15 Best Hairstyles For Women Over 80
Kathakali S
Hairstyles can certainly help in improving someone's self-image, and some might say that age should never determine one's desire to look good and feel good. Women aged 80 and older can have hairstyles that are trendy and easy to maintain and will add volume, texture, and beauty to their fine, thin, or gray hair. The styles are limitless, whether the classic short hairstyle or contemporary cut more suited to the daring woman. Here are 15 of the best hairstyles for women over 80, with style tips on how to wear them as well as what makes each work.
1. Bouncy Bob Cut
The bob is a classic that adds volume to fine or thin hair. As an added benefit, it beautifully frames the face, which is ideal for senior women with soft facial features. Bob cut is extremely versatile and hence you can style them with your own personal touch.
Styling Tip: Use the round brush while blowing out the hair to achieve volume and bounce. Light layering can help add movement.
2. Stacked Haircut
Short layers in the back lift and puff the cut. This cut is great for thinning hair as it gives it dimension. Stacking the hair makes the illusion of thickness, and youthfulness.
Styling Tip: A mousse or volumizer adds to the stacked effect. Keep the cut fresh with regular trims.
3. Layered Haircut on Gray Hair
Layers impart depth and texture to uncolored gray hair, thus escaping the appearance of being heavy or dull. This style highlights the natural beauty of gray hair, adding a certain softness to the face.
Styling Tip: Use a lightweight shine serum to enhance the silver sheen of the gray strands.
4. Spiky short haircut
A very bold appearance in spikes gives character and makes fine hair seem thicker. It adds edge to your face, makes it unique and is quite easy to maintain.
Styling Tip: Texturizing creams or lightweight pomades are your best bet for defining spikes while keeping the hair soft.
5. Pop of Color
The slightest touch of color- soft pastel highlights or bursts of brilliant color like pink, blue, or violet could instantly infuse youth into the style. A perfect way to spice up your otherwise ever-so-serious hairstyle!
Styling Tip: Always use color-safe shampoos to keep hydrating the color and not let it fade quickly.
6. The Chinese Cut
A blunt, straight-across cut, aka, a Chinese cut, renders an elegant, structured appearance that is perfect for fine hair. It gives a very neat and smart line that complements every face shape.
Styling Tips: Finish off the sleek look with a flat iron and anti-frizz serum. Between trims, keeping up with regular appointments will maintain the sharp, clean lines to keep you looking stylish.
7. Side-Swept Pixie
This pixie with a side-swept fringe softens one's features and adds charm to short styles. It is a fuss-free hairstyle that allows easy refreshment.
Styling Tips: Use a bit of wax to maintain that side-swept feel without stiffness. Follow up with some speedy tousles with your fingers for that just-got-out-of-bed volume and movement.
8. Short Shag
The shaggy layering gives movement to this cut and makes fine hair heavier and a bit funky. Youthful, carefree feeling it is!
Styling Tips: Shape and add texture with lightweight mousse. Spritz sea salt spray for more definition and fun with an edge.
Pattivac, master stylist & education director at Yves Durif Salon shared the process of this haircut. She said- "During Christine’s consultation she told me she loves her bangs, so I gave her this shorter shag haircut. I added plenty of texture to soften the cut and her bangs. Here is her cut styled two ways: round brush blow dry with waves or smoothed out with flat iron."
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9. Short Wavy Style
Soft waves give volume and a flirty appearance to thinning hair, thus creating an impression of additional fullness. This hairstyle is quite complimentary to beautiful natural grays.
Styling Tips: A cool curling wand or rollers will encourage this nice wave with minimal heat damage, and light-hold spray will set waves throughout the day.
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10. Blonde Curls
Shades of blonde brighten the face, and soft curls work with any look. This hairstyle is like infusing a bit of warmth, and it is classy with a charm of bygone days.
Styling Tips: A moisturizing curl cream helps define curls and eliminates frizz. Use a blow dryer with a diffuser to enhance the shape and hold curls with little heat damage.
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11. Silver Bob
A stylish silver bob softly embraces genuine grey tresses, forming a blending that leans towards modernity; it exhibits refinement in style.
Styling Tips: Bear a purple shampoo with you, for silver hairs not to acquire a yellowish tint.
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12. Choppy Texture with Highlights
It feels new and in vogue with textured, choppy layers adding volume and dimension to thin hair along with highlights.
Styling Tips: A fluffy texturizing spray-think sea-salt-hairspray-pumped in piles strengthens the creation without making it crusty. Faint waves enhance this vivid, layered look even more.
Emiliee, co-owner of The Salon by Emilee and Kerry remarks about this hairstyle by saying- "It’s not always all about the long beach waves. Sometimes you just gotta work with what you got. Choppy textured. Highlighted. Easy to manage with tonnes of natural volume."
13. Medium Lenght Wavy Hairs
A bit of length teamed with wave makes you look soft and relatively perceivably younger. This hairstyle will enhance one's better qualities and serve as a nice bleach for round faces.
Styling Tips: Use a trustworthy sea-salt spray: It adds that frizz-a-lilith wavy effect but won't make your hair crunchy. Layer the hair and remove some weight.
14. Dimensional Hair with Lowlights
Lowlights are a method for perfecting gray hair that lacks dimension. This method helps your hair gain a richer dimension and not look too flat, which is a major concern for women over 80.
Styling Tips: Use a shine mask that boosts the color and will maintain a moist base texture for the hair. Your complexion might choose between cool or warm-toned lowlights.
15. Stuck-Back Hair
A very simple, sleek, combed-back hairdo is considered to be very elegant and chic. Moreover, it's yet another beautiful style that requires little effort in styling.
Styling Tips: Pro-Keep the hair at its place with any moderate cream or gel that doesn't give any fuss about it. Look to a fine-toothed comb to reach a sleek, more rigid result.
