...patience. grasshopper! Hair does not grow overnight, and chances are it looks far worse to you than to anyone else...
I can simpathize with you Nostro... well, sort of
I had shoulder length hair that was VERY VERY healthy. My cousin's wife was going through cosmotology school and needed a "test head" to do things like braids, up do's, etc. so she used me. In return she'd give me hot oil treatments, protein treatments and make sure my hair was nice and healthy.
About two years ago my wife (who had never seen me with short hair) started bothering me to get a haircut. She held out for about 3 months before I finally caved.
So I went in and chopped it down to a "Chandler Bing" as you put it. I think everyone I saw after the haircut, instead of saying the usual "You look so much better" blah, blah was saying "How could you cut off your beutiful hair!?!"
It's been short since. I tried growing it out again last winter, but couldn't get through the stupid mullit stage and chopped it back down.
...patience. grasshopper! Hair does not grow overnight, and chances are it looks far worse to you than to anyone else...
i have very strong hair and it is funny how most women do pay a little more for shampoo and stuff than guys do, my friend asked me what i use on my hair the other day, he has long hair too, and i told him pantene and he said it has wax in it.... [img]confused.gif[/img] that's weird, if i think my hair looks bad i will throw it in a hat but then again i look cute in one too [img]wink.gif[/img]
My hair is weird....one side is normal and good, the other is wild and bad. Maybe that two side brain theory is correct. [img]eek.gif[/img]
See? Now that's my problem..I'm impatiant as hell and the "Growing out" stage is a pain in the ass when you have curly/frizzy Paul Stanley type hair. Once it gets there it's great, but
I have to use a ton of grooming products as it's growing out (wants to curl up on the collar etc..) What's even worse is, I cut my own hair,
(Have for about 15 years now) as I've had it screwed up by more stylists than I care to remember. The down side is I have a pair of shears that I can 'fix things ' with. But you can't do that too much or your hair NEVER grows out..so I just have to slap my hands and say "DON'T TOUCH the feckin' shears!"
I too hate the ungroomed look on people. I also really hate the idea (For women) that as soon as they reach 35 their supposed to wack their hair off. Bullshit. I like it long especially on women with a bit of character. Cutting it all off just ages them. [img]frown.gif[/img]
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You can always use that Chia pet seeds [img]tongue.gif[/img]Originally posted by DARTH POOH:
See? Now that's my problem..I'm impatiant as hell and the "Growing out" stage is a pain in the ass when you have curly/frizzy Paul Stanley type hair. Once it gets there it's great, but
I have to use a ton of grooming products as it's growing out (wants to curl up on the collar etc..) What's even worse is, I cut my own hair,
(Have for about 15 years now) as I've had it screwed up by more stylists than I care to remember. The down side is I have a pair of shears that I can 'fix things ' with. But you can't do that too much or your hair NEVER grows out..so I just have to slap my hands and say "DON'T TOUCH the feckin' shears!"
I too hate the ungroomed look on people. I also really hate the idea (For women) that as soon as they reach 35 their supposed to wack their hair off. Bullshit. I like it long especially on women with a bit of character. Cutting it all off just ages them. [img]frown.gif[/img]
Remember to water daily [img]wink.gif[/img]
you are soooo right DP my aunt has her own shop and she is the only person i let cut my hair and most of the older women in my family hate my hair being so long, you are too old for your hair to be like that, i am only 30 and there is no way in hell that i am cutting it EVER!!
OK, Let Big Daddy tell you boys a story to make you feel better:
I started growing my hair out in high school. Remember high school? That wonderful time when putting one effing foot out of line with the rest of your "crowd" could lead only to harsh and unrelenting mockery? Boy, those were the days. [img]graemlins/sure.gif[/img] Anyway, having made the decision to let it grow, I discovered something that I had not known about it previously, as it was always too short: DA had this right-purty wave to his locks that made him look like nothing and no one so much as Sally Field starring as Gidget whilst it grew out.
...well, Gidget with a major hormone problem, anyway.
So, if you are letting your hair grow out, and it starts to bug you, just remember: At least you don't look like some fiendish laboratory experiment that crossed a teen idol with a Hell's Angel.
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Nah, the worst part about letting mine grow has always been the 5-6 months it takes to get from my eyebrows to my chin. While it's short, it tends to grow an inch a month. And once it's past my jawline it reaches my shoulders in no time at all. But for whatever reason, as soon as it starts hangin in my eyes it likes to stay there, and no amount of product has ever succeeded in keeping all of it in place all of the time. I part it, I have the shag trimmed (lest a Beatle is recognized on me), I slick it back - all wasted by a strand or two that always ends up itching the hell out of my nose. That was the initial reason I told her this was going to be the last time I grew it out, but even three years ago I knew I had the gene. I just didn't expect it to kick in this soon. [img]eek.gif[/img]
Heh, in jr. high I had a cowlick, followed by a spike job with carvings in the back, and then I let it grow for the first time into more of a "skater" cut - shaved on the sides. Got it all cut once just for the hell of it and then didn't get another until I needed to start finding an internship. I kept it "business appropriate" then until I started this last job. About a year in I realized I could probably get away with it and the wife had been bugging me for a while to let it long again. Funny, had I started collecting Spawn figs about a decade sooner, I would probably have had the orb shaved into my scalp at least once. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
sounds better than my haircut I got yesterday, it started off with just a section being shaved at the back [img]graemlins/whatever.gif[/img]
luckily after alot of touch-ups and me yelling, it's somewhat even now...
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