Shoulder | Armpit

I've been in and out of this thread for a few years now; I get impatient about growing it out so I cut it all off again...it's a vicious cycle. I'm determined this time, even if I can only grow as long as APL or BSL, I will make it this time!
I'm not really sure I even belong to this thread but I couldn't find the one more suited to my hair length. I got my hair cut 5 weeks ago into one of those a line bobs where the back of my hair just hit's when my head meets my neck and the front reaches mid neck, which I actually love on other people and usually on me, but the hairdresser massacred my hair...nothing is even. It's pretty embarrassing. But moving on, what I thought was a great idea, wasn't, and now I'm growing it out.
And, to make things more awakward, I'm also growing out my bleach blonde hair back to its natural colour...yay for awkward lines (at least when it gets a bit longer it will just look like ombre hair and then it won't be so embarrassing).
I'm looking forward to growing again and getting through all the irritating stages to come out happy in the end, but I definitely need to be around all you LHCers to keep my motivation up.
Anyway, long rant over. Let's get growing! :)

I am growing black dye out to my natural brown and silver the color line is at my jaw now. I totally get the line of change, I find that updo's hide the dye quite well atthis point so there is that at least! Welcome to our little crazy group of shorthaired gals in he longhaired world of LHC :D

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Originally Posted by Princess89

I've been in and out of this thread for a few years now; I get impatient about growing it out so I cut it all off again...it's a vicious cycle. I'm determined this time, even if I can only grow as long as APL or BSL, I will make it this time!
I'm not really sure I even belong to this thread but I couldn't find the one more suited to my hair length. I got my hair cut 5 weeks ago into one of those a line bobs where the back of my hair just hit's when my head meets my neck and the front reaches mid neck, which I actually love on other people and usually on me, but the hairdresser massacred my hair...nothing is even. It's pretty embarrassing. But moving on, what I thought was a great idea, wasn't, and now I'm growing it out.
And, to make things more awakward, I'm also growing out my bleach blonde hair back to its natural colour...yay for awkward lines (at least when it gets a bit longer it will just look like ombre hair and then it won't be so embarrassing).
I'm looking forward to growing again and getting through all the irritating stages to come out happy in the end, but I definitely need to be around all you LHCers to keep my motivation up.
Anyway, long rant over. Let's get growing! :)

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Sounds like you're starting out from a similar point to me two years ago. There is a chin to shoulder length thread somewhere but welcome anyway!

I really need to start taking some progress pics of my hair! It's sort of hard to get exact measurements at this length by myself but I think I have about an inch to a solid APL (when I chopped it off last october it was a bit longer than SL, like a tiny bit past my collarbones from the front). Just so impatient for it to be long again haha /sigh

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Originally Posted by SerinaDaith

^ thank you for reminding me why I quit the dye, bleach, henna cycle. I have been contemplating putting henna over my more then year old black dye which is now at it's most annoying jaw length on top and totally gone closest to my neck, if that makes any bit of sense. Maybe I should just keep to my dye free life. I quit cold turkey last year. It is so hard to stay strong now that I am in school with a bunch of cute little 18 year olds. Silver is everywhere and some days I just feel sooooo old.

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I know the feeling! I don't actually have much silver (although I did pluck 3 white hairs out of my bangs this weekend!!!), but some days I just feel old due to other factors. Maybe it's because my daughter is turning 19 next month, and maybe it's because my husband is 6 years younger than I am. I just hope my attempts to grow out my hair aren't seen as pathetic or grabbing for youth. I really think that perception of short hair being required for women over 40 is changing, isn't it? But it still crosses my mind from time to time.

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Originally Posted by palaeoqueen

Sounds like you're starting out from a similar point to me two years ago. There is a chin to shoulder length thread somewhere but welcome anyway!

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I got my hair cut like that June of 2011, so I'm coming up on two years of growth too. Happy growing to both you and Princess89!

^ I stopped caring what other people think about on most things back in high school. I have 6.5 years till I hit fourty and I hope to have classic length hair, terminal length willing by that birthday, most of my classmates think I am still in my twenties so my feeling old is more a matter of being and really feeling my age around the kids. Most days I love the shine and the natural highlights. That and if I were to pull my silvers I would have to devote time and energy neither of which I have right now lol.

Welcome, Princess89!

Joflakes, your trim will be fine. You'll be so glad to have nice ends again! :flower:

I don't want to hear any more of that "old" talk! :lala: Goodness, if I plucked out my grays, I'd have a mohawk, and it would be a thin one! I commend all of you growing out your natural color, though. My natural color is not flattering. I've grown it out to jaw length once or twice, but felt horrible in my natural color. Isn't that strange? It's almost like a tinge of hair dysmorphia or something! I resigned myself to having "ugly hair", and kept it pixied. (Because we all know only the most self-absorbed people in the world color their hair. --sarcasm) If I hadn't discovered henna, it would still be short. :silly:

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Originally Posted by browneyedsusan

Welcome, Princess89!

Joflakes, your trim will be fine. You'll be so glad to have nice ends again! :flower:

I don't want to hear any more of that "old" talk! :lala: Goodness, if I plucked out my grays, I'd have a mohawk, and it would be a thin one! I commend all of you growing out your natural color, though. My natural color is not flattering. I've grown it out to jaw length once or twice, but felt horrible in my natural color. Isn't that strange? It's almost like a tinge of hair dysmorphia or something! I resigned myself to having "ugly hair", and kept it pixied. (Because we all know only the most self-absorbed people in the world color their hair. --sarcasm) If I hadn't discovered henna, it would still be short. :silly:

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My natural color is a very blah light brown. Mousy? Bleh. Blah. Boring! One of these years I'll get around to posting a picture.

I love love henna hair (the shine and color in yours is lovely), but I don't do it because I'm MUCH too lazy to use henna. It always sounded so time consuming and potentially messy. Mostly I don't want to deal with the upkeep. If I get to the point where my white hairs (the three that resurface are white, not silver or gray) show up then I might think about it. I think it's lovely when women embrace their gray or silver or white and grow it out. I can't see it working on me with my skin tone.

Well I'm going to be hanging around here a bit longer than I originally hoped. I trimmed my face framing layers at the weekend but a bit too heavily (I cut them straight forgetting that they bounce up by a good 2" when wavy) and it looks a bit rubbish now so I'm going to need to trim the main length to blend it in a bit better. I'm annoyed with myself but at the same time I do have a lot of bleach/damage to cut out so my hair WILL look better for it. Plus it's better to experiment and make that mistake now while I am actively trimming away damage. I now know to leave it at least an inch longer than I think I want it... I'm going to wait until the 1st April so I can take my monthly growth measurement then trim. I'm not sure how much yet, I might start with 0.25" and see how it looks then take a bit more off if it needs it. I'm annoyed because I'm very close to having my hair the longest it's ever been and I've now nicely sabotaged that. :(

Aw, sorry to hear about the cutting boo-boo, palaeoqueen. But as you say, you learned something for next time. And you will now have even less damage!