Quote from: Christine167 on May 14, 2014, 09:58:29 PM
Thanks for the comments gang.

Learningtolive, yeah I have to use a flat iron or lots of prayers. I have naturally wavy hair. I have seen your hair though girl and it's cute. Trust me girls like you used to turn me down for dates in high school and you are only getting better.

Alainaluvsu, she only cut the back. It's okay, no really I'm patient and I expect to make mistakes. At this point I want to look like my avatar pic. Except without caked on makeup and perpetual beard shadow. Fixing these things will take time and here in south a slow change is best. Even this style has had my coworkers puzzled on if I'm gay or just having a midlife crisis. At least with the back cut short I meet official dress code with my hair not on my collar. I do have a thin crown. It is growing back however slowly now with finasteride and HRT.

Tiffany, thank you and I think that you have awesome hair.

Oh god, I really hate that word"dress code". Really who thinks they have the actual right to tell a person how they should look?

Yeah Tifanny I love the color of your hair.

Quote from: Christine167 on May 14, 2014, 09:58:29 PM
Alainaluvsu, she only cut the back. It's okay, no really I'm patient and I expect to make mistakes. At this point I want to look like my avatar pic. Except without caked on makeup and perpetual beard shadow. Fixing these things will take time and here in south a slow change is best. Even this style has had my coworkers puzzled on if I'm gay or just having a midlife crisis. At least with the back cut short I meet official dress code with my hair not on my collar. I do have a thin crown. It is growing back however slowly now with finasteride and HRT.

Next time, leave density in the back. That's what's really killing you right now I just don't like how close to the skin it is, and edged it is at your neck. What do you do that requires a dress code for hair, if I may ask?

Quote from: Jess42 on May 14, 2014, 05:38:52 PM
Yeah I know. But the shorter it is it does seem to grow faster. 1 inch hair seems to grow quicker than 12 inch hair.  Now not even you can debunk that. remember the key word is "seems".

A lot of the things about hair that I heard growing up seems more like superstitious, something about washing it in rainwater, this that and the full moon deal. I think the only thing that is true and I really can't remember whether it is hard water or soft water but one or the other makes mine really soft and shiney. I still have to load it with a lot of stuff to keep it from being frizzy though. But one makes it look and feel way better.

Soft water is much more healthier for your hair. You don't want a bunch of minerals in it. It's damaging to the cuticle (the outermost layer of a hair strand that gives it shine and smooth feel). Never heard of the full moon deal. And I wouldn't wash it with rain water. You want to shampoo w/ hot water, and rinse the conditioner out with cool. You can't control temperature in rain water

There's an explanation as to why it seems to faster when it's short than when it's long. In fact, there's actually a bit of truth to it. IDK if I can explain it but I'll try.

The reason being, hair has an attachment span (the amount of time it's attached to your scalp) of 2-7 years, and all 100,000+ follicles are on a different time line. Hair grows about half an inch a month on average.

Let's say you decide to start growing your hair out from a buzz cut as an adult. Your hair is 1", and most of them have been going through a growth pattern for different amounts of time. Well, for the first few months, the hair grows fairly rapidly because most of it hasn't ran out its life cycle in that amount of time. But once you get to about the 1 year mark or so after you decide to start growing your hair out, lots of original follicles have fallen out, and all of the new ones aren't as long as the ones that you started with.

So, while in theory at the 2 year mark you should have 1' of hair, you're more than likely going to be around 8"-10" because most of the hair you started with is gone, and it's been replaced by hair that's on a brand new cycle. And by the end of that 2 year mark you're thinking to yourself "Geez it grew out so much faster the first few months!". But in reality, after your scalp sheds most of the hair you originally had, it'll start growing length faster again. I started growing my hair out in 2010 and these past few months it's been growing like Jacks Beanstalk.

Hope that makes sense, no doubt it didn't

I take Alaina's point of just letting it grow through the awkward stage. You can look through the new Non-binary forum if you wanna look at my radical new haircut, but in the meantime, I'm posting a couple of pixie cuts from my pixie phase just to show that trans women can do it too. Is my jaw weak enough?

Quote from: Alainaluvsu on May 15, 2014, 12:40:07 AM
Soft water is much more healthier for your hair. You don't want a bunch of minerals in it. It's damaging to the cuticle (the outermost layer of a hair strand that gives it shine and smooth feel). Never heard of the full moon deal. And I wouldn't wash it with rain water. You want to shampoo w/ hot water, and rinse the conditioner out with cool. You can't control temperature in rain water

There's an explanation as to why it seems to faster when it's short than when it's long. In fact, there's actually a bit of truth to it. IDK if I can explain it but I'll try.

The reason being, hair has an attachment span (the amount of time it's attached to your scalp) of 2-7 years, and all 100,000+ follicles are on a different time line. Hair grows about half an inch a month on average.

Let's say you decide to start growing your hair out from a buzz cut as an adult. Your hair is 1", and most of them have been going through a growth pattern for different amounts of time. Well, for the first few months, the hair grows fairly rapidly because most of it hasn't ran out its life cycle in that amount of time. But once you get to about the 1 year mark or so after you decide to start growing your hair out, lots of original follicles have fallen out, and all of the new ones aren't as long as the ones that you started with.

So, while in theory at the 2 year mark you should have 1' of hair, you're more than likely going to be around 8"-10" because most of the hair you started with is gone, and it's been replaced by hair that's on a brand new cycle. And by the end of that 2 year mark you're thinking to yourself "Geez it grew out so much faster the first few months!". But in reality, after your scalp sheds most of the hair you originally had, it'll start growing length faster again. I started growing my hair out in 2010 and these past few months it's been growing like Jacks Beanstalk.

Hope that makes sense, no doubt it didn't

I was just joking Alaina but now I am flabergasted and in awe that you did debunk it. Yeah it does make sense.

Definately warm wash and rinsing the conditioner out with cool water.

As for the cutting during a full moon thing and washing it with rainwater,  I grew up sort of in the same type of place that "Jed Clampett and his kin" came from and there were a lot of superstions that the older people swore by. I never bought into them but found them pretty interesting nonetheless.

Quote from: mandonlym on May 15, 2014, 02:09:03 AM
I take Alaina's point of just letting it grow through the awkward stage. You can look through the new Non-binary forum if you wanna look at my radical new haircut, but in the meantime, I'm posting a couple of pixie cuts from my pixie phase just to show that trans women can do it too. Is my jaw weak enough?

It works on you. It's not very cute because your hair is so thin and the bottom picture looks like it's a bit uneven in the cut, but it does work. You're a rare exception. But just because you can pull it off, doesn't mean many of us can. Not only does it not work with 95% plus of us due to face shape, but it's a difficult cut. Many stylists can't do it and make it look great. The reason it's cute on movie stars is because their stylists are some of the best in the country.

I wouldn't tout myself as an example to what all trans people can do and get away with. We all have our own limitations. Many cis girls can't even pull off a pixie cut, and most wont get one because they don't want to deal with maintenance (getting it cut every few weeks like men get their hair cut), and if they want to grow it out, that's even more time consuming and gives a huge awkward stage.

Quote from: TiffanyT on May 14, 2014, 11:34:07 AM
Haters gona hate.



^This was around 9 months ago.



^ Probably around the same time.



^IDK, around last Christmas.

I'm growing it out now anyways, but I had short hair when I was starting to transition.

I think you pull off short hair pretty well!  You seem to be in the lucky category of looking passable with short hair, at least that's what I'm getting from those photos.   

Quote from: Christine167 on May 14, 2014, 09:58:29 PM
Thanks for the comments gang.

Learningtolive, yeah I have to use a flat iron or lots of prayers. I have naturally wavy hair. I have seen your hair though girl and it's cute. Trust me girls like you used to turn me down for dates in high school and you are only getting better.

Alainaluvsu, she only cut the back. It's okay, no really I'm patient and I expect to make mistakes. At this point I want to look like my avatar pic. Except without caked on makeup and perpetual beard shadow. Fixing these things will take time and here in south a slow change is best. Even this style has had my coworkers puzzled on if I'm gay or just having a midlife crisis. At least with the back cut short I meet official dress code with my hair not on my collar. I do have a thin crown. It is growing back however slowly now with finasteride and HRT.

Tiffany, thank you and I think that you have awesome hair.

I do think your hair looks good and there is no need to grow it out long if you prefer it like that.  However, if you want to grow it out like your avatar photo, you should probably just let it grow out from here on out as it takes a lot of time.  In any case, I do like your hair (it looks very healthy) and you should cut it the way you want.

Thank you for your compliments, though I beg to differ, lol.  In regards to my hair, it took me forever to grow it out and I didn't get it cut.  Last hair cut I had was around August of 2012 and right now it's about shoulder length.   It was a long process to get the long frizzy mess that is my hair. 

Just some ideas I would have went with