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I am pretty sure I'm there with wet hair but I have to be quick to get a picture as I comb it straight but it starts to...twist (twirl? Bend? Pivot...??) almost immediately. I just have weird misbehaving bendy hair! 😋Quote:
Originally Posted by Nymphe
That feeling when the veeeeeeerrrryyyy longest lock just brushes APL!!!! I don't want to call it yet but I'm SO CLOSE! Feeling your pain, Coral Grimes!*
*By the way, what's the way to tag someone? I see usernames appear in bold when people @ each other. Is that just a formatting convention here or is there an actual tagging mechanism that I'm not seeing?
No tagging, just the "Reply With Quote" button below each person's post. I still guess at doing multiple quotes right.Quote:
Originally Posted by cailinbee
Thanks! Yeah, quoting I've got, I just wasn't sure if the usernames appearing in bold when people address each other was a formatting thing or a tag function somewhere. Thank you!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nymphe
I have been at shoulder forever...........
Yes! It's so annoying, I know my hair feels longer, it just doesn't look longer to me. Maybe I should put a hair growth chart on the wall, like those height ones you do for children. Or perhaps just drawing lines on a t-shirt would be easier? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by cailinbee
I had the opposite problem when I was at mid back. My hair felt super short (like collarbone short) when it was well over 26" in length. :lol: Bad layers in the front were the culprit, I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coral Grimes
Does anyone ever randomly freak out that they have hair? I had a pixie cut for 6 years and I was convinced it was going to stay that way. Sometimes I can't help but go to a mirror and stroke it or touch it like it's not real or something.
For me having length is one thing, but having length that has no relaxer is something else! It's soft and chill, like I didn't even know my hair could be that way; I used to have very coarse hair that broke off at the ends a lot, I would brush and there would be several broken 1" crunchy ends...
My mom started to relax my hair when I was 10, and would do so every 4-6 months. She has kinky curly hair and relaxed more often (still does) than I did and she would tell me to be thankful I didn't have "bad" hair like she did. I could never understand what made her hair "bad", and now that I think about it that's a really sad way to live...
My hair in its normal state without any product has very tight waves. Even with product at the front of my head the tight waves are still there; those never seem to go away and sometimes I'll break down and flat iron just those because they stick up and out but lately I've left them alone. My mom saw them the other day and said they "ruin" my whole look, she tried to give me relaxer to "fix that mess".
Sigh. It's a culture thing (we are Black/Latino); I know she meant well but it hurt my feelings kind of. And it makes me question if my hair is as nice as it feels, it's an internal struggle I have. But then I go back to the mirror and feel it and I convince myself that it's fine, because it is fine, probably the "finest" its ever been. And it's past my shoulders!
I've let go of the "good" vs "bad" hair beliefs, it's an awful way to feel about hair.
Sorry for rambling, I just wonder if anyone else has those "holy crap I have hair and it's awesome" moments. Thanks for reading ❤️
Not exactly the same thing but along those lines...I had pixie cuts and short bobs, never longer than collar length, for 17 years and only decided to grow my hair out for the first time a year ago. Having hair past my neck and shoulders is quite novel for me and sometimes - when I feel my hair on my back or see it out of the corner of my eye - it properly startles me. I keep thinking something is crawling on me or I've seen a ghost! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by jfg1987
Ah, so you do know about the good hair/nappy hair issue. I have been trying to contradict it a good chunk of my life. As more women go natural and learn what their hair likes, the more we can put this garbage mindset into the dustbin of history.Quote:
Originally Posted by jfg1987
The only time I feel like I have hair is when it is soaking wet, since it shrinks up to my ears and nape.