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hello - i really want to grow my hair long, but my hair is EXTREMELY thick...when it starts to get long it gets bushy and curly...any tips? i really want to be able to pull it back...thanks justin
What you are describing is called the "awkward stage". If you just let your hair grow for around another year, It should start behaving better.
Hi, Justin
You should look in the users directory. There is already a member, actually, PRESIDENT on this board named Justin. I think there isn't much you can do about the poofage and curliness. It is part of the awkward phase. Also, Hair type like yours requires more patience and needs more time to gain length than straight hair. During the awkward phase, It will get very poofy and look like a mess. Once gravity takes control(When hair is long enough to weigh itself down) it will look good. Remember this: "Good things come to those who wait"
You can apply this to your hair :-)
Good luck
I've experienced the same problem. I've always had very thick hair, ever since I was a kid. I would get a haircut and by the time I reached about the 3-month mark or so, it would be getting very poofy as it grew out. Trying to comb it straight back instead of a center or side part would result in a near-afro. However, it's been 7 months since my last haircut, and I can tell it's getting more manageable. As usual, around the 3-month mark it was getting poofy like it always did. But I pushed on and over the last couple of months, I've noticed it's gradually "unpoofing" as I continue to let it grow. (If you're interested, I have a 7-month update post not far below, and you can see that at this point my hair is certainly not poofy anymore.)
For guys like us, it's basically a waiting game, and like Chris H said, "Good things come to those who wait." :)
These 'poofy' threads always get me howling. A different meaning in British English :-)
Just going outside for a Cigarette
Hahaha!! Really? I know a few other words that have different meanings in England, but didn't know "poofy" was one of them.
I attempted some humour when I posted that but the moderator substituted the word I put for 'cigarette'. I assume that the perfectly acceptable British English word I used for 'cigarette' is so offensive in American English that it had to be changed to protect the innocent!!
And you knew of the word's offensive nature. [grin] That's because it has that meaning in mainstream English. I use the expression "mainstream English" to not refer to a region here, but rather to refer to what a majority of English speakers are aware of, wherever they might be.
English is spoken in the far corners of the earth, and regionalisms abound. They occur in Britain, in parts of the American South, in parts of Africa, in India, and so on. When these appear we all chuckle, unless they are intended to be offensive, or unless they run afoul of a meaning that is offensive in mainstream English.
Sure, "poofy" makes some people giggle, but it has a perfectly ordinary meaning in mainstream English, and it describes hair. Each of us, from his regional perspective, has to be open to others though, who are wanting to talk about their hair, not regionalisms in English, and let them talk about their hair in peace.
I was guilty of that some time back, teasing someone for saying the color of his hair was "ginger", a color I'd never seen used to describe anything but a dog. Turns out that's applied to people in some regions.... [gasp!]
But Tony Blair really does talk like a cigaret.
Well, to a kid who grew up in the Ozarks he does. [wink]
Bill
Hahaha!! I do know what British word you were trying to use in place of 'cigarette.' That American/British one I am familiar with. LMAO!!!
My hair was similar when i started to grow it out. For the first 6 months i gelled it down, after that i usually wore a beanie or cap. I only took the hat off when i went indoors. My hair was refered to as a toilet brush but now after 3 years of growth i am pleased i stuck at growing it.