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Why do you have long hair ?
Always admired dudes with long hair. Growing up my folks would never let me grom my hair long. Always had to have a conservative cut, parted on the side. Guess my reason is a combination of doing what I wanted to do as a kid and I think I look better with long hair.
I just look better with long hair than I did with short hair.
same here! my hair itself even looks better. when my hair is short it looks like a brillo pad haha. now i get compliments on how it looks.
Me, too ! :)
For many years I had it shoulder length and got it trimmed every few months. But in the early 90s, the hair dressers kept complaining that my hair was too long.
So I stopped the complaints.
I haven't had it cut since about 1993!
Short question, short answer : Because i like it ! :)
I've always wanted long hair. I used to throw huge fits about going to the barber shop. Haircuts piss me off.
because i like it- and at present it is part of my identity.
it is my sustained middle finger at those who would tell me to 'get a haircut'.
it is one thing in life that i have some control over.
Because I always wanted to have long Hair. For me it’s an expression of MY OWN FREEDOM in a World where the Communtiy or even – worse- the Commerce tries to tell us what to do. Not to be misunderstood- it`s not a “Tool” for me in any Way, just I feel much better with long Hair … excuse my poor English… happy Growing to all of yours!
What country are you from that has a community telling you what to do?
Just curious.
Not for freedom of expression, not to rebel, not to be part of any group. The only reason Im growing it is because I think I look better with long hair than short. Since I was a little kid (Im 17 now) I wanted long hair but regular haircuts soon buried that in my subconcious, but I always thought long haired guys looked really cool. Then a friend of mine (Paddy B to you on this board) grew his and it brought my own desire for long, flowing locks back to the surface. Purely selfish reasons-I like it.
WOOHOO!!! My name was mentioned! WOOHOO!
It's like that everywhere, isn't it?
Right here in the good ol' US of A a lot of people who want long hair simply can't have it. I could be making three times the money I'm making now if I got a military style cut! But I won't do it.
Principles are more important than money. Integrity is worth more than money. My personal values are what's important.
It doesn't matter where you live! Men everywhere in the western world are expected to have short hair.
It`s Germany- in a little Town with about 10000 Residents. You will find a lot of written and unwritten rules here. A very few men here had long Hair and tey told me that they had to cut it just to get a Job.Lucky I am self-employed so that I can show the People taht a professional done Job has nothing to do with Hair Lengt!
Hmm, must be a VERY narrow-minded part of Germany - rural Bavaria, or perhaps the former GDR?
As I know from my experience (living in Germany as well), long hair is quite common (there was a revival with the Grunge style since the early 90s) in university cities like Cologne, but there is also a strong neo-hippie scene in the remote countryside, showing up each summer at the Herzberg Festivals...
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
Also ich komm auch aus Deutschland (Hannover), aber ich will meine Haare nicht für einen Job abschneiden ! Wär ja noch schöner, wenn die sowas von einem verlangen können !
it is debatable, but i think people were meant to have long hair. that is why i think that everybody looks better with long hair, because people were designed to have long hair, so "butchering" it (alright, kind of a strong word) "cutting" it makes people look unnatural and kind of "off". i think the reason some people like short hair is an external reason, and therefore is formed out of things like association with something else and other interactions with one's environment. an example is the fact that some people think long hair looks feminine because of the vastly higher percentage of women with long hair than men, even though men have the capability to grow hair about as much, if not exactly the same, as women.
and no, i would not really care if everyone had long hair; i would still have long hair. (i am also trendy in the area of not liking intense pain inflicted upon me.)
Because it makes me a better person. And it looks very good on me.
For me, like most on this board, I suspect, it's just a matter of personal expression.
With short hair, there's only so many 'looks' one can have.
Long hair multiplies that number.
I also like being different from the norm. I've also always liked long hair on men. I used to have long hair in college; now I'm growing it again.
Long hair on men has gone in and out of fashion. I think it is coming back slowly.
Because it's the only way I feel like I am me. Nuff said.
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Sometimes I like to tell folks who ask, "Because each hair acts as an antenna to receive interesting ideas transmitted from invisible UFO's in outer space!" Truth is I always liked longer hair, dunno why. I started growing it when I worked nights and barbers were not working my schedule. So, initially I grew it for convenience, I keep it because I like it. Who needs more reason than that?
--Tock
I've wanted to have long hair all my life,but because I put my career as a priority I couldn't until a little over 2 years ago(long story, but it doesn't really matter now). Anyhow I haven't cut my hair since then and I'm loving it, going for terminal length, whatever that might end up being
Since my first recollection, I have wanted long hair. As a child, I used to dream of having long hair, and was never allowed to. Everytime it just seemed to start looking good to me, I would get the 'You need a haircut' line. I especially hate that one, because I reserve the word need for things that one actually NEEDS! Like food, or sleep. Anyway, when I got to be a teenager, I would grow it until I was told by my parents to get it cut. Then in college, I would get it cut at my parents request when I came home for vacations, etc. But, I would just let it grow while I was away. The result is that I spent more than a decade in the awkward stage. Of course, at the time I did not know about any such thing. Just that my hair was usually too long for my parents, but never long enough for me. Then when I went to graduate school, I let it grow. It got pretty long during that time, but still not long enough. I decided to job hunt with it long. I actually found a job. But, after I was hired and I had agreed to take the job, they told me that I would NEED to cut my hair before I started. So, much to my chagrin, once again, off it came. It was relatively short for a number of years after that. Then a little over two years ago, I had a life threatening experience, (the details of which I won't get into). After that I said to myself 'Self, it's your life, and your hair, do whatever you like.' I actually feel like my old life ended that night, and a completely new one started. Kind of like a bonus life. All gravy. And in this one, I am in control. Now, the only person whose opinion about my hair that matters, is mine. I am growing it, period. Guess what? No one has complained about it. No one at work. None of my friends. And here's the shocker, NOT EVEN MY PARENTS! I guess that by now, they have figured it out.
> When I read this...thats exactliy Word by Word, what happened to me!
It's a part of my personality. Just like my wearing skirts and kilts. I've always been a person who thinks out of the box, not in the box like some people out there. I've got to be one of the most astereotypical people out there. I'm a straight, 26 year old male who votes republican, and has very right-leaning views, yet I have long hair, drive an earlier Volvo, and wear skirts.
-J
Well, I have this horrible barber, who always wants to cut my hair his way.
Just kidding, actually I do it to save on the money.
OK, OK, if you really want to know, I am afraid that I may grow bald, so I'm growing it while I have it.
I could go on and on in this vein, but the real reason, which many people find hard to accept, is that I like it this way.
Because I like the SHAPE. 'Nuff said!
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE.
Check out Brad Pitt in that movie. He's immaculately dressed, and has the bomb hair (yeah, I know it's a wig but that's beside the point.) When I saw his look, I said, "Now THAT is elegance!" That kind of look, for myself, is what I'm after in growing my hair out.
The Rev
Amen Rev!!!!
My first response to this would be; Why not!
But I realize the question was not posed in a challenging manner or for malicious reasons. So, something more specific is called for.
I now have Longhair because I've wanted to see what I would look like with it. I've liked Longhair on men for many years now. Yet my job situation always got in the way of my having the freedom to grow my hair out. Every time I would start I'd get laid off and I needed a job badly enough that looking properly corporate weighed in more than having a mane.
Well, I've been with the same high tech company here in San Diego for over four years now. The day I started I had shaved my head. My hair is now down to my shoulder blades. Nary a word raised in protest.
I grew my hair out because I wanted to. I like how it looks and I like how it feels. It does set me apart and it does make me more notable as an individualistic individual. There are plusses and minuses to that. So far though, I think I've come out the gainer for it.
Madoc
Hard one. I've often wondered if this "Need" (for want of any better description) to grow it long is something one is born with ? I've always loved long hair for as long as I can remember too though I never dreamed one day I could or would ever be allowed to....usual conforming pressures etc.
What I didn't realise until it started getting longer was how much I loved having it long, all the new emotional and physical feelings that came for free with it, the whole great new experience in itself. Even more surprising was that the longer it got the more I wanted it to get longer and longer still and to just keep on growin’ and growin’ and growin’ ! :-)
All of which nowadays of course makes me really happy, best of all it’s plain good honest fun ! I also MOST definitely know that I'd be totally lost if I didn’t have long hair now....some sort of false security perhaps ? Hmmm that’s far too difficult to work out ! Nevertheless whatever the reasons are I’m simply scared stiff of losing it and will never ever cut it again ! I mean who in their right mind is going to deliberately sacrifice such free happiness, risk losing touch with themselves ? Risk losing the better identity and self-confidence that it somehow seems to bring ?
I think what I'm vaguely leading up to however is that for those who like, want, "Need" to have their hair long, regardless of all their genuine and excellent individual reasons psychologically speaking it has just got to be highly beneficial. I am no doctor or similar but it seems to me that anything able to promote for free such an amazing healthy, mentally positive state of mind plus a deep sense of all-round daily well-being has just got to be really good news. Anyway that’s how I see it and why I personally have and will always continue to have long hair :-)
Be interesting to find out whether everyone’s published reasons here(where relevant !! ) are much the same for long haired women too ?
I wouldn't be at all surprised if they came fairly close ! :-)
I like long hair because:
a) when it was short all I could see was HEAD!!! (particularly with a bit receding hairline)
b) I can tie it back if I chose the conservative look or let it loose and fly around when I feel so (which is most of the time)
c) THIS IS WHAT I WANT AND ENJOY!
Because I got fed up withy having short hair!!!!!