Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To me, long hair represents youth. In our culture, it's sex appeal: Movie stars and rock stars buttress their style with weaves.

"What if we took it all off and gave you short hair?" my hair stylist asked me. I had gone into the salon for a trim, and now was being asked to cut eight inches off my hair. Needless to say, it ...

For almost 26 years, my hair didn't make me happy. When I was 7 years old, my mom gave me my first haircut. She chopped it to my chin, because she didn't like how stringy and thin it looked when it ...

It has come to my attention that today, Dec. 22, is Short Girl Appreciation Day. The hashtag #ShortGirlAppreciationDay is subsequently ricocheting around social media, and as a short girl myself, it ...