Quick quiz -- your hair length as a child

Hi,

Until I was about 7 years old my mom let me grow my hair long and I had a mid-length ponytail. Then my mom got a bug to get me perms. UGH. I looked like Shirley Temple and hated it. The perms ruined my hair so my aunt (who cut my hair in her basement) chopped it up into a weird bob thing. I hated that so I refused to let anyone touch my hair until 6th grade. Then I went with a pixie because it was the "hot" look at the time.

By Freshmen in HS I had a super short cut with long shaggy bangs and two "side burns". I had short hair all through HS and into college.

For my senior photo my best friend Linda Kacic teased my hair into a big hair look and I had one tiny "flip" on side that looked a little like a shark fin or a propeller. Unfortunately that horrible photo of me with the fin shows up at every HS reunion and it will probably show up somewhere that I don`t want it to. :-)

By my 2nd year in college I was growing my hair and had a I Dream Of Jeannie style. From that point on I flirted with longer locks including my own version of a long Farrah but never got my hair to my waist until I started growing it in the late 80s. Although it is still growing slowing it is really stuck about 5 inches below my waist. I just got 1 inch trimmed off because it was splitting from a variety of reasons including my lack of attention. :-(

Great topic. Thank you. I have loved all the hair stories.

Best wishes,
Karen

Mine was mid back until I was nine and since then its been going from shoulder length to bobs ever since. Its now three inches below my ears and I`m 16. I want it 5 inches below my shoulders. My dad wouldn`t let me get it cut when I was little, not sure why but I`m grateful for no pixie cuts at a young age.

My hair isn`t long right now but was when I was young. I didn`t cut it until 7th grade. (what a disaster!)

I went for a cut & perm. (I should`ve known better when the salon made you PAY FIRST!)

my back was to the mirror the whole time and when she was done I went from long semi-curly silky hair at waist level to cotton candy frizz above my shoulders! <<<< shudder>>>>>

I swear that nearly every woman that I "know" who had a pixiecut as a child hated it!

So why on earth did our moms do this to us?!

In all fairness, I do understand that long hair on some little girls just will not work. A friend of mine very much loves long hair, but her 3-year-old just threw a fit every time she tried to comb her hair. However, the little girl was spared a pixie! Her mom cut kept it to just below the shoulders. It was perfect -- short enough to be manageable with tangles, yet long enough for barrettes and little pigtails.

Jennifer

My hair varied from shoulder length and longer with fringe as a kid. It got cut quite short through school and then I grew it really long, then came the dyes and my hair`s been short ever since!

from 4-5 my hair was mid back.
from 5-8 my hair was chin length.
from 9-12 my hair was just past shoulders.
and Im 13 and it`s just past shoulders and layered.

short short short so now at last getting longer!

i`ve alwayz had long hair (usually around my waist). my mom never cut it when i wuz little. in 4th - 8th grade i totally hated my hair but mom never let me cut it- thanx! i`ve gradually learned 2 luv it and now i`d never cut it!

When I was one year to four I blond hair, curly, and it was below my shoulder.
When I was six to ten my hair was light brown and cut short.
Ten and older my hair was above my shoulder and curly again.

Full length - somewhere around the waist until my aunt decided I wasn`t "stylish" enough. Then first came the inch long bangs (remember I`m OLDE) then shorter and shorter.

Never did like it short...gabi