Hi everyone! I thought I would reintroduce myself here (and also practice linking pictures -- I can't seem to upload any to the forum right now, which is frustrating).

I am a 37 year old artist, and I have a lot of thick curly hair that I periodically cut all the way off and then wish I hadn't. As a kid I think the longest it got was BCL. I cut it off in college and wore it very very short for many years (like between buzzcut and shoulder length). In 2020 I decided I wanted to grow it long. My goal was knee length. I got to APL before I had some kind of crisis about it and cut it to a pixie.

Why so much ambivalence about the length of my hair? Why want to grow it just to cut it off? All amazing questions. Partly it's gender presentation and not being a feminine person. Sometimes with long hair that identity and sense of self can get lost, and it can be hard to deal with. But I love long hair, I think it's beautiful, and I love taking care of my hair.

So now it's 2024 and I think I want to try and grow it a bit and see how I feel. Right now we are just shy of shoulder length. My hair grows on the fast side of average, so I think within 2 years I'll be back at APL, and in about 3 years at waist (if I can keep from cutting it off).

Glad to be here again

Let's see if I can post pictures -- Here's where my hair was just before I cut it all short in 2023



And here's how it looked when I cut it


and here it is right now!