Hey awesome ones today I'm going to talk about the joys of having long hair and
I'm going to talk about styling. I'm going to talk about hair care and I'm
also going to talk about that myth. You know the myth I'm talking about where
women of a certain age cannot wear long hair. I can't wait to talk about it all
and it all starts in just a few seconds.
So let's talk about the myth first. Women of a certain age cannot wear long hair.
Like who comes up with this stuff? Maybe its hairdressers or hair cutters
who have ulterior motives. I've also read it in magazines and I think the
choice of whether you want to have long hair or whether you have short hair it
depends on you. Maybe you're the kind of person that all your life you've had
kind of a cute little pixie cut. It's still working for you and you love it.
Maybe you know you've let your hair grow a little bit longer and you're
saying hey I'm kind of digging this, this is good and and that's one of the things
I want to talk about is you know maybe it's time to try your hair a little bit
longer because you always thought I couldn't do it I couldn't do it. I'm a
certain age well I'm saying go for it. So there are lots of reasons to wear your
hair short. I mean maybe you're a chef and you have to keep your hair up in one
of those little hair nets all the time or maybe you're a healthcare worker and
you prefer to have shorter hair because again maybe you have to wear the hair
nets and there's all kinds of reasons for that.
The other reason which I touched on before is you just like to have your
hair short. You know you prefer it that way.
But if the reason is because the naysayers have said you can't wear your
hair long well I'm gonna be a Yeasayer. I'm going to say give it a try. You know if
you've always thought you know maybe I will look a little bit more youthful with my
hair longer or maybe my face shape will look better with long hair. I say go for
it. You know we always talk about being authentically ourselves and this is me. I
am authentically a woman who loves long hair and you know yeah sure it's a lot
more work than having my hair really really short, but I do also have a lot of
different things that I can do with it. I can wear it really curly...well it is actually
naturally curly and as you can see here I can wear it naturally curly. I also you
see me a lot of the times in these videos I wear it straight and so well
you know I can do that. I can wear it up in a ponytail. I can even wear it up in a
bun but you'll rarely ever see me wearing my hair up in a bun because I
have a round face and it just doesn't look all that great for me. Here I am
with kind of a short hair kind of feel and Here I am with the long hair and
it's authentically me. Now I'm going to share a video at the end screen of this
one and it's kind of the tools and the ways that I get curly hair my natural
curly hair to go right and also how I straighten my hair as well so look for
that on the end screen. Now also the products I'm going to mention. I'm gonna
be mentioning a lot of products soon and hair styling kind of I don't know not
just haircare but also you know barrettes and hair bands and
those sort of things. I'm going to have links below the description for you
so you can find them easily but let's talk about the awkward stage. You know
the awkward stage. Let's say you do have short hair and you're saying okay I
think I'll try it. You're gonna have the flippy bangs you're gonna have the
flippy weird curls, it's gonna happen it's kind of like what happens if you
are growing out your gray or silver hair. You go through the awkward
stage but once you get past it...oh by the way you know the gray hair and silver
hair grow out as you can see I've done that myself...I'm gonna put a link to a
video at the end screen for that as well. So lots of things to catch up on on hair
care. But anyway as far as growing it out you finally get to a stage where it's
not flipping here and flipping there and you like it. Now for me I like to have my
hair just a little bit below my shoulders. That's the Heather
kind of authentic me look. I find that when I get it a lot longer and it has
been a lot longer it just drags me down, it tends to drag
me down. I also like to have a few bangs and a few little layers here.
So what I like to do is I like to take a visit to my hair stylist and I maybe
go there about four times a year and he usually trims off all the split ends
plus he gives me a little bit of a layer kind of cut. Again I do like the long
bangs and this way my hair it's got some shape. It has some style and it also
moves better. I also like long bangs that sweep to the side and I make sure that
that's always there because I don't want to have...I don't want to have my hair all
one length because again it's going to drive my entire look down. I'd rather
have a few different layers as you can see and it's got kind of a sweeping
motion to it. Now with naturally long hair chances are you don't have to wash
your hair every day or every other day. And that's you know maybe the roots get
a little bit oily but the rest of the hair looks pretty good. So you know I
always found that when I washed my hair too frequently I really kind of was
robbing it of its natural oils and that's not a good thing either. So if you
actually are washing your hair less often you might be able to you know
invest in a better shampoo and I use the Davines as the the conditioner and also
the shampoo and that is by....my color is Nounou by the way. What I find with
these they don't have all those sulfates. It's an award winner and you know by
Allure and it doesn't really foam up a lot. It's not stripping my my hair so my hair
is really a lot healthier than it was back in the old days. Also I get
frizzies I do and I use the John Freida products and this is called the secret
weapon which is great and then also sometimes I just sort of smooth it out
with the serum which is more like an oil. Also don't forget by the Davines
people if you are having the gray hair or the silver hair they also have a
purple shampoo that they suggest that you you kind of use it every I don't
know three or four washings and that helps keep the sparkle in your hair. So
as for the different styles that I can wear my hair as I mentioned I have
naturally curly hair so what I use is the strictly curls by Marc Anthony and
you just kind of scrunch up your curls and that's how that one works. A lot
of times as you see in my video I do have a straighter hair and I opt for the
well it's kind of a straightening brush and it is a flatiron inside but I'm able
to...let me just kind of show you here. See how these have got a little
flip here. I'm able to kind of take the brush and make a flip or with my hair I
can make a little flip and it's a great thing. I really like it much better than
the flat iron and again I have links below. Now also if you kind of like this
video...if you're saying hey you know I'm an older woman of a certain age...I do
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when the videos come out. So let's talk about styling long hair a little bit and
of course you can pull your hair back in a ponytail or maybe even use some
beautiful barrettes to complete a look. Also hair bands are a lot of fun and I
did mention to you that I don't wear my hair in a bun a lot but sometimes on
those really really hot days it's a great idea to kind of lift your hair up.
Maybe you don't want to wear a ponytail maybe you're going to a place that's a
little bit more elegant and you want a little bit more of an elegant feel. Well
I have found...what are these Heather? These are from Amazon and that's not
real hair or anything like that but back when I was a blonde I used to put this
in my hair. It's just elasticized...it's really
like a hairy scrunchie if you will and now of course I'm using this one here.
I'm just going to show you show you with this one because you'll really
be able to tell the difference what I can do with my hair. I'm just gonna
lift it up a bit and I'm gonna pop this in here. I know it's the wrong color but
I just want to kind of show you what you can do. What you can do is kind of
make a kind of messy bun back there and pick the color that you want
and you could put it higher or lower but it's more...it feels kind of like more
like a ponytail feel and I'm just finding that these are a lot of fun
especially when I want to dress up my look or it's a hot summer day. I know
when I'm on my Instagram account I see a lot of hashtags that are: Long hair don't
care...even long gray hair don't care...long silver hair don't care and we really
don't care what anybody thinks about our hair. It's authentically us. It's making
us feel it and a lot of us more youthful. When I think about the 1950s and I
think about my grandmother's like I just turned 65 and if I was at the 1950s I
probably hear well maybe I would even have silver blue hair but I would have
short silver hair and I know I would look older than my age and and I don't
want to look older than my age. I want to look younger than my age and if you feel
the same way you know long hair don't care it's a great hashtag. Let's go for
it. Here's someone in dog years who is in his sixties - oh he's 9 years old
now in dog years so that makes you makes you about 63 Hurricane. Lots of
kisses today. When hurricane comes on the scene he
reminds me to talk to you about upcoming videos and over at our other channel
which is youtube.com/AwesomeOver50inspiration we have a day in the life
of little Hurricane. It's only about...it's less than four minutes but it was made
to make you smile and it's Hurricane having a bath and Hurricane going for
his walks and all kinds of cute little things. I think that'll be a joyful
thing for you to watch and also over there on the other channel we also have
you know we're talking about barbecuing and food and fun in our backyard and
being stuck at home all kinds of different things. Don't forget to
subscribe over there as well if you like those kind of videos. Here I've got
lots of plans for you. I've been trying out a glowy kind of
makeup. It's it's a beautiful makeup. I'm almost ready to show it to you...just
wanted to make sure that I didn't break out or anything like that because I
always really try the the makeup products for for a while. I have
more fashion videos I can't wait to show those to you. Everything that I talk
about on this channel is about being authentically you. Don't let people put
age restrictions on your life, on your fashion, on your on your hair, on your
makeup. You know it's time for us to glow girl and get out there enjoy our lives
and keep it awesome.