Its obviously a long process. And for some, it is more frustrating than others. Take me for example. My hair is really wavy. So Its down to my lip now, but the waves keep it about at my nose. Anyway, I feel pretty stupid walking around with my hair at this length. I always knew it was going to look funny during this transition period between long and short, but still. Did any of you go through this too? I guess in another year it will be long, but for now im frustrated. Cause at this point its just annoying, not long. My sister said i need a haircut and i told her "im growing it out", so she says "gross"... Like i give a fuck what she thinks, but i thought id throw that in there anyway.

You are so metal....

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and so is my wife!

whats your point timedragon?

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I do understand the frustration but it'll pass. Pretty soon you can just throw your hair back and it'll look cool. I just cut mine off cause I'm looking for a job but it was getting to the kick ass looking length

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Just have some patience. People are usually more impressed by it when it's in than they act like they will be. It's worth it if you want it.

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Too bad you won't get a good job or hot chicks or anything...

But looking metal is WAY kewler

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You can still get both, but if you don't I'm sure it's covenient to be able to blame the hair instead of the person under it. However you slice it, though, a hairstyle doesn't have to affect your quality of life, though it can if you let it.

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ya me too man i waiting for it to grow n reach my shoulders

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Hey dragon, are you the guy that posted a while back about getting slogged for having short hair at a gig or something?

he's right. thats the best way to get through the shitty middle stage. until it hit even around my chin i tended to gel it down and brush it back ala layne staley in the later years. it worked on since if i parted it in the middle as i do now it would all flip out like crazy. it just takes some patience, after a while the weight will hold it down on its own, about at shoulder length, oh and a word to the wise, get the hair above your ears layered so the hair lays right and looks ok when you pull it back. thats about all i can think of, good luck. oh yeah and the shampoo and conditioner you use helps too depending on what kind of hair you have

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dont use gel as it cozes dandruff

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I always wear a hat to keep my hair back, just put your hair behind your ears and wear a hat. My bangs are plenty long enough now (after 17 months) to put behind my ears, but until then, wearing a hat is best.

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I may not have the best hair, but it reaches my nipples and I love it. .....when I slip on a shirt or put on my backpack I have the opportunity to flip my head back to fix my hair all girly and look cool. .....wait.....no....

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damn, I really know what you are talking about. I had the problem too. I felt pretty stupid too but I always said to myself fuck off what the others are thinking ...

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ya coz once its long its gonna look awesome no matter how bad ur hair is

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my hair was down to probly my lip before i had to cut it. every one of my female friends decided that they wanted a picture of me with short hair before i grow it out again, now its only down to a little past my eyes.

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pffft, i had some major problems with the shitty period. I couldnt go out on the street for one fucking second before people asked if i was a lad or a lass. It really annoyed the fuck out of me, but now its long (almost my nipples) and people shut up .

They just ask me to bang my head every time.

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I'm going throug that exact same thing. I still like it better now than when it was like I was in the beatles or somthing, that sucked. I have really thick hair so than I looked like I had a helmet on or somthing

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Haha yeah I'm sort of at the helmet stage right now...my hair used to be shoulder length but I shaved it all off well over a year ago........WHAT WAS I THINKING?!!

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i remember back in the day (bout 6 years ago) my hair was like that and it was annoyin but wen it grows past ure chin thats wen it starts to pay off, and u end up just letting it grow. My hair used to be past my belly button but i had it chopped about 3 inches a while back to straighten the ends, but its basicly very close to my bely button again

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I can almost sit on mine. It's past my buttcrack on a good day. I trim it periodically. But mine was straighter when it was shorter than now. I used Mane and Tail conditioner after I washed it and I think it protects it from the elements a lot. I was told by a model I knew that shampoos are irrelevant but conditioners are what makes your hair strong and stuff along with diet.

Walpurgis had very curly hair. It would get long -like to the shoulderblades but it would spring up in banana curls so it was never past his shoulders as much as he wanted it to be. We tried all kinds of methods to straighten it including reversed curling iron. It was sturdy stuff. Women would KILL to get a perm like that. It's all gone now and he has about 1/4 " . His nonmilitary brother is the same way. But Wally said last weekend when he gets out of the Navy he'll probably let it grow back out again. I loved his hair.

You could wash it, condition it and put a doo-rag on to keep it straighter on top when you remove it. Or if you blow dry it, straighten it a bit while you do using a very large round brush.

Guys with CLEAN long hair look cool to me. And if you have the right face for it and pull it back, you'll look very intelligent, too. (wiggles eyebrows)


Powers' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ya worry me, boy.

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LBXXX...do you have any pictures of yourself? I'm very curious of what you look like.

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There used to be a few of me and Wally somewhere around here. I have to reinstall my scanner and I'll show you some then. I dont' think I have any 'normal ' pictures of me on discs anymore. Just my crazy spatula woman ones. But I'll check just for you .

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So what do you think ,Bass? Wally's mom hot stuff or what? It was kind of weird the only one I found was me upsidedown.

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Hahaha, It not the clearest picture but at least you don't look like FearFrost's mom!

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Oh, looks aren't everything. Believe me, I have some really bad pictures of me.

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Yeah, inbetween stages suck. That was like 2 years ago for me.

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yeah, that looks ugly. I've got short hair now though, I'm happy with it.

yea, i went through that stage. its longer now though. youll get over it

hot chicks usually like long hair

If you look like a girl with long hair then grow some facial hair. My hair went down to chin last july then i got a hair cut. I regret doing that now. It took so long to grow and then just disapeared.

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thats true. I used hair grease. It was a little easier to tame and it kept it straight and gave me the always headbanging look.

tee hee, and it gave it a shine...

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used to have long hair.

can't fucking stand it anymore.

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haha! no that wasnt me. Ive actually never been punched in a serious way... which is strange considering how shitty ive been towards some people.

Anyway. Ive read this whold thread. And damn! theres lots of very informative comments here. Lots of personal comments too, considering the individual situations in this thread that have had to do with growing out your hair. I cant really say why im doing it. But ive just wanted to have nice long hair for a few years now. Back in highschool it was impossible due to the "rules". But now that im out, naturally, im growing it. I have a job now and it has nothing to do with the public. So the way i look is in no way important where i work.

But a lot of you seem to know what i mean with the "shitty" period. I knew i wasnt alone on this! and turns out its very common.

I guess i might be a little more direct to each of you with my replies, but... There is a shitload of replies (it seems) and im drinking (yet again) so its pretty tough to concentrate on the individual responses to my one first post.

This kind of sucks. I make a thread one night, i go to work the next day. I get online at night (usually drunk) and then i cant even make good conversation in my own threads! ah well!

You're sounding more and more like a beer edger timedragon

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usually chicks in general. you get their attention, even if they ask you stupid shit like, "Do you have a scrungee?"

but sometimes, they get in an actual conversation with you on how long it took for it to grow. Sometimes they give tips on how to grow it faster. I hear eating Jell-o speeds it up, i dont know though.

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HHAHAHAHAHAHAHH HAHAHAHAHAH AHHAHAHAH
that's got to be the stupidist/funniest thing i've heard in awhile

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there is actually a bit of truth to that. go check into what makes jell-o into it's gelatinous substance. i think it was like powdered cow bones or something along those lines (seriously). therefore the kind of calcium it provides would help it grow.. however jell-o nowadays is probly all synthetic. again this is just off the top of my head so try not to flame me... fuck i'm tired

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I remember my middle stage, I looked like an emo kid because it was straight and I would part it out of my eyes. I'm happy now that I finally have long hair, but its shoulder length and I want it about nipple length.

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This reminds me of the other hair post...pretty damn stupid posts.

But yeah I know what your talking about blah blah

A good way of 'obtaining' long hair would to go to a barber shop and look through their trash cans. Look for the longest pieces of hair and collect as much as you can. Then you would have 'obtained' long hair.

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hah. what an ass! anyway, Ill continue about my goal as is.

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Nice try Blanco Nino (Trendkill_420) to bad your ass got seeerrvved.

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well played h4xsk8...

http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/jello.htm

there's always room for jell-o

and it was protein excuse me. but your hair is basically protein strands so there you have it.

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haha, . Don't worry, I'm not going gay. I may brush my hair a ton, but I have a hairy chest and facial hair so I'm still a guy.

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I don't think i got served.
I still agree it's the stupidiest/funniest thing i've heard in awhile. So it may be true. What's your point?
you bunch of jell-o eating long-haired paintwaists!

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happened to me too ! a female friend wanted a picture of me with short hair !

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I had long hair for about two years then I shaved my head, shit my pants at how stupid I looked and grew it back out now it down to the middle of my back. And I'll never ever go back.

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the only annoyin thing i find annoyin about my hair bein near my belly button is wen ure playin gigs and ure sweatin like a bitch, your hair sometimes gets stuck on ure fretboard wen ure playin and u slide on your guitar and take ya hair with it lol, its funny but annoyin

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ive been growing my hair for like a year, chin length now. and id say its still at its "shitty stage" cause my hair is wavy.

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I haven't gotten a hair cut in awhile (too busy) and it's starting to fucking annoy me. I sweat at work and my hair get's in my fucking eyes. I just can't have long hair anymore. Too hot.

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They always asked me if they could touch my hair. hhaha, i never actually had a conversation about hair before though.

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I figured you guys had a lot of "problems" with hair. guess i was right.

anyway, im actually getting mine chemically straightened this weekend. I dont give a shit if it damages it or whatever. But im doing it. Am also going to dye it. Im not sure what color yet... I have red hair. yes, red. So im thinking of dying it black. For some reason i like how black hair looks on pale skin. Im not only white, im pale. so yeah. Im not certain yet though. Im not even sure if ill dye it yet. but I just feel like doing something different.

Hahaha, all the posuer goths at my school dye their hair black and have pale skin.

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yeah i know how you feel, i hate it when hair goes into my eyes when working. The thing that pisses me off the most is when im looking for something and i cant find it and hair keeps going infront of my face, its pretty frustrating. luckily i dont lose things often

oh cool, now i can be a "posuer" goth... at your school... ass

You should go to his school and start hanging out with the poser goths. Then kick him in the balls when hes not paying attention!!!!

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Id go back to highschool in an instant. there was NO better place for meeting girls! but also. im not fucking trying to look "goth". Im just sick of having red hair. I dont wear ANYTHING that resembles a stupid goth. Except for the majority of my shirts and some pants are black, this is only due to the fact that i feel much more comfortable in black than other colors. not a goth statement.

I want my hair dead straight like Corpsegrinder, don't know how he does it though

To have your hair long:

Visit a hairdresses and consult them about hair.

There is a special recipe for washing your hair with a raw egg and vinegar. It sounds gross, but it works, so look it up and it will make your hair shiney and strong.

Don't go to bed with wet hair.

Get a hair brush (not a comb, but a brush) that suits your hair density.

Find out your hair type and buy shampoo and conditioner accordingly.

If all else fails and your hair is very curly, use straightening conditioner and some sleeker serum. My hair is wavy but not curly, I wish it was straight, but it just curls at the ends.

If it gets annoying, wear it in a pony tail. You can wear it in a pony tail even if it's only down to your lips. Hair gel also helps, stuff like sports gel and spike gel.
Tada.

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yes, girlchasing days in highschool was fun. anyway you could always die your hair like platinum albino blonde like i did, since i'm pale and usually wear alot of dark colours. didn't turn out too bad.. but now its back to golden and i'm too lazy to redye it.

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Obtaining long hair? First step: don't cut it. It isn't very hard to accomplish.

I started growing my hair when I was around 11-12 - I can't really remember that "in between" stage. Obviously that'd be the worst part because it looks fucking ridiculous.

I'm nearly 21 now, and have hardly taken any length off it since.

Mine is pretty straight today. I deep conditioned it and put some M & T on it yesterday. My hair always looks better the next day. I don't shampoo it every day.

The lead guitarist from one of Wally's old bands dyed his red hair black and the last time Isaw him he had black dreads with red roots. It was bizarre looking but sort of fit his personality. He was different anyways. He used to set a gallon size clean gas can by him to drink from while they were performing. That flipped me out the first time I saw that.

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yeah they do that too. I pretend to have a conversation with most chicks, but i get fixated on their upper regions...heh heh.

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certainly. But i think mostly everyone caught my point.

Simply not cutting it can sometimes result in a pretty bad mullet. depending on how the lengths were before. In fact, if i hadnt been cutting the back near the bottom of my neck all along, I would have a terrible mullet.

As bad of a mullet as the guy in Macabre?

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haha

If you wear a beanie when your sleeping it helps keep down frizz and shit to make your hair straighter.

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thats amazing. pictures. now.

Back when I had long hair, if I cut it off it was back within a year. It was well past my shoulders in a year too. I had to cut it many times but my hair grows very fast so I don't have to much of a transient period.

I just hope that once I get out of the Navy I can grow it back just as fast

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thanks for all the tips, i bloody need to grow my hair out. it used to make 2cm spikes back in the day when i was "only into it for the music." now ive got a bit of a mop-top but im afraid it may turn into a mullet. if i look back over these posts im sure i can get some anti-mullet things.

same here. i want corpsegrinder/varg hair. and you know damn well which varg hair i mean

Shit fearfrost....selsun blue is expensive. I just bought a little bottle for like $6.19. The conditioner was also that price for the same small size.....

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i think ill go get my hair trimmed a lil so that it grows fashter

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this is so stereotypical. a bunch of metalheads comparing hair lengths in the hopes that it will make their e-penises bigger.

It last long though..

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I got the chemical "relaxer" today after all. So right now its super straight. But thats also because she used the iron afterwards. Its not suposed to stay how it is right now, but thats ok with me. I went from wavy/curly to "corpsegrinder" straight in two hours. So its kind of a shock. After i start washing it again it will be wavier than it is now, but not curly anymore.

have you done this egg/vinegar thing before and how often should you do it?
And are you basically saying that thin hair will break if you use a hair brush with thick bristles?

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ive tried the vinegar thing.....not the egg.....i kno the use of vinegar or lemon will remove dandruff

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haha thats just nasty.

My hair has always been straight as hell, well, except when I was like 4 and it was all blonde and curly.

i had white hair when I was younger, and it has gotten a bit darker with age (though there are still white patches, and even some grey)

how hard can it be to 'obtain' long hair, just don't cut it, or do what actors do when they need long hair (or chuck billy after his kemo was over) and get some hair extentions.

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White hair.. and even some grey? thats a bit randomly odd..

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i know a guy who used to have black hair, but its already all grey and such, old man style. like, full head of black hair turned into full head of grey hair. SERIOUSLY its like an old man. this dude is 17. its amazing. best part is, it actually looks good. its so fuckin sweet. hes learning how to play bass, so maybe somewhere down the line ill have a grey haired 20 year old in my band.

I already answered that. there are a lot of people who will end up with a mullet if they simply stop cutting it. To my understanding, you should cut the back untill the bangs catch up with the back. then from there you let it all grow down. Thats what im doing anyway. And thats what the barber told me to keep doing last week.

when i started growing mine i shaved my head and let it go from there, so its all one length

wtf. that doesnt make any sense to me. so you must have had a mullet for a while??? so the back was already past your shoulders while the bangs were at your nose? i dont know if thats how you had it, but yeah.

yes, but its not exactly a mullet, unless somehow the bak grows faster than the rest. If you are anul about mullets, then YES you will have one, but personally i think its better to have it all the same length, than have the back shorter than the top.

On the topic of my hair colour, its rather strange, my father has (had) jet black hair, my mother has red hair and I have uber blone hair.

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I did the same thing as Andrew, I shaved my head bald then went from there. It did look like a mullet for a while so I put the back in a tail and hacked it off. Somehow it came out perfect.

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do u guys keep getting it trimmed often or just keep growin it till it reaches a certain lenght n then chop it off

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Chop it all off?!?!

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wat im saying it is thatget it shortened so that its equal in lenght

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I have horrible spit ends at the front part of my head, so I cut like 2 inches off of my bangs, and left the rest the way it was. You can't tell any difference though, and it'll definately help it grow back.

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well i didnt mean a full blown mullet. i guess you can do it both ways and be fine. Im just doing it my way. which i thought was the better one, but i guess i wont really know if the other way would have worked better. I know it sure would have looked longer.

Thats funny, my dad has black hair and my mom has red too. but mine used to be more blonde, now its red and blonde.

it wasnt a mullet at all. it was kinda goofy, but not a mullet. and now that its long, im glad i did it the way i did. its all awesome and such

Over the last 3 years ive been in a habit of growing my hair down to my nose or chin and then cutting it all off. But this time its not all coming off!

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heh, awesome and such. maybe i should have done it your way . oh well, too late now. i hope my way works out as well.

suprisingly my hair is starting to become even more wavy as it growing longer

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I had the same habit, except i did cut it off after 8 months or so.

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i had to get it cut coz of school ....teachers would be like when u getttin ur hair cut n stuff......once a teacher fuckin got a oair of scissors to school to cut my hair

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