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Well, my hair is shoulder length now, about 14 inches. However, I find that if my hair is loose (i.e. worn down), it constantly goes in my face (which sometimes feels nice). I was wondering if many of you find that your hair goes in your face often? I find that I almost can never wear it down because I can't see! Also, for those of you that have hair longer than shoulder length, did you find that your hair no longer, or at least not as often, got in your face after it was long enough to stay on your back? Is there a length that will allow your hair to stay on your back for the most part? I'd like to wear my down more often, but my hair constantly goes over my eyes.
I hope I don't burst your bubble here but you will always have at least some hair strands getting in your face no matter how long your hair gets. My hair is well over 3 feet long (click on my photo) and I still get flyaway hair strands in my face. Those flyaway strands are new hairs growing in to replace the old ones that have shed. You may want to try a bandanna. My friend Bill Choisser has a section on bandannas on his website. Absalom
Every morning when I go out for my coffee I wear mine down. If I'm lucky a nice breeze will come along and blow my hair around my face. I don't mind it really, in fact I rather enjoy it! What's really cool is when your hair gets even longer and blows underneath your chin and around your neck...another great joy of being a longhair!
I find that I almost can never wear it down because I can't see! Also, for those of you that have hair longer than shoulder length, did you find that your hair no longer, or at least not as often, got in your face after it was long enough to stay on your back? Is there a length that will allow your hair to stay on your back for the most part? I'd like to wear my down more often, but my hair constantly goes over my eyes.
Sometimes I'll wear a baseball cap, but there are many other things you could use, like a bandana or head band. Other than tucking behind your ears, I don't know of anything else you can do to keep it out of your eyes.
Keep it growin'!
Brett
Yes, it's true. The longer your hair gets, the easier it is to keep it out of your face (and food).
Hair will become less likely to fall in one's face the longer it gets. My hair is long enough so that gravity keeps it over my shoulders almost all the time (provided the air is calm).
I normally don't wear my hair in front as in the photo here...
Ed
You get used to it, beleive it or not!
Yeah, all the time. [grin] What's even cooler is when a spiral of it gets caught in my beard (which I keep about an inch long) and just hangs there. [wink]
What's not so cool is when you are eating and you discover the hair in your food is not the waiter's.
You can minimize it with bandannas or other hair restraints, but you can't eliminate it.
Celebrate it man, live with it man. Long hair is a living, moving thing. It is not glued to your head like a yuppie cut. Be glad it isn't.
Bill
What's even worse is when you think you found someone's hair in your food and it ends up being still attached to you.
Yeah, that was what I was talking about. I can still fondly feel that first tell-tale ping on my scalp. I was eating a hamburger on a somewhat windy day in a park by the harbor in Sausalito. My first thought was, "That friggin cook got his hair in my food! I'm gonna trot across the street and let him have a piece of my mind!" Then, as I pulled the mustard coated hair out, came the ping. Suddenly I was grinning from ear to ear. "Halleluiah! My hair is long enough to get in my mouth!"
A great milestone it was that day....
On all subsequent days this has occurred, and there have been many, the experience has not been so sweet. [grin]
Bill
...ALWAYS head for the EYES!
Even when I am sleeping with my hair tied back,
some little hairs get loose and head straight for my eyes, nose and mouth.
Once a hair (still attached) must have gotten stuck in the corner
of my eye, and I woke up with a red, irritated eye!
Sometimes just a little gel will quiet down and tame those 'naughty' hairs.
Ouch!!!
Ha ha ha! (Not laughing at you Luckskind..........but laughing with you.) Good name for those newer growth hairs. "Naughty!" Guess this part of being a Longhair is about the only downside part of it all. Still, I wouldn't trade what I presently have for anything. I too use the gel "as needed" to tame those little nastys. Best luck for myself is to sleep with the hair pulled over my head..............and using 2 pony bands rather loose. :-)
Same length as is my own.
However, I find that if my hair is loose (i.e. worn down), it constantly goes in my face (which sometimes feels nice). I was wondering if many of you find that your hair goes in your face often?
Without the band that I wear it is in the face all the time!
Not without that head-band I use.
Only a guess, but I think alot of it for 14" of growth depends on your height. The taller you are, the longer the wait. I myself am 6' tall and the hair is getting closer and closer now to the day that it WILL stay on my back most of the time. My guess? 3 more months should do the trick on this one.
...the replies, guys. Maybe I will give a bandana a try. I do like the feeling of my hair, but I just can't see because a ton of my hair seems to want to fall forward when I wear it down. Don't worry, though...cutting never even crosses my mind! :) Plus, I think some length on my hair will help as well.
Any idea on where to get a bandana? I saw one in a dollar store a few weeks ago and almost bought it, but the material fels hard as a rock!
For starters, just get the cheap $2 ones in common patterns. They are printed on thin cotton cloth, and that thickness and material works the best from the standpoint of folding them and getting ample friction against your head (so they stay on).
Some bandannas will be starched when you buy them. The starch will wash out completely with the first good washing. The thing to avoid are "specialty" bandannas that are printed on heavier cloth with the misguided notion that you will be willing to pay more for a beefier one. Beefier ones don't fold so well and they get so lumpy on your head when folded that they look a bit dorky.
As for where to buy them, clothing stores in gay neighborhoods have the widest selection of colors. This is because some gay men use bandannas as handkerchiefs in their pockets to signal certain interests. [Google "hanky code" if you are interested in that aspect; it is not appropriately discussed on a site such as this.] Other than gay clothing stores, no store really regularly has a "bandanna section". I've found them in drug stores, dime/dollar stores, motorcycle shops, truck stops, western wear shops, and even tourist-trap trinket shops, but all these places will inevitably just have a few of them, so they are not easy to spot. Often many of the ones in motorcycle shops will be polyester for some reason; avoid those. Cotton is less slippery.
Bill
...info, Bill...as always! :)
WalMart has them. I've found both blue and red ones. Not much of a selection, but they're cheap.
...I'll check it out, then!
Lots of members of rock bands seem to consider the hair-in-face style to be part of their signature and charisma. Look at all the photos of Curt Cobain, where he often had bangs hanging down his face. I've noticed ads in those glossy magazines which feature shaggy haired male models frequently show their bangs in a similar way. But I guess the irritation of hair in eyes and blocked vision is also a big reason many guys (and even women too) develop an itch to get their hair cut. Still, I think when guys are into the longhair style so enthusiastically that they don't mind or even favor free flowing bangs, that is very "kewl."
My hair is well past my shoulder blades now, and it stays behing my back nicely most of the time,except in the wind. An intesesting problem I have encounter is my hair getting caught undr my arm-pits, kind of annoying at times!
I don't like it in my face at all, so I keep it pulled back unless I know I'm going to be sitting down, in a relaxed non-active state for a while, or hiking during cold weather with a favorable wind.
The other day I swung my head around and the end of my tail swung accross my face and hit the *opposite* side of my head for the first time. That felt good.
Have you considered brushing your hair back while it's wet?
I have found that my hair tends to stay pretty much wherever I brush my hair after showering (and while it's drying). If I brush it down/forward, it will stay forward and in my face. If I brush it all back, it will stay pretty much behind back -- or at least behind my ears.
If I go for a car ride with the windows down (the weather in Chicago rocks lately!) I ALWAYS tie it back. This is the reason I carry a couple of hair ties on my keychain.
My bangs *almost* go into the tail, but they at least stay behind my ears while driving.
-MattR
