new thread
I know my current physique is nothing to shout about, but I'm quite proud of getting so close to my goal of waist-length hair.
Here is my one month progress pic. I think I have officially entered the "awkward phase"(not short, but not longish either) and I have found with just the right amount of product it can still be easily controlled. It covers about half my ears, touches my collar, and is starting to get in my eyes if I wear it "natural". My goal length is shoulder length all around. It has grown about an inch in the last month according to my calculations. So I think I should reach my goal by my 46th birthday on 12/6/15.
Take a look! It's been growing for eight years!
Hi everyone,
My hair is about 2 inches now, and looks like a brown fro, which will probably get pretty big before it starts to fall.
I just stumbled across this board doing research on how to grow out my hair, while keeping it "presentable". I work for a very large shipping company that has a very "traditional" corporate culture. Some have compared it to the military in dress code and management style. Because of all that I will need to keep things "tidy" while I am growing out to ponytail/bun length. I'lll probably do that with some gunk of some sort and pulling the back into a tail.
I have had long hair 3 times before, but two times were with dreadlocks in high school and early college, so obviously I was not too concerned with presentability for a job... or at all. The other time was right after cutting the second set of locks but I kept it combed-out. I cut it that time because I thought I needed to in order to get my current job. This is not true I just need to keep the hair off my ears and collar. I could have done that since it was just at ponytail length before the cut. I still hate that I didn't do more thorough research before I chose the clippers.
So, after that personal-hair-history-lesson, I have decided to grow it out for a fourth time. I just don't feel right clipped short. Every time I see pics of the longhair days, dreaded and combed, I am annoyed I don't have that now. I'll use gunk when I need to, to get by with the dress code. Once it is ponytail/bun length I won't need to worry. I have seen several supervisors just bun it up with no problems.
Anyway, glad to be here. Nice to see some fellow longhairs.
1st pic of 2015. Plan on lettingit grow all year.
I'm not too keen on making a lot of New Year's resolutions, unless I've already had some success at making improvements during the old year. But with that said, here are my hopes for 2015:
1) to lose some more weight
2) to improve my finances by saving more and spending less
3) to continue to protect my hair ends by applying beneficial oil to the lower half of my mane.
Anybody else feel like sharing their hopes for 2015? We're almost there!!
- Ken
Hey everyone,
I was on here briefly several years ago (I don't remember what I called myself) but I've been following some of the topics here for a while.
I'm 11 months in at the moment growing my hair from a buzzcut last year. It's been an awesome journey - I have wavy hair that looks different every day (or even every hour at times).
All this time I've been rinsing my hair and gently scrubbing my scalp with hot water in the shower on a daily basis. Every three or four days I rinse with a solution of baking soda, water and tea tree oil, and then follow it up with 50% diluted apple cider vinegar. Lately, however, my hair has become dry after the baking soda/vinegar washes and it's starting to tangle a lot more. I started working in a small amount of jojoba oil after gently patting my hair dry but it isn't working too well. I don't like all the chemicals in most commercial shampoos, so what are my alternatives?
Also, I'm worried about tangles and breakage happening with my very fine strands of hair. I've noticed a small bunch of much shorter hairs right in the middle of my hairline, and I'm concerned they could be from breakage either due to wearing hats or my bandana (I wear a bandana *a lot*). I also read somewhere that this is fairly common and that those particular follicles could be at terminal length. Anyone want to take a guess at what's going on here?
Anyway... I'll eventually muster up the courage to post a pic one of these days. Thanks everyone for sharing and reading! :)
Hi everyone, I had a nice chat with Ken from SF last night and one of the subjects that came up was my thread wishing all a Happy New Year and including a pic of my longhair calendar.We thought it would be fun to post a pic showing the "longhair of the month" from that calander. Lol. It sounded like a cool idea so I'll now post the first installment for your viewing pleasure :) So without further delay let me introduce Mr. January! Cheers
Mârk
Hey guys, just like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy New Year 2015 :) Just to start it off properly I'll begin using my new calander. Cheers
Mârk
Hey,
after eating some iberic ham in a small village in the north of catalonia...We can see the french boarder on the top of the mountains.
Merry Christmas.
Jordi
Hey guys I'm new to the site, I see there is alot of good info on here. I'm 27 and have always had really thick hair that stays in good condition. When I was little I had long straight hair that was curly at the ends. Is it possible that my hair will still do the same thing as it gets longer again. It has been probably mid - late summer since I last had a haircut and is finally long enough on the sides to push behind my ears.
So, I'm posting another update on the board, can't even imagine reaching 22 months and 2 months remaining for 2 years.
Back in time, January of 2011, I remember talking with my friends about growing hair, all of us to be more precisely and most of them refused the idea so as I, not only because my father's rules but for my hair staying in the same size for months, just like a terminal lenght, but I always wanted long hair no matter what, not for musical taste, not for fashion tendencies, but I've always imagined wearing long hair for all those years, but seeing it in the same size and remembering what my father could say, maded me for not getting into the mood for getting my hair long and I remember saying:
"Nah, this isn't for me, my hair doesn't get even longer than this"
Even saying this, I've tried to grown it and I reached one year without cutting it but I wasn't all that attached to my hair like I am nowdays, I wasn't even care for managing my hair, didn't even combed it because I know that, soon or not, my father would gave me a visit to the barbershop.
After the haircut he gave me in Febuary 2012, since this day I said to myself "This time I won't give up so easily like I did, even if he tries to force me to give me a haircut, I'm not going to play his game now, neither his rules"
After so many discussions and fights between us, he isn't bothering me anymore, but one rule still remained, "I'm not going with you like that in my car, stay in the house", I even lost the "Families Visit Day" in the factory he works, he gaved my name and my mother's name for getting authorized to pay a visit there and I guess you already know what happened, he started saying "If you want to visit there, you need to cut your hair first, what the other workers going to think of me? That I'm a degenerated father who doesn't care for his son? My son is a madman? A drugdealer? I don't want to get called names for this and I don't want my reputation to be negative with my friends in there".
Like I said one month before, the hot weather is ruling everywhere here and my parents went for a vacation last week and I'm alone at home, and for fighting the hot weather, I've tried to learn how to tie my hair the way it is and after spending 2 hours, I've finally learned how to tie it, the next step now is getting more quickly to do it since I still spend few minutes trying to do it hahaha.
It isn't 100%, since I can't tie everything yet but I can tie at least 80% to be more precisely, some parts in the front can't reach it to the ponytail, so I need to do a few tricks like braiding the front hairs (Yes, I need to do it because I have a unexplainable dryness in the front hairs and they look "puff" if I don't do this) to put it behind the ears and hiding some hair in the middle with some hairs in the back to get a "decent" or try to look "decent" ponytail look.
And how about sleeping with my hair tied? Never felt better, now I can woke up without all my neck wet and smelling bad, feels great and confortable, even for combing it makes more easily, since it doesn't do a lot of tangles like when it's loose, can't wait for it reaching more lenght to get everything tied and stop braiding front hairs and throwing then behind the ears.
And like Ken said "With your hair tied, you give the false look of short hair looking from the front" and I guess you were right, it's strange to me look at myself with my hair tied and trying to remember when it was short hahaha.
Anyway, for everyone who reads it, not only I'm happy that I can tie my hair, but I'm happy that in one week we're ending this year and it was a bad year for me and Christmas is coming, lot of delicious things for eat and everything hahaha.
I'm watching and reading all the comments from the board, so I'm disappeared hahaha.
Happy Christmas and Happy New Year for everyone!
Cheers!
Merry Christmas to everyone from Argentina :)
I thought I would share to you how we celebrate Christmas down here since I believe it is very different to how you celebrate in the USA.
The night before Christmas Eve ( the 23rd ) most shopping centers are open until 4 AM and they offer last minute discounts so that people can do their final Christmas shopping. It is crazy because most people are in the streets at 4 AM going crazy and buying stuff.
On the 24th people don't work ( those unfortunate who work only work until noon). Hospitals only attend emergencies, banks close at noon, public transport stops working earlier, etc.
On the 24th at night we get together with our family, have dinner ( in my case we had a turkey ). Then we wait until midnight to receive the Christmas. A few minutes before midnight we start eating a lot of sweet food and then we make a toast and then open Xmas gifts!
In general, people stay up late and have party all night long (until next morning - it's summer down here so that is a plus! ). They make parties in their houses, others go out to nightclubs, others go to friends' houses and others just hang out drinking in the streets. The night ends in the morning of the 25th . Then, that day people have lunch together with their family and relax all day long.
Taking advantage that the 26th is Friday, the government decided to turn that day into an official holiday too so that people can have a super long weekend and promote the internal tourism in the country. So nobody is going to work on the 26th either. Most people take advantage of the long weekend so they travel to the beach to continue celebrating.
So this week has been super lazy down here.
I wonder how you guys celebrate in your hometowns and what you do to receive Christmas!
Happy Holidays to everyone :)
I took more pictures to celebrate 24 months of hair growth.
Thank you for allowing the self - indulgence...
WET
Hi everyone,
I've realised some white stuff on my scalp (wax like, only when hair is wet). Some people say it's dry skin whereas others say it natural sebum and if it wasn't white, then it was dirty.
I've not got any dandruff or an itchy scalp ( when hair is dry), could someone please tell me if I should be worried or not.
attached you will hopefully find my progress from the start to today - as I grew my hair for 24 months. Each picture is taken in the same spot with the same coat... I think I've aged in two years. My hair has grown quite a bit and it is still about the same color.
What do you guys think?
I am really loving the fullness, and waviness of my growing hair, and it is awesome to see it transform before my eyes. How often do you guys recommend shampooing/conditioning? I have been shampooing with Pantene Pro V every 3 days, and conditioning daily. Is there anything wrong with that frequency? :) Take care forum family !
Greetings to all - enjoy the holiday!
Merry Christmas to all and may the new year see lots of hair growth, no hair damage or tangles, and a world filled with no hassles about hair.
Took a chance on this and am really pleased with it. With hair down to my butt I am prone to tangling. For me the brush is doing as advertised and am sure there are some here who would be interested. I am using the brush for normal hair. Got mine at Boscov's store Northeastern Pa. for $12.99.
Let me also wish Merry Christmas and Seasons Greetings to all. Rarely post but still around.
Karsten
(Also took a chance on a WinCleaner USB computer cleaner ... would not install and waste of cash ... buyer beware!)
