Well, here in scorching hot Florida, waist length is a rarity. I spot thigh length maybe once a year....It is definitely important to become well practiced in the art of braiding during the torturous months of summer!
I am so looking to feeling my hair at my elbows and waist!! Sometime next year my hair will reflect my soul. (hopefully, if it is still on the 1/2" track.
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count me in for tailbone length but who knows the more it grows the more i love it i keep moving the length. the longer it grows the longer i want it lol. as for now tailbone
How long would I grow it??? Well it is nearly mid-back now. Would I want it longer???Maybe a little past my wiast would be long enough. I keep it trimmed at my current length however, just haven''''t gotten around to growing it longer.
My new hair-buddies are way out of my league. One has tailbone length hair at age 21, and the other is at thigh length at age 24. I'm the oldie of 38, at just past shoulder-length learning from these young lasses .
I hope you find some chums that you can "talk hair" with in RL. But if not, you still have all of us here .
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you kill me, honey.
If I see anyone furtively weighing their hair in the fruit section at the supermarket, I'll know who is responsible for that crazy act...YOU, ya mad gal...tee hee
Thanks for the invitation, Uzi! I wish I could go. I'd love to visit England someday. I'm so pathetic. I'm 24 and I don't even have a passport yet! Gunther wouldn't be so excited about coming, however. That's a long plane ride to endure without a litter box!
Ahem, anyway... I agree. It would be great to have a local friend to hang out with and play with hair. Share conditioner. :)
As for weighing hair... couldn't you just get a basket-like scale? Like they have in the produce section? If you stood very near to the scale, or stood with your head hovering just above it, and put all your hair in the basket, I think you'd get a pretty accurate reading. I don't however recommend trying this at your local grocery store. No THAT would gross out your fellow customers and probably attract some store employees real fast. But in theory... :)
And I should think you could weigh your head this way, if you wanted. You'd have to lie down on a bed, with your head sticking off the head of the bed. Then put the scale right there, and relax and let the scale hold your head. You'd have to have your shoulders and neck supported by the bed.
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"Hair is a part of you. It is not a part of me, because I am a frog." - Kermit the Frog on Sesame Street1b/N/ii ~ ??"/27"/32"
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Years ago a magazine ( I think it was New Scientist or Omni) asked the question 'how do you weigh your head?' The issue being, without decapitating yourself how do you only weigh the head and not any part of the body - if you put your head on the scales of course your body is adding to the total mass weighed.
'How do you weigh your hair?' as a much harder question :-) Lets say you are not allowed to cut it all off and put it on the scales...
As another 'hair maths' question - we know that hair appears shorter when plaited as it weaves rather than is straight. There ought to be a direct relationship between hair thickness and length 'lost'......
''A single open mind can open any door' Sonia Rutstein
Uzma - I have yet to find a "long hair" afficionado in person here where I live...I mean, I have friends who wear their hair long...a few inches past shoulder if that is considered long. But I think it is just the style they happen to be wearing now. They all blowdry and color it and don't really seem to have the same reverence we have for it. It would be awesome to have a live person to hang out with and braid my hair!
And if you were in London, you would not need to crash the party, you would be invited as a guest of honour…specially so if you bought Gunther with you (in which case you would be guests of honour).
Anyway, there is no reason why we can’t get creative and have an online celebration of Long Hair Happiness Day…whenever that might be….maybe we should make a date…...all suggestions welcome...
Time to update the tally of lengths:
Waist-length = 4 SuperGrover, CrazyGirl, Laine and Jacqui
Ankle-length = 2 AmandaPanda and Karrinne
Full potential length = 5 Jean, papillion_purple, Kintaro, Grenwich and myself
Well we have enough in the waist-length and full potential-length categories for making those braid you spoke of Traci.
You have me thinking ......maybe in 10 years time, those of us who have kept in touch can send each other a fallen strand of our long, long hair. We can each make a tiny multi-coloured braid as a keepsake of our achievements..~:'*':~
Don't mind me..I'm just laying a trail of dreams ………..~''*
*’:*~’:*Can you imagine us all in 10 years time…with our glorious flowing locks….*’:*~’:*
If we all got together at that time, we would create a female forest of beautiful long hair....the stuff of faerie tales and legends.. :’*’:..
LOL Then we could braid it all together into one beautiful multi-colored braid! OK, maybe that wouldn't work... you couldn't get all of us close enough together. I'm just being silly. It could work with like 4 or 5 people though. :)
Your party sounds marvelous, Uzi. Wish I lived close enough to crash it.
"Hair is a part of you. It is not a part of me, because I am a frog." - Kermit the Frog on Sesame Street1b/N/ii ~ ??"/27"/32"
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Yo mentioned a hair celebration when you reach your goal......why wait so long..????
I am planning a celebration on August 13th, when it will be exactly 1 year since scissors were used on my hair. One year of un-cut hair calls for much feasting and gifting of hair-toys and oils amongst like-minded friends.
Speaking of which, I have a few long-haired chums in real life, now. I conclude that long hair magnetically attracts it's own kind to itself .
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My ex-bf's sister cut off 18 inches of hair a few years back. We weighed it on kitchen scales and it was just over 1oz. And she had thick, abundant hair.
So not much to deduct from the scales unfortunately, Laine .
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So pleased to know you all and to be in such good 
company. 
but who knows the more it grows the more i love it 
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