How long would you grow it?
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Topic: How long would you grow it?
Posted By: uzma Subject: How long would you grow it? Date Posted: Jun 30, 2003 at 7:27pm
Hello Long Hair Lovers
I am just wondering how long you would let your hair get? Would you stop at a particular length?
I have no idea what my growth potential is as neither of my grand-mothers nor my mother let their hair grow very long. So my personal hair growth odyssey involves a discovery of my unknown maximum length.
Do you know how long your hair will grow....or are you willing to find out..?
Thanks in advance .
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I never read the story of Rapunzel, but as an avid Tolkien admirer, I found long hair inspiration in the character of Luthien Tinuviel from the Silmarillion.
Luthien was an elven princess, of loveliness that beggared description. The most beautiful of the children of the world.
The arts of enchantment "...caused her hair to grow to great length, and of it she wove a dark robe that wrapped her beauty like a shadow..."
Luthien cast a spell into her hair and trapped it there by twining it into a rope.
It's a beautiful story, but the image of hair so long that it can be worn as a cloak around the body, is truly fascinating to me.
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Replies: 68 Posted By: uzma
Date Posted: Jun 30, 2003 at 7:27pm
Hello Long Hair Lovers
I am just wondering how long you would let your hair get? Would you stop at a particular length?
I have no idea what my growth potential is as neither of my grand-mothers nor my mother let their hair grow very long. So my personal hair growth odyssey involves a discovery of my unknown maximum length.
Do you know how long your hair will grow....or are you willing to find out..?
Thanks in advance .
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ An Interlude........
I never read the story of Rapunzel, but as an avid Tolkien admirer, I found long hair inspiration in the character of Luthien Tinuviel from the Silmarillion.
Luthien was an elven princess, of loveliness that beggared description. The most beautiful of the children of the world.
The arts of enchantment "...caused her hair to grow to great length, and of it she wove a dark robe that wrapped her beauty like a shadow..."
Luthien cast a spell into her hair and trapped it there by twining it into a rope.
It's a beautiful story, but the image of hair so long that it can be worn as a cloak around the body, is truly fascinating to me.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ), R '. `p %
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Posted By: SuperGrover
Date Posted: Jun 30, 2003 at 10:06pm
That is a nice image. I think Alanis Morissette did that in a video once?? For "Thank You".
I think I might stop at my waist. I just like the length of waist length hair. At this point it seems like my hair is growing so slowly that this will never be a concern of mine.
I do wonder how long my hair would get. I recently learned that my Great Grandmother had long hair. She lived to 100 years old! I don't really know how long her hair was. Whenever I saw her, it was in a bun. !) ic a p`` -& `b . @p )2 ,-$ ! ! $ -$ ` ,
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Posted By: 3katz
Date Posted: Jul 1, 2003 at 7:31am
As long as it will get in what is left of my lifetime, which is plenty of time. So far, it's only been as long as a little past shoulder length. Unless it becomes a royal pain, I want to see its full potential.
Jean0!!$
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Posted By: CrazyGirl
Date Posted: Jul 1, 2003 at 11:47am
Waist length for me.... $- P cn`dp0% 00BB .(4`p /.%%%,$),,!%% (,`b ."
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Posted By: papillon_purple
Date Posted: Jul 1, 2003 at 12:10pm
My current aim is BSL or waist-length, but if it happens to be able to grow longer than that, I'd be curious of my hair's natural end length.
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Posted By: uzma
Date Posted: Jul 1, 2003 at 1:17pm
Thank you for your responses, ladies.
Lets see ), R '. `p %
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Posted By: Kintaro
Date Posted: Jul 1, 2003 at 4:02pm
I know that 10x15 is 150 + 46 I have now is 196. Even though I'm 201 tall , some would be on the floor by then, but not to over-project, let's say they'd be at the knees or a bit below by then. However I'm going terminal :P (! A al` eb (% $b` /6(bb !.$ ,-$! -- % ( Bp $
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Posted By: Laine1998
Date Posted: Jul 1, 2003 at 4:26pm
I would go for waist length.
I was almost there and I cut quite a bit off, but it needed it. I am growing it back again, using a better shampoo/conditioner and it seems to be helping a lot. The summer seems to help me, I just wrap it up in a bun and secure it with a "scrunchi sport!" it keeps it out of my face, detangled, and it grows because it is being left alone!
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Posted By: grenwich
Date Posted: Jul 1, 2003 at 5:29pm
Add me to the tally of those who're going for it.
My hair is as long as it has ever been as an adult - I don't think it's stopped growing, so let's see how far it will go. If it gets to the point where I can't take care of it - I think I'd have to consider losing some length. I don't want someone else to have to care for my hair....
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Posted By: Karrinne
Date Posted: Jul 1, 2003 at 10:05pm
I would like to hit knee length and would be thrilled if it would get to ankle length, much more than that would be hard to care for. But we'll see, I have a ways to go before I hit either one!!!(!) Pid`a$``a $.,br /6,`` " !,%!)!, ,---0"" "<
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Posted By: hairalways
Date Posted: Jul 2, 2003 at 5:29am
AS it says in my signature...my first goal is to get to 26". I am better able to handle small goals than to set the bar too high for myself all at once. Once I reach 26, I will have a little party for my hair with lots of aromatherapy and oils...maybe even go to a salon and have it braided into an updo.
Then my next goal is waist, which on me is about 30"....then more celebrating!
I think that if I reach waist and can handle the extra weight, I might try longer. I have some heavy hair.
On this topic....Dave, or any of you other long haired lovelies - have you ever weighed your hair?
Jacqui
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Posted By: Laine1998
Date Posted: Jul 2, 2003 at 11:04am
Hairalways,
thats a good thought!! I have never thought about the actual weight to hair..hehe Something else to "subtract" when we get weighed...
Laine
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Posted By: uzma
Date Posted: Jul 2, 2003 at 1:46pm
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 . ), R '. `p %
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Posted By: uzma
Date Posted: Jul 2, 2003 at 1:52pm
Hi Jacqui
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 . ), R '. `p %
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Posted By: SuperGrover
Date Posted: Jul 2, 2003 at 3:03pm
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Posted By: uzma
Date Posted: Jul 2, 2003 at 4:04pm
SuperGrover ~ I like your idea of a SuperBraid.
And if you were in London, you would not need to crash the party, you would be invited as a guest of honour ), R '. `p %
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Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: Jul 2, 2003 at 6:17pm
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Birds of a feather flock together, Uzma.
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You mean sorta like this?
ftp://ftp.tlhs.org/week/week1358.jpg ftp://ftp.tlhs.org/week/week1360.jpg
Oh, and Uzma, you can toss me into the "full-potential" category, even though that hasn't ever been my goal, it's where I find myself these days.
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Posted By: SuperGrover
Date Posted: Jul 3, 2003 at 12:45am
Oooh, that's great, Amanda!
Wow those pictures take a long time to load! And I have a Cable connection! But worth the wait. !) ic a p`` -& `b . @p )2 ,-$ ! ! $ -$ ` ,
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Posted By: hairalways
Date Posted: Jul 3, 2003 at 6:54am
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!
I will celebrate with you on Aug 13!
Jacqui
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Posted By: andi
Date Posted: Jul 3, 2003 at 7:00am
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'......$! Ahgla epe -(,`0 "> `b /0%, !,) $-- %, b2 /.
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Posted By: SuperGrover
Date Posted: Jul 3, 2003 at 10:27am
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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Posted By: uzma
Date Posted: Jul 3, 2003 at 1:16pm
Hey Jacqui
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 .
SuperGrover
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 ), R '. `p %
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Posted By: uzma
Date Posted: Jul 3, 2003 at 1:20pm
ooo forgot to say:
Great braids, Dave and Amanda.
Can you imagine if the two triads tried walking around with the braids in place..........the amaxing 3-bodied braid monster..........what a riot .
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Posted By: 3katz
Date Posted: Jul 3, 2003 at 2:00pm
ooooh, those braids are so beautiful! I love the contrasting colors and symbolism of them! So very warm and chummy!
Jean0!!$
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Posted By: Girl Tia
Date Posted: Jul 3, 2003 at 6:44pm
I love my long hair.
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.< , B`&
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Posted By: Girl Tia
Date Posted: Jul 3, 2003 at 6:47pm
I should add, I love my hair in rollers!!!< , B`&
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Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: Jul 4, 2003 at 8:02pm
Thanks, Amanda Panda!
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Posted By: princessmonica
Date Posted: Jul 6, 2003 at 11:45am
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 $- P cn`dp0% 00BB .(4`p /.%%%,-!,%!% !, b` -.
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Posted By: uzma
Date Posted: Jul 6, 2003 at 1:44pm
So here is what our length aspirations look like:
Waist-length = 5 SuperGrover, CrazyGirl, Laine, Jacqui and Girl Tia
Tailbone-length = 1 Monica
Ankle-length = 2 AmandaPanda and Karrinne
Full potential length = 6 Jean, papillion_purple, Kintaro, Grenwich, Dave and myself
Anything beyond waist-length in my city (London) is atypical. I spot tailbone-length maybe 4 times a year. Anything beyone tailbone is very rare.
So, we ), R '. `p %
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Posted By: hairalways
Date Posted: Jul 6, 2003 at 9:03pm
Well, here in scorching hot Florida, waist length is a rarity. I spot thigh length maybe once a year....It is definitely important to become well practiced in the art of braiding during the torturous months of summer!
I am so looking to feeling my hair at my elbows and waist!! Sometime next year my hair will reflect my soul. (hopefully, if it is still on the 1/2" track.
jacqui
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Posted By: Benji the Sausage
Date Posted: Jul 7, 2003 at 4:18pm
My goal is waist length as I'm in High School and really would have issues with EXTREMELY long hair (which I dye as of now because my natural color is ugly) when in school and stuff. in te long run id grw it as ong as t would go. - @ifda$A`e )! ,`p 2$`p $ (! %!%$), ,! "b )(
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Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: Jul 7, 2003 at 7:00pm
!d`, $` ` b`a2 Jacqui!
You don't see much long hair in Florida? Whereabouts do you live, if I may ask? Here in the greater Tampa Bay region I see LOTS of long hair. I've been noticing that an increasingly large number of girls and women have waist-length hair. I see "classic" length hair on others about once every few weeks.
I do agree with you that braids here are a must during the tortuous 7 months of summer!
Here's hoping your hair continues to grow at 6 inches per year. If it helps, that's how fast my hair grows.
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Posted By: hairalways
Date Posted: Jul 7, 2003 at 9:08pm
DAve - No WAY do you live in Tampa. So do I!!
I live in South Tampa, Westshore area....."The Land of the BMW SUV driving soccer moms" (me and my Mazda just don't fit in). Everyone over here sports a shag cut or some modification of it......you see a lot of bobs too. I guess I was referring more to women in their 30's. There are young girls who wear their hair long, bsl to be the most common. I guess I am just not hanging out in the right places.
What a coincidence!! So where do you like to pay Golf round here? Pebble Creek, Hunters Green, Westchase? USF?
Jacqui
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Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: Jul 8, 2003 at 6:51pm
LOL! Jacqui... it's a small world, indeed!
I have played golf at all the courses you've mentioned, and more. The area is a sanctuary for golf lovers.
Yes, I guess those in their 20s generally seem to be have the longest hair, while those in their 30s are more prone to bobs... though they, too, are growing them out some (I know quite a few who are).
Another Tampaite... Tampanian... Tampan? (nah, sounds too much like something else) What do you call someone who lives in Tampa? I know, I know... a resident of Tampa.
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Posted By: hairalways
Date Posted: Jul 9, 2003 at 5:53am
Very cool! My husband loves the newer courses. Doesn't get to play much lately tho.
Yes! Bring on the new wave of women in their 30's with longer hair!
I will be the pioneer who will inspire the masses (feeling rather full of it this AM)
I have seen Tampanians written on plaques at the Library and such...so I think that's what the folks here like to be called...I was going with Tampans for a while before someone corrected me (embarrassing story involving too much wine and people who my husband works with and didn't want to be embarrassed in front of)
jacqui
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Posted By: RedJen
Date Posted: Jul 9, 2003 at 7:31am
Hi there (off-and-on poster here.)
I'm going for full potential. I'm between tailbone and classic-length right now, hoping to hit classic by Christmas (it grows SLOOOOW!) My ultimate goal, though, is to see how long it can get.0 -$ ac `ddb ! (4 r ,, b` ," , - %$
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Posted By: Nez
Date Posted: Jul 11, 2003 at 11:05am
Hmm maybe to my waist, I don't think I would go any longer. Probably a good 6 inches short of that though.
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Posted By: galadriel~
Date Posted: Jul 11, 2003 at 6:34pm
Right now my goal is 38" but I bet when I reach that goal I'll want classic length. After all when I started my goal was waist lenght.0!-! ! 0a a ),"0"
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Posted By: SnowWhite
Date Posted: Jul 11, 2003 at 9:28pm
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Posted By: uzma
Date Posted: Jul 12, 2003 at 11:35am
Here's how our gang is looking:
Waist length = 7 SuperGrover, CrazyGirl, Laine, Jacqui, Girl Tia, Benji the Sausage and Nez
Classic length = 1 Galadriel
Tailbone length = 2 Monica and SnowWhite
Ankle length = 2 AmandaPanda and Karrinne
Full potential length = 7 Jean, papillion_purple, Kintaro, Grenwich, Dave, RedJen and myself
Welcome to all the newbies and long may we all grow . ), R '. `p %
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Posted By: TKDKix
Date Posted: Jul 13, 2003 at 12:26pm
Right now my goal is bra-strap length, b/c it is only at my shoulders. I like little goals, vs. big ones that will depress me. I have always had a hard time growing my hair out, because I hated the awkward stages of growth. But now, the sky is the limit b/c I am past the point where I have funky layers everywhere!
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Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: Jul 13, 2003 at 2:29pm
Hi TKDKix, welcome to the board! It's always nice to "see" new faces here. (this is mine: )
Small goals are an excellent idea. Whatever works for the individual is what works. And those "small" goals come with relatively brief intervals, too... it's always nice to celebrate their achievement.
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Posted By: wheeler
Date Posted: Jul 13, 2003 at 6:39pm
I was on a long hair site a few months ago and the author was saying something about how they didn't want to die without knowing how long their hair would grow. I think that unless it got very hard to manage or unhealthy looking I will let my hair grow until it stops. I think the perfect length for me would be classic length, but if i'm already there then why not go for a full head of hair? $) igd ta`e ).4br ,&, p % %),, ,-$ $!,%$ p %2
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Posted By: uzma
Date Posted: Jul 13, 2003 at 6:47pm
Hi Wheeler
I think we can re-write that old saying "Curiosity killed the cat" to read "Curiosity grew the longest locks".
I visit museums fairly regularly, being an dork and all, and see the Egyptian mummies, bog men and other examples of preserved (or not) human bodies. It is notable how the hair survives the bones in many cases. Yet it is almost pure protein and should therefore decompose and decay away with the flesh. Kind of long-lived is hair .
Sorry for the morbid topic . ), R '. `p %
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Posted By: psycobitch
Date Posted: Jul 14, 2003 at 2:34am
I always thought even a BS would be nice, more than nice actually-wonderful! But if I am beeing completely honest WAISTLENGHTWAISTLENGHTWAISTLENGHTfor me, thank you! I!,%
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Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: Jul 18, 2003 at 4:51pm
I wouldnt mind letting it grow to the fullest potential...but again, at that point you end up haveing to wear it up =( There is no way I could keep my almost knee lenght hair out of the way and comfortable while working (i work outside, a wetland biologist), swimming, or just being myself. Even bellydanceing was a problem. You cant swing your hair around as well, it wraps around your head and then you look silly trying to fix it while danceing especialy if you have thick hair.
So for the sake of enjoyment I had to cut it. I want to dance about and let my hair be wild and free! So waist lenght is perfect. I actualy cut it shorter so that I could have a good portion to donate but it will be back to my waist soon enough.
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Posted By: ll_insomnia_ll
Date Posted: Jul 20, 2003 at 9:46pm
I don't want my hair to get any longer than mid-back length.. yup.,!
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Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: Jul 21, 2003 at 9:16pm
t`"($ `0 ! ab d Hi Uzi,
A few years ago there was a local newspaper report on a traveling exhibit of mummies from South America... I believe the mummies were estimated to be about 1400 years old... anyway, one of them, a woman, still had a shock of hair attached which was about 5 feet long. Yep, amazing how the hair lasts.
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Posted By: enfys
Date Posted: Aug 22, 2003 at 1:12pm
Sorry, I'm kinda late posting here.My goal is prbably about 37", but I expect I'll reach it and go past it if I can because I always want to beat everyone I know at everything. Being competitive is in my blood. Whilst it sounds stupid, I want my hair to be long enough to put it in a plait that goes right around my head in a circle rather than crossing pigtails because it doesn't look as good. Only 10cm to go. Two questions though: 1. How long is 'classic length' 2. Where's your tailbone (note to self-listen to boilogy teacher more)? Thanks for any help you can offer. $- P cn`dp0% 00BB .(4`p /.%%%,-)! !!%,!,`" !,
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Posted By: Karrinne
Date Posted: Aug 22, 2003 at 7:45pm
Answer to questions: 1. Classic length is at the bottom of your buttocks.
2. Your tailbone is the near the end of your spine, past your waist, near the top portion of your bottom.(!) Pid`a$``a $.,br /6,`` " !,%!)!, ,---0"" "<
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Posted By: enfys
Date Posted: Aug 23, 2003 at 12:53pm
A-ha, thanks for that.. Hmm. So, because I'm quite short with long limbs, I'm past tailbone, and I suppose I'm aiming for classic length. $- P cn`dp0% 00BB .(4`p /.%%%,-)! !!%,!,`" !,
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Posted By: Gollan
Date Posted: Aug 23, 2003 at 7:00pm
I'm glad this post popped back up because it has made me think about this question. I've been so concerned with getting my hair grown past my shoulders that I haven't given much thought to how long I want it. Minimum, mid back. If it looks reasonable I could go for the waist/belt level. (I'm a guy so I won't be talking about BSLs or tailbones :D).
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Posted By: cadensmama2002
Date Posted: Aug 23, 2003 at 11:27pm
WAIST LENGTH!!!! i really dont think i cound get it longer than that and have it healthy...but i'm sure gonna try!!!
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Posted By: Benji the Sausage
Date Posted: Aug 25, 2003 at 2:32pm
#d $$%0P da l 4
i saw some dude at ozzfest with hair like that. he actually looked like metallicas bassist, and he was with some guy who looked like KoRns guitarist. And they both looked and had the same hair as the guys in the bands. I'm bad with names....
it was kindof amusing. The guy with the really long hair looked like he put a lot of effort into it. It was really nice and shiney. The other guys hair scared me. It was just. wrong.
Nearly every guy there had long hair anyway.
however at the warped tour which i am never going to again, everyone had short hair (guys and girls. cept for a few) and everyone had at least ONE part of their hair dyed.
i think im the only one who goes to concerts and analyzes hair between bands.
oh. I changed my mind. I'm growing it to classic length now. - @ifda$A`e )! ,`p 2$`p $ (! %!%$), ,! "b )(
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Posted By: Viktoria
Date Posted: Aug 25, 2003 at 7:04pm
I said, when I started growing it out, that I want to see how long it will get. Now, at mid-back, I realize the work that goes in to keeping it nice-looking. But all it takes is some information and a change of rutines. During the summer I have really worked with conditioners (didn % C`e adu a - , `b 4(` /.%% -$ ,%$! 8bp ,(
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Posted By: Anne-Loes
Date Posted: Sep 16, 2003 at 7:31am
I reached my goal of waist-length hair but I need about 10"more to be able to sit on my hair. What shall I do? I'm doubting for month's already.
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