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Often many guys become frustrated and give up because their hair doesn't look the way they want OR their hair has a tendency to frizz out or as some used to tell me:
"your hair is fro-ing out dude!"
rather than give in and get a clipper cut invest in a flat iron.
I have NO desire to join the hordes of buzzed guys out there.
I'll take the flat iron any day over the clippers!! I like my hair too much to have it reduced to a 1/2" or less all over!
Hi Jake,
I am just going to let my hair fro. Heck I'm too cheap to buy a flat iron, let alone use it! When I first started growing my hair it seemed to be bigger than it really was. I think it's because we are used to short hair which isn't big at all. I believe once our hair gets long enough to "hang free" past our shoulders, it won't seem so big.
Sometimes I think my hair is getting long. But then I look in the damn mirror and see that the back doesn't even hang down past the shoulders yet. That will be a wonderful feeling for us. I want my hair to swish back and forth when I walk. Then I will know for sure my hair is long.
Please keep your hair growing and flowing! Let the fro fly! Better enjoy the fro while you can because it will probably go away with more length. Great weekend my friend!
Ted
I'll pass on letting my 'fro' fly but if it makes you happy then enjoy yours! ;-)
Can't say I really have a fro, but I am enjoying what I got! As long as it grows!
Ted
Isn't a beanie cheaper and better for your hair and the environment?
Flat irons are bad for your hair so avoid them as well.
Let it grow it will take care of itself.
Not mine. it's one of those higher quality ionic ones so less heat it used to do the work. the cheap and non-ionic ones are the ones I would not recommend using
my hair will go in 25 gazillion directions if I let it do what it wants so I have to take charge! ;-)
if you want hair that does "it's" thing and you're content with it fine, but that's not the look I'm after.
needless, to say a good flat iron is a much better alternative than resorting to the clippers.
Hi Jake,
I have to tell you that I am 100% agreeing with you here!
While most of the memebers of this fantastic board are indeed very well experienced and knowledgable regarding the harm of straightening your hair with an hot iron... they definitely are a bit more of a 'niche' gang which focuses alot of extremely long hair and thus are very dedicated and focused on not harming the hair straws at all, thus allowing them to achieve the great lengths they are after, and that is all perfectly fine, if that is your main goal! :)
Me, I am more in the same boat as you, seeing as I have naturally very thick and wavy hair, and would much rather have long (again, this is all subjective, by long I mean shoulder length, or shoulderblade length) hair which I am happy with and can walk around proudly with, rather than have much healthier, even much longer hair which looks like.. well... not something *I* find aesthetically appeasing!
At the end of the day, it's *YOU* who has to love your hair. Not your significant other, not your family or friends, and not even us members here, but it's *JAKE* who has to walk around and feel.. daaaamn, I love my lovely hair! At whatever length, shape or form! :)
So... I am definitely in agreement that rahter than simply give up and give into the puffiness and using the clippers, hot iron that bad boy and be happy, that is ALL that matter, at the end of the day :)
I will also thank you for the inpiration, and ask you to check my 8 month update which will be posted in a few mins, as soon as I have the pictures up and going! It's definitely something that might remind you that you are not alone ;)
While it is your hair and you're welcome to do what you want with your hair I would caution about damage to the hair. I know one guy who had great looking hair that was butt length but was somewhat curly, he proceeded to straighten it only to end up having to buzz all his hair off after it got badly damaged.
This was back in the 70s in high school and by cutting off all that damaged hair he was surrendering to the dictators who ran the school.