What are your current/ultimate hair goals and why?

[SongofLove]

Hi all! Could you share what your current and/or future hair goals are, and why you chose them? Inquiring minds would like to know

For example, if your hair goal is to reach waist length, what is it about waist length that you like/think you'll like? Or if you're growing out dye, what made you decide to do so?

My intermediate goal right now is to reach classic length. Classic length seems to be a very aesthetically pleasing length, judging by all the lovely photos on this forum and by the few CL beauties that I've seen in real life.

However, I love braids, so my ultimate goal is to have a classic-length braid, which I figure would require fingertip length at least...I will also probably need to have an intermediate goal of maintaining to thicken my ends before reaching FT, because if I don't, my family will probably bug me to cut it

So, how about you? Please be as concise or as wordy as you would like. Waiting eagerly for responses!

[Amorice]

My ultimate goal is somewhere between hip and tailbone. I've been at about mid-back/waist for a long time, and while most consider it "long", I don't think its terribly long, but the pictures I've seen of hip and tailbone length hair looks lovely and long but not too long. Classic or longer would be too much for me because I like wearing my hair down and wouldn't want to worry about sitting on it!

[Tristania]

My primary goal is healthy and beautiful hair, and trying to achieve this while using chemical dyes (I refuse to stop dying my hair black!). Growing it as long as it will grow, or until it starts to look scraggly, is a secondary goal. Growing back to tailbone would be awesome, anything longer than that would be a plus.

[MeowScat]

My current goal is to continue growing to mid-butt but slowly thickening up my straggly, thin hemline along the way. I want my hemline to be blunt one day. It'll take years. Hurry up and grow already!

I'd love to chop off the yucky ends but I've done that so many times and regretted losing the length. I know it would look so much better, but I'm just not ready to lose 6 - 8 inches. Those old layers and highlights look so ratty, although they're soft since lurking LHC.

I used to like quality over quantity, but that has changed in the past few years. I'd rather have longer hair with thin ends than shorter hair with a thick hemline during my growing out. Weird.

I love the way mid-butt length looks, the way it moves and how impressively it falls over your shoulder. Classic Length is gorgeous but I don't think I would have the patience or decent looking ends at that length even though it's not terribly far from my goal. Weird, again.

I was looking at pictures the other night of Robin Wright's hair in the Princess Bride and I pictured her hair at mid-butt. Wrong-o!

[SongofLove]

My ultimate goal is somewhere between hip and tailbone. I've been at about mid-back/waist for a long time, and while most consider it "long", I don't think its terribly long, but the pictures I've seen of hip and tailbone length hair looks lovely and long but not too long. Classic or longer would be too much for me because I like wearing my hair down and wouldn't want to worry about sitting on it!

Haha, good point! Yeah, I've heard a lot of people say that hip/tailbone are nice manageable lengths, and still unusually long for most non-LHCers. I don't know if I will like Classic either, if I get there---I would hate to accidentally sit on it!

[JoieBruce]

When I was a little girl, the lady who was the cashier at our small town grocery store had knee length hair. Her braid fell well past her bottom. I was so envious. I LOVED her hair, and would notice if she got a trim (apparently most didn't). Even now, I think of her hair often.

I've had long hair most of my life, but never really past my waist. I hit waist and usually chop it back up to my shoulders, and immediately regret it. I don't want to do that again.

My braid is currently at BSL, and my length is waist. I'd like for my braid to be tailbone, so I figure I need about classic length. I'd shoot for knee, but my hair is quite thick, and I'm only 5'2" so I'm not sure how well that would work out. We'll see how I feel once I get to classic.

[Garnet66]

My current goal is to grow out my dye and embrace my silvers. And I'm working on finding a routine that works for me. I'm going for quality instead of quantity. Although I'm definately not a long hair yet my goal is waist length. I chose waist length because I remember having waist lenth hair in grade school and I loved swishing it around. Plus, I think waist length would allow me to do most of the updo's that I'm looking forward to do.

[SongofLove]

My primary goal is healthy and beautiful hair, and trying to achieve this while using chemical dyes (I refuse to stop dying my hair black!). Growing it as long as it will grow, or until it starts to look scraggly, is a secondary goal. Growing back to tailbone would be awesome, anything longer than that would be a plus.

Cool! I definitely like black hair. My mom dyes her hair black and I think it looks very good and she keeps it healthy. What shade of black do you have (jet black, soft black?) and what is your natural color? You say grow back to tailbone---did you have tailbone length previously?

[earthnut]

My main goal is healthy, moisturized, shiny, non-frizzy hair that forms nice clumpy wurls. I want to see how healthy I can get it.

My secondary goal is waist length. I want to wear it down a lot, so I don't see myself going longer than waist. But we'll see. The last time I had long hair, my terminal length was waist, but my hair was also parched and not well taken care of. Virgin, but unhealthy. So my terminal length is probably longer now. Maybe when I reach waist, I'll want to see what terminal is.

[Rufflebutt]

My current goal is to grow out my dye and gradually make my way to Classic length while slowly trimming away damage.

Eventually, years down the line, I want to have 100% virgin hair that is classic length or longer without any layers.