyes, and of Rihanna's blood-red lipstick.
All of these looks might seem pretty try-hard with longer hair -- or they just wouldn't go well with the hair -- but, with short hair, they look devastatingly sexy.

I wrote

[redeyemindtricks]

more about my own experiences with shorter vs. longer hair -- like the differences in the kinds of guys who'd approach me, along with some other observations -- in my opinion on this thread:
www.girlsaskguys.com/.../q2064969-so-i-m-thinking-about-cutting-most-of-my-hair-off-but-i-m-weary

Check it out.

My hair's still long at the moment, but... for a limited time only. I'm getting to that age where it's starting to refuse to grow out to its current length (around my natural waist) -- and I look absolutely beyond awful with hair anywhere around shoulder length -- so, sometime in the next couple months, I'm getting it cut to something like what's on the girl in the white dress ^^. Probably a *little* shorter than that.
My husband will be ecstatic, lol (his love for short-haired women almost approaches fetish status ahah)

And of course *yours* looks fantastic. Which you probably know, but, I'm saying it anyway <3

[Fearless_banana]

"Like one poster here who thinks that short hair "makes you look like a feminist". (Does that even mean anything? "

Yes it does lmao. Every hardcore femininst I've seen seems to have that same cooker cutter cringe haircut. It's unattractive and most guys will agree. That's pretty much all it comes down to. All of those women would look much better with longer hair.

[Fearless_banana]

I mean these girls absolutely murdered their looks here.
cf.girlsaskguys.com/.../...0-9368-013ce8819c04.jpg
cf.girlsaskguys.com/.../...a-824b-52461cacb133.jpg
cf.girlsaskguys.com/.../...9-b5c8-07b9b76048d3.jpg

[redeyemindtricks]

@Fearless_banana Maybe that's how you're identifying "feminists" then. I mean, I'm just gna go ahead and say with certainty that you don't go around grilling random women on their political stances, so... yeahhh

In any case, yr opinion is yr opinion. A fact it is not, although I'm... amused by the sheer passion with which you go around posting on all the short hair questions. (:
Like, did some short-haired girl beat you up as a kid? #totessrs

The only time this is actually a matter of *facts* is menopause or later, when longer hair quite literally makes a woman look like a wicked witch who's been at Bonnaroo for the last 3 days without a shower.

[redeyemindtricks]

@Fearless_banana My 13-year-old is awake, so, I asked him. He says:
First girl is equally ok both ways
Second girl is hotter with short hair
Third girl looks... less bad with longer hair

So that's 1 win, 1 loss and 1 tie. ::shrugs::

[Fearless_banana]

Lol I just find it absolutely hilarious that girls all like pixie cuts for some reason all of a sudden when guys all hate them and think they are unattractive. Was talking about this with a friend the other day. The question keeps getting asked on here as well. If I made a poll.. you know what the results would be? Every guy who say they are unattractive and every girl would say they are attractive. I guess they should all go lez and enjoy each others pixie cuts.

[Fearless_banana]

Lol I'll make a poll later I guess. I guarantee that's what the results will be. I'll feature it too using my xper points.

[redeyemindtricks]

@Fearless_banana Lmao dude, this is a website where the majority of men say they don't even like when a woman wears *makeup* (and I think about half said they don't even like when women wear heels!).
LOL
What do you think you'd be proving?

[redeyemindtricks]

... not to mention those assumptions that a woman should just get whatever haircut *men* would prefer. (And not even a boyfriend or husband -- you're literally talking about RANDOM men, dude.)

I mean... you know that's not the only variable that goes into our choice of clothes and hair, right?

Also -- you may not think shorter hair is sexy, but it has also been proven beyond all possible doubt that short hair makes women seem more intelligent, confident, and self-sufficient, both to women and to men. (This has been studied mostly in business and marketing settings -- but there's no reason why these findings wouldn't generalize to other environments.)
I've experienced this myself, too. In a nutshell, people take me more *seriously* when my hair is shorter.

Lots of variables dude.

[Fearless_banana]

Lots of variables but it's not coincidental that literally every time this discussion comes up even in real life every guy thinks that short hair on these girls is unattractive. I also don't buy into this whole notion of
"... not to mention those assumptions that a woman should just get whatever haircut *men* would prefer."

Lol okay if a woman is attracted to the opposite sex then it would be in her best interest to be attractive towards the opposite sex. We all want to be considered attractive. Shit dude if I was just doing everything for me I would wear my old sweaty silkies from the marine corps to the club every night. I wouldn't even brush my fucking teeth half of the time. Women wouldn't do their makeup. It's all bullshit in my opinion. "Oh I just spend 2 hours doing makeup everyday for myself.. I'm obviously not using something designed to accentuate my attractiveness for others.. why df would I want to be attractive for others?"

[redeyemindtricks]

@Fearless_banana Lol

Ok, well, you are more than seven years old, so you know better than to think that "attractive to (wo) men" is a monolithic entity that's the same for everyone. Obviously, different looks are going to attract different people in different proportions.

I actually wrote about that, in my opinion here:
www.girlsaskguys.com/.../q2064969-so-i-m-thinking-about-cutting-most-of-my-hair-off-but-i-m-weary

There was -- and is -- a VERY big difference in the kinds of guys who engage me (whether trying to hit on me or just make conversation) when I have different hair looks.

So yeah, EVEN IF it were 100% about attracting the opposite sex -- which it isn't -- then, still, the prescription wouldn't be the same for everyone.

I mean, I'm sure the same is true for you, too. If you wanted to attract *the largest number* of women possible where you live, then you'd want to dress in

[redeyemindtricks]

less athletic gear and more preppy/business-casual style than you do now. But... you don't, so you don't. You get me.

And yeah, in fact, I still do my full face every day -- even on days when I'm sick, and even on those few days when I'm not going to see any other human beings at all.
You might feed me some bullshit about how it's ultimately all traceable back to attraction -- which may be true, but, so what? If A is a proxy for B which is a proxy for C which is a proxy for D then you can't plausibly say that A and D are practically "related" anymore.

I mean... As an extreme, you have men who cross-dress in the privacy of their own home -- where no one else will EVER see them -- and that is, obviously, 100 percent purely for their own satisfaction.
Right?
Right.
Same thing, just to a lesser extent.

The world is not black and white, and things in the real world are not functions of one variable on one axis. Get over it.

[YourFutureEx]

Disagree.

There's a massive difference between pixie and messy ponytail. You're just looking at her from a definite angle. And still a girl can look different from other women with pixie cuts by putting her hair in front like this.
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This is such a hypothetical situation where your girl has to be messy and her pony tail is not visible and you can only focus on her from front. Like really? Does this happen irl?
Even tho she kinda looks like a girl with pixie, it doesn't mean that we will conclude that she has it.
And it's not only about having "hair on ears but not on shoulders" look, it is also about the feeling. Being with a girl having too short hair doesn't "feel" good to a man.

And I disliked that look even before I realised that feminism is even a thing on this earth.

[dangerDoge]

I'm with @YourFutureEx on this one. Huge difference between ponytail and pixie. Even in the picture you provided, one can still tell it isn't a pixie with the hair on back. Likewise, in a real life scenario, chances are they won't be always perfectly centered towards you to where you can't tell if it is a pixie or not. They looks quite different.

Saying a ponytail is the same/similar as a pixie cut is kinda like saying super mullet brad pitt (with hair tucked behind) would look the same as fight club brad pitt... And therefore anyone who liked fight club brad pitt hair should like mullet brad pitt hair.

Like also Yourfutureex, I disiked pixie cuts before I even knew what feminism was. I didn't really hear about feminism until I got on GAG and researched it. I hadn't heard of the feminist stereotypes because I simply didn't pay attention to social movements and stuff in high school. 😅

[YourFutureEx]

@dangerDoge LOL I didn't know about feminism before joining G@G either :D I think those are just arm-chair activists who don't reveal their identity in real life.

[Rainie_]

Pixie cuts? Don't really L ike them.
Some people can pull it of but it isn't going to make one look more attractive than when they had longer hair in my opinion.
My mother worked a very very short cut once upon a time when she was in her 20s with curly hair and yes it worked for her and looked pretty nice and edgy but she still looked better when she had longer hair and will always look better with longer hair.

[redeyemindtricks]

Careful with that "always", there... Have you SEEN menopausal or postmenopausal women with long (natural, non-extension) hair?
Nottttt a good look...

Through perimenopause and menopause, our hair starts negotiating downward on the length to which it's willing to grow.
I'm still a good 8-10 years from menopause, and already my hair is starting to become... reluctant to grow waist-length anymore.
After menopause... yeahhh... longer hair makes you look like a combination of a bad '60's flower child and a wicked witch.

[Rainie_]

@redeyemindtricks when I mean longer hair it means mostly anything longer than pixie cut length. Could be from sleek bob hairdo to longer, although I do prefer the bob hair style on most older women.

I do agree waist long hair can look rather odd when you're older, in fact waist long hair can look odd sometimes scary on some younger people.

[redeyemindtricks]

yeah gotcha... but even shoulder-length can start looking ratty once a woman is past menopause, unless she is truly exceptionally gifted in the hair department.

All those older women cutting their hair shorter, they're doing it for a reason... and that reason is not "I give up".

[Anonymous]

Don't know why but I always thought they looked weird on other girls. When I see someone with a pixie cut, it gives me the impression that they've "stopped trying".

[dangerDoge]

My personal take on pixie cuts:
1.) Pixie cuts never make someone more attractive than they'd be with longer hair. I like longer hair-- it very often makes someone look more feminine in my opinion and nicer.

2.) Pixie cuts, for the large majority of women, make the girl look a lot worse. Longer hair looks a lot better on the majority of em (not necessarily "long," just not nearly pixie-cut-short.)

3.) For a select few women, pixie cuts do nothing to hurt or help them. I would argue this tends to be because their face is already great, so it doesn't particularly matter how long their hair is. The pictures of ones I've seen that still look attractive with pixie cuts already have really great feminine sort of faces to focus on.

So it's really a mix of B and C. All in all though, I've never seen someone who looks more attractive with a pixie cut than longer hair.
Naturally, it's all very personal preferences, but the various guys I've talked with in random dudebro conversations about types and stuff have said similar things like me. It's purely anecdotal, but I suspect the majority of guys are not only-short hair fans.

[LaVilaine]

I look like a mop with boobs with long hair, bro. That's not feminine. I don't even look human.

[dangerDoge]

@LaVilaine Lol at the simile.
In any case, it's simply my personal take on it. I am but a sum of all my personal experiences.

I acknowledge you could very well look better with shorter hair, but I don't think I've ever seen ya with longer hair so I really can't say. All I can offer is simple anecdotal evidence from my pov that I've never a person go from long hair to shorter hair and bolster their attractiveness.

Could it be that I have such a preference for long hair that I bias my opinion on shorter hair? Could be, could be, but still doesn't change my personal view on it. I think it often makes someone look more feminine with longer hair.

[LaVilaine]

I could dig up a photo for you when I get back to my parents'. Trust me. It ain't pretty.

[dangerDoge]

@LaVilaine Alright, I shall await your return lol.

[Langseax]

@LaVilaine I'll just quote the opinion which I put in to save time "Hair takes a lot of resources to produce and one thing you’ll notice from all the pictures of starving people from third world nations is that they oftentimes have very little hair. Having a good head of long hair is a sign of health which is why men naturally prefer long haired girls to short haired girls."

It's not so much a case of what's feminine, long hair is a sign of health (to an extent in both men and women).

[Fearless_banana]

It is aesthetic suicide. A girl will go from a 7/10 to a 3/10 by getting a pixie cut and it's funny because everytime this question is asked I'll go ahead and say this same thing.. What ends up happening is that I get 10 pink down votes and 10 blue up votes. It will fucking kill your looks ladies. Nobody wants to look like a god damn feminist.

@truExo Agree with me or agree with me?

[TruExo]

I think you're on to something bro. pics.onsizzle.com/...-so-i-ride-my-own-3161359.png

[TruExo]

Whoops sorry bro that's for the other gagger.
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[TruExo]

So what's your gender after you pixie cut @asker?

[Fearless_banana]

@TruExo lmfaoo

[lost_alice]

have you ever seen Halsey? she still looks good with her pixie cut

[JustAGirl10101]

@TruExo Female. I'm assuming yours is, too, since you don't have the balls to act like a decent human being.

[Fearless_banana]

@lost_alice Post pic

[TruExo]

I don't do nudes but this xray should tell you. That I am a decent human male being. s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/.../...97090f8c4a.jpg

[Fearless_banana]

@TruExo hahahahaahahahaha

[teawrecks]

I won't even get my hair cut shorter than my collarbone anymore bc I don't wanna chance looking manly 😂

[lost_alice]

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[Fearless_banana]

@lost_alice eww dude she would look 10x better with longer hair lol

[lost_alice]

she had long hair but it was shitty and she had to use wigs

[TruExo]

@lost_alice stop showing us pics of guys.

[lost_alice]

@TruExo if she was a guy she would look 1000x hotter than you

[Fearless_banana]

@lost_alice Lol but what is she trying to accomplish with that look?

[TruExo]

@lost_alice every time I see a girl with a pixie cut. I see Floyd. s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/.../...46ceab2584.jpg

[JustAGirl10101]

@TruExo You don't need to take nudes; your insults already reveal enough about you that I don't want to know.

[lost_alice]

nothing and she is super rich even with that look

[Fearless_banana]

@lost_alice There is no denying she would look 10x better with longer hair. That is not feminine at all lol

[TruExo]

@asker m.quickmeme.com/.../...a0d0d3201a41278394b77ef.jpg thanks for the compliment :)

[lost_alice]

she used to look very feminine and she got famous she saw that it was bullshit, it wasn't who she really wanted to be and now she date some hot guys

[Fearless_banana]

@TruExo s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/.../...46ceab2584.jpg
LOl

[Fearless_banana]

@lost_alice Lol that's fucking stupid. She dates hot guys because she is rich. The pixie cut or her rebellious attitude isn't the reason.

[lost_alice]

she dated matthew heally before she was rich or people know here

[Fearless_banana]

@lost_alice With that haircut?

[TruExo]

@lost_alice you mean to me every little girl with a pixie cuts were once girls and then decided to grow up to be butch. Explains a lot

[JustAGirl10101]

@TruExo I should really stop now.. I'm trying to talk to a guy who's too simpleminded to tell two opposites from one another. Bye.

[lost_alice]

yes, he is an artist he has crazy hair too lol

[Fearless_banana]

@lost_alice Meh. I think the general population of men would agree with me when I say that she looks ridiculous in that haircut lol she would look much better with longer feminine hair

[TruExo]

Yeah f*ck pixie cuts. Give me this s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/.../...cf26ef4e37.jpg and I'll bust a nut inside her all day.

[lost_alice]

I don't think you are a really good person to judge others but a hell lot of people find her really hot

[Fearless_banana]

@TruExo The only chick that pulls off that hair is right here.
cf.girlsaskguys.com/.../...d-9d39-5a73a374d4f4.jpg
cf.girlsaskguys.com/.../...3-a5e8-a9f5d25a97a9.jpg

Hnnnnnng

[Fearless_banana]

@lost_alice Judging? Dude I can judge people aesthetically and be a good person lol cmon.

[TruExo]

Dayum. Give me her too @fearless_banana she is the only exception hnngg

[lost_alice]

not really, girls only look good if they have big boobs and guys if they are bodybuilders

[Fearless_banana]

@lost_alice I'm not entitled to my preferences?

[lost_alice]

you can but that makes you a bad judge

[TruExo]

@lost_alice I'm no bodybuilder but let's both agree I'm better looking than your dad.

[lost_alice]

@TruExo probably because I refuse to say my own dad is attractive

[Fearless_banana]

@lost_alice
cf.girlsaskguys.com/.../...3-b794-bcd93437f44e.gif
cf.girlsaskguys.com/.../...9-9483-27b161dfb1bd.gif
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Not really.

[TruExo]

@lost_alice my mom is the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in the world. My father the most handsome man in the world. If you can't say that bout your parents. Then do you really love them?

[lost_alice]

the last one don't look good at all, her boobs look like they hang to her feet without a bra

[lost_alice]

I meant to say first lol

[Fearless_banana]

@lost_alice Wtf she looks amazing lmao

[TruExo]

@lost_alice I said I was better looking. Not sexy. Attraction deals with sex appeal. Saying someone is good looking doesn't mean you're sexually attracted to that person. You're just appreciating beauty

[lost_alice]

@TruExo you want to say I don't love my parents lol?

[lost_alice]

she looks like a kid with huge boobs

[TruExo]

@lost_alice no I want you to love your parents. You only get two in this world. Cherish them. Because some people don't have them around anymore.

[Fearless_banana]

@lost_alice I'll have gag decide I'll make a poll question later

[lost_alice]

of course those pedos will like her lol

[Fearless_banana]

@lost_alice I think she was 20 in that lol. She looks like a grown ass woman in her prime cmon dude you can't hate on that gif it's hot af

[TruExo]

She is hot. Who is she?

[lost_alice]

she looks too average, the only thing that is special are her boobs

[Fearless_banana]

@lost_alice Average? Her face is flawless lol. Her name is ashley something I forgot

[TruExo]

@lost_alice you're so shallow. For one she doesn't have a pixie cut. And she has a great personality duh

[lost_alice]

damn you don't have a really good taste in women

[TruExo]

@lost_alice do I have bad taste? 4/10 on the rate scale

[lost_alice]

@TruExo no you are totally right in my opinion

[Azgeda]

Whether or not a haircut will look good depends 99% on whether or not it flatters your features. Pick a haircut that fits your face shape.
Then again there's the 1% who looks good regardless of hair style. Such is Anne Hathaway. Short , long , medium , it's almost as if Prometheus himself has a bowl of special clay reserved just for such demigods among mortals.
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[Langseax]

I don’t care for it and most guys I know don’t either; there’s a good biological reason for it too.

Hair takes a lot of resources to produce and one thing you’ll notice from all the pictures of starving people from third world nations is that they oftentimes have very little hair. Having a good head of long hair is a sign of health which is why men naturally prefer long haired girls to short haired girls.

There are also societal reasons which turn many men (especially ones who are more conservative) off. Sure it’s a stereotype, but it quite often rings true that women with short hair tend to be more on the feminist side of things and as the feminist movement continues to increasingly rail against men as beings, animosity between men and feminists grows.

[howzit2015]

I think you asked this question before, or maybe it was someone else. Personally you're quite a prepossessing based on your profile picture. I don't think many men would care about your style. Many men would probably think you're quite comely as well, regardless of your hairstyle.

[TruExo]

s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/.../...1c9d423833.jpg pretty much self explanatory.

[serious]

I always find short pixie cuts very attractive and appealing, however it's also true that it depends on the woman's face, for some women it will suit them very well.

Your hairstyle suits your face very well.

[SwoopingHawk]

I'm not a fan, personally. I think they look masculine and take away from natural beauty to start with 100% of the time. And then, when I see a pixie cut, my first thought is always "feminist nut job". No thanks.

[martyfellow]

You look great with yours; the delicate features and oval face make it work well.

[JustAGirl10101]

Aaw, thanks!

[DodgersGM]

Kind of like a mixture of B and C.

Some girls can definitely pull it off better than others, but IMHO those same girls would still look better with some type of longer hair.

[vishna]

The hairstyle should definitely suit the face :) always. However, the women who can rock it, usually rock it well :) Like Halle Berry and Mia Farrow.

[TadCurious]

I think for some girls pixie cuts are very attractive and feminine. I don't care for them if they're extremely short. When they work, they really open up and set off a girl's face.

[serious]

Ok, so you are one of those men who likes short hair on women. That's great.

[BeerFarts]

I'm not a fan of them at all. It doesn't even look good on hot women like Scar-Jo. I prefer women with longer hair.

[ichot]

It really depends on the girl.

For some it doesn't reduce their femininity but others make them look like men.

[performerwannabe]

I've never liked short hair on a female before so..

[LaVilaine]

I like them. I'm getting one when I have the means to pay for regular hair cuts.

[Kaylyne]

I know for a fact that I could never pull it off, but there are girls who certainly can.

[Rebecca14]

Okay, I'm tired of hearing how guys hate them. If a guy is gonna judge you just by your fucking hair dump his ass, and go find a guy that is gonna love you for you not for your hair. Okay now I'm done with my rant :3

[Anonymous]

I voted indifferent. It depends on the woman's face shape and head shape. Some look really good with them, others it doesn't really suit them.

[anonman32]

i like longer hair better but do what you like, dont let my preferences stand in your way of self expression.

[genericname85]

hot on petite/skinny girls, horrible on fat chicks.

[Yumix]

It depends on the girls face, but generally.. I prefer longer hair