View Poll Results: Do you experience hair envy?

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    46 22.66%
  • Sometimes

    89 43.84%
  • Rarely

    29 14.29%
  • Never

    25 12.32%
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Thread: Do you experience (long) hair envy?

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    My big curly hair coils up and looks much shorter than it really is when stretched, and shrinks down to nothing when I flatten its bulk into a braid. Even if it can get super long it will still be an oddly skinny braid. When I see long black hair I do feel some envy! Or maybe it's appreciation and respect.

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    Default Re: Do you experience (long) hair envy?

    I voted sometimes. If I see someone with MBL, thick, curly, and especially red hair, I do turn a tiny bit green with envy hahaha, can't lie! But if anything, I use them as inspiration to take even better care of my hair, so it isn't all bad <3

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    I used to get envious over others hair. Sometimes it's hard not to go "OOooohh I wish I had that!" but I've worked a lot on appreciating my own body and hair instead of longing for what I can't have or have to wait for. Now I experience admiration more than I do envy, I want it to be a positive experience when I see qualities I enjoy even if I don't have it myself

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    My situation is a bit different. As a male I've had male pattern baldness for decades which has ravaged my hair.

    I'd finally gotten permission to grow my hair long at age 15. By age 19 it had reached my waist (I'm very long waisted). My hair was 30 inches from the top of my head and probably 36 inches from my hairline (I also have a big head). That's when I first noted early signs of a retreating hairline and thinning hair in front. I ended up cutting my hair short at age 23 to help me in my job search (this was back in the early 1980s, a very different time). I finally got the courage to grow it out again at age 40 but it's never gotten past the middle of my back. My hair is only a pale shadow of what it once was and what I'd like it to be.

    So what do I envy? Length, certainly, but only in conjunction with a reasonable amount of thickness, health, and apparent softness. My hair (and DW's hair) is fine textured, which makes it more vulnerable to tangling and damage but also rather soft and pleasant to the touch.

    My DW Elizabeth has very long hair but it's also thinned a lot in recent years, not uncommon as women age. We're both getting a lot of gray and that's fine with us. Many of her new gray hairs are coming in as coarser and less straight, another common effect of aging. She loves her gray and I admire it too. I'd happily have hair that's all gray or all white if I could just have its thickness and length back.

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    I voted rarely. I really try not to feel that way. Everyone has to start somewhere. I just use it as inspiration.

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    Default Re: Do you experience (long) hair envy?

    Quote Originally Posted by Bill D. View Post
    My situation is a bit different. As a male I've had male pattern baldness for decades which has ravaged my hair.

    I'd finally gotten permission to grow my hair long at age 15. By age 19 it had reached my waist (I'm very long waisted). My hair was 30 inches from the top of my head and probably 36 inches from my hairline (I also have a big head). That's when I first noted early signs of a retreating hairline and thinning hair in front. I ended up cutting my hair short at age 23 to help me in my job search (this was back in the early 1980s, a very different time). I finally got the courage to grow it out again at age 40 but it's never gotten past the middle of my back. My hair is only a pale shadow of what it once was and what I'd like it to be.

    So what do I envy? Length, certainly, but only in conjunction with a reasonable amount of thickness, health, and apparent softness. My hair (and DW's hair) is fine textured, which makes it more vulnerable to tangling and damage but also rather soft and pleasant to the touch.

    My DW Elizabeth has very long hair but it's also thinned a lot in recent years, not uncommon as women age. We're both getting a lot of gray and that's fine with us. Many of her new gray hairs are coming in as coarser and less straight, another common effect of aging. She loves her gray and I admire it too. I'd happily have hair that's all gray or all white if I could just have its thickness and length back.

    Bill D.
    I always feel badly for men who have thinning hair due to the baldness gene. I don't think men get enough sympathy for what you must be going through - I imagine it's quite traumatic, just as much as for women. Having said that, I never mined bald or shave headed men, lol. Kudos for sticking with the grey. I do as well, can't be bothered to colour, not to mention the damage.

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    Default Re: Do you experience (long) hair envy?

    I love crazy thick hair and envy that a lot, as well as anyone who's at waist length!

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    Default Re: Do you experience (long) hair envy?

    Rarely, and when I do it's at LHC.
    Think that's because I used to have TBL and now it's only APL. So, it's more like I'm missing my own length, not wishing for somebody else's.
    IDk...
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    Default Re: Do you experience (long) hair envy?

    I voted sometimes... I mostly envy people that have hair thickness and curl that I'll never have but since I've reached my first major milestone (waist length) I don't feel it as much as I used to.
    CBL/APL/BSL​/MBL/Waist/Hip/TBL



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    Default Re: Do you experience (long) hair envy?

    I experience hair envy all the time, especially if it's long and a cool color too! I also envy my 5 year old self because I used to have such long hair as a child, if I remember correctly it was about hip length.

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