hair cutting diary
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Category: Long Hair Happenings
Forum Name: Long Hair Support
Forum Description: Growing it long takes commitment and support.
URL: https://talk.hairboutique.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=725
Printed Date: July 30 2025 at 9:57pm
Topic: hair cutting diary
Posted By: Erinlynn
Subject: hair cutting diary
Date Posted: July 19 2003 at 10:29pm
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i am obsessed..obviously. Im experienceing the world with mid back lenght hair for the first time in several years. Observations: 1. Some people noticed that my hair went from past my bottem to mid back and they loved the change. Other people, even close to me people who see me every day, didnt notice at all!!! Not at all. amazeing. 2. Others still concider it long even if I dont. Its still longer than alot of people. 3. Its more fun to play with and toss and touch although i think if i cut it to my waist it would be just as fun. 4. I can see the small of my back! how nice. 5. i can leave it down more often even at work yea!!! its still long...okay no ones going to call me rapunzel for a while but its nice to not have everyone mention how long my hair is all the time. |
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Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: July 20 2003 at 11:53am
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Okay, and now Im slightly depressed that my hair isnt at my waist at least...but it will grow back. i might as well enjoy having cute bouncy ponytails instead of long heavy tails...plus when I do curl my hair the curls will be full and stay in. When my hair reached past my tail bone I started feeling like I had a tail, like a long horse tail. Does that sound weird? so at least now i dont feel like Ive grown a tail. ------------- |
Posted By: Tódia
Date Posted: July 20 2003 at 12:27pm
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WELCOME, ERINLYNN! ------------- Annette |
Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: July 20 2003 at 1:44pm
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Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: July 20 2003 at 3:29pm
Erinlynn, it sounds like you're ready to have waist-length hair... now. How fast does it grow and how far away from waist-length is it? Since you've had it that long (and beyond), I'm sure you'll get there again.  ------------- |
Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: July 20 2003 at 5:05pm
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Hi Dave, Well Im not sure how fast it grows. I never measured its growth before, but its fast enough that I dont worry about reaching long lenghts. Im going to pay more attention this time to how long it gets each month. My hair was getting close to knee lenght...it was a bit longer than as far as my fingertips could reach with out stretching. Now my hair is 25.5 inches long and is just below my bra strap...I think my waist is about 6 or so inches from that...less than a hands lenght...but Im not useing a ruler its just an estimation. I ought to thouroughly enjoy my "short" hair while I can since i will spend less of my time and life with shorter hair. now is the time for me to audition for community plays and not hide its lenght. ------------- |
Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: July 21 2003 at 1:32pm
It worked!! Ah! But do I really want this picture up??? This is my short hair cut.  ------------- |
Posted By: ChopdeToad
Date Posted: July 21 2003 at 3:11pm
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Good you cut it! Cut it more! I WILL CUT IT!!! FOR YOU!!! HA! ------------- Ah wha! Ha! Hee! Skip and dance! |
Posted By: Laine1998
Date Posted: July 21 2003 at 4:20pm
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Erin If that is your "short" hair..I hate to see what the people with REALLY short hair would be called around you..lol just kidding.. Your hair looks very nice, good luck with growing it back out!  ------------- |
Posted By: SuperGrover
Date Posted: July 21 2003 at 4:53pm
ROTFLMAO again! This guy is hilarious! It's best when you imagine him talking in a Beavis-like voice. What a funny troll. Too bad we'll probably have to block him, huh? ------------- "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" |
ChopdeToad wrote:Posted By: princessmonica
Date Posted: July 21 2003 at 7:04pm
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oh erinlynn if that is short i'm sure half of us here wished it looked like that! it's just short to you because you have had your hair longer in the past. hang in there. you have pretty hair and a pretty face! i'm sorry to be nosey excuse my rudness, how old are you? you look young? ------------- http://www.msnusers.com/monicasanders - http://www.msnusers.com/monicasanders |
Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: July 21 2003 at 8:28pm
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Hi Erinlynn, thanks for sharing your photo with us! Your hair is very nice. And you look happy! Our troll's device would need to be heightened to achieve his objective. heh heh  You got it, SuperGrover... it's the Beavis voice. Of course, then what does Butthead say? "Shut up, Beavis." Butthead was never so wise as he is now.  ------------- |
Posted By: Laine1998
Date Posted: July 22 2003 at 12:12am
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Supergrover.. That Beavis and butthead comment had me rolling....I can SO see him saying that... he he cut it..hehe dude, you just said to cut it..he he he lol thanks for giving my morning a laugh!!! ------------- |
Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: July 22 2003 at 6:57am
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Yes Im young, 25. Although age is relative and Ive no idea what age anyone else is here. It is still short to me. All relative. I actualy admire short cuts on others. But I just cant see myself in one unless it was that "cut it for a week and it magicaly grows all back at the end" senerio. how old are you? ------------- |
Posted By: SuperGrover
Date Posted: July 22 2003 at 10:04am
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You don't look 25! But I'm 24, and people think I look younger. I went to a party once with my friend who is a very mature 17, and everyone guessed that she was older. It couldn't have been the hair though! She has waist length beautiful chestnut colored hair. Mine is only BSL. But in general... Why do people with short hair look older? Maybe our long hair keeps us happy and gives us youthful exhuberance? Erinlynn, is that a molted snake skin hanging from the bulletin board on the right??? Gross! I wish I were in Florida though. I love Florida. ------------- "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" |
Posted By: princessmonica
Date Posted: July 22 2003 at 11:42am
i'm sorry if i offended you by me asking your age  i'm 29 and people still think i'm in my teens. again i'm sorry erinlynn.------------- http://www.msnusers.com/monicasanders - http://www.msnusers.com/monicasanders |
Posted By: Karen Shelton
Date Posted: July 22 2003 at 11:51am
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Hi PrincessMonica, I agree, you have the energy and enthusiasm of a teenager but it is very refreshing and inspiring. :-) Hugs, Karen ------------- That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger or drives you totally insane. :-) |
Posted By: princessmonica
Date Posted: July 22 2003 at 1:56pm
thank you karen it used to bug me alot before. now i figure i have alot of time to be ''older''since it's the last year of my 20's i'm making the most of it. saturday is my husband's birthday. i keep teasing him how lucky he is to have a younger wife still in her 20's LOL!  next year i can't say that! not that my husband is old, he will be only 33. he looks young too.------------- http://www.msnusers.com/monicasanders - http://www.msnusers.com/monicasanders |
Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: July 22 2003 at 3:25pm
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Oh no, Im not offended at all =) As long as you dont think I sound immature I am happy...besides its not a bad thing for people to think you look younger than you are. Sometimes I feel no older than I was 15 years ago. In fact, I belive i read somewhere in here that someone looks the same in pictures from way back when. Well, my highschool photos look very much like todays...except Im a tad bit heavier. ------------- |
Posted By: princessmonica
Date Posted: July 22 2003 at 4:34pm
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i'm glad i didn't offend you i think you are a wonderful addition to the long hair support board. ------------- http://www.msnusers.com/monicasanders - http://www.msnusers.com/monicasanders |
Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: July 23 2003 at 7:22am
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SuperGrover, yep its a snake skin. I found it one of the first days out in the feild when I started my job here...It was like a gift and good sign that this new job will go well =) I know that might sound silly. But anyways, I like snakes. Now that Im swtiching jobs i wonder if I should take it with me or leave it here in the office. The last time i tried to keep a skin through a move it crumbled. When I worked at the state park we had this old historical fort/spanish styled castle with a barred up basement. No one went in the basement! One day someone knocked the barracades over and opened up the door. I was surprized to find this and ended up takeing a few of the parks guests (whom had gone to all my nature programs that week) down to take a look. We found hanging from a ceiling pipe the larges molt Ive ever seen. that must have been some snake! I expected the family to want to keep it but they insisted I use it in programs but with the condition that I keep it and not the park. We had several other smaller molts so that wasnt a problem...I ended up keeping it. Untill I moved and it was crushed. Ah, i miss my salty home. Wakeing up crisp in the morning and tasteing the salt in the air (the park was on the ocean and a saltmarsh). Breathing in the fresh marsh smells (I may be nuts but I love it). Mmmmm. Squishy mud in my toes. Sandy waves at my feet. The sun mirrored. My hair tosseled and lifted by the ocean breeze. AH! My mermaid hair is gone! Oysters and oyster catchers with thier orange beaks. My lovely periwinkle snails. i love snails. Where am i going? To work with birds...scrub jays! I hope I am as passionate with upland species as I am with my wetland crowd. ------------- |
Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: July 23 2003 at 8:18am
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I am thoroughly depressed. Is it the haircut? Or is it my job? Friday is my last day here and then I begin a new job on monday. Sigh...Maybe its a combination of both. ------------- |
Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: July 23 2003 at 8:26am
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Now dont laugh...if youve noticed the change in my picture. How embaressing. ------------- |
Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: July 23 2003 at 9:23am
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Okay, interesting enough after writing about the snake skin in my office it fell off my board for the first time in 2 years since i put it up!!! Is that a sign that it wants to go with me? It didnt break or anything, i didnt disturb it...yet it fell down... ------------- |
Posted By: psycobitch
Date Posted: July 25 2003 at 1:58am
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I think itīs in the eyes of people the image they create... Now that I have been both long and short haired I see that itīs maby because many times when people get married, get families etc. etc. they tend to cut their hair short. So short hair IS considered more mature. And less intimidating. (you remember the song" get a haircut and get a real cut") And I can tell you the lenght of your hair determinates by far how people treat you! ...canīt wait to get my long hair back... ------------- Wings |
Posted By: gmoney
Date Posted: July 25 2003 at 10:52am
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Hi Erinlynn, All I can say is that you look absolutely amazing now, and I can only imagine what you looked like before when you were a rapunzel princess goddess! Personally, I'd love to think that you will grow your hair back, but that is your choice entirely...it is your hair and you have to live with it. Whatever you do, just make sure that it is what makes you the most happy, and none of us can have any complaints about that. Best wishes, John ------------- |
Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: July 25 2003 at 1:02pm
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Yes, I will let it grow back. Thank you for the lovely comments =) Next time I decide I need a cut I think I will go no further than my waist. Is that still long enough? =) ------------- |
Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: July 25 2003 at 2:12pm
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Posted By: Gollan
Date Posted: July 25 2003 at 6:05pm
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Great picture of you in the snow. Was it terminal length at that point? Your current length of hair looks great. I'm just growing mine and learning how much work it takes to keep long hair. You obviously take very good care of yours. Thanks for sharing your experiences. I hope the new job is going well. ------------- |
Posted By: SuperGrover
Date Posted: July 26 2003 at 1:38am
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Take the snake skin with you! Even though it's gross!!! Ew. I would recommend stopping by a florist shop and asking to buy a box like the kind they'd put roses in. They will probably give it to you for free, especially if you explain what you need it for! T ------------- "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" |
Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: July 26 2003 at 5:36pm
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Hi, It wasnt at terminal lenght...I dont know what my terminal lenght is but the snow pictures dont even show my hair at its longest before I cut it. If genetics is any indication I know my aunts hair went to the floor. Maybe next time my hair is that long i'll continue to let it grow. But that was the problem. I was going to trim my hair around the time I took the snow pics but then didnt do it...then my hair got longer and I was constantly putting it up or else getting it caught in things...sigh. As for the snake skin it went to a fellow coworker who is going to put it in his office =) Im happy about that since he gave me a fallen moth he found. I LOVE moths! ------------- |
Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: August 03 2003 at 1:08pm
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Hi Erinlynn! Sorry for the late response... I hope you enjoyed the first week on your new job! Great photo of you in the snow... lovely! It must have been chilly in the scheherazade outfit. p-b, I do remember the George Thorogood (sp?) song, "Get a haircut and get a real job" I first heard it in 1994 (I think, when the tune was newly-released) and at the time my hair was starting to get long, and coincidentally I was out of work. But it didn't deter me in my belief that I would find work without having to get a haircut. ------------- |
Posted By: Nicky
Date Posted: August 03 2003 at 5:27pm
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I went through the same as you not long back, my haircut is just like yours. I loved the different feel of not having it on my thighs but still being really long. Having it cut felt lovely too. You look beautiful cos you're brave. |
Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: August 04 2003 at 9:31pm
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Thanks Nicky. It was brave of me...and at least I didnt cry =) ------------- |