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Can you explain to me what this is and do I need to be worried bout it. lol I've been growing mine Since december of last year and the back is to my collar, and the sides to the bottem of my nose. the bangs area is kinda thin, I think because I used to thin them when I had it short.
Terminal lenght is the lenght your hair reaches when your do not ever cut your hair. For most people this is around mid back to waist lenght. When your reach terminal lenght your ends will be very thin because not all your hair have the same terminal lenght and because the hairs start growing from different heights.
You've got nothing to worry your nowhere close to terminal lenght. Just stop thinning your hair and keep on growing it!
Terminal length gets shorter as you get older. At age 52 I had a few strands reach my waist. Now at age 64 I have a few strands that reach my nips. Also, hair rooted in different places may have different terminal lengths. Some guys just get a few inches of growth from the hairs rooted just above the forehead, even young guys, and these can be irritating because they will never reach your hair tie.
This also applies to beard hair. My terminal-length beard is not as long as it was a few years ago.
By the way, you misspelled length six times. You are not alone. A lot of guys on here spell length that way, probably because the letters are in a different order in the word "height" and "weight", words commonly used along with "length". However, spelling length lenght is not an alternate spelling. It is just plain wrong. If you say those three words out loud, you will realize they don't end the same way.
Bill
Give them hell bill!!! James / Tampa,Fl
Thanks Bill ,
I needed a good laugh!! . No offense to you Vincent . Specially since I cant spell myself!!
Glinka
Thanks for pointing that out, at least I'm consistent if I do it wrong everytime.
From now on I will sure to spell it correct.
English is not my native language so it always nice when someone points out mistakes that I don't even notice.
. Just stop thinning your hair and keep on growing it!
Vincent,
Whats thinning mean ?
Glinka
He mentioned this is his post: the bangs area is kinda thin, I think because I used to thin them when I had it short.
Thinning is probably not correct english but it means that your thin your hair.
What he said.
Just want to say that waist is technically higher up than wear most guys wear their belt, although some guys here insist on the latter definition. Some people can grow their hair much longer than that, but it mostly depends on the genes you were born with.
I mean waist is higher up than WHERE most guys WEAR their belt. Oops!
The maximum length to which your hair will grow.
Hi Michael,
Since Vincent and UK already have given you excellent answers, I'm only going to elaborate a bit, giving you additional (and probably unnecessary) details, by describing two fictitious longhaired examples...
If Joe Schmoe were to want to grow his hair to his knees; but after let's say seven years of growth with no trims, his hair seemed to stop growing after year #5 any longer than being at his waist-level, then Joe Schmoe's "terminal length" would be waist-length.
If Joe Blow, on the other hand, were to want to grow his hair to his knees, and by year #6 reached his hair length goal, and even decided to grow his hair even a bit further, besides all of us hating him for having such lucky hair genetics and being the envy of both every male AND female on the planet, people would also refer to his terminal length as NOT yet having been reached... Damn him!!
Clear as mud? (LOL)
Glad I could "help!"
- Ken in San Francisco
Something I haven't reached yet. :-)
Hair has three growth stages: the time when it's actually growing, an intermediate phase and a resting and shedding phase.
The length of the growth phase is what really determines your terminal length. The average hair grows about half an inch a month, give or take, and the growth phase usually lasts anything between two to six years on average, although there are exceptions, which is why you see the occasional person who has five or six feet of hair.
At the end of the growth phase, over a period of about two weeks, the follicle starts to get ready for the resting and shedding phase, and in this time parts of the follicle start to collapse.
After that you get into the resting phase. This lasts for a few months while the hair is shed and the follicle starts producing a new hair.
I've been growing my hair for around six years (last haircut was in June '05, I think) and it currently reaches a couple of inches below my butt. According to the stats, it should have stopped growing by now, but it looks like I'm one of the lucky ones for whom the growth phase is going to last a little longer.
Hair on different parts of your head will have a different terminal length as it either grows more slowly or has a shorter growth period. The sections around my ears and the back of my neck have never grown beyond a few inches and the bit at the front is just long enough to tie back, whereas the rest of my mane reaches anything up to 40 inches.