Quote from: Laura91 on July 15, 2012, 06:41:53 PM
I remember wanting long hair when I was around 11. My parents thought I wanted it because I was listening to metal bands and they had long hair.

How wrong they were.

I grew up in the 1970's and the term metal bands wasn't really invented back then. That was more of an 1980's term. I started growing my hair very long when I was 12 or 13 and no one cared because it was fashionable back then in the U.K. We also had the glam rock phase, so you could push the androgynous look a little further. I used to wear platform shoes and very colorful clothes. Most people assumed I was female. Great times!

My hair is the one visible change I've made since becoming aware again of who I am. It's now definitely long for a man (which is what everybody still thinks I am). I wish I knew what to do with it...but I'm afraid of having somebody touch it, especially while I'm in this in-between of wanting a woman's cut but still needing to fit in as a man. (Mostly afraid that I won't be satisfied and will be left with too little hair to do something I'd be satsified with.)

Congrats! I've found that growing my hair, I seem to alternate between cheering its new length and bemoaning the fact that it isn't "only another inch or two" longer.

Quote from: openheart on July 16, 2012, 05:08:31 AM
My hair is the one visible change I've made since becoming aware again of who I am. It's now definitely long for a man (which is what everybody still thinks I am). I wish I knew what to do with it...but I'm afraid of having somebody touch it, especially while I'm in this in-between of wanting a woman's cut but still needing to fit in as a man. (Mostly afraid that I won't be satisfied and will be left with too little hair to do something I'd be satsified with.)

Congrats! I've found that growing my hair, I seem to alternate between cheering its new length and bemoaning the fact that it isn't "only another inch or two" longer.

omg, that is all SO true!!

Its amazing that thru all this, so many of us have the same feelings and experiences!!

Yay for you and your new ponytail! Looking forwards to hearing about the bratty pigtails  .

Love,

Rosie

Best thing to do with your hair as it grows: Get it cut straight across once the front hair comes close to touching your shoulders when combed back.  Guys with long hair usually wear their hair this way, and it can easily be braided or otherwise treated into styles women more often wear.  I wore this style for about ten years.  The only downside is that if you have thinning hair it'll show, since you won't have bangs or anything to help hide it--but if your hair is thinning enough you might want to wear a bob or something anyway.

I miss my long hair.  I cut it off when my hair started thinning out, in order to let my roots breathe.  I'm glad I did--my follicles were getting killed by the weight--but I really wish I hadn't had to.

Good tips, thanx!

I have seen girls around here and in SF that have it long with no bangs but parted more towards the side instead of the middle. I have been getting some pretty good ideas just by people watching

Hey Michelle, It's lovely to hear about your hair.  I know when mine was short and it took about a year before I could style it.  What I would suggest is to love them   no harsh chemicals but treat them with nice masks and give them all the care they need and they'd love you back   in length of course 

Quote from: glicious on July 19, 2012, 01:33:33 AM
Hey Michelle, It's lovely to hear about your hair.  I know when mine was short and it took about a year before I could style it.  What I would suggest is to love them   no harsh chemicals but treat them with nice masks and give them all the care they need and they'd love you back   in length of course 

Thanx! And your style is what I like! I know it will take time, but hey....I have lots of that (hopefully)

Yes I got rid of the cheap shampoo and got some really good professional products and some "leave in conditioner" I can already tell the difference in how it feels nd looks

My shower used to have one bar of soap and a bottle of cheap shampoo, now there are nice soaps , several different hair products, razors, shaving lotions....and nice thick Egyptian cotton towels...I love being a girl

Quote from: Michelle G on July 19, 2012, 01:44:50 AM
Thanx! And your style is what I like! I know it will take time, but hey....I have lots of that (hopefully)

Yes I got rid of the cheap shampoo and got some really good professional products and some "leave in conditioner" I can already tell the difference in how it feels nd looks

My shower used to have one bar of soap and a bottle of cheap shampoo, now there are nice soaps , several different hair products, razors, shaving lotions....and nice thick Egyptian cotton towels...I love being a girl

I think it is funny how I've gone from being a low maintenance 'guy' to a high maintenance girl

Quote from: Cindy James on July 19, 2012, 02:52:35 AM
I think it is funny how I've gone from being a low maintenance 'guy' to a high maintenance girl

omg! you and I both Cindy

Quote from: Cindy James on July 19, 2012, 02:52:35 AM
I think it is funny how I've gone from being a low maintenance 'guy' to a high maintenance girl

I've barely begun and I'm already getting that way.  It's funny, my mom used to complain that I didn't give a crap about my appearance, but now she complains I spend too much time at it.  And I'm still stuck in boy-mode, dammit!

I'm getting up half an hour earlier so that I can, shower, do my hair, including straightening,  make-up (minimal) , select what to wear, change my mind, select something else, get the pills together, wash them down with tea, teeth, recheck the make-up, decide I don't like how my hair looks, notice the time, panic, find my handbag, run out of the house, into the car, feel wonderful.   

In the past it was get up, shower, jeans and shirt, teeth, get in the car, leave, feel like crap.

Strange world indeed.



Cindy

Quote from: Cindy James on July 20, 2012, 04:12:01 AM
I'm getting up half an hour earlier so that I can, shower, do my hair, including straightening,  make-up (minimal) , select what to wear, change my mind, select something else, get the pills together, wash them down with tea, teeth, recheck the make-up, decide I don't like how my hair looks, notice the time, panic, find my handbag, run out of the house, into the car, feel wonderful.   

In the past it was get up, shower, jeans and shirt, teeth, get in the car, leave, feel like crap.

Strange world indeed.



Cindy

well mountain hippie womyn like me are lucky to wash our hair once every two weeks if that and we wear whatever we like and wash our clothes in a bucket and well .. you city gurls are too freaking clean..

when i do wash my hair it comes out so clean and for days its like soft but then soon the dirt from the garden gets back into it and well thats a natural protection from city dirt and smog etc etc

This sez it all