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This is mainly to see how the different users on this site vary with others on their long hair 'journey'. :)
Anyway...
July marks the 9th month since my last 'proper' cut which was very short. Not exactly a buzzcut but still very short near the skin.
I have had 2 trims along the way on my 4th and 6th months respectively but only to the sides (above ears mainly) since my hair was shielding/covering my ears which looked ugly to me. And pulling it behind my ears was getting tiresome. It was my choice and I don't regret it.
Anyway, the fifth month was when I started noticing my progress into having long hair. My 'bangs' were already covering my eyes and the back was long enough to be visible while looking at the mirror. Sides were covering half of my ears (4th month before cut) and I thought it was worth the wait. Seeing your hair infront of you up-close, covering your eyes at the time was really great. :P
Now the hair on my sides are roughly the same as my 4th month since I didn't trim it since and I can now put my hair in my mouth (barely, lol) and hopefully I can see more growth as I reach a year.
What about you?
What goal do you have - trimming the hair over the ears seems a fundamental conflict with growing your hair out?
Shoulder legth. I feel like I will trim my hair a lot once it gets longer to stay 'even' with that length.
Maybe a BIT longer but nowhere near waist-length or anything like that.
And no, I've been avoiding the 'semi-mullet' look if that's what you're thinking, the hair on the top of my head is longer and can cover the areas I've trimmed and I can now push my hair behind my ears with ease. :P
I'm approaching the 3 year mark, and my hair still doesn't seem long to me. Waist is still about 1.5 - 2 years away.
I felt my hair was long the first time a perfect stranger referred to me as "a longhair". My hair was about three inches below "just touching my shoulders" then.
When you get called something by strangers, you realize you have "arrived"!
Bill
First of all congratulations on the distanced you havew already traveled on your
long hair journey.
To answer your question: Well, my hair is always in a tail so
sometimes I am not even aware of my hair. It's hard to feel like a longhair
when your hair is all tied up but when I let it down--my God!
My hair is so long and thick that I could walk around naked and still be covered up.
I though my hair would stop growing when it reached my belt but it is showing
no signs of stopping.
I should trim it but with no split ends to use as an excuse I can't do it.
The very end of my hair will be 6 years old in about 3 months and the hair endings are in excellent shape.
Don't ever let anyone convince you that silicone hurts hair in any way because my hair
is proof that it doesn't. (Silicone is inert/neutral)
Sodium Laureth Sulfate is evidently gentle enough because I have been shampooing with it for all the time I've been a longhair and, again, there is no evidence of any damage..
Good Luck!
At about 1.5 years... I could tie my hair into a high, tight and short ponytail, with practically no hair left untied. I probably could done a ponytail a few months sooner, but didn't even try as I thought it was too short. A few months later, I too was referred to as a longhair by a stranger. Like Bill, my hair was probably just past shoulder length. Oddly enough, I still didn't consider my hair to be "really long" until another member on this forum - with very long hair - referred to me as a longhair.
I have just passed 18 months, and have just recently felt like I had long hair.
When I was finally able to put it in a ponytail without it falling out, and was able to use it to swat flies off of my face just by turning my head real fast.
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Hey, that's a good point!
Now if I go to Africa for a holiday I shouldn't have too many fly problems :P
Lol!! That's hilarious!!!
A female friend of mine who has hip-lengtth hair occasionally has used her hair as dental floss in front of me; but hey, there are all sorts of uses for long hair that maybe I've not thought of before yet!
- Ken
I noticed my hair was long, longer than I have ever had it- and I've always been a meduim haired person, when I began to accidentally eat my hair during dinner. Or I open my mouth to talk, and when I close it some hair is in my mouth. Thats actually the only new thing for me since I've been growing my hair out, even though I've gained 5-6 inches from what I'm use to, the feel and all that of long hair hasn't been all that different-yet.
It's because it's all relative! I've never had long hair so when my hair was 2 inches long (everyone shudders), it had doubled in size! The next inch and it had only increased by 50%. See the pattern? Once it gets really long -- unless you measure it -- I'm pretty sure you hardly notice the short-term growth. All I can say is if you need a confidence booster with respect to your hair growth, set a marker: a mole, freckle or something your hair can almost touch when you put your head in a certain position. These little things help remind me that it's still coming!
Over and out,
Christian
I started getting that feeling a week after finding this board. at that point, my hair started brushing against my shoulders. That had been the best feeling of my life.
Hair in my eyes and face were familiar enough from other 'conventional' haircuts I've had in the past, but one day I felt the dry heaviness of hair brushing the top of my backbone, like the touch of someone else, it was a completely new and exciting sensation.
If I tip my head back, the hair reaches midway down the spine, and I feel reassured by this touch (:
There were 2 major "landmarks", so-to-speak, when I started to feel my hair was beginning to get long...
Although it's really very much a gradual kind of thing, once I entered full-on into the infamous, "awkward stage", I at least began to feel my hair was at least, "long-ISH", --- especially as it began to fall more & more into my eyes and face as part of my everyday experience... But, when i REALLY felt I had finally "arrived" as a longhair was a good year or so later, when my mane was finally beginning to rest on top of my shoulders. It was about at this point that I also began to be able to pull all my hair back into my first decent-looking ponytail. Once it gets long enough to be able to form a good tail, you do indeed feel like a true, "longhair!"
- Ken in San Francisco
When it reached my shoulders and the bangs was down past my nose, oh and the wind blowing it, oh and being able to headbang again!!