Shoulder | Armpit

**NightOwl26** · August 17th, 2011, 08:57 PM

Hey All,

I have to join you ladies here as I'm in the beginning of my growth journey. My hair has been flip length-barely touching shoulders for as long as I can remember.

I always had to cut the ends back to just above shoulders because they got so unhealthy looking from all the damage and it's thin. I never thought it was possible to grow past that. But now I think I can! I treat my hair much better since joining LHC.

It'll be a pain to grow out all my long layers that are chin length and my hair grows slow.

Hopefully by Christmas It'll be a little past collar bone length.

**MemoryXIII** · August 17th, 2011, 10:12 PM

I started at about shoulder length. Here I am now. Though I am not close to being done.

**GlassWings** · August 18th, 2011, 11:01 AM

Hello! I'm new to this community (have been lurking since my cut) and will be starting my journey here.

I just recently cut my almost waist length hair to just about shoulder length a month and a half ago because I thought I wanted a change. I've had long hair for most of my life so people were encouraging me to try something new. I liked it for about two days then I seriously regretted it. And I cried over it

So here I am growing it back out. I'm now at collarbone length!

**heidi.maryke** · August 20th, 2011, 01:55 AM

Welcome to all the new-comers!! Shoulder to APL in my opinion is the most awful hair stage..Can't wait like everyone else to be past it

**CornishMaid** · August 20th, 2011, 02:08 AM

Glasswings, I feel your pain. I have done a similar thing recently. I went from waist length and cut off most of my damaged coloured ends, and found that i was now shoulder length. Now it seems like it will take forever to get my long hair back again. But it is helping me to measure and take pictures of my progress, plus being on the LHC and learning how to look after long hair properly means when it grows it will be in much better condition. So am comforted by this. The peeps on thr LHC are SO helpful and knowledgable its great :-)

**Audhumla** · August 20th, 2011, 02:24 AM

Originally Posted by heidi.maryke

Welcome to all the new-comers!! Shoulder to APL in my opinion is the most awful hair stage..Can't wait like everyone else to be past it

I agree. I've cut my hair short again many times at this length because I can't stand the awkward in-between stage. But not this time. I can do it >_<

**CrisDee** · August 20th, 2011, 02:42 AM

As awkward as this stage is, I found the chin to shoulder stage much worse, at least on me. Once it got past shoulder, I could at least get it into a ponytail so it was up and OFF me! Since my hair is so fine, I can do a baby cinnabun now, in addition to French and peacock twists, so I'm liking this stage MUCH better than the last one due to the vastly increased options.

Might be quite different, though, for those with thick hair...

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**pink.sara** · August 20th, 2011, 05:41 AM

Hiya to all the newcomers! And good luck growing!

Originally Posted by CrisDee

As awkward as this stage is, I found the chin to shoulder stage much worse, at least on me. Once it got past shoulder, I could at least get it into a ponytail so it was up and OFF me! Since my hair is so fine, I can do a baby cinnabun now, in addition to French and peacock twists, so I'm liking this stage MUCH better than the last one due to the vastly increased options.

Might be quite different, though, for those with thick hair... :

I think the only word for how I feel about shoulder to APL with thick hair is naff!

I can only do peacock twists, sock buns, victory rolls and half ups, (which tangle my underlayer badly)
No other buns work yet and its so thick that after having it blunt cut it just sits there, all stacked up on itself like a wall of hair!
At least growing out my bob from chin to shoulder I could have it thinned and razored and cut into a style. I feel like if I give in and razor/thin it now thats only a load of future damaged ends Ill have to cut at BSL.

Grr APL, where are you!!!

**Lianna** · August 20th, 2011, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by CrisDee

As awkward as this stage is, I found the chin to shoulder stage much worse, at least on me.

Me too! Even though my hair is thick, it's heavily layered at the bottom (by choice), so I can do buns and experiment a lot.

**KajiKodomo** · August 20th, 2011, 10:11 AM

I looked at the back of my hair today before my wash, and noticed that it was APL! It waves up too much when it's dry to get a good picture (the waves will relax when it gains a bit more length), so I took one post-wash.

It still waves up some when wet, haha, but my longest layer is definitely there! My shortest layer is about collarbone length, but I'm going with the length of the longest layer for my "official" length.