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Hi, i have always wanted to grow my hair long because i listen to metal and i wanna head bang with hair flailing around. so after it gets really bushy what do i do after wards?
Just let it keep growing. You may also consider using hair products like gel or something.
alright! metal rules! as does headbanging.
the bad news is, decent long hair takes about 2-3 years to grow so, its time to play the waiting game.
when it gets really bushy you wait for gravity to kick in and watch it all drop downwards.. i assume you have curly hair considering you use the term bushy?
OK - but not too many of them...
But I recently highlighted 5 or 6 good reasons for getting maintenance trims. However as Elizabeth quite rightly said maintenance trims are mostly cosmetic - but I ask you what is a hairstyle if its not cosmetic?
http://the-light.com/mens/messages/55951.html
Better let me know that answer. Always thought "Cosmetics" were something applied.............NOT grown. Haircuts can help what when growing your hair out? Certainly they curtail gaining on length no matter which way you look at it. Think I have read more "moaning" on this board about those who "thought" a haircut (to even things out) would be the answer. I am quite sure for the most part that the writer regretted very much getting that "trim" in the beginning stages. It only held him back by months.........sometimes many. The writings of Bill C. on growing long hair I believe the best advice of all.............and it WORKS!
Well I try to think of my hair as something other than a wheat field.
Crops are grown... Hair is styled...
So I guess I agree with your statement, cosmetics are something that are applied, not grown.
But If you ignore apply a comestic touch and instead just grow your hair then all you have is "long hair" - personally I'd rather have a "long hair style." I think there is a difference.
Good point. Thanks! :-)
I had been tyring to help your case, Sorted. ;-) A summary of my views: Trims are cool for those that want that look. Uncut ends are cool for those that want that look.
Trims are for cosmetic reasons, to acheive a desired look but the lack of them does not imply a lack of style. It is not a strict division of race for speed at any cost or look good while growing. Believe it or not, there are some about deliberately after the uncut look because they find it the most aesthetically pleasing. It is just pure luck that fairy tale ends do not have the same pressure of timely upkeep. That handy convenience is certainly not to be confused with a lack of style. In fact, sometimes these handsome men are setting it.
Elizabeth
Hi Elizabeth
I wasn't trying to use your words against you, and I know you were trying to help my case with your comment about cosmetic, but it got me thinking much more deeply.
I'm not sure a lack of trims implies a lack of style, but style is for me something that is crafted in some way, and this crafting doesn't have to be done by trimming. A cosmetic touch can be applied in many ways and it doesnt have to high maintenance. It can be something as simple as brushing your hair each day when you roll out of bed.
All I'm saying is that everything we do to our hair is "cosmetic" (provided we do something!) Not just maintenance trims, so what is a hairstyle if its not comestic?
Don't worry, Sorted, you are still well in with me. Consider this though. If blunt ends were found to be some rare person's actual growth pattern and they did nothing to their hair and it still looked great anyway, even uncombed or washed, would it no longer be a style in your view?
I trim one strand at a time, dusting off the splits, to preserve the tapered, "fairy tale ends" appearance I prefer. Another person may have that very look from no upkeep. Does one of us have a style and the other not, although visually there is no difference?
Inquiring gently into your thought process,
Elizabeth
Great!
Certainly not, you don't have to have blunt ends to have a hairstyle, there are many popular haristyles that involve a really "jagged cut". Texturising for example (very popular in short styles) involves cutting 'into' the ends of the hair and that's very much part of the sytle.
Personally I don't believe its possible to achieve what you describe without taking some basic steps to care for your hair, so you question is purely hyperthetical. Lets face it no-one can roll out of bed and hit the streets day after day, without brushing, washing or cutting their hair at some point. Atleast not without looking a complete mess.
Hyperthetically though, - if I saw your "perfect hair person" I would probably qualify them as having a hairstyle, so your hypothesis kicks my idea that "style has to crafted" into touch. [Thank god that reality still largely proves me right ;-)]
I have grown my hair several times from very short to shoulder length and longer, I never was happy with short hair. If you take care for your hair all the time, that means especially detangle it carefully and avoid combing through knots, it can help to avoid length restrictions through breakage.
Helpful for me was using a rinse after shampooing on the strands of the hair and a wide toothed hard rubber saw cut comb.
Another try could be to use hair vitamins like Ultra Hair Plus or Biotin, I think it is possible that it improves the life time period of the single hair and consequently it would increase the length.
wolfgang