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Had shoulder length "Hippie Jesus Hair" which suited me, my personality and I adored it. Had a rough rough month, an began thinking of 'new beginings' an fixing things. An through my 'slump bummed out state' I gave into the pressure from family to cut my hair. How I wish I had found this forum before I did.
1st haircut cut my hair all the way around sides/back to my jaw line and it looked ridiculous, like a bob. So I then go on to get it layered.. which was my biggest mistake. My hair still covers the ears, but with it layered its a whole new shape/whole new hairstyle.. all my long long locks are shred to different sizes.
I am seriously seriously bummed about this. My new hairstyle is roughly like the dudes in this post > http://www.mlhh.org/messages/209938.html
Is there any way I can speed up the hairgrowing process...
I just feel like a good Year and a half of growing my shoulder length hair has gone down the drain and im right back at square one again. Im really upset.
Whats worse everyone knows me as having long beautiful hair.. everytime I see someone I havent seen since I got my haircut they are so surprised an I just get reminded all over again about what a stupid mistake Ive made.
Any tricks, voodoo magic or pills to speed hair length?
sigh.. please any advice? An anyone thinking about cutting it.. stay strong and fight the good fight. I messed up once.. wont ever again.
I really am bummed. I figure Id show you the before and aftermath pictures. I just dont feel myself with out my hair. I had been going through just a real rough patch.. an that including the nagging of family (while I was in this down state) just all built up and it feels like I just sleep walked into the barber shop.
I feel like I gave in..
anyways heres the before and after. The before was pictured about a month before I cut it.
before
after
just a quick note - the date on my camera is wrong, that is why its giving the wrong year.
If it's any consolation, the "after" picture and your hair in it is not a terrible look. I like it, actually. The good thing is that the length you still have will not keep you from where you were nearly as long as you think. Just give it a year; it'll pass before you know it. Keep busy, and you'll wake up one fine morning and wonder where all the hair came from! Also, growing out from layers to long, with your straightish hair will look really cool as it grows. People pay lots of money to get the look you already "got."
The shaggy length you have now is very "in."
You had almost the exact length one of my friends had, and have cut it longer than he has it now.
You can grow it back
around here where I reside your hair makeover would be considered long.
I unfortunately live in an area where there is a high proliferation of buzzcuts/crewcuts/fades/flattops. there are some guys with longer hair, but not that many and your cut is in so I'd go with it and try to be happy.
Theres nothing that can make hair grow faster, sorry.
Anything advertised on the web making said claim is a scam.
I think sometime within the next 10-20 years science will come up with some way to make your hair grow faster but we dont have such ability right now....
as i've said before...not all is lost from the experience of cutting your long hair short. At least now you know that long hair is truely what you want.
Well, itf it makes you feel any better...
I cut my waist-length hair in Y2K. And I, too, was TOTALLY devastated that I did that. But, that was over 7 years ago, --- and now my hair goes as far as to just slightly past my belt (which is longer than it was right before I cut it)!
As a fellow longhaired co-worker said to me right after my haircut back then: "Easy to cut; hard to grow..."
The good news, though, is that now you understand the importance of making a COMMITMENT to something (in this case, the commitment to never cut your hair short again)!!
Life is full of learning lots of lessons. Sometimes the lesson is painless & preventative; but, often the best-remembered lessons are learned & earned the hard way! There's a lot of us here that have been through what you've just been through. But, just realize one very important and comforting thing: your hair is growing back now, EVEN AS WE SPEAK!!
My best to you, --- and WELCOME!!
- Ken in San Francisco
PS - You have GREAT-lookin' hair there!!!
Well you learned your lesson and now can move on and regrow it.
No magic spells for hair growth so good luck on your journey.
Kevin
My sentiments exactly, its a tough lesson to learn, but you have, so take it in a positive way and say 'no' to any more cuts.
Good luck on your journey, Dave
Don't sweat it man. Think of it as a new beginning. Grow it out and take care of it from the get go. Its gonna be better than ever, and be glad you didnt start from a buzz cut like I did. Before you know it, you'll be back in business.
First of all, the "dude" who's picture you've referenced (Fire/Brian) is making fine progress in his own hair-growing journey. He doesn't look bummed about the length of his hair, nor should he, and being bummed won't make yours grow any faster.
That said, I really do sympathize with how you're feeling, but I'm afraid there are no magic tricks that will make your hair grow significantly faster. Just eat well, get enough sleep, drink plenty of water, don't smoke, stay physically active... y'know, the stuff you'd do to be healthy anyway, and your hair will grow as fast as it can. Be where you are now. Your hair will take care of itself. In fact, it's growing back already.
I hope that whatever circumstances made your month a rough one get resolved, and that you have a happy holiday season.
--Val
Thanks for the replys guys, and to Validus.. I wasnt trying to insult "fire/brian" at all. I was just using his style/length as a reference.. before I found some pictures of myself. I never intended to say (Fire/Brian) was bummed with his cut too, so take it easy man.. its all irie from me man, peace.
Well what is done is done and it happens.
Bit on the positive side you hair has still got lots of length and it's not as thought you are growing it out from a buzz cut. So your almost halfway there again so far a few months it will be almost a long again.
Cheers,
John.B
Well, the haircut wasn't TOO drastic, you'll grow it back in no time. There is no way to speed up the process. So just be patient with yourself and tell the naysayers that this is your decision.
Carol
If it's growing in some shape (layered) that you don't like, just cut it off and start again. The journey from short to long hair is pretty fun anyways, even if it gets annoying at times (ie. awkward stage). Either way it will grow, but it's all up to you how. There's no real way of speeding it up.
It will grow back bro. Try working out while it does or something.
Yeesh, Mr. S.W.D.I.C.M.H., don't be so DOWN on yo'seff, mah bruffah! Why, two decades ago, that's nineteen-eighty-seven, I'd COMPLETELY shaved my pate, skinhead stylee, bekawz I was a promoted-to-executive-status messenger dispatcher at a courier company in Manhattan that was a largely Black owned and operated concern that utilised walkers, bikers, and truckers.
I'll never, ever, EVER forget the day when, finally makin' it through the corporate glass doors' pyramidal infrastructure, that I was told by an African-American colleague, "Yo, Carsten (my birth middle name), you a honorary neegah nah!", at which point I wore dashikis and Hip Hop jeans and British Knights high tops to work, before my hair came in again, at which point I sported dreadlocks.
Duuude! It'll come in again! We all make hair coiffure choices that reflect the immediate environments that our lives have assign'd us. Now, my hair's just inches passed my collarbone, these twenty years later, and that's stretching it.
Fear not. We've all been there, and, if not, we can all (almost all) relate to your plight. Chin up, bro. It couldn't've been any worse than that. Stick with us. We'll see you through the growth process. Irey.
Yours in longhair'd camaraderie,
Quenyan