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Figured I might start an interesting debate here.
How long does a man's hair need to be for it to be considered truly "long" in the sense of making him a "longhair" as opposed to a "guy with medium/long hair"? How short does it need to be to be short hair?
I think the answer to your question is something along the lines of... it depends on who you ask.
I grew up with fairly short hair until I had the nerve to grow it out in high school, and until then I used to think "long hair" was anything that was more than an inch or two in length. Then, while growing my hair out a handful of times since, throughout the awkward stage I used to think my hair was "long." Now I don't really care to label it anymore... I consider myself a "long-haired guy" at heart and I think I'd feel the same even if my hair was short again.
That's the idea--To ask longhairs here of every length and type to give their opinion and see what we all come up with.
I consider anything from chinlength on to be truly long.
How do you know when you have long hair? When people tell you that you need a haircut.
Yep, that seems like the typical social level of answer. In my circles that started when my hair was only 2in. I think when this "advice" starts depends on the haircut you are growing out from, your hair texture, and if you use product while growing it out.
As soon as I started using pomade to style it. People stopped suggesting I get a haircut. I wonder when it will start again...
Hey Newbie Here,
There are two (2) answers to this question:
1. When a man decides that he is a "longhair" and begins to let his hair grow then he is a "longhair".
2. In the male population approximately five (5)% are longhairs. Approximately two and one half (2 1/2)% have hair which is not quite shoulder length but it is noticeably longer than the majority of males. Approximately two and one half (2 1/2)% have hair which is shoulder length or longer. Among the guys who wear their hair longer there are two (2) groups:
A. Those who wear their hair longer because it happens to be the current style or because the majority of guys in the group or circle of guys with whom they want to identify or with whom they want to be identified wear their hair long. If the style changes or if long hair falls out of favor with the majority of the group the guy wants to be identified with then they will cut their hair.
B. Those who are born "longhairs". These guys wear their hair long regardless of the current trend or style. Having long hair is part of who these guys are, it is part of their identity. They know from an early age that being a "longhair" is intertwined with their identity. If they didn't have long hair they would somehow feel that they were not completely the guy they are.
Raymond
Awesome reply Raymond :)
I like this answer! I wanted long hair since I was a kid but waited till I was in my late 50's to let it grow. I wish I had ignored everyone years ago and let it grow.
I wanted long hair since I was a kid but waited till I was in my late 50's to let it grow. I wish I had ignored everyone years ago and let it grow.
Hey Mike,
Same here. I started to allow my hair to grow from a gauge four (4) buzz cut when I was fifty-five (55) years old. The important thing is that we're letting our hair grow out now. Since you say that you wanted long hair since you were a kid as I did that's a very strong indication that we're born longhairs. There are certain things that are set early on in life, even in our pre-born life which form part of our self-identity, eg.: sexual orientation, gender identity, family, . . . and even what we consider to be attractive and want to take to ourselves hair length. It is part of who we are, who we conceive ourselves to be. To try to deny it does real violence to ourselves because deep in our core of self identity we are not completely who our sense of self-identity tells we are.
Your longhaired bro,
Raymond
Raymond,
I can't agree more! I feel better about myself and when I look in a mirror I don't look away like I used to. I'm getting less negative comments mostly from family as they are getting used to so that's a good thing as well. I've added a couple inches of length since my last update, but my computer and camera fried in a fire so posting pictures are a challenge.
Great answer Raymond! I'm certainly in the B category. However, I'm really considering myself as a longhair only since I've reached mid back length....
A.D.
All of your threads relate to hair growth . All of them .
You either asked about your father's hair length on a picture, about taking Biotin (which all of us know is used for hair growth) or how long a man's mane should be to be considered long, etc.
Do you have any specific concerns regarding hair growth you would like to ask us ?
"All of your threads relate to hair growth. All of them."
Is that supposed to be weird...?
On a forum, when you repeteadly post the same topic or even ask the same exact question over and over again there are two options:
You either have a concern regarding that issue and you are asking too many questions without explaining what your concern is OR you are a troll.
Or you could be trapped in a time warp! Groundhog Day is next week!
Bill
As someone whose parents were divorced many years ago I have to wonder if this is a case of someone striving to learn anything he can about a father he never knew. A father he never met, only has a few frames from a home movie of him. This doesn't strike me as a troll type of post.
In a sense yes. My father isn't my father anymore. He's a drug addict nowadays. I still live with him but I don't really talk to him; he spends most of his time high on some sort of medication. The father I do remember, who was clean and fun to be around and was my hero, wore his hair long. Around the time he first cut it short, coincides with the time he stopped being the father I remember.
So yes. I hope that personal history clears my name as far as being a troll.
I'm a 24 year old guy with insecurities about going bald, who has repeatedly wanted to grow his hair (I came close once--lasted 8 months or so back in 2007) and has been told at every point to cut by a girlfriend, each of whom would later leave anyway. The last girl even said "well you can have long hair, or you can have me." verbatim.
Others have said they "didn't want their boyfriend looking like a girl" and such and such. So I complied.
Now, I worry if I was to go bald (I'm not even sure I truly am time is running out).
So my main questions are basically, how can I get my hair to grow faster--if Biotin helps it grow faster? I've noticed that Biotin has taken what is normally thick, busy hair and made it straighter and thinner in texture but wavier and silkier. I don't know if it helps it grow faster.
I'd just like to eventually have shoulder length hair. Or even chin length ala Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction, like in the pic I've linked
Or even perhaps this length only:
Jeff Goldblum, in this photo, definitely has hair that is considered long, by most standards. It reaches his shoulders. (My own hair is over 3 feet and considered to be extreme length.) I hope this is helpful.
Scott
Ah yes.......Ground Hog day. The day after Super Bowl Sunday when the New England Patriots overcome Deflategate to win their fourth Super Bowl and Tom Brady goes down in history as the greatest quarter back ever in football.
The whole deflategate controversy reminds me of when my workplace health insurance continually made errors and when called out on any errors said they were unintentional and accidental (i.e., due to sloppiness). In comparing notes among ourselves, we saw that almost all such errors were in their favor. At this point we realized that errors which ran about 50-50 in who they benefited would be evidence of sloppiness, but errors that ran almost entirely in their favor were evidence of fraud.
11 out of 12? Evidence of fraud.
Bill
I would mention a few things on Deflategate:
1. It is becoming apparent the officials never checked over the balls prior to the game even though the rules require it.
2. every quarter back in football has a routine for preparing the balls for the game, be it overinflating the ball (Brett Farve), scuffing up the ball, etc. There is a long list of stuff that would be done to the football according to the specifications of the many NFL quarterbacks.
3. so far the NFL has found no proof of wrongdoing by anyone except the officials who apparently never checked over the balls
prior to the game.
4. Even if the ball was inflated properly the Colts would still have lost 45-7. It most likely would have had no effect on the score.
......Or maybe you're grasp of the english language is such that your question is not as clear as you think it is. (Maybe lost in translation/culture?)
Obviously different people have different standards, and the guys here will vary from the general population. My hair, for instance, is nearly to my waist, and having to cut it to even mid-back would make it feel "short" to me.
That being said, I think that shoulder length is roughly the line at which a guy is considered to have long hair by popular definition. Anything above that is just shaggy.
Here's a few more questions to ask in the Great Sea of Life:
How done is done? How rare is rare?
How cold is cold? How hot is hot?
How smelly is smelly? How ugly is ugly?
I could go on at this game for a long long time...
The Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz has spoken -- and spoken he has, oh Oz Wizard of such Power and Greatness! (LOL)
- Ken
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Hi Ken,
Oh yes, I think you hit the nail right on the head with your brilliant response my friend ;) Couldn't think of a good answer to such a difficult question but again, you nailed it! Cheers
Mârk