Waist | Hip | BCL | Tailbone

**Purple Ink** · March 28th, 2025, 02:30 PM

Hello everyone! I feel so underserving of being here ha ha. I am technically a bit past hip length already though, since I reached waist length back in September. I've never grown my hair past tailbone, so I feel pretty excited to be well on my way there, especially since I have been growing from a pixie (it's been 4 years since I started growing already!).

On the downside of things, I realized I've been procrastinating my S&D for way too long and not oiling my ends so now I have many split ends. I don't want to lose length, so I guess my new game for the next few weeks will be "how many splits can I snip off in [however many minutes I feel like dedicating to this activity] today?" Can someone be my accountability buddy for this?

**Kelp** · March 28th, 2025, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by Purple Ink

Hello everyone! I feel so underserving of being here ha ha. I am technically a bit past hip length already though, since I reached waist length back in September. I've never grown my hair past tailbone, so I feel pretty excited to be well on my way there, especially since I have been growing from a pixie (it's been 4 years since I started growing already!).

Your hair grows so fast, that's amazing!

And you're so deserving of being here, especially since you're solidly hip. But it's such a surreal feeling, right? I started from pixie as well so I totally get it

**ArtOfNoot** · April 6th, 2025, 02:49 PM

Currently at BCL/TBL (this photo is over a month old but my hair is up so I wont be taking progress photos today). The first red line is my classic goal and the second is KL (my fantasy goal)

Hoping to reach classic by the end of this year without trims... this means I need to adopt healthier hair habits and always keep my ends tucked away from my fidgeting hands

**Kelp** · April 6th, 2025, 03:12 PM

That hemline looks great, ArtOfNoot! Good luck on classic by the end of the year

**ArtOfNoot** · April 6th, 2025, 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by Kelp

That hemline looks great, ArtOfNoot! Good luck on classic by the end of the year

Thank you!

**pisinoe** · April 21st, 2025, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by Für immer

Congrats, pisinoe!

Thank you!

Originally Posted by shayna

pisinoe, incredible!!!!!

Thank you so much!!

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Originally Posted by cookies

Beautiful hair pisinoe! You might as well wait out the three or so months, you’re so close

May I ask how you straighten your hair?

Meanwhile mine has just about reached the top of my hip bones while soaking wet in the shower

I even accidentally tucked it in my pants together with my shirt the other day! I won’t be calling hip length until it’s visually there while wavy though - I just called waist a few months ago and BCL is way too far down so I’ll take my time.
I even measured yesterday out of curiosity; I’m at 77cm right now, hip is 80-82 and BCL is 97. So maybe next summer I could be at BCL? 4 years after APL? Sounds like so many

Thank you so much!

I wish I could have waited but the ends kept getting tangled and I've never had that before... It was a sign of too much damage for me. I tried to hold onto them as sacrificial ends but alas. I cut another two fingers worth today and my hair does feel better. I want to wait until June or September again, but ideally until end of year so I can cut a straight hemline. We'll see!

I straighten my hair with a professional round brush and a pro blowdrier. It takes around 10-20min, depending on how well I want it done. I use smoothing leave-ins to help with maintaining the style.

**cookies** · April 21st, 2025, 11:44 AM

That’s understandable pisinoe! Two fingers isn’t that much either, you’ll catch up pretty quickly and it’s always nice to grow with fresh ends

And thanks for the straightening tips, I’m always in awe of the shine and smoothness of your hair and it’s crazy to think we have the same type

**Ylva** · April 30th, 2025, 09:00 AM

I think I'm at BCL again. I haven't confirmed it definitively, but last I checked a week or two ago, it was in the "can I call it?" territory. This time, I think I might let my hair grow again - for now. I might choose to chop it back up to hip again later, but it's not like I have the money to visit a hairdresser at the moment, and I refuse to learn to cut my own hair (to prevent impulse cutting should that ever become relevant in my life), so that's nothing to think about right now.

Keeping my hair between hip and BCL has worked well for gigging, and it has certainly been easier to deal with. I've worn it loose much more than when it was close to knee (and bleach-damaged). But I would like to experience that length now that my hair is practically all virgin. That's another thing I haven't called yet, because there is like 2-3 cm of bleached hair in the very longest strands of my hair in the front, but that's coming soon, too.

Another reason why I feel like growing again is that I want to wear it in a braid with a spike ball (a plastic one, though) attached at the end, so that it's a flail.

**Kelp** · April 30th, 2025, 11:09 AM

Originally Posted by Ylva

Another reason why I feel like growing again is that I want to wear it in a braid with a spike ball (a plastic one, though) attached at the end, so that it's a flail.

I cannot wait to see this

I hope you'll take some action shots of whipping it around through the air! Congrats on nearing all-virgin hair and hitting some familiar milestones with it

**MaggiNoodles ☆** · May 2nd, 2025, 08:04 AM

My first post in this thread and a starting picture to go with it! I'm curious to see how long it will take me to get to tailbone from here. I wore my high-waisted jeans when taking this, it helps me to convince myself that yes, this is waist length hair, no I'm not still secretly midback and getting ahead of myself