My hair's so freaking short...it seems.

[Aunty Miki]

It's waist length, but it just feels really short, especially when wearing braids and wearing it down. I still have a lot of arm left at the end of the hair. I've got about 4 years before I'm at knee. Do you feel that your longish hair seems short, too?

[Sarahlabyrinth]

It's a fairly common complaint around these parts

[Aunty Miki]

It's a fairly common complaint around these parts

I'm thinking positively. Average growth is 1/8" a week.

[Sarahlabyrinth]

That's it! Positive is always best - and patience

[Quixii]

My hair didn't feel long to me until it hit classic length.

[littlestarface]

Join the club, my hair feels and looks super short to me

[Nique1202]

I spent most of my life with hair not much past my shoulders if that long, so as I grew on through apl, midback, waist, and hip, it still didn't feel "right", not even as familiar and comfortable as it did at shoulder. It wasn't until I felt my hair hit my lower back for the first time that I was like, Oh, THIS! This is the feeling I've been waiting for, it feels long! It still doesn't feel long enough, but I no longer have that itchy feeling of it not being "right", and I don't have that overwhelming urge to gain length, I can let it go more at its own pace now.

So, have faith! You'll probably get there eventually. In the meantime, you could try wearing it up more often to hide the length from yourself so you don't feel too discouraged. Heidi braids, crown braids, and depending on your thickness most people can start to do nice buns at waist too.

[LadyCelestina]

Well waist isn't particularly long if you are going for knee But everybody had to go through having shorter hair in order to have long hair So instead on focusing on length you can maybe focus on different things that are good about having WL hair, like wearing it down?

[Alissalocks]

Every. Single. Day!

But that's why we come here, right? To distract ourselves while we *try* to be patient?

I thought my hair was beginning to get long when I joined last summer. Then, I immediately started feeling like it was actually quite short after landing here though, so many hair folks with Lonnnnnnnnggggg Hairrrrrrrrrr (swoon!)

[spidermom]

I declared myself to have long hair the first time it hit APL, then grew it all the way out to classic. Now at just below collarbone, it feels maybe a bit too long; about time for a trim. haha