Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
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Originally Posted by
Nique1202
If you can wear it up, whether in a stick bun, a fork, a claw clip, a ponytail, any way to keep it off your shoulders, it becomes a lot easier to ignore. Try every style, you never know what might work! I wore Gibson Tucks for weeks when I was at that stage, just to keep it off my neck and shoulders and out of my mind. And now, I'm aaaalmost at APL!
You can make it, I promise. Be strong! If you grow it and you don't like it longer, you can always cut it back, but if you cut it now you'll never know if you'll like it long!
I love that!
Somehow, the idea of wearing a hairdo for "weeks on end" never occurred to me until I started growing out my pixie. Then, I twisted back my bangs for MONTHS! LOL! Pin it up. Pretend it's fabulous. Repeat! :lala: In 6 months, it will be a different head of hair. Really!
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My hair looks longer when it's dry, and seems to be past APL today?!! I'm meeting another TLHC member for lunch today--we meet 3 or 4 times a year and talk "hair"--and will ask her about it.
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
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Originally Posted by
Nique1202
If you can wear it up, whether in a stick bun, a fork, a claw clip, a ponytail, any way to keep it off your shoulders, it becomes a lot easier to ignore. Try every style, you never know what might work! I wore Gibson Tucks for weeks when I was at that stage, just to keep it off my neck and shoulders and out of my mind. And now, I'm aaaalmost at APL!
You can make it, I promise. Be strong! If you grow it and you don't like it longer, you can always cut it back, but if you cut it now you'll never know if you'll like it long!
Awww congrats on being almost-APL! :) This is sound advice, thank you! I think it's best if I can ignore and protect it for the next few months. It's long enough to wear it up, so I will start doing this more often.
Thank you Emily and alimc as well! It's so nice to chat with folks that understand my hair woes! Haha.
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
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Originally Posted by
Nique1202
If you can wear it up, whether in a stick bun, a fork, a claw clip, a ponytail, any way to keep it off your shoulders, it becomes a lot easier to ignore. Try every style, you never know what might work! I wore Gibson Tucks for weeks when I was at that stage, just to keep it off my neck and shoulders and out of my mind. And now, I'm aaaalmost at APL!
You can make it, I promise. Be strong! If you grow it and you don't like it longer, you can always cut it back, but if you cut it now you'll never know if you'll like it long!
Awww congrats on being almost-APL! :) This is sound advice, thank you! I think it's best if I can ignore and protect it for the next few months. It's long enough to wear it up, so I will start doing this more often.
Thank you Emily and alimc as well! It's so nice to chat with folks that understand my hair woes! Haha.
And Emily, I love your bangs!
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
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Originally Posted by
browneyedsusan
I love that!
Somehow, the idea of wearing a hairdo for "weeks on end" never occurred to me until I started growing out my pixie. Then, I twisted back my bangs for MONTHS! LOL! Pin it up. Pretend it's fabulous. Repeat! :lala: In 6 months, it will be a different head of hair. Really!
Yup, that's pretty much it. You can convince yourself of just about anything if you keep repeating it over and over. LOL!
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Originally Posted by
Liz_park
Awww congrats on being almost-APL! :) This is sound advice, thank you! I think it's best if I can ignore and protect it for the next few months. It's long enough to wear it up, so I will start doing this more often.
Thank you! And yes, benign neglect is one of the most efficient ways to grow hair if you can ignore it for long enough at a time. Just like it takes forever for the kettle to boil when you watch it, it takes forever for hair to grow when you're measuring and photographing it every day, but if you leave it alone for a bit, it feels more like a sudden jump in growth and is much more satisfying. :happydance:
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
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Originally Posted by
Stray_mind
My hair does the flipping up thingy too. I wonder why.
I wonder if its a lack of weight?? It is quite frustrating! I'm nearly at APL and even now if I do pigtail braids the ends still want to flip up... :rolleyes:
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
I think I reached APL... I took some pictures today and it looks like I'm finally there :) also, I kind of 'passed' the towel test and I'm past APL in the front. will post pictures when I manage to take some nice ones ;)
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
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Originally Posted by
stachelbeere
I think I reached APL... I took some pictures today and it looks like I'm finally there :) also, I kind of 'passed' the towel test and I'm past APL in the front. will post pictures when I manage to take some nice ones ;)
That is so exciting! Congrats! I anxiously await the day that I pass "the towel test"!
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
okay I decided to upload a picture - it's not the best picture ever but it shows the length :) so? what do you guys think? Am I APL? :) Am I, am I?!
http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/...ps80f38819.jpg
also: 'towel' test:
http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/...ps49667fbe.jpg
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
Looks like it to me, stachelbeere! Congrats!! :cheer:
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
Oh totally! You are there, my friend! Congrats! Now you can graduate to the APL to BSL thread!! Yaaay! ;)
