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well guys i cut my hair at the end of march and re-growing.
here's my story, my natural hair color is a really light almost white blonde color. I was going through the whole long hair music band scene so i ended up dying it black, my dad got back from iraq and said that i could either dye it back blonde or cut it all off and start over. so i atempted to dye it back blonde, i had to bleach out all the black then dye it and all that crap. then it just wen't really bad. the blonde some how turned out red and i ended up just keeping the red for awhile and continued growing, i wen't to a salon in march 2006 and asked if i could get it all my natural blonde and healthy, but they said the best thing for me to do was to cut it all off and start over. i went home and thought about it for about a week and decided that i'd go through with cutting and re-growing. i figured why not, i've been through it once i should be able to do it again easier, because i know what to expect. so i got it cut and its 5 months later today and i can see my bangs now in my eyes a bit. which came faster than i expected. so i'm at the beginning of my second long hair journey, this time NO DYES!
this is how long it was when i cut it. you can see my natural hair color with the red crap that i dyed it with
glad to be back on the board
Cheers
Matt
this is how short i got it.... it sucks i know, but i'll live.
A good lesson for anyone tempted to dye their hair.
Hi Matt:
The good thing is that you sound very positive about the whole thing. Your hair will no doubt return to its former length before you know it. Sorry to hear about your bad experience with dyeing it, though. I've thought about dying my hair black or maybe dark brown, just because I've always been curious what it would look like. Fortunately, my dad (who's a ex-Marine) is very cool and would never tell me how I should wear my hair. (He's also 70 years old.) :-) But after reading about experiences like yours, I'm more inclined now not to dye it at all.
Post some more pics in a few months, Matt, to show off your (longer) hair.
peace,
dino
About 13 or 14 years ago, I was doing very well at growing my hair all at one length. It was at chin length all the way around when my Mom talked me into letting her bleach it, not once but twice, for highlights. It came out okay, but some time after that, I decided for myself to try a perm. Oh yes, a perm. Well, it turned out I didn't much care for that. So, I got it straightened. And then, some time after that, I decided that maybe the perm was just poorly done and that I would like to try it again. So, I did. Perhaps all of the chemicals had gone to my brain at that point. And to finish it all off, I had the second perm straightened as well. I have really fine hair and, as you can imagine, it was essentially destroyed by all of the various chemical treatments.
Needless to say, I was not very smart then about good hair care. But, I knew enough to know, after all of that, that I was better off just having it all cut and start over. Unfortunately, I'm not always a very patient person, even today, and my desire to endure the long growth process again had left me. So, I kept my hair short for the next several years.
A few years ago, the long hair bug bit again and I started trying to grow again. Right now, I'm trying for the third time in the last few years to grow it out as I have allowed pressures from my wife and my own impatience to keep me from acheiving my goal the previous two times. Well, the saying goes that the third time is a charm. And I am determined not to let impatience keep me from my goal any longer. My wife has accepted that it's what I want and she no longer nags me about it. Currently, my bangs are at my top lip, the sides are about an inch below my ears when fully extended though they tend curl up right now, and the back is about an inch from my shoulders when fully extended though it tends to curl up a bit too.
I'll just be happy to get through the awkward stage and reach my initial goal which is 2 to 3 inches past my shoulders. I am now considering allowing it to grow much further than that though. I'll just see how I feel about it once I reach the initial goal.
To make a much too long story short, my intention was to say that I now have no desire to go anywhere near any manner of chemical based treatments for my hair. It just dries your hair out and does too much damage. It's all natural for me from now on.