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At the high school I go to, long hair among guys seems to be a growing fad now. At the moment there's approx. 6 beginner long hairs including myself in our sophomore class, and rising. Is it coincidedntal or is growing long hair seem to be popular among teens? And should growing long hair be common among teens? (I've no intentions of cutting it) or could that be my adolesence talking? Anyway I've recieved lots of support from my family seeing that I'm the first to start growing my hair long and they believe it's a great idea. My aunt is the manager of a hair salon and she and her daughters/my cousins who are like childhood friends to me are just dying to style it.
Also, if anyone has experienced this, but I'm going through a stage I'd like to call my "Big Bangs" theory. Baisicly, there's two groups of my bangs gathered up and sometimes hang infront of my face blinding me. But they've grown long enough I can control them a bit more.
Finally, I can put my hair into a small ponytail but I feel that I should wait until the end of summer (which is when my hair grows fastest) to start considering it. Are there any suggestions for styles I can use for now until then? And please no dreads, they slow down the growing process and everyone at my school will think I'm a junkie. Everything else is great, thanx!
To me, it seems like the popular style is more medium length hair than actual long hair. Might just be where I'm from, though. In a school of 2000+ students, I know of one guy who has longer hair than me, and he's a Sikh. I wouldn't consider mine all that long, either.
I think it started with medium length hair, but I am beginning to see genuinely long haired teenage guys.
Actually, it felt pretty odd when I walked into Burger King and there was a teenager behind the counter with hair as long as mine the other day. I am middle aged and was trailing a wife and two kids. He looked cool, but does he really want to look like me?
When I was 15-18 there was a phase where most of the guys at some point experimented with long hair, for most it never really made it past midlength or awkward stage. It seems quite common for teenagers to try out long hair, and more power to them.
Also I know what you mean about big bangs, I have the classic symptoms. I've even started to trip over things because I try not to look down when I'm walking otherwise my hair falls in my face. :-)
Generally if I'm out walking anywhere I'll try to avoid this "big bangs" problem by putting my hair into a half ponytail. Its a pretty functional style and also looks pretty slick, maybe you should try it until your hair is long enough for a "safe" ponytail.
Should be interesting to see who cuts their hair and who doesn't. I know a few people a year or two younger than me, who started to grow their hair about a year ago and 6 months ago. They seem really serious about it, and I support them, but I'll be interested to see if any of them cut their hair, and why.
Another thing, most teens grow their hair long to either rebel, or to resemble someone.
I decided to grow my hair long when I was 17 (3 years ago now), but it's only just at sholder length now because I've made many a mistaken hair cut. I'm also growing my undercut back (about 1cm now), and eventually, when the highest point is at chest length, I'll level all of my hair off again and be done with it.
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Nichol
BTW, my head isn't always that red. Pic was taken the same day I got it done, so I had razor wash.
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Nichol
There are a lot of teens in my high school/area that have long hair and teens that are growing it. So long hair is back "in" for us teens. However, I always wanted long hair ever since 3rd grade. My best friend at that point had this "mushroom hair cut" and to me it was long. When I was in 5th grade; I would watch this show called "boy meets world". This kid named Shawn (Cory's older bother to)had medium legnth hair and I wanted it. I always tried growing it out, but ended up cutting it. Because I could not endure the awkward stage...until now! So I made my goal to grow my hair out and the rest is history!
Yeah, it's great to see a new generation interested in long hair! I've been hanging around this board since the late 1990s, and I've definitely seen a trend in the participation here. At the beginning of that time, only a few teens posted here. Now teens are by far the most active group!
Bill
At my comprihensive school, there are about 8 longhairs alltogether. There are around 1000 students in total. I will make the 9th or 10th hopefully by sep/oct. Long hair is definately in fashion in my school because in fact, most of the girls I know prefer long hair on guys and now people are really starting to realize this. But considering average growth, they will have to wait nearly 2 years to look long, and by then most will have cut it off. Lucky I know more than them when it comes to hair:)
Hi my name is ben i think i am the same stage as you with growing my hair!! Yea a recon it is starting to become popular for boys to grow their hair.
There ia about 4 kids at my school with long hair which is well cool. Well i am to much of a coward to do anything to my hair at school and just leave it down!! but if you wanted to i would try using an alice band have you ever seen then, they are like a hair band but goes all around your head really cool. David Bekam used to ware one. Made out of plastick and i get the ones which are black they have like zig zag pattent on them you can get them anywar in any girly hair shop !!
God luck
I appreciate the advice and the info of you guys gave me explaining the early stages of what to experience, especially for a medium-long hair like myself. All in a;; thanx;).
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When I was in high school 3 years ago, there was a period where I was the only long hair in the school. In fact, people took flack for having anything longer than 2 inches long. The popular style taht 90 percent of them had was what was called the "Fade Cut". Now, 3 years later I see many high school kids that have either shaggy, or shoulder length hair. In fact many of them look up to me now, it's really odd.
Kudos to you for not caving into peer pressure, and for being an engine rather than a caboose. Now a few years later you can see the results are very rewarding. Absalom
