How about a 'No Length Check Challenge'?

[blackgothicdoll]

Don't call me crazy, there is such a thing as delayed gratification. I suppose it's as simple as going a predetermined period of time without:

• Taking a length check picture
• Measuring hair with a tape measure
• Otherwise documenting/tracking the length of your hair outside of typical observation

I mean, really we just have to take one another's word for it, but it's worth a shot.

Time frames:


Easy mode: 3 months
Intermediate mode: 6 months
Expert mode: 12 months
Long-hair veteran mode: Forever

Anyone with me? I'm going for three months and I'm not confident I'll make it but I'll try Keep me company while I don't measure my hair

I'll probably be out of this challenge in two weeks lmao but maybe it'll help someone else

ETA: Now adding penalty rounds! In case you accidentally do a length check in the middle of your challenge, a penalty round will add some time to your challenge so that you don't have to start over.

Easy Mode:
1st Penalty: 1 week
2nd Penalty: 2 weeks
3rd Penalty: 3 weeks

Intermediate Mode:
1st Penalty: 1 month
2nd Penalty: 2 months
3rd Penalty: 3 months

Expert Mode:
1st Penalty: 2 months
2nd Penalty: 4 months
3rd Penalty: 6 months

[blackgothicdoll]

My last length check was the 16th of July. The soonest I can check again is the 16th of October.

[spidermom]

I had to do this the first time I grew to my goal of classic length because I was checking for length about 10 times a day, so of course I never saw progress. Therefore, I limited myself to once per month.

Now I really don't care how long it is or how fast it's growing most of the time, so I rarely look at it for length. I do, however, look at it to make sure I don't have some weird parting going on in the back or a missed strand from braiding. Therefore I can't join the challenge, but I think it's worthwhile. If you don't look at the length very often, you will see progress.

[hannabiss]

I'll go easy mode. Reason being I plan to trim on new years or I'd go intermediate.

Then I'll try going 6 months or even a year without checking.

[S&S]

This would be an ideal challenge if I could do it! haha

I currently only allow myself to measure once a month ~30ish days apart, but I find myself still "visually measuring" when I get out of the shower and my hair is wet. I think the constant measuring is due to my chop in May... so maybe once I get back to a length where I find it "long" and don't care, this challenge will be doable. Maybe next year!

[Silica]

I'm in! I'll go for 6 months. Mine is too short to really measure right now anyway so I solemnly vow not to pick up a tape measure until Feb 2020

[Stray_mind]

I'm in. I'll go easy mode for now and see how it goes. My last length shot was at the end of june. I will check my length at the end of agust.

[Estrid]

Hmm, I think this might be the right time for me to join this.
I'm in the mid-back abyss, feeling rather unexcited about my hair and I should not trim it more this year, maybe not the next one either, since my ends are too annoyingly thick for my liking, I will only S&D.
Though, I'm in a WL by Christmas 2019 challenge, so I will check my length on the 24th or 25th of December, but that does mean a good 4.5 months here. I should be able to make that rather easily.

[NicoleJean]

Funny a few days ago I actually decided not to measure my hair on the first of the month like usual. I was feeling like I was getting too obsessed and was tired of feeling disappointed when there isn’t much change after just one month. Hopefully next month I’ll have a nice surprise after resisting this month. I’m going to try to switch to every other month for now on. Not sure if I can do I though!

[Sarahlabyrinth]

I already began doing this at the beginning of the year, now I just measure every six months instead of every month.