Why Long Hair?

Comment by Catrina

June 25, 2007 @ 4:33 pm

Yes, I saw that same program with Lynn featured. I was so proud of her for standing her ground and not letting them chop her hair! I was glad to see the hosts run into at least one person who wouldn’t let them push her around! Good for you, Lynn!

Catrina

Comment by Lynn

August 24, 2007 @ 2:54 pm

Hey…I was just doing a web search and came across your site. Thank you for your support.

Lynn

Comment by Stephanie

August 24, 2007 @ 8:01 pm

Glad you liked it.

Comment by Gina logan

February 7, 2008 @ 3:05 pm

Dear Lynn: you go, girl! I was delighted to see you tell Nick “no way”–I love WNTW, and often Nick does improve people’s look, but not this time. Lynn’s hair is wonderful.

Comment by Jannine

March 27, 2008 @ 2:01 pm

Gawd, don’t you just hate how makeover people always want to hack off all your hair? I guess it’s for the shock factor… makes for better ratings, a more extreme “transformation”… or stylists just want to show off their cutting skills or something… but hardly anyone ever looks prettier with shorter hair, they just look defeminized. Why can’t the stylists just give them a nice color and style? Notice how almost all fashion models have long hair, bra-strap length or longer… so why are stylists telling the makeover victims that shorter hair is more attractive or fashionable? Never trust a stylist…

Comment by Jena

June 23, 2008 @ 3:30 pm

While I enjoy the show, the how they handle long hair is just hypocritical! Both Stacy London and Carmindy are in their late 30’s and both have gorgeous long hair. Why does this same no long hair logic not apply to the fasion savvy hosts???? I would love to see Stacy have to sit in Nick’s chair and be pressured to cut all that long hair off!!!

I bet she would act as arrogantly as when the guests challenge her fashion style directly. Once I recall Stacy telling a guest how wrong her outfit was. But the guest correctly pointed out that Stacy was wearing something similar. Stacy seemed to get annoyed and confidently replied with something like “But I look fabulous!”

What bothers me is how many will watch the show and be convinced that long hair looks bad and short hair looks better. But it’s not a fair comparison!! Typically they’ll select a guest with very poorly styled long hair, Nick cuts it all off, and then style’s it nicely. Well of course the short hair ends up looking better! DUH!!

It makes me so sad sometimes. Some of the guests will have long hair that could easily be styled into something similar to Stacey or Camindy’s long feminine hair. But instead, Nick chops it all of and they nearly always end up looking de-feminized. Occasionally they are even de-feminized so much as to look like young boys! SO SAD….

Comment by jacqueline

September 9, 2008 @ 1:03 am

OMG! I thought the exact same thing about how hypocritical the show is. I think the reason that it is okay for models to have long hair is because they are supposed to set an unattainable standard for the “regular” people. We are supposed to want to look like a model, and be unable to or something. I too saw that episode with Lynne and thought that she stood her ground really good. I saw a similar episode with Camilla. she had some really long brown hair. They actually let her keep it long, but they just gave it more of a shaping with layers. Why couldn’t they have done that for Lynne?

Comment by Mandolyna

May 4, 2009 @ 9:03 am

This woman makes me want to scream! If you want to keep your long stringy hair then fine, but do NOT take another woman’s place on the show if you are not willing to change. It’s a make over show, was she confused when she nominated herself? The show is about change and self transformation, neither of which Lynn achieved. Even her clothes remained doubty, just an updated version of doubty. Terrible transformation. Worst show of the season. Watched the show with my friends and we were inches away from throwing the remote at this stubborn woman. I still dont understand – WHY ARE YOU ON A MAKE OVER SHOW IF YOU DO NOT WANT A MAKE OVER!?!?! come on lynn.

Comment by Stephanie

May 4, 2009 @ 12:47 pm

Not everyone wants the same look. I and many others still think she looked great after.

Comment by Michelle

May 4, 2009 @ 3:55 pm

Mandolyna, I agree with you 100%! Besides, Nick did offer to let her keep her long hair–but she definitely needed a trim and a few long layers. To everyone who says that the hosts are hypocritical: I understand what you’re saying, but let’s face it, most women with super long hair do not take the time daily to make it look like Stacy or Carmindy. I recently lopped off 11 inches (I’d been growing it for my wedding), and before I cut it off, I was wearing it in a ponytail almost every day because it was just too much work. With shorter hair, you can’t as easily just throw it into a ponytail, and so you are forced to put in more effort with the effect that you look nicer. At least, that’s been the case with me, and I think this is what the hosts are getting at.

Comment by Yedda

September 10, 2009 @ 10:26 am

This episode was just on again. Lynn and her stubborn refusal to have her hair cut are the reason I’m online right now. It’s the first time I’ve ever done a web search for anything related to What Not to Wear.

Mostly I just wanted to know what “beliefs” she was sticking to. I know that some spiritual/religious beliefs include hair length, but generally they are simply about hair being long or short. Not many belief systems mandate that one NEVER cuts one’s hair.

I’ve got reasonably long hair, too. Not as long as Lynn’s, but it is somewhere between my bra and waist. If I ever went on a makeover show like this, I would NOT allow anyone to give me short hair. I would, however let them do anything with it as long as it could still be considered long.

I’ve had long hair, I’ve had REALLY short hair, I’ve had medium length hair, and I’m back again to long. I will never go back to short hair intentionally. The funny thing is, I stated growing my hair back out so I could later donate it to a worthy cause…but I’ve gotten greedy.

Lynn has long, lovely hair, but it IS looking a bit frazzled at the ends, and thin due the extra weight of it. She really could have used some long layers and a few inches off, just to address the ends and to give it a bit more movement.

Comment by kpmomma

September 27, 2009 @ 3:11 pm

I have a friend who goes to a pentecostal church. The women aren’t allowed to even trim her hair if they want to serve in any way. She’s been going to that church for a year and her hair is long but really dead. YUCK!

Comment by Corey

September 28, 2009 @ 12:36 am

Since when does a makeover have to be drastic to be a makeover? And I thought it was What Not To Wear, not ‘I tell you how horrible your hair looks, and you let me chop it off’ >.> Personally, I don’t like layers, and I don’t like bangs, or any of that dye/highlight junk >.> Blowfried, straightened hair isn’t pretty, it’s damaging. Long healthy hair is really pretty, and there’s a lot you can do with it, unless you’re too stubborn to think, or something. I don’t know.

In any case, people have their own preferences, so let them. I don’t think we’d appreciate beauty so much if everyone looked the same (which is why, I suppose, I appreciate long hair because it’s just very common, unless it’s treated somehow =/ )

Comment by Jordan

November 29, 2009 @ 9:46 pm

I pentecostal. I have been in church for four years now. I haven’t cut my hair in four years. There is nothing wrong with not cutting your hair…I mean after all, it is YOUR hair. So, she didn’t want her hair to be cut, she didn’t allow it…I CONMEND YOU!!! Thats what the world needs…someone who can stand up for that they believe, instead of trying to be like everyone else around them! We don’t cut our hair b/c its our choice! Its in the Bible, look it up: 1st Corinthians 11:14-15. We did. And we decided in our hearts that we made the SACRIFICE(!) for HIM(Jesus)! It really is a sacrifice, look at it this way: Everyone wants to fit in. Everyone wants to be in the croud. No one wants to be left out or made fun of. So, by not cutting our hair, we stand out. We don’t blend in with everyone else, and we do it b/c we know in our hearts thats is whats right. If I went on that show(which I love!!), I wouldn’t let them cut my hair our put makeup on me. Hands down! Thats my conviction! I’m 18 years old, a senior in high school. I know all about what people do and say about our believes. But thats what WE believe! We aren’t forcing you to believe this, like the media trys to everyday! We don’t make fun of everyone else’s believes, so why is it right for anyone to make fun of ours’? Long hair is for women…I mean, why would you want to look like a dude? Like I said earlier, its our belief. You don’t have to believe like we do, its totaly up to you.

GGGOOO LYNN!!!!!!! GO AHEAD WITH YOUR FABOULAS LONG HAIRED TALE! LOL.

Jordan Danielle

www.fultonhouseofprayer.com

take a look!

Comment by ChrisCfromthe D

February 9, 2010 @ 4:06 pm

This is one of those episodes that irked me and it just aired again today. While I understand loving long hair, Lynn was :

a) On a make-over show and promised to take the advice of the professionals to achieve a new look in exchange for $5,000

b) in possession of some seriously ratty-ended hair

At least half-a-foot of her hair was nothing but nasty, split ends not even fit to donate to Locks of Love.

I would have asked for my $5,000 back, but probably by that point, the production costs exceeded that.

I could understand if her hair was healthy. I could understand if she didn’t agree to take the show’s money. Neither of these were the case. She gets no respect from me.

Comment by Stephanie

February 10, 2010 @ 3:01 pm

I can think of worse things to refuse on the show than cutting one’s hair. Just look at how much some people mess up on the first day with the wardrobe. The haircut is a very small part of the makeover.