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I loved having long hair but after a big argument with my parents I had to visit a barbershop after my junior year in high school ended. Still in shock and sad.
I wanted to grow my hair like Brayden's on this board, now it seems like a long way off. Any advice would be appreciated.
Hey Brayden, how do you get away with it?
Advice? Well, it seems to me that you made the final decision (despite the pressure from your parents). So I'd say start all over again, you're still young! And start preparing your parents!
Living with your parents isn't for ever. I had to choose between my hair and being funded for my last year at college in 1977. I recently visited my mother last November and she didn't even comment on my ponytail.
So, wait until you leave home, and then try to find work where you can grow your hair.
My parents were tolerant and reasonable when I was a teenager, but long hair was out of the question. I last saw my father in April, and he politely declined from making any comment. I refrained from provoking him. He comes from a conservative background and came from a military family. He didn't even react when my sister exclaimed with surprise "Ooh, a ponytail!"
We have to respect them and not expect approval for our choices in life. For someone born in 1928 in Yorkshire, son of a Captain in the Green Howards with a distinguished war record and awarded the OBE by the Queen herself, men growing hair long just isn't done. On the other hand, he still loves his son in his mid fifties, and isn't going to tell me what to do at this stage of life.
That's life...
Didn't think it would be this short....
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xaf1/t51.2885-15/e15/11410500_908732175857122_1909698205_n.jpg
that's a drastic haircut and one good reason to avoid barber shops!
I am just wondering if your parents might have overreacted especially after a "certain celebrity" recently had a sex change after growing their hair long.
I'm dealing with such questions being raised now regarding my hair as it is longer than it used to be.
I would mention that I personally know several trans gender
individuals and even though they transitioned from male to female they both have hair that is shorter than mine. Again this goes towards the trend of women going for shorter hair.
I asked to grow it long a bunch before they let me. I think finally they were like its just hair so whatever. I think it helps that I like wearing it in a ponytail or sometimes a braid or bun now, so it is neat and out of my face. Both my mom and dad say it suits me now though, so maybe I just got lucky.
Hahaha, for me it wasn't all that easy, even after I could wear it in a ponytail, my parents still keep saying to me "Why don't you cut your hair? Are you ok? You look different, is that some kind of cult you'll been following that I didn't know?"
Besides the rejection still persisting, the only thing that matters is that I like my hair and don't care what they say to me.
