How much of an impact does your haircut have on your appearance, why?

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1. I’m not sure what others would say, but I *feel* better with a nice haircut. I feel like a new man on haircut day.

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3. In my case, same loser with less hair.

4. I’d say there’s a spectrum. The first stages of getting a haircut make me look great, then there’s an awkward period after 2-3 months where it looks bad, but then if I grow it out long enough for like a year it can look weirdly good.

5. Oh no, my hair is TERRIBLE. I buzz it all off because I don’t want to inflict that damage on the world.

6. No one is capable of pulling off any haircut. A haircut makes a huge difference in your appearance unless you are hiding it. If I have a bad enough haircut I will try to wear a hat almost everywhere I go. It has to be utterly butchered to get to that point though. Personally, I do not pull off a buzz or shave because of a large birthmark on top of my head.

7. I want to say a lot, but I am not attracted to myself so I am not sure.

8. I was bald until my teens and I’ve had long dreads since then. The way people treat me is completely different. Like night and day. So I’d say the impact is pretty big.

9. A good haircut speaks volumes in regards to a mans appearance both personally and professionally.

10. Feel much confident

11. I look less Amish

12. When I cut my hair low, my thin spots are less noticeable. OTOH, the scar on the back of my head from a transplant I had becomes more noticeable.

13. Im bald. When im fresh shaven I look the shit. After a few days of growth I got that Prince William look going on.

14. I have been shaving my head to the scalp longer than I’ve been shaving my face

15. no cut best cut

16. I can’t pull off any haircut.

    I have thick, tight curls in the “rim” and bald on top. Prior to that, the hair on top was flat and slightly wavy, resulting in a Kristy the Klown appearance.

    So short is the only way to go. But I let it grow for 5-6 months at a time because I couldn’t give the slightest of shits about the appearance of my hair. I don’t have to look at it.

17. Honestly it’s very hard to tell. I think I’m more conventionally attractive with short hair based on how people treat me, but I grew out a ponytail in memory of my dad, so I quickly disregarded that. I don’t think it really made THAT much of a difference though.

    Although I’ll throw this out, I have a theory that short hair does better on shorter guys. Not like it matters much, but it is more normal for women to have long hair. If you’re shorter and have long hair, i think you sort of miss out on people who are attracted to more masculine sorts of men. there’s some toxicity to approaching these people which is why you should grow your hair the way you want to, but it could close some doors. I mean imagine you are a woman and you are in the early stages of a relationship. You’ve always been heterosexual and that notion might be implicitly challenged if your new boyfriend is a bit androgenous. Maybe you’re worried about how it looks to friends, unsolicited advances from bisexual or gay women, how you’d look in a public setting. No one disapproves but it challenges well established social stereotypes. All of this is superficial so you can definitely get over it, but the way you look is often how people determine how they want to approach you. If you’re taller, I think it becomes more immediately apparent that you’re very much a man so the long hair is less of an issue. This way your relationship may seem more in line with the norm.

    I give out this theory because I’m relatively short and i feel like less people approach me since I grew out the hair. I’ve also had a lot of people mistake me for a woman. Furthermore I feel like my own family has me doing less machismo stuff. They don’t ask me to move things as much, mow the lawn, and other stereotypical things. Even my guy friends used to remark constantly on how muscular I am, but it seems way less common these days despite the fact that I’m lifting more. Cool thing though, when I have my hair down, I know it looks good and other people say so too. It’s just my hair is too wily to keep in anything but a ponytail, and that ponytail does not look good as far as I can tell.

18. It’s as important as having clean shoes and an ironed shirt and by that I mean extremely important. People consciously and unconsciously take in details. People used to avoid me like I was a homeless guy asking for cigarettes. Now nobody does that since I practice full maintenance regularly. There is no reason not to.

19. I’ve got incredibly thick auburn hair, and used to have your typical emo kind of mop for many years. People (mostly girls) loved it but the older I got, the more of a hassle it became so I just started shaving it off myself once a month and haven’t looked back since. Don’t really care if it doesn’t suit me to be honest, people used to say I looked better with hair but I stopped caring about looking better a long time ago… plus it’s been so long that I’ve been doing it that it’s now become my normal look.

20. I have thick hair that stands straight up and goes in all kinds of chaotic directions. I keep a particular hairstyle otherwise I find that I don’t look good. My wife has never said it outright, but her reactions to alternate hairstyles has implied to me she agrees with my conclusion.

21. I’m balding with lots of premature white hairs – contrasting my natural dark – so shaving it (which is the closest I come to a “haircut”) can knock as much as 2 decades off my apparent age.

22. nowadays haircut is huge impact . because it will decide the appearance of person. nice haircut will seems to be a impresion on person.

23. A haircut won’t make you more attractive, but a bad haircut absolutely will cost you 2-3 points.

    I can go 2-3 months between haircuts and still look good, but anything beyond that and it starts getting scruffy.