The Reason for Your Goal!

**Bat** · December 1st, 2022, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by LongLocke

12 more days and we get Crisis Core Reunion, where Sephiroth canonically says he uses a bottle of shampoo and a bottle of conditioner on every wash day

Haha he does and it's rose scented I believe or rose vanilla something like that

**JasminxCat** · December 2nd, 2022, 12:26 AM

I find it the most visually pleasing on myself. Longer lengths make me feel more confident in my appearence. Maybe it's because I grew up with short-medium length hair and had very low self esteem most of the time. So it's refreshing for me, makes me feel different and better from my old self and ways

**fairy_hair** · December 2nd, 2022, 09:18 AM

It's the most classic beauty, like Venus or like an angel, to have very long healthy hair <3 I can't wait to grow it long again, I really miss it being so long that it became its own entity. I think super long, healthy hair is the most beautiful feature or possession a woman could have. Plus it doesn't cost anything more than food and supplements for your own good health! It's also super satisfying to twirl into a bun and to let loose like an ethereal being.

**Duroniel** · December 2nd, 2022, 10:40 AM

My first goal is classic, just because that's the length I had when I cut off the very damaged ends a few years ago and ended up at waist. I loved classic and should reasonably be able to get even longer hair now that I take better care of it. After that I guess I'm going for terminal, just because I'm curious and because I love being able to have really long hair!

**Abacus** · December 2nd, 2022, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by Nique1202

It sounds odd, but ever since I was a kid, if I closed my eyes and thought about myself, I saw suuuper long hair in my mental self-image, something between knee and floor length. Even though I kept my hair short for a long time even after I had control over the length, that was still always in the back of my head.

This is so interesting, because when I read this I realized that I was the opposite -- even as a child with long hair, I imagined myself with short hair, and when I had short hair I was kind of in my "hot phase" or whatever. Like I got a lot of positive feedback about how I looked with short hair. And it has been an intense struggle to grow out my hair when I feel like I was at my "best" looking (according to the world) when I had very short hair. There's a lot about my gender identity wrapped up in that experience, but I don't feel like getting into it at the moment.

So what the heck is going on with me?! Why do I want to grow out my hair so badly? Why do I want to grow it to knee length specifically? I wonder about it all the time because it is such a strong drive, and I'm enjoying this journey so much.

I think part of it is I love touching my hair, I love how it feels, I love feeling it become healthier and healthier and softer and fluffier. It's a long-term exercise in self-care and self-love. My hair is my friend and my familiar in a way. I think also I'm attracted to extremes -- extremely short hair and extremely long hair. I love aesthetics that go hard in one direction or another.

And of course, if I'm honest, these two: https://pin.it/PSAcR1u

**vampyyri** · December 3rd, 2022, 04:51 AM

I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is this time around, but my first soft goal is WL because that's where I initially started when I joined LHC. I grew to FTL in the end, but ended up trimming back up to CL. I wouldn't mind getting there again, but I'm going to take it one mile marker at a time.

My original inspiration for growing my hair longer is my older & only sister who always had BCL/TBL hair as long as I could remember. Her hair is different from mine (1a/F), and I always brushed mine straight to emulate her hair. This time around I'm not fighting with my natural texture anymore and taking proper care of it... so who knows, maybe I'll like it better to have both the texture and the length this time!

**Arcticfoxes** · December 4th, 2022, 01:11 PM

It's something I've never done. I've never had hair past APL, not even as a kid. Always chin-shoulder length with the rare APL length.

I've done everything else under the sun to my hair, it feels like, except actually just growing my natural hair long. I've finally found a good shampoo and conditioner I like, and although I still have bleached hair, it's in pretty good condition. This seems like a good time to try.

**cherrymerry** · December 4th, 2022, 02:32 PM

I've always wanted to grow really long hair but because I am impulsive I never really stuck with it. Back in 2019 I almost had waist length hair which took me 5 years to grow out but I cut it short because it was thinning and I didn't know how to really take care of it. Then I dyed it red in 2020 after 7 years of virgin hair

In hindsight, long hair is easier to deal with than short.

Now I just want to grow my hair long, as long as it can before my 30th birthday. It's a challenge in patience!

**Arcticfoxes** · December 4th, 2022, 03:58 PM

I relate, cherrymerry! I am also so impulsive. And also wanna see how long I can get my hair before I'm 30.

**Pouncequick** · December 4th, 2022, 06:11 PM

I always preferred long hair. I started from waist and I had read several stories about woman with hair "flowing past their hips" which I just thought sounded so pretty and attractive. I started with a goal of classic to hit that magical length and then it just felt shorter than I expected. Now I'm shooting for knee out of desire to be able to have a stable coronet and because it just feels interesting when I tilt my hair back and it brushes my knees. I don't know if I will go any further. My hair tangles so easily that I might get lost in one giant rat's nest if I do. But we'll see how knee treats me. Classic is so far my favorite length I've hit and mid thigh/tailbone tie for second so I think I'll be in the extra long range for the rest of my life if possible.