Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
Mostly a lurker around the forum, but I want to throw in my two cents.
My hair is just about stretching to collarbone in the front, but the bits around my ears don't quite go into a ponytail. From front hairline to back length is about 18 inches, give or take 1/16.
I was at BSL until March 2011 when I needed a change, so I got a pixie and donated the length. Now slowly making my way back down there and hopefully past it. It's been a long almost two years of getting it evened back out slowly, but most of the bottom is within an inch or so of even, so I'm calling it even and collarbone length now. haha
My problem is, for all that my hair type is pretty much middle-of-the-road (1c/2a, ii, M), it seems very slippery. I still can't get a stick to stay in it (wood or metal, they just fall out within seconds of moving my head), and I have trouble keeping my arms above my head for French braiding or elaborate updos, so it's mainly been ponytails and half-buns (what I call a ponytail only pulled halfway through on the last pass) to keep it out of my way. I don't like how shoulder length looks down on me, especially with my fringe short or sweeping as it is now.
Fortunately, my hair has been growing like a weed lately (when I measured about 2 weeks ago I swore I was at 17.5!) but I've also been taking a B-complex for energy and trying to eat healthfully, and doing occasional henna treatments for colour and condition. I'm also lucky that I'm not prone to splits. Even before I got the pixie cut in, I hadn't trimmed in over a year and I'd only found two splits just before the cut. A microtrim every six or eight months will hopefully stop any splits before they start.
I think I'll be more comfortable wearing it down naturally when it hits APL, but it feels like a long journey yet to go. I'll probably end up hitting it just as we're going into summer and I'll want to keep it up off my neck all the time anyway! lol I suppose I just have to take the blessings I have with my hair and make it on through to APL when I can hopefully wear it down or at least use a stick or banana clip again properly.
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
My hair is apl but when it in the front it seems much shorter
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
I'll join, I'm definitely in the no man's land between shoulder and APL. I also have bangs/fringe that I have just started growing out which are almost to the tip of my nose, I keep those clipped back with snap clips or headbands.
Currently I've been oiling a lot, and tend to keep it all back in a ponytail or a scrunchie bun. I have flexi-8's that I need to try again, last time the side layers of my hair were still to short and kept flopping out of my flexi-8. My last trim/cut was a layered bob that removed the rest of my hendigo, that was in March. I've also gone through a few horrific sheds, so there are lots of crazy lengths going on in there. When my hair gets frizzy I can really get a haystack look going. :lol: When it's oiled and damp in the evening, I often pull it all back in a buff. Just lately here, within the past two weeks, I've started wearing it down more. Here is a picture I took today to use as my December signature pic.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...usia/dec12.jpg
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
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froglet
I'll join, I'm definitely in the no man's land between shoulder and APL. I also have bangs/fringe that I have just started growing out which are almost to the tip of my nose, I keep those clipped back with snap clips or headbands.
Currently I've been oiling a lot, and tend to keep it all back in a ponytail or a scrunchie bun. I have flexi-8's that I need to try again, last time the side layers of my hair were still to short and kept flopping out of my flexi-8. My last trim/cut was a layered bob that removed the rest of my hendigo, that was in March. I've also gone through a few horrific sheds, so there are lots of crazy lengths going on in there. When my hair gets frizzy I can really get a haystack look going. :lol: When it's oiled and damp in the evening, I often pull it all back in a buff. Just lately here, within the past two weeks, I've started wearing it down more. Here is a picture I took today to use as my December signature pic.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...usia/dec12.jpg
Your hair is very pretty, Froglet! (I confess that the buzzed avatar scared me for a minute. I looked at your profile and am relieved that you're NOT recovering from chemo.) My hair is about the same length and slippery as the dickens. I've got the front twisted and pinned now, but it's slipping loose....
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
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browneyedsusan
Your hair is very pretty, Froglet! (I confess that the buzzed avatar scared me for a minute. I looked at your profile and am relieved that you're NOT recovering from chemo.) My hair is about the same length and slippery as the dickens. I've got the front twisted and pinned now, but it's slipping loose....
No, I'm so very thankful to have never had cancer, just a buzz to get rid of the hendigo. I know just what you mean by slippery hair, I must have to readjust and fix mine multiple times a day and that is without cones, with cones... hair toys just sliiide right out!
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
I have been looking for this thread for months! I have gotten past Apl and now I'm just past bsl :cheese:
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uggghhhhh
got the boyfriend to check it today and apparently I'm "like a centimeter off" :( so painful!
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
Give it another month. Time and t.l.c. will get you where you want to go! Not that I don't have my own grow darn you grow moments.
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There goes my New Years APL:demon: I went the get a trim today :brickwall... And OF COURSE instead of 1cm off the (%$(/£@ :hatchet: took off 2,5 :justy: And I didn't even need that much taken off, (I knew I soud have held out to go to my own hairdresser)
Sorry for the rant ladies, it makes me mad that they think they know best and disregard what one wants... Besides, if my hair needed further trimming I would have gone back a second time to get the rest of it off... :mad
On a brigher note, he cut some awesome bangs and I have found a super cheap, super nice deep conditoner (I'm a cone free gal btw) my hair seems to love :D
