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I read a bit about it on this page, which i would recommend for all of you longhairs out there!
http://www.choisser.com/longhair/three.html
When i had short hair i just shaved the sideburns and so etimes i caught a little sacalp hair, but i didnt matter because i would soon get a new trim and it didnt have to grow for a long time before it would look good agian.
This bad habbit of not seperating sideburns from scalp hair when shaving followed mefor w ahile when i first decided i wanted to leave my hair growing.
Now i have started to pay much more attentnion to the fact that i might keep some of my hair from growing terminal lenght, by confusing it whith beard.
If it will never grow long enough to be put in a ponytail i will just continue to shave it off. But simce it might havent been kept away from the shaver, like the scalp hair has, it might just be short because of that.
My question is, when shaving, how do you know that you arent sahving any scalp hair off too?
My technique is to pull it behind the ears and holding the shortest off it together with the scalp hair..
I want to know if the scalp hair near the sideburns will ever be long enough for a pony tail, but how when will i know?
I hope some off you have some advice for me..right now i can suck on the hair on my forehad, but its curly so i have to stretch it a little to do that.
Hi Danish,
First off, the site you mentioned is operated by Bill, one of the higher-ups on the hyperboard here, so we definitely know about it. =) It is an excellent resource for aspiring longhairs.
Anyway, I ran into the same problem with shaving. I think the best way to deal with this is to just experiment with what looks best. For me, I just shaved (very carefully and slowly) to a spot that eliminated a lot of those little scraggly scalp hairs that are always being mutilated by razors, leaving a clean cut at the start of the longer hairs, which you can see pretty well in this photo:
Then I just let my beard grow out for a few days, trimmed the length of sideburns that I wanted, and maintain them from there:
So, my best advice is to just start fresh. You may lose one or two long hairs while trimming down those ratty short ones, but it's better than shaving one day and taking out a whole patch with one swipe.
Hope that helps! =)
-James
As can be seen by this photo:
It appeared to me that some true head hairs were being cut much to my chagrin. Over the last 7 months I've had a beard and have been very careful to not cut any hairs that might potentially be long ones. When I shave my beard soon, it'll be interesting to see what length these hairs are now at. That photo was taken in October.
Yup, I just tuck whatever I can of those hairs behind my ears. The stragglers get shaved off when caught in my blade.
If you're referring to the hairs directly above the sideburns, then, no, they won't. That goes for everyone, including women. I've had waist length hair for the last 10+ years, and those hairs have never grown longer than about 3-4 inches. Trust me, you won't miss them if you accidentally shave them off.
I don't think for many folks at all do those hairs ever get long enough to reach a hair tie. Those hairs just above where the hairs make the transition from beard-type coarse hairs to scalp hairs for me reach about four inches maximum length and that's it. Although my hair is not super long yet, after four years, those hairs really have never even come close to getting very long.
I actually trim the hairs that are scalp hairs in that area to roughly the same length as the beard hairs in front of the ears to look neater so there isn't a small tuft of hair sticking out that's shorter. On the other hand, if hair is worn loose, then there's really nothing to worry about either way.
I have that same issue; I just try and shave up to about eye-level, which is about where the hair is long enough to put behind my ears--everything below that gets shaved off. I tried growing sideburns down to my earlobe, but unless I get it exactly right, it just doesn't look right on me. Growing a beard is the easiest solution.