what is long and other comments

I just discovered this board...teehee! Its exciteing. bear with me!

I want to comment on a thread about militants. Whilst my hair was waist lenght or longer I have had MANY people come tell/ask me to donate it. I had a woman approch me at my job when I was working at the beach. Ive had several people approch me in the mall, walmart and other public places. Ive had coworkers suggest it. I avoid a certain mall during a certain donation drive each year. So if you have nice long hair you ARE going to be approched with donation causes. Why? becasue people care about cancer kids and rightly so.

I also want to comment about the laziness. Really long hair does not equal laziness. It takes a long time to dry even if its just air drying. Its harder to wash and keep clean and out of things. Its harder to style. If i wanted to curl my hair I would have to use more than one sponge curler for each strand. Its harder to braid and takes longer to style, braid, and brush.

Now a long style that is not super long is defiately easier, but hey, I hear more comments from short haired gals that thier own hair is so easy to manage. All they do is wash and go. Of course most longs dont deal with bed hair. But shorts dont deal with containing the hair. Its a trade off.

Okay, now my question:

What is concidered long? My hair is now a bit past mid back and I concider it short. Why? Well i just cut it from almost my knees...that to me was long! Its funny how my perception has changed. i dont see waist lenght as long anymore either...lol!

Anyways do you all still concider my little past mid back lenght long? (Im hoping so...)

I'll say right away than anything longer than a human hand is long. Mid-back is fine. As for your decision to cut to "a little shorter, I hope you did it because you chose to and not due to this pressure.


This forum is a great hangout, it's not perfect, but for some of us, it's a digital home (or at least one of them :P)

Hey Erilynn,

This is probably showing my age but your comments about how much work hair can be make me think about when I was small; I used to watch the older girls roll their hair onto clean orange juice concentrate cans and fasten them down with large bobby pins. I don't remember anyone ironing her hair, but I'm sure they did that, too! Thankfully, blowdryers, curling irons (!), conditioners, better styling aids and changed attitudes toward hair appeared soon after, so I missed all that. Oh, and welcome to the board!

Jean

Hi Erinlynn, welcome to the Long Hair Support board!

Gee, I don't think of my knee-length hair as "freakish." (rhetorical question upcoming...) Why should it be seen as freakish? If anything is "freakish," it is the contempt that some people have for those of us who choose to allow our hair to grow very long. Seriously.

Erinlynn wrote: Freakish was actualy a word someone described my lenght as.

Of course, it's always others who describe super-long hair as being freakish. I've heard it too.

Erinlynn wrote: However, I should rather have just said I dont like my hair being connected to particular religions. Especialy since I dont affiliate with any religion and I despise those that require you to dress or look certain ways. i was just tired of people asking if i belong to this or that and if that was the reason my hair was so long.

These are opportunities to enlighten people that religion is not the only reason people might choose to wear their hair really long. A simple "no" to their question lets them know that the hair is not long for religious reasons. I would assume that people would think I wear my hair long because I like it that way (which is the truth, by the way), and not necessarily for any other reason.

Ughg. The religion comment. I'd reply something sadly very offensive, maybe in the line of stfu-kthx-bye-ism ... seriously, desire is all you need.

I think anything past the shoulders would be considered long (maybe one inch past the shoulders?) I've always thought of shoulder length or just above shoulders being "medium", and chin or shorter being "short".

But I don't think the definitions matter much. These mean different things to different people, which is why I always specify inches when I'm going in for a trim (e.g, please only take off 1 inch!)

I even bring my ruler with me to show my stylist. Some people don't know what an inch looks like! I take no chances.

Elissa

You threaten a mile?
I’ll hack off your smile!
Ponder it’s painful removal awhile…

No sadness will you create with your blade
No treasured tresses succumb to your raid
Uzi stands strong and with one mighty braid…

Sent into the dreams of hair-hating folk
Wrapping round necks and tightening to choke
One mighty braid with it’s iron-like grip
And barbed wire bristles unlikely to slip

Shall turn dreams of snipping to nightmare and fear
On hair-hating faces will terror appear
Unweilding, the hair rope will banish all thought
Of razors whereby hair torture is wrought

So bald toad, frog spawn…whatever you are
I banish your cutters to the well of despair
Where I bind you now to spend your days
Without sunlight or starlight to brighten your stay

Thus speaks the Hand-maiden of Un-Cut Ends
Defender of all her long-hair loving friends
The protection of tumbling tresses I vow
With black shining locks into battle I go!!!