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Can Older Women Have Long Hair and Still Be Professional?

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Update: We still think this is a great discussion on whether older women can have long hair and still be professional — but you may also want to check out some of our more recent discussions on aging gracefully, including how to go gray intentionally. Long hair on older women: the perennial question. Despite our…

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Back-Handed Compliments at the Office

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How do you deal with back-handed “compliments” at the office? Reader B wonders… I am a 30 year old lawyer working in Washington, DC. My late 20’s/early 30’s professional female friends and I have experienced a strange and disconcerting dynamic amongst women in the workplace: getting negative comments from other women for being smartly/well- dressed. These…

Can Long, Platinum Blonde Hair Be Professional?
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Can Long, Platinum Blonde Hair Be Professional?

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2017 Update: We still stand by this advice below about long platinum blonde hair at work, but you may also want to check out our latest discussion of the best shade of blonde hair for being taken seriously at work. This is a perennial question:  is long hair professional? And a corrollary: is long platinum…