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Here is a picture of myself in the early 90s. A different era on two levels here. We were more interested in getting a picture "on the Brooklyn Bridge", but the WTC got into the background too. This was taken using a disposable film camera. I meant to get these scanned back around September of this year, because the 5th anniversary of 911 reminded me of this picture.
One of the things I didn't like about my short hair is pictured here. It had a real tendancy to stick up. Every haircut gave me a different look, and I didn't really like any of them. Now I'm either loose or pulled back, and I never look like a human Q-tip or a Buckingham Palace guard. Although, when I was growing out for the first time it went up very high before falling over, and that was actually kind of fun but I decided on long hair.
Hey, sometimes it's interesting to share what you looked like with short hair. Long hair really suits you! By the way, I had the same problem. My hair is so straight that it would stick up without gel or anything and it took me 4 months of growth for it to fall lol :P
Cool, we can see The Twins still...
Hey ,
long hair suit you better :)
i had the same problem with my hair, it growed up and it too month to make my hair fall ^^
An historical image.
Long hair on men just seems right to me, and you prove it right there.
When was this pic taken? that looked like a jet flying towards the WTC...
Oh good grief, no. It was Christmas vacation, probably 1994. It's probably just some schmutz on the negative.
I thought it was the fated "moments before the first plane struck the tower" photo...
I actually believe even when you had short hair you are still a very good looking guy.
Thanks. My Mom always said that too, but she was my Mom. :)
Wow, what a difference, i think you looked a lot older with short hair than long actually:)
Simon
You looked like the bastard child of Borat and Bill Gates.
Pleased to be using my operator system.
Steve, you wear long hair very well. I hope you will always keep it.
Looking good!
Jeffrey.
Steve,
Having long hair is a pleasure not to be understood till you have it, but it must be said that you were startlingly attractive regardless of the way your hair stuck up.
C
Congratulations, Steve, on quite a transformation from your short haired days to the waist length mane you have now. I can't remember how long it took you to grow it out, was it 4 or 5 years?
Keep it growing,
David
I started right around the first of the year, 2002. So, it's been a bit over 5 years. I really need to update that avatar pic. It was taken roughly 3 years into my growout, which was from a flat-top.
Hello Steve,
When I was living at home, until the age of 15, I was forced to get a crewcut, on account that my single-parent mom, was a bit obsessive about "neatness". When my hair got to, say 2 or 3 inches, it had this "uncombed look" at the slightest wind, or when removing my beany.
I had this style in early high school, esp in 1973-1974, and I was harrassed, called a nerd, a mamma's boy, and had my sexual orientation put in question. Not only thay, I hated this style, and guess what, even my barber told me that it did not suit me, and only trimmed it in late 1974, and that was phase one of my long hair journey. By the time it got to past the shoulder (with trims), in 1976, long hair went out of style. I cut it disco style, and hated it in 1976, and again in 1977, but found that disco style was like a permanent, and a permanent awkward stage. By 1979 I had it long and it was manageable.
The picture is a crop from a family picture taken in 1971, when I was 12 years old. In 1971, a lot of kids already had hair covering their ears.
Have a nice day,
Georges in Montreal.
It's probably my face blindness but if you walked right by me looking like then I probably wouldn't recognize you at all! Quite an astounding transformation (and a wise choice) Steve.
Definitely time for a new avatar pic, although there really is a length at which any more doesn't show in the picture, but now it would flow out of the frame.
Yeah, when we set up the avatars we talked about what shape to make them. Longhairs really need photos longer than they are wide. But to make the avatars longer would push the text down further on the page making people scroll more. So as a trade-off we made them square.
This situation is an irritant on documents like drivers' licenses, too, where we can't see all of our manes. We consider them to be part of our heads.
Bill
OK, what I want to try now is letting my hair rest on something like the bed or a couch, so that it trails back behind. That perspective should allow all the hair to fit in a square, and still fill most of the frame with face, if you can imagine it.
Now I just need to get a camera so I can show you what I'm thinking. If it takes me as long to do that as it did to get a scanner, maybe I'll have that shot for you by Christmas. :)