Is your hair AND how long have you been growing it?

I'm rather curious.

I've been growing for almost two years now, and it's a little shorter than shoulder length.

I've officially been growing mine (i.e. made the conscious decision to grow it long) since last July and it has grown from just touching the tops of my shoulders to 22.5" (APL on me).

My hair is almost BSl and I started growing it last april.

I had my last trim in September, ran across LHC while following a link about OCM, and decided to stop cutting it shortly thereafter. It had been a year since my previous hair cut (busy with a new baby), so I suppose it was already on my mind.

ETA: It was not quite 21" in October and is just past BSL (24-ish) now.

I started growing my hair when it was a few inches longer than BSL while I lived in Italy 3 years ago, and it's about half way between the top of my tailbone and classic.

I've been growing for about 20 years, but I'm a trimmer. I also cut it back to my shoulders about five years ago.

I BCed in 2006 so I'll count from there.

almost 2 years and less than shoulder length

I've been 'officially' growing (as in since my last cut) for 2 years. My hair has always been fairly long though. I'm nearly classic right now.

I chopped my hair to a 'cute' bob while pregnant with my now 4yo daughter. So, going on 5 years of growth, several times of maintaining a length and others of 'fixing' self trims, I am just past classic and still growing.

I have been growing about 4 years now and my hair is hip length when I pull it straight.

I've been growing for three years from a wedge cut that I kept chin-length in the front, ear-length in the back. The first year and a half of that was pretty much benign neglect - I just didn't get around to going to the salon more than once in that time (and didn't take off a lot of length that time). For the past year and a half, I've been growing it out on purpose. In that time I've had a curly girl cut (last April), did a Feye self-trim (February), and had a longhair friendly stylist do a dry cut of barely an inch a few weeks ago.

Right now, it's about two inches from waist dry and wurly and if it's straight or wet it's at "can I call this waist?". My goal is iliac length with a blunt slight U shape. I should be there or close to there by the end of the year. When I started, I was only hoping for waist. Hah.

I've been growing for three years from about chin length. It's now at "can I call this waist?" length.
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I've been growing for three years from about chin length. It's now at "can I call this waist?" length.
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We have very similar growth rates!

I stopped cutting in 2005 and had hair right above my shoulders. I've been growing every since then.

3 years in june! still shorter than than shoulder! this big curly hair is gonna grow itself OUT 1st. and THEN down!!

I've been growing for right around 6 years and my hair is just past tailbone. I had to cut about six inches off a couple of years ago, though, so it might have ended up longer.

*points to sig*
Cut to about chin length (a bit longer than chin at the front) in late December, I'm at about shoulder length now, collarbone if I pull it straight.

Consciously growing since 2003, I'm a bit past tailbone now. Got to 46" at one point but with very thin ends, too little trims. Still growing!

I voted for 4-6 years. In fact, the big chop was in February, six years ago now. My hair was a bit past my shoulders after the chop, now its at midb*tt.

I've been growing my hair since I was thirteen and it has never got past BSL

I've been growing my hair for about a dozen years and it's about an inch from mid-calf when wet or 3 inches from mid-calf when dry. The ends are thin, but healthy.

My last major cut was when I was 10, cut to just above my collar. Then somewhere around '89 or '90 I grew out the layers to one length and was just below waist. I had that ever famous fe-mullet (female mullet). I quit going to salons and my mother would trim the length for me. Now I do self trims every 3-4 months.

Officially: I joined here in August but I started growing in May/June earlier that year.. so almost 2 years..

But: I started out from a pixie cut 6 years ago - I had regretted the cut from BSL to pixie ever since I had it done - so after that I knew that I wanted to grow it loooooong..
So actually 6 years (just no LHC :wink:)

It'll be 3 years in July, and the ends are just past waist. I started from shoulder length (layered and razored).

I've been seriously growing out my pixie hair since October 2004. Now three years later it reaches my shoulder and is slightly longer. Stretched it's almost waist.

When I decided to grow once and for all, the longest layer in my hair was about 5 inches long. It has taken me 7 years, a lot of trimming (uneven growth), and a couple of major cut-backs to eliminate damage to get where I am today. The signature picture was taken less than a week ago.

I started growing again after a chop to an inch or two short of waist 5 and half years ago. My hair is currently at thigh length. Though I've been growing from shoulder length with various chops, no shorter than to waist, since I was 6 years old.

I'm curious about this too!

I started growing almost 2 1/2 years ago (Maybe even 3 if I think about it. I believe I had stopped getting haircuts for a few months hoping to have enough hair to do an updo for my wedding in October 05. I made it, BTW!). In that time, I've netted about 6 inches of growth, from neck length to APL. I'm a trimmer. I also cut quite a bit lately due to damage, then after that cut I decided I wanted my layers cut back in. I'm hoping to keep much more of my growth from this point out.

I've been actively growing since January 2007. At that point I was at roughly 28", I'm now at 34". That is with trimming approximately 3" during that time.

I had started growing out my pixie hair when I started my last job. That was about 4 1/2 years ago.

I wasn't really paying attention to the growth at the time. If I had to do it again, I would find it hell considering how obsessed I am with it now!!

I made the decision (and developed the tenacity to stick to that decision) to grow my hair long back in '05. So, I voted 2-4 years. Right now it's between waist and hip.

I voted 6-10 years and past tailbone length.

I have been growing for 9 years (I started with about 2 inch of hair), but I have cut it back from waist to BSL several times.

I actually starting growing seriously from october 2006 and haven;t cut since july 2006. I am now a few inches past tailbone and I need about 3 to 4 inches to reach classic.

Right, this thread has now made me slightly cranky. It seems I've been growing my hair for about as long as anyone but have amongst the shortest hair, :-(
so not fair, so many beautiful photos here particularly MadHatter, really your hair should be in an advert how long was it when you started growing it out?

I've had long hair my entire life, but the shortest I've had it since I was a baby was in 2004, I had it to just above bsl. Then I let it grow to my waist, cut several inches off, back to waist, cut more inches off and now it's between waist and tailbone and I might let it get 4-5 inches longer and just maintain it to grow out my layers left from 2004.

I started growing my hair after my last haircut in August 2007. I cut all my hair off, leaving about half and inch of fuzz.

The longest layers of my hair are just shy of collarbone length now, but I'm so over this length and all the layered ends that I'm ready to whip out some hair growth potions. :stirpot:

Four years and the longest layer is at hip length when stretched. I transitioned for 14 months, then cut off the relaxer in the summer of 2005. I guess my hair was just above shoulder length for the most part, but in layers so some of it was shorter.

I have been growing it all my life so I put 10+ years
And it is currently approaching classic- hip I suppose you could say currently!

I was almost at waist a bit over a year ago-chopped it to shoulder.It grew to almost BSL-added layers and cut about a inch or so off the length.

now(haha)I just reached my first goal of BSL and I'm going to waist for sure this time.

Well, I have been growing and cutting it back for a long time. But really trying to get it long I started about 2 years ago. Unfortunatley I needed to grow zhe layers out first. Now I can gain length. Finally!!