For decades, a somewhat arbitrary "rule" has lingered in the beauty world, suggesting that women of a certain age should inevitably chop their long locks in favor of shorter styles. However, this ...

Call it a mane attraction. Scholars in South Korea have uncovered a surprising connection between a woman’s hair length and her sex life. Scholars in South Korea have uncovered a surprising connection ...

There’s an idea floating around that long hair on women is appealing to men—that mass of flowiness and texture supposedly trumpets femininity, adding to women’s appeal as the gentler sex. But the ...

The photographer Irina Werning has been travelling her native Argentina in search of long-haired women to take pictures of since 2006. From the sprawling cities of Buenos Aires and Córdoba to the ...

There are many strange beauty ideas that are tied to aging. One of them? That women of a “certain age” should never have long hair. In the past, women may have felt obliged to limit their hair’s ...