I've had long hair most of my life, tried something new by chopping it off and donating when i turned 30 and still growing it back. I found short hair to be far too much effort given how much more wavy it gets when short. but i do recall it being a huge burden during hot VA summers. In OR, nsm. My one fail-proof straggle-proof hairstyle that can withstand a full day of ANYTHING is 2 french braids pinned up in the back. The french braid part holds all the short hairs away from my face, and it looks really fancy. I can get it done in less than 15 minutes, but it doesn't always look as good if i rush the beginning of the braids.

Someone just posted a picture I am in from high school. It shows the length my hair was until I turned 26...pretty much to the top of my rump or longer. There were times when I could sit on it. Now, I can't imagine dealing with it.

In '99-01, I grew it out for Locks of Love. That was fun...and significant in terms of a major transition I was going through but once it was gone, I pretty much vowed never again.

I'm having one of my cyclical bouts of wanting to chop my hair into a sharp A-line bob and backcomb it. (It's not going to happen, I just occasionally think longingly about doing so.)

I am also craving BIG hair. I may break out the AquaNet for the Vampire Ball over the weekend.

My hair is bad transitional right now. It's kinda funny because I feel like I don't really know how to take it out of androgynous. But I suppose until I'm also willing to give up the cargo pants and rock tshirts it's sort of inevitable.

I found short hair to be far too much effort

This. It was neat to have the angled bob just once to see what it was like, but I'm just a shoulder-length or longer sort of girl. Right now, my hair's at the middle of my back and probably the longest since college, simply because I've been monumentally lazy about finding a stylist since we moved.

I did break out the color last night for the first time in yonks.

I found short hair a pain in the heat because I couldn't put it in a pony tail.

Like, I'd feel hot, I'd reach up to pull it back, there was no back. Oy.

You guys who say short hair is a pain, etc, are so cute. You could always get short enough that it's cooler and less massy than a ponytail.

Yeah, but you have to keep cutting it. A lot. THAT'S the pain.

I am in bad transition too. Since the ear chopping of my last haircut...which also featured the butchering of my bangs ala Mia Farrow of old...I have not wanted to think about finding a new hair cutter. THIS is the bother of short hair in my world. I can't cut it myself!

That seems weird. Most girls have longer hair as they get into their teens.

When I was a kid, elementary girls tended to go for the Pretty Pretty Princess long flowing hair, and high school girls were more likely to want something with more shape and style, which would generally be shorter.