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Even before I had long hair, I remember my high school days of grunge- (damn, I'm giving away my age) and back then I always wanted Eddie Vedder's mane. His hair is longhair perfection. I think his hair was best when it was really long, like '92 or so.
So who inspired everyone's long hair? (if you had/have and inspiration)
Lol, When I saw Jesper from In Flames and Amon Amarth windmilling on some video clips, I was like damn I need to experience that. That's what inspired me to grow long hair LOL.
hey, i have kinda wavy/curly hair, and I have would like hair like the EX Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins. it looks cool i reckon!!! my hair is currently pretty short but i'm growing it out.
Back in the '80s (yes, I'm that old), I'd see concert footage of the likes of Bon Jovi, Poison, Ratt, Van Halen, etc. and say, "I want hair like that. It's cool."
Nowadays, my inspirations are Hugh Jackman (when he has long hair) and Keith Urban.
Every guy I ever saw with clean, shiny, well cared-for looking long hair inspired me, --- from as far back as the days I was still in high school (late '60s & early '70s), to the present! So, I guess that must mean that practically EVERY longhair ispires me!!! (The only exception to that would be when someone just doesn't show interest or care enough in their hair at all, by having seriously dirty, straggly/greasy, uncombable hair.)
As far as famous named people like Rock or Movie Stars, hmmmm, let me think... OK, here's a short list from off the top of my head...
1) Black Oak Arkansas (TERRIBLE singers - lol - but an awesome group of guys with SERIOUSLY LONG manes from the early '70s;
2) Jeff Bridges, --- who has consistently been in several movies where he had his hair long (and VERY cool-looking!);
3) To some extent, both Tom Cruise and Bradd Pitt... Although their hair is not all THAT long in most of their movies that have allowed it; in both of these men's cases, though, I have to admit they have hands-down incredibly beautiful manes, regardless of being more "medium-length".
I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton of other better examples of inspiration than what I've just listed; but these are what came quickest to mind!
- Ken in San Francisco
I'd kill to have Tom Cruise's hair from THE LAST SAMURAI. Well, not really, but you know what I mean. :) That's the perfect kind of length/style I would give anything to have, though.
Me too...John Lennon in particular!
Brett
In my case nobody inspired it. I jusy knew that I desired to have long hair.
I am not inspired by anyone famous because I wasn't into celebrities when I was younger. I had seen a lot of longhaired guys and I was really attracted to them, so it somehow subconsciously made me want to grow my hair long so I can be like them.
I don't really know exactly, but around the time I really began to have the urge to let it begin to grow around 2002/2003 I remember watching the movie "Attila the Hun" with Gerard Butler and thinking that I sure wish I had hair like that! And, while I never will have hair just as he did, I can approach it one day. Besides that, I've always admired long hair, but never put two and two together and grown it for myself until relatively recently (within the past five years or so) when I realize that "time and tide await no man."
Plus, I always like the cartoon "Pirates of Dark Water" with Prince Ren of Octopon as pictured above.
I really didn't have a role model or inspiration when I first started growing my hair the first time in the 8th grade. I cut it after only a year.
Around 2 years before I decided to grow my hair long in 2004 I came across a hair website about men's long hair looked at it and put it in the back of my mind. After serving jail time I began to reconsider my hairstyle and thought of growing my hair long every day when I was locked up. The first thing I did when I got out was to look up that website that linked me to the Men's long hair message board or http://the-light.com/longhair as it was known at the time.
My inspiration was all the long hair message boards but especially this one.
I think I always wanted long hair (I remember crying at my first haircut and I must have real young!), but didn't realise until mid to late 60's that I wanted long hair. I guess the Beatles were my first influence. Its' funny, I guess, because it was thier first appearance on Ed Sullivan that caught my attention, but nowdays a hair style like that would be considerd short. It was radical back then. My hair was shaggy in high school, but there were guys that had the balls to grow thier hair longer. A couple of them had hair mid back even!(Remember most teachers at that time were products of the 50's).
In short, rock groups of the late 60's and early 70's begun by The Beatles and guys that started the trend in high school all convinced me that long hair was cool.
Bruce
Its funny you said that because when I was around 2-3 I got my first haircut (so for a child of that age I was sometimes confused as a little girl oh how my parents must have been pleased lol)....
I too cried when I got my first haircut...it might be an early sign in your consciousness that is telling you that you indeed want to be a longhair ....well at least thats my somewhat abstract idea on the matter.
Some years ago, in my school, there was a guy, pure metalhead, with longhair, midback length, and goatee. I found him very impressive althought I don't knew him. And I think he was a source of inspiration for me, at least at the beginnig of my growth.
More generally, a lot of people that I cross in the street, with longhair, men or women, are source of inspiration for me.
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Vivien
Same here - longish hair wasn't uncommon at school, but past the shoulders, heavy rockers, there were only a handful. One was very handsome and had great hair, just like AC/DC; two others looked weird; another two always looked dirty, greasy, spots. Lessons to be learnt from them all.
But I was just as drawn to the mops of Jesus&MaryChain, Ramones; the shaved hair of psychobillies and skinheads. Over the years I've been through many different styles.
There is something very liberating about losing hair, especially the action of shaving that last part above the forehead) but behind it I always feel something negative and sad.
This is now the longest I've ever let my hair grow, not cut since July 2005. Hairstyles are intruiging, but in the end I realise they are all something imposed from outside; the more my hair grows, the more fascinated I am with what's coming out from within.
People often cite shaved hair as the most practical, but I'm not so sure. I now find that my hair is easier to look after than ever.
Lately Lemmy has been my inspiration, especially as I've now let the beard grow.
For some reason my photos won't upload, but here's a link to photoshop if you like: http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b271/Nutter-Wain/NVE01758-1.png
Since my teens were in the later 80's I guess the whole metal scene was my reason for growing it long. But first, there was Led Zeppelin. :-D Nowadays I'm attempting to grow it long again and the reason is because I just wanna. :-)
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