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Originally Posted by Ron Poor
Short curly blonde hair.
Blonde curly short hair.
Are both of these sentences OK without any punctuation? Why does one read better (does it?)?
First of all, they're not sentences because there's no predicate. They're phrases.
Secondly, they both need commas because you have three adjectives modifying "hair." It doesn't matter which order the modifiers are in, but some people are nittier than others about it.
I think the best way to write it is: "Short, blonde, curly hair."
Then again, if "short" is modifying the person and the other two the hair, then you can say "a short blonde with curly hair" or "a short woman with blonde, curly hair." But I think you meant the hair was short, not the person. In which case it's "short, blonde, curly hair."