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MIButterfly

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18. My mother used to say

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 02:32 PM

Mar 2025

Last edited Tue Mar 25, 2025, 11:21 PM - Edit history (1)

"People are free to wear whatever they want as long as they don't make other people puke."

She was quite the philosopher.

You are entitled to your feelings and opinions. Nobody should "tear into" you for it. Everybody has something that they're tired of seeing or hearing. You just keep on keeping on.

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My nonpolitical observation today. Is anyone else tired of seeing EVERY woman of every age wearing hair extensions? [View all] hlthe2b Mar 2025 OP

Not me. I don't even know how they're fixed to your head. sinkingfeeling Mar 2025 #1

Not quite sure how they are affixed makes a difference, but... hlthe2b Mar 2025 #2

. . .everyone is free to sport their own "look,". . . cloudbase Mar 2025 #3

I believe I said that. I likewise believe everyone is free to have a respectfully expressed opinion. Do you not? hlthe2b Mar 2025 #5

Homeland Security Secretary Christine Noem poli-junkie Mar 2025 #4

Not sure Duncanpup Mar 2025 #6

Hint. If they had chin-length or so hair a few weeks before and now waist-length, they are extensions. hlthe2b Mar 2025 #8

True. Duncanpup Mar 2025 #22

Yikes... Basso8vb Mar 2025 #7

Do you need a fainting couch? hlthe2b Mar 2025 #10

it can take several years to grow it out to that length naturally eShirl Mar 2025 #9

Sure. I guess I am of a more "individualist" generation where we really didn't want to look like clones hlthe2b Mar 2025 #12

people have been enhancing their hair look since way long before the Kardashians arrived on the scene eShirl Mar 2025 #15

I don't see the connection. How does cutting one's own hair or otherwise styling equate to hlthe2b Mar 2025 #17

What I am saying is, to each their own. eShirl Mar 2025 #24

The Rapunzel look. You're right yorkster Mar 2025 #11

Such a waste EarthAbides Mar 2025 #13

... hlthe2b Mar 2025 #14

When I see people with what I consider... 3catwoman3 Mar 2025 #20

I'll take women in clearly phony hair birdographer Mar 2025 #16

LOL hlthe2b Mar 2025 #19

My mother used to say MIButterfly Mar 2025 #18

I hate the trend particularly on TV actresses Ritabert Mar 2025 #21

Never noticed women wearing hair extensions. doc03 Mar 2025 #23

Ukrainian girls sell their hair for these Comrade Citizen Mar 2025 #25

Here's a better link ... marble falls Mar 2025 #39

What's a hair extension? aeromanKC Mar 2025 #26

I actually turned off the election coverage before it got bad for that very reason Iris Mar 2025 #27

To each his own, kind of like wearing sagging pants Beachnutt Mar 2025 #28

Lord. Yes!!! Peregrine Took Mar 2025 #29

I probably couldn't tell whether they have those or not... Wounded Bear Mar 2025 #30

I admit to wearing wigs. (Paula Young) but, going to the trouble.. chouchou Mar 2025 #31

I think if a woman has fake eyelashes, fake hair color, fake boobs, a rebuilt nose, tattooed eyebrows,..... RussellCattle Mar 2025 #32

That's definitely a predominant MAGA style... hlthe2b Mar 2025 #33

I 'm tired of the long straggly hair, extensions or not. Polly Hennessey Mar 2025 #34

Hyperbole much? Xoan Mar 2025 #35

You can ignore any post here. No one is making you read nor comment. hlthe2b Mar 2025 #36

Meh. It's a fashion fad & it will pass. It's not ducklips or chin implants. Hekate Mar 2025 #37

the gwyneth oscar stringy hair trend should have died 2 decades ago. pansypoo53219 Mar 2025 #38