PWild
October 8th, 2024, 10:44 AM
Hello all,
New member here, and hope to contribute from time to time. I'm a 68 year old married male, grandfather to four, retired for 18 months now, and enjoying the freedom to make changes - not the least of which has been growing my hair. It's something I intended to do many times, but a series of corporate gigs kept that in check. When I was about a year away from retiring, I stopped getting it cut the "usual" way, and began a series of periodic mullet-avoidance trims once I found a stylist who was willing to help. The montage below shows where I started - nearly 50 years ago in college - and ends up with me today.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/32306142@N07/54052840739/in/dateposted/
The first row of pics show the slow growth during year 1 - keeping it trimmed maybe four times a year to control things. The second row shows more rapid progress as it grew longer and I began to experiment with braids and other things. Pic 7 shows the results of a braid I left in for a day, then used a barrette to hold it back. (I especially like silver Native American (Hopi) barrettes.) Pic 8 is the first successful french braid I did on myself. I learned how to do this on my wife, but doing it on myself is a whole 'nuther thing! Pic 9 is a fish-tail my stylist did a couple weeks ago after a bi-annual trim. Not sure I'll master that one any time soon. Pic 10 is me today.
I'll keep growing until I feel it's time to quit, but my current thought is to let it go for another couple years, then re-evaluate. I don't mind the upkeep, and so far so good as far as hair loss/thinning. I should take more and better pics. Maybe I'll set up an area to do that. By the way, I have an idea related to a new way to think about hair length progress I'll share. Im a visual person, so I'm working on some illustrations that may be of interest here.
Until then...
Paul Wild
https://www.flickr.com/photos/32306142@N07/54052840739/in/dateposted/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/32306142@N07/54052840739/in/dateposted/
New member here, and hope to contribute from time to time. I'm a 68 year old married male, grandfather to four, retired for 18 months now, and enjoying the freedom to make changes - not the least of which has been growing my hair. It's something I intended to do many times, but a series of corporate gigs kept that in check. When I was about a year away from retiring, I stopped getting it cut the "usual" way, and began a series of periodic mullet-avoidance trims once I found a stylist who was willing to help. The montage below shows where I started - nearly 50 years ago in college - and ends up with me today.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/32306142@N07/54052840739/in/dateposted/
The first row of pics show the slow growth during year 1 - keeping it trimmed maybe four times a year to control things. The second row shows more rapid progress as it grew longer and I began to experiment with braids and other things. Pic 7 shows the results of a braid I left in for a day, then used a barrette to hold it back. (I especially like silver Native American (Hopi) barrettes.) Pic 8 is the first successful french braid I did on myself. I learned how to do this on my wife, but doing it on myself is a whole 'nuther thing! Pic 9 is a fish-tail my stylist did a couple weeks ago after a bi-annual trim. Not sure I'll master that one any time soon. Pic 10 is me today.
I'll keep growing until I feel it's time to quit, but my current thought is to let it go for another couple years, then re-evaluate. I don't mind the upkeep, and so far so good as far as hair loss/thinning. I should take more and better pics. Maybe I'll set up an area to do that. By the way, I have an idea related to a new way to think about hair length progress I'll share. Im a visual person, so I'm working on some illustrations that may be of interest here.
Until then...
Paul Wild
https://www.flickr.com/photos/32306142@N07/54052840739/in/dateposted/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/32306142@N07/54052840739/in/dateposted/