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How do you guys measure your hair? I measured mine from the top of my head where it starts. Is this how you do it?
Miaka.
I set aside the longer ones that have fallen out, and I measure those.
I also use them to chart my hair's growth. I tape the longest strand I find each week on a posterboard hung on the wall. To do this, mount the hair strands parallel to one another, running vertically, about five millimeters apart. Line the roots up at the top along a horizontal line and write the date by each one. After several months have gone by, the pattern the ends make will provide you with a nice graphical chart of your progress!
Oh my! Thanks for the tip. I did that and got 23 1/5 inches. I also (earlier today) tried putting a string where my hair starts and brought it all the way down to where my hair stops and got 24. I guess it's roughly that...
The chart thing is a great idea! Although I personaly won't do it because I'm not growing my hair any longer: I've been trimming it a couple of inches above the waist and want to keep it at that lenth. Keep up the good work! How long is it now?
Miaka.
Take your own advice, buddy!
I think you guys have way to much time on your hands....you really measure your hair ,........you should get out more
it takes less time to measure the length of one's hair, than it takes for you to write your stupid post.
Measuring my hair took 1 mn. I'm "out", travelling the world with my laptop, that's more "out" than you'll ever get! LOL
Next time, have the courage to give us your name!
Miaka.
I think I'll try that. Measuring my hairs that fall out may be a more reliable way to measure hair.
The method I've been using is to measure the longest hair on my head. Since the hair is at different lengths in different areas on the head, I gather it up and measure from my ear lobe so I know I'm measuring from the same place each time. The average is about 20 inches or 51 cm, which is an average of one measurement of hair from behind the head (about 25 inches) and another measurement of hair from above the forehead (about 15 inches). If I measure hairs that have fallen out, I would probably measure about 30 inches as the longest, which is about 5 inches longer than measuring hair from the ear lobe because of the distance from the longest hair follicle and the ear lobe is about 4 or 5 inches.
I tried measuring hair from the hair follicle but it's at different lengths in different areas on the head. It seems to be longest hair are on the back of the head.
I measure my hair by gathering all the hair up behind my head then hold it behind one ear. I hold the hair at the bottom of my ear lobe then measure from there to the end of the longest hair. It is almost 20 inches long.
I do not measure my hair either, but I cannot believe that anyone would be so judgmental about those who do. I waste immense time on other activities that would make no sense to anyone else. But if I got pleasure from my hair in that way I would surely do it.
How to you critics get your small, private pleasures?
James
George Michael, the long hair specialist, measures starting from the hair line over the top of the head back down to the tips of the hair. I don't like this technique, because by this method, someone with a crew cut has foot-long hair. What I usually do is to hold my hair as perpendicular to my scalp as I can and measure from my scalp to the end of the hair. This gives a smaller number than the George Michael method, but it has more meaning to me.