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I am 19 and I havent had a haircut in 8 months. My hair on the top of my head is about 7 inches and on the back about 4 max. It seems as if my hair growth is slowing down lately though, but maybe I'm being paranoid. Is it possible for genetics to limit my hair to about this length? I want long hair and I don't want to be stuck at this awkward
stage much longer.
It would be rare for you to max out at such a short length at your age. Even men in their fifties usually get shoulder to shoulder-blade length or more.
It would be even rarer for the hair on the top to be longer than the hair in the back when you do max out. When we do, if there are differing lengths, we tend to follow the usual male-pattern-baldness scenario even if we don't get full-blown MPB. In other words, hair will be shorter (rather than absent as in MPB) on the top and at the crown. The longest hair we usually have is on the sides of the head behind the ears.
Keep in mind that we often see relative growth, which means hair seems to slow down as it gets longer: An inch on a two foot mane is not even noticeable, while it's really a change on a shaved head. Yet the growing of each takes the same amount of time.
I'd say you can relax. Instead of worrying, you can celebrate the fact that your hair is so long now that new growth seems to take forever. :-)