if you suffer from HAIR-REXIA - please check IN!

[2themax]

I definitely suffer from hair-rexia, especially walking around campus seeing all these wsl white girls. I'm bsl but I feel soooo bald! Whenever someone says "your hair is so long" I just feel like...yeah whateva its ok. I won't be happy until I'm wsl too :-\

Yeah you & me BOTH!

 

[taj]

I got it bad. My hair is mbl or just grazing it, but I still consider it short! lol! I won't be satisfied until I'm waist or hip length.

 

[I Am So Blessed]

I got it bad. My hair is mbl or just grazing it, but I still consider it short! lol! I won't be satisfied until I'm waist or hip length.

girl, when you get WL or HP you still will have hairexia.i know i do.

IM ALWAYS SCREAMING AT MYHAIR (mentaly) GROW, GROW GROW! HURRRY UP!!

 

[lilsparkle825]

I feel you, ladies. I thought getting a DB would help....mannnn my hair felt long for all of 15 minutes then I felt neck length. If I wear my hair down too long, I feel like it is breaking off and flying away in the wind. Also, what gets me is seeing a picture in someone's sig or avi and saying "WHOA, her hair is to die for!!"....and then realizing mine is longer than that of the person whose hair I am drooling over but feels sooo much shorter. That's the worst.

I wore my hair in a ponytail yesterday. All I ever wanted was a low pony that brushed against my back, and now I have it...and I got all these compliments from friends and family that just felt so unwarranted. On top of that, my ends just feel so raggedy and see-through that all I could think about was hiding them in a bun...which is funny, because when they WERE raggedy and see through a few years ago, all I wanted to do was swang my hair!!!

I realized that it's because unlike a weave or wig, which can take us to these astounding lengths in a matter of minutes...our hair is gradually growing, and we get used to caring for it, washing it, etc as it grows, so it's never a big adjustment. It may be good that we can care for it, but that feeling still sucks...

 

[taj]

girl, when you get WL or HP you still will have hairexia.i know i do.

IM ALWAYS SCREAMING AT MYHAIR (mentaly) GROW, GROW GROW! HURRRY UP!!

Your're right... the more we get, the more we want. We're just not satisfied. lol! I can't believe you adora, screaming for your hair to grow! lmbo!! If you didn't post photos, I'd think you were bald. lol!

 

[Angelicus]

I always feel so bald.

 

[taj]

I feel you, ladies. I thought getting a DB would help....mannnn my hair felt long for all of 15 minutes then I felt neck length. If I wear my hair down too long, I feel like it is breaking off and flying away in the wind. Also, what gets me is seeing a picture in someone's sig or avi and saying "WHOA, her hair is to die for!!"....and then realizing mine is longer than that of the person whose hair I am drooling over but feels sooo much shorter. That's the worst.

I wore my hair in a ponytail yesterday. All I ever wanted was a low pony that brushed against my back, and now I have it...and I got all these compliments from friends and family that just felt so unwarranted. On top of that, my ends just feel so raggedy and see-through that all I could think about was hiding them in a bun...which is funny, because when they WERE raggedy and see through a few years ago, all I wanted to do was swang my hair!!!

I realized that it's because unlike a weave or wig, which can take us to these astounding lengths in a matter of minutes...our hair is gradually growing, and we get used to caring for it, washing it, etc as it grows, so it's never a big adjustment. It may be good that we can care for it, but that feeling still sucks...

What is your hair goal? I'd like to be either waist or hip length. Adora is like hl and she still thinks its short.

 

[kurlybella]

bump!!!!!!

 

[MrsIQ]

My hair is grazing BSL but its fine and full of layers so I only "feel" SL.

 

[iCandyc]

I def suffer from this! Everyone is always saying how much my hair has grown etc and I'm like what are yal seeing??

 

[Kurlee]

i have bsl and feel SL . I think the problem is thickness. For some reason very thick hair looks longer than finer, less dense hair.

 

[Sianna]

I was just about to start a thread on this subject, but then I found this one.

Here's my deal. My hair has ALWAYS been short. I would have KILLED for SL hair, but now that my hair is getting there, I'm not nearly as happy as I thought I'd be! Straightened, my hair just barely touches my shoulders and I had always believed that, the day when that happened, I would most certainly claim it! Now, I don't think I'll actually claim SL for another few months, and I know I STILL won't be happy!

I set, what I thought was a lofty goal of APL, but with the shrinkage and the fact that APL isn't even really that long, I'm pretty sure I won't be happy even then!

Lately, I have been finding myself increasingly greedy for length, feeling that my hair isn't growing even though it obviously is. Getting frustrated at how slow my hair is growing, when I am retaining far more length than I ever have. Complaining about at how short my hair is, even though it's probably longer now than it's been most of my adult life. Sad but true, especially considering how utterly BALD I still am!!

I need help!

 

[Qtee]

Oh yeah...I fell bald most days..and to top it off...with shrinkage my hair is NL and stretched its APL...I need to be at least WL to feel like I have some hair on my head..

 

[Lovelylife]

I actually still can't believe that I'm at BSL(my hair shrinks even with a relaxer). I check several times a day in shock. So I first need to believe that I'm even at the length.

 

[MsLizziA]

I suffer from this bad.. To say that i feel bald headed would be a complete understatment.. my hair never feels long enough.. i always feel like it could be longer... ~shrug~ i know right...

I think its this hair board... it has killed my perception of what long hair is

 

[topnotch1010]

I'm a lil past APL and I feel like I'm shoulder length, which is strange because when I was shoulder length I thought if I ever got to APL I would be over the moon. Well I'm not .

I feel the exact same way! I thought when I finally got to APL my hair would be soooo looooong. NOT! I still feel like it's SL and I'm mesmerized by my pics. It doesn't seem real.


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[JJamiah]

All I know is my ear length hair just won't grow I am so sad! HUH!
I freak out everytime I comb my hair and one strand comes out I am like oh boy back to eyebrow length!

Yes I got it bad!

I still suffer from this disorder. I don't feel my hair has grown. As Lucia said, I look at others and drool at it. I just don't feel mine is long right now.
But I have capped at Full WL and NO More. (about shoulder for hair-rexia patients LOL)

 

[Amoreofcurls]

I feel like a bald eagle every darn day

 

[D.Lisha]

oh man, dnt get me started!
My last relaxer day was so sack =/.....like it seems like my hair is stuck at this shoulderish-palish spot...and it's driving me up the freaking wall! Im pretty convinced that I want feel like I have long hair until I reach full WL *sigh* .....

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[4bslbound]

i think its because back-of-the-head hair shots look longer than from-the-front in real life. When I look in the mirror, I see all of my layers, but when taking a picture, I only see the longest layer for the most part.

ALso, in a pic, it looks heavy but in real life is light. (Also, as I realized that my hair grows longer than I originally thought, my hair goals have changed

 

[Sianna]

...I think its this hair board... it has killed my perception of what long hair is

For me, the board is only part of the problem. Yes the board has changed my perception of what long hair is, but I know for a fact if I woke up tomorrow and my hair was APL, I would straighten it and be swanging it like nobody's business! People would stare. Women would cover their children's eyes. Strangers would inquire as to whether or not I was having some sort of seizure. And I wouldn't care one bit, I'd keep'a swangin till the cows came home. It's the fact that I have to wait and watch as my hair GRADUALLY grows that makes it seem so short, no matter how much progress my pictures are telling me I've made.

 

[MsLizziA]

I feel like a bald eagle every darn day

and you r the same length as me! I know how u feel though.. trust me i know

 

[bride91501]

All of you chicas with MBL hair seeing "short" when you look in the mirror are *killing* me LOL!

But for real, even though I don't really have much length yet, I just knew you'd never be able to tell me nothin' when I got to SL (considering I've never been there before). Now that I'm grazing CBL, you'd think I'd be over the moon excited whenever I look in the mirror, but my hair seems so much shorter than that. I mean, I can *see* the progress in pics, I just can't seem to enjoy it. *shrug*

I hope to goodness that when I reach APL or BSL, this disorder will be cured lol.

 

[wavezncurlz]

I think its this hair board... it has killed my perception of what long hair is

THIS!!!!
I always had "longish" hair by off board standards. On this board, I feel middle of the road. And shrinkage? Don't get me started.

 

[Candy828]

Oh man. I really do suffer from hair anorexia... or hair dysmorphia as a mostly white board calls it. (They have it too!)

I flat ironed yesterday for a length check. Dh was like Your hair is SO LONG!!!!! I was like erplexed Whose hair are you looking at? B/c I just don't see it.

I actually felt kinda depressed about the state of my hair and had to bun it and put it away so I wouldn't be sad over how "short" it is

Oh.... this is me all the way! I constantly wear buns because I just can't see the mirror clearly. Even though my hair is just pass mid-butt.... I could swear it's still BSL.... it's like I am stuck there. I keep thinking when I hit the next milestone it will look the length it is suppose to. I am trying to shake this hair anorexia thing.... Maybe this board is hair-rexia-anonymous and I'll kick the habit!

 

[arosieworld]

I haven't done an update because I don't feel like I have much to be proud of. I feel like I'm still bald, the measuring tape says I am APL but the mirror says I am SL at best!

 

[trendsetta25]

hello, my name is trendsetta and am a hariarexic!
My hair is the longest its ever been in life. But when I comb my hair and look at it in the mirror I feel like I'm SL
My hair to me will never be thick enough or long enough. Hopefully when I reach WL I'll get over this disease.....on second thought...

 

[4bslbound]

i know this is supposed to be a fun thread but......what if you actually woke up tomorrow "bald".

I def have a different perception of hair length (long is relative) but "bald"............it makes me consider the folks who have bald spots for real......