Tailbone | Classic

[Amara]

I'm not sure if I technically belong here - TB on me is about 37", classic is 45"-46"ish (oh lawdy, is my bum that big???). When my hair is freshly washed and dried and combed out straight it measures 49", but it doesn't stay there. I think it shrinks once completely dry. Usually my hair has braid waves with curled ends, so it looks like it's in-between TB and classic... So is it ok if I crash here for a bit?

Of course! Wherever you consider your length home to be. If that's where your hair usually is, sounds like it makes sense to be here.

I just tried a CV bar wash - cafe moreno, and then the honey butter soap bar which I've heard works well as a conditioner for some. My hair absolutely HATED me. It was tacky and tangly and gross. I tried to make it work with some oil for a few days but it really just needed a fresh wash. So I conditioned the length with my usual V05 and cafe moreno'd the scalp (which I used to do a lot) and then reconditioned the length, and oiled it too. It's so much happier now. It's down while I'm drying it at work sitting here at my desk.

What washing methods do you all like, and have they changed as you've gotten longer?

[pinkbunny]

Of course! Wherever you consider your length home to be. If that's where your hair usually is, sounds like it makes sense to be here.

Sweeeet!

What washing methods do you all like, and have they changed as you've gotten longer?

I've always been a rebel and would rinse but not repeat!
Seriously, though - I just found this forum recently and never knew of any other method than to slather it on, work it in, and rinse it out. This worked okay, but I have noticed some improvement when I started shampooing my scalp only and conditioning from behind the ears to the ends. (My hair has a tendency to get oily at the roots, but dry out on the ends.) I still have no science for selecting what to use - I experiment with new stuff and keep buying whatever works best (and is available), so it's constantly changing. I'm trying to decide what I'd like to try next - so far I'm interested in cassia or coconut oil...

[Hypnotica]

Guess I belong here too

I hit tailbone sometime in the summer (which is about 35 inches on me). In hindsight, I *never* thought that I would reach it so soon. But it still don't feel long. :P

I have noticed an increased thickness though and it seems that my hair is not tapering yet either. If this stays true when I hit classic, I'm going for knees.

I don't cut. Ever. Not even microtrims.

[Amara]

Guess I belong here too

I hit tailbone sometime in the summer (which is about 35 inches on me). In hindsight, I *never* thought that I would reach it so soon. But it still don't feel long. :P

I have noticed an increased thickness though and it seems that my hair is not tapering yet either. If this stays true when I hit classic, I'm going for knees.

I don't cut. Ever. Not even microtrims.

I'm pretty much right at tailbone and I just thought for the first time a week or two ago that I'm finally feeling "long" and would be happy at any time from this point forward coming back to this length or staying here reaching terminal here or whatever. I'm at 39."

Hypnotica No taper and no trims - how cool. Your hair must be nice and healthy.

[Gulbahar]

I am at almost 38" now which is about mid-bum on me. Classic would be at 42,4", but I am not sure if I want to go there. At the moment I think I will maintain my length and see if I can thicken up the hemline a bit. My hair tapers pretty badly.
Probably there is not much I can do about that. I took my journey to long hair very slowly, trimming regularly and often maintaining a certain length for a while. So I'm not very optimistic that the taper will get less. One thing I hope will help are the changes in my washing routine over the last few years.
I had started using soap almost five years ago after washing for about one year with ghassoul. The latter was really bad on my fragile hair and left some damage. But soap is absolutely perfect for me. My scalp was never so happy and I even noticed that some parts of my hair seem to grow better.
Also I started to take extra good care of the hairs at the nape of my neck. I've noticed that some of them are split and broken. So I am hoping that after growing out the ghassoul damage and with the slight new growth my hemline will thicken up a bit. And then I might try to go further to classic.

[BranwenWolf]

I'm just past tailbone now, I was at longer than classic (almost knee) before I cut when I was 17.
I'm battling some thinning due to meds with Monistat and it's going fairly well.
I haven't measured but it looks like tailbone is 26" (really, I iz short and my spine is compressed from scoliosis) and if I add 9 inches or so to that, classic is about 3 ft. I think I was at about 3.5 ft at it's longest.

Long hair may not be very dramatic on me since I'm 5'2" but I love it. I have a V-hemline that I trimmed to be that way and I much prefer it to the straight-across that I had- being straight across drew too much attention to my scoliosis.

[Amara]

So I am hoping that after growing out the ghassoul damage and with the slight new growth my hemline will thicken up a bit. And then I might try to go further to classic.

I'm hoping to hang out at classic for a while both to grow out the henna and also to thicken up a bit. My longest bits on the front/sides had been abused for a long time before I found LHC!

[mimi1153]

This is where I live now. I wondered why I never fit-in anywhere. It's good to have a home at TBL. I'm at TBL now at 39", classic won't be until 44". (Can we say... more work-outs with Biggest Loser DVD). Of course, I measured myself so that may be off a little.

I'm hoping for classic, but it sure seems to be a long time coming. I've never gotten that long before, but it was because I got scissor happy. I'm not doing that again... I do micro-trims a couple of times a year and one trim somewhere between 3 and 5" depending on how my ends look. I have basically thin hairs, but a head full of them, but where they are thin my ends look sorta bad if I don't do a good trim. Hoping for better ends and classic to come.

[Amara]

This is where I live now. I wondered why I never fit-in anywhere. It's good to have a home at TBL. I'm at TBL now at 39", classic won't be until 44". (Can we say... more work-outs with Biggest Loser DVD). Of course, I measured myself so that may be off a little.

My tailbone and classic measurements are the same as yours. What are you trying to say?

[mimi1153]

My tailbone and classic measurements are the same as yours. What are you trying to say?

Ummmm, I'd say... I'm in good company. But, I'm probably a whole lot shorter than you... so your.... seat.... may not be the same as mine - - I'm sure it's not!!