Have you always had long hair?

AnaisSatin wrote: Hey Sasumi, that sounds like MY hair journey! We have kind of similar hair type too, except yours has very well-defined waves. Purdy Anais

Oh, thanks! I personally adore your hair.

And was that Sailor Mercury you were talking about in your above post...?

I've had my hair super long and super short and EVERYWHERE in between! In grade school it was mostly long, then in high school it was mostly short, then college mostly right in the middle at medium. Currently my hair is waist length but It's getting chopped to collar bone length this weekend.

I've always had short hair. Mostly because when I was a kid I thought long hair was "girly."  And from then on I just stuck with short hair, even though all my family members and haircutters wanted me to grow it out. I finally decided to listen to them...

I started with my hair being jaw-length in June (of this year), and now it's touching my  shoulders.  My goal is hip-length.

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Hey Sarah....your hair looks FANTASTIC!!!!  Well done girl

i used to have my hair cut a hell of a lot i wud never have been able to keep track, but 2 years ago i finally decided i wanted to grow my hair!(thank god)im still not satisfied with the length, i want it longer!

My whole childhood I always had short hair, my mom kept getting it cut off because she didn't want to deal with brushing anything longer than shoulder length (though half those years it was in a boy cut, and being a kid, I was frequently mistaken for a boy).  So I hadn't had short since I was 14 (except for 3 years ago when I had to get the ear length bob), I always kept it about bsl.  It got to my waist once without my knowing it (saw the back of myself in someone's photo...that's how much I didn't pay attention to my hair!) That was in early college.  I didn't know how to care for it then though, and it was a mess (fried due to dye ...was red dye back then...and straggly as heck because I went 2 years without any trims) so it got cut back to bsl to get rid of the worst parts.  I always wanted long hair, but never thought it would ever grow that long.  I didn't realize the importance of care and trims for mine.

I had hip length hair when i was a child, my father loves long hair and my 3 younger sisters and I all had longer hair. I the longest. We used to look like 4 twin miniture barbie dolls with really blonde hair in the summers.

When i got the chance i cut it of to sholder length and didn't regret it for a second (I was 10 at the time). My father was so sad. I have had waist lenth hair once when I was 13 but otherwise it's been between sholders - BSL.

Anais, it's Strange, since i've gotten into organic and natural bodycare/haircare and herbs/flowers in general I also became a pagan. I guess I always have been but i just figured out not long ago what to "call" it. 

Since I was a little kid I've always had short hair in a combination bob-pixie. I wanted to look like Ami Mizuno. That and, I didn't care about my hair except that it should smell good and be "easy".

Then about three years ago I made a hair bet with my best guy friend, and that got me doing research about hair. I joined various messageboards and turned into a natural body care nut (after converting from Bath & Body Works Pseudo-Existentialism) and then I became Pagan-hippie in general.

and now my hair is the longest it's EVER been, and I'm dating the guy. Never been happier with my physical self!  

Anais

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Pretty much, yes.  One time I did get a 'trim' up to shoulder length as a kid.  Right now it is at the longest I have ever had it.  But I had a variety of long styles over the years- the long-layered look, the Farrah-look (as a kid), all mostly one length and so forth.  For a time I grew my bangs out, then would cut them again.

I'll be 30 at the end of March.

For the first 15 years my hair was never longer than maybe 4 inches.
Years 16-18 it got a little longer but never longer than about 6-8 inches.
In April 1994 I was finally 18 and no longer forced to have short hair. But I was tired of listening to Mom complain so I decided I would go on my own and get it cut my way without telling anyone. I had to walk up to the post office anyway to register for selective service or whatever it's called.
I cut my then 8 inch hair to about 3 inches. I have been growing that out since then. I have had some big trims and some periods of staying at the same length for a while but once it got below my shoulders it has stayed there. And at the moment I have no plans to ever go above my current length which is about 34 inches. I want 36" to be my minimum when I reach it. That's about tailbone on me.

Note: the shorter lengths were measured by individual strands. The longer lengths were measured forehead up and over to the back.


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