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Have you read the comment about the aging long-haired hippies, and how they wear their hair? Better hurry, the article is about to change!
I don't get it about the grey ponytails but I did see a colour picture on the front page of my paper of a blond longhair throwing back a tear gas cannister.
Talking about longhair being a symbol of rebellion, I'd say I admire that longhair for his activism, whoever he is and I don't think longhairs should be ashamed of that.
Charles
Im 55, mostly bald on top, 15 inch grey/brown ponytail, and proud of it. My type of hair will never be the all-even-one-length kind, it just breaks too easily. I won't give up though. I use gel to control the strays and keep it long. Haven't had a haircut in about 8 years and no plans to.
I've a 6 figure-salary job in a very conservative industry. I have to hide my hair length at work, but I've found a way. My 'do looks like I'm trying to hide baldness (a socially acceptable vanity) rather than hide length (a sign of coorporately unnacceptable individuallity)
On the weekends, I let it show. Frizz Ease, Straightening Balm and big schrunchies...I don't think I'll ever cut it.
Any other gray ponytails out there?
You have an interresting point David...
Hide those long hairs when there is no other way to keep them AND the job.
I am myself working in a very conservative area as an administrator. You can imagine the pressure that I'm starting to have now that my hairs are attached in a close to 12 inches pony tails (thanks to those vitamins that make them grow real fast and healty). The pressure is increasing and I was wondering how I could find a way to hide them when I'm at work should it become inevitable.
I was thinking, if ever it became necessary, to purchasse a short wig that I would put over them to come to work. I know that wearing a wig isn't very pleasant but I think that this would better than cutting those hairs that I like so very much.
Is it there anybody that did that in this forum?
Jean
(thanks to those vitamins that make them grow real fast and healthy)
Please share with us! What special vitamins are these? What improvement did they make? And, if not your normal "drugstore" variety, where did you get them?
(Sorry off the topic, but someday when my hair gets to that grey stage, I want that long and healthy look too!)
Hi Dave.
About those vitamins that you have ask me for, it is called "Nutricap".
They are available in the drug stores in the natural food and vitamins section. They claim that they are formulated especially to help the growth and heath of both hairs and nails.
If you look at:
http://pwp.starnetinc.com/dtiche/nutrient.htm
You will find all kind of elements that are good for this purpose and I found many of them in the description of those vitamins that I use and this is why I have decided to give it a trial.
I've been using them since a few months now and according to my measurement, they seems to work good. I can measure a grow rate of one inches per months. This is pretty good to my taste as I use to have a rate of half an inches per month according to the amount of hairs that I had to have cut when I use to keep them short. They are also very healthy and I've notice that I am loosing much less of them.
There are other products that I would like to try to see if it can even be better and you probably read about it – Formula 37. The advantage of the one I have chosen is that they are much cheaper to buy and more readily available for me. I don't know if you will find them in your area (I'm from Montréal, Canada) but there may be some equivalent on your local drug store.
Check the list of elements that is published on the site that I have mentioned and you can judge by yourself.
Good luck and let's keep them growing (I want mine very very long…).
Yours
Jean
Thanks for the info. I will look for them or an equivalant here in Indiana. If not, I get to the Windsor area a couple times a year and will look there. Any growth of more than 1/2 inch a month would be great!
Dear David:
I'm one of those gray ponytails, I guess -- or I would be if I stopped having the color -- umm -- adjusted occasionally. I'm about your age, I guess, but a few years ago it suddenly occurred to me that it was pretty stupid for me to keep getting my hair cut short because I *thought* other people might prefer short hair. It's been growing ever since, and when tied in a tail, is now about three inches past "shoulder length."
Now, if you're in a job where you represent your employer's firm to customers or clients, then I agree that the employer has an arguable point if he insists on a certain "look and feel" for the people he puts on display as his surrogates. If you're in any other kind of position, though, it's not really very likely that anyone will give you any grief about how you wear your hair, even if they think it's ugly or silly. Fact is, if you're good at your job and contribute to the organization's success, only the worst kind of power-tripping boss would risk alienating you over something as personal as your choice of hair style. It's not fair, but younger people are the usual victims of that kind of intolerance; old guys like us are allowed to exercise our "distinctive personal style" (if the boss likes us), or just be "that eccentric old fart" (if he doesn't).
On a slightly different note, the best laugh I got from my wife in the last month happened a couple of weeks ago when I got out of the shower one night, blotted my hair damp-dry, then pasted it up on top of my head in the most bizarre comb-over on the face of the planet. Next to *that* look, a gray ponytail is downright *distinguished*! Cheers to all.
. . . JP in san diego