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Some of you might remember a message I posted a week or so ago in which I whined about my nasty hair (split ends). Almost every hair on the outside layer was split. I spent some time pulling these hairs out, but there were just far too many, and it never really was enough to make any noticable difference. During the initial stages of growing my hair out, I payed little attention to taking care of my hair, and I dyed it often. I'm assuming this is the reason for my split ends. Anyway, after thinking it over for a few days, I had it cut short. I really didn't want to had my hair not been in such a horrid state I never would have cut it. I really can't stress how bad my hair was. I really didn't want to just cut a few inches off and start from there, either. So yes, I cut it short, and I'm very happy with the results...my self-confidence has boosted big time. It's still strange when I pass a mirror and see my short hair. So good luck to you all....maybe sometime in the future I'll decide to try again...then I'd have the knowledge to take care of it from the very beginning. Peace...
how short is it now?
Bangs just reach the top of my eyebrows. Everything else is just tapered on the sides...it wasn't clippered anywere. Looks like a little boy's haircut.
First off, it sounds like your hair has been cut nicely enough to start growing it long again. What I am getting at is this; you said you are very happy with the results and like what you see when you look in the mirror. Cool and congratulations my friend, but believe me, that newness of your new style will wear off and the longhair bug will bite very hard once again. I have done it more times than I can count. Over the last twelve years I have tried on numerous occasions to grow my hair out, but then it gets irritating from the awkward thick stage, I end up cutting it. I tell myself after cutting that what I see in the mirror is nice and new and all that jazz, but then slowely time passes and I start trying to picture myself once again with long hair. Any guy who at anytime in their life feels that desire to have long hair will always be a long hair at heart, short hair or long. That's my opinion from my own personal experiences of course. Some may disagree, but that's how I see it. Good Luck in all you do, dude! Peace!!!!!
Well, I think my problem what that long hair just wasn't "me". The reasons I grew my hair out, I'm sorry to say, were not the right ones. I kept expecting to feel better as it got longer, that I would feel more comfortable with it. The fact is, I never thought it looked good, and in being honest with myself, I never really thought it would look good on me when it grew to the length I had set out to hit. I kinda had to be honestly realize that I wasn't growing my hair out to "be myself", but I was doing it to fit this image that I had planned out. In doing so, my self-esteem went way down. After getting the cut yesterday, I noticed that I looked good in clothes I had stopped wearing when I had long hair (they didn't look good with the hair, in my opinion). I know this sounds like an infomercial or something. I don't feel guilty about cutting at all, and I don't miss the look or the hair. I was doing it for the wrong reasons, and I just kinda consciously denied it all along. So anyway, once again...good luck to you all...happy growing/flowing.
You cut it, that`s your choice. You have to be mentally strong to have long hair.