Ladies, do long hair run in your family?

[topnotch1010]

I think it's more about the care of their hair that's holding them back. In the different sets of my family, my uncle had 3 girls all with MBL hair. My grandmother on that same side has MBL hair. The rest us have SL or shorter. This is on my dad's side with both White, Black, Indian, and Creole blood.

My mom's side, I always had the longest hair. Everyone is NL. Again I think it's all about improper care techniques.

 

[ms.blue]

Most of my family is in Ghana so I don't know how long their hair is but they family I have here in the states, they're b/w nl & sl except for my mom (apl), my sister (bsl) and myself (apl-bsb).

 

[Highly Favored8]

Yes long hair runs in my family.

 

[Arian]

Yes, on both sides...

 

[Mrs. Verde]

Dad's side - No

Mom's side - Yes. My mom has Type 2A/B hair. It has been waist lenght several times in my life. Right now it waist length kicking on tailbone. Three of my mom's sisters average about BSL/MBL hair. Not sure of their hair type because they have always had perms. Even though my mom has always had long hair, guess who she is asking for advice on products??? My hair is MBL now, the longest it has ever been so knows I know or thing or two about haircare now. When I was wished I had my mom's hair forever. Now I love my hair!!!

 

[diadall]

My father is brazillian and the women in his family all had long waist length hair.

On my mother's side, my great grandmother and grandmother had long hair. Both were MBL. My mother never had long hair. I assumed she could not grow it long. Then she wore braids for two years and took them out last year for my sister's wedding. Well, when she got it flat ironed it was MBL. I have never seen my mother with that much hair.

One of my sisters has always had long hair. She would literally come home from school and wrap it in a scarf. I never understood it. (I do now). My youngest sister is in that stage where she cuts her hair and eyebrows because she is rebelling. I think she is starting to take better care of her hair.

My aunts always had short hair and I am not sure if it was by choice. I have one aunt with really long hair but she has a Jheri Curl. She has had one since the 80's.

 

[Janet']

Hmm...My grandmother always had full SL hair and it was very healthy...My aunt had MBL hair that she cut to a neck length bob at 14 behind my grandmother's back and has never had her hair long since...she hates long hair (on herself). My mother has always had SL to APL hair...

As a child and teenager, I had HL hair and BSL, respectively.

My dad's side of the family has always been around SL...

I would say that my family probably has the potential to have long hair, they just don't want to invest the time...

 

[LaFemmeNaturelle]

My mom, one of her sisters, and my grandmother always had long hair. Maybe BSL at the longest. My mom now keeps a pixie cut but her other two sisters could never grow their hair past EL....um except when they wore fros in the 70s but I couldnt tell their length because it was in a fro....my brothers hair was longer than mine and no one on my dads side has long hair. So based on my two aunts with the short hair, it's obvious genetics definitely plays a role if only 2 sisters could grow their hair long and 2 of them couldn't. But that also could just mean that what works for some doesn't work for everyone. Who really knows?

But my hair hasn't been this long since I was a child and that doesn't count because I was much smaller.

At the same time, my great grandmother had hair to her butt and none of her kids hair EVER got that long.erplexed

 

[EllePixie]

Not at all! I really think it depends on your hair care routine. My mother and I have always had long hair but she took care of my hair and hers. My cousins on both sides, aunts, etc...a lot of them wear wigs or keep their hair very short (like less than an inch). Until I got older I never realized all my aunts wore wigs, lol...

 

[Renewed1]

My grandma had tailbone length hair. She always wore buns, so no one knew for a long time. One day she let it hang and WOW!!!!!

My mom has MBL hair, but now it's SL because she haven't taken care of it.

My sis has SL. On my father's side SL or shorter.

 

[pattyr5]

My mother had long hair, way back in the day. Her hair grows like weeds and she is constantly cutting it down to a military buzz cut. Seems like the ones who don't want it always get it....

 

[lovelexi]

Funny because I just mentioned this in another post. On my mother's side theres alot of long hair. Mostly 3c's. When I was a natural as a child I had APL-BSL hair. I claim 4a. Once I got a relaxer my longest has been CBL.

 

[Imani]

I have not really been around my fathers side. The few times I met some of them, I don't recall anyone with long hair.

NO ONE on my mothers side has ever long hair, not even as children. The longest anyone has ever seen is shoulder length. No one got relaxers until they were adults, just got the old school press and curl every 2 weeks. Everyone is 4b-not the strong Oprah/Rudy pretty and thick 4b, but fine-strand, fragile.

I do not think its all about practices alone, imo genetics and hair type does play a role. I do believe everyone can grow long healthy hair, but some people are going to have to put alot more effort in than others.


eta: actually now that I remember, my great-great aunts had long hair. They were literally like 100 yrs old when I was little and they had long silky hair. but no one in the recent generations has long hair

 

[maxineshaw]

Yes, but by choice (and sometimes that choice is unhealthy habits) the women in my family tend to keep it short.

 

[kmn1980]

Yeah. Long, thick, coarse hair of varying curl patterns.

 

[Rae81]

my maternal grandmother always had short hair my mom's sister has thick natural hair but im not sure how long it is cuz she keeps it in twist updos, but maybe a lil past sl all her daughters have sl hair one is natural and one is not. my mom had a big thick afro when i was lil then i dont know what happened it was short. she had braids then got a jerri curl and her hair really grew and was probably apl, and now she has hardly no hair since it all fell out. my sister inherited my moms hair its thin and short the longest her hair ever was at sl, but her other sister has thick long hair. my hair has always had length and i got it from my father's side, it was thick and curly when i was younger but getting perms has taken away the thickness, and my other sister from him has hair like mines.

 

[brg240]

I think so, growing up my nana, mom and her sisters had long hair. My dad's sister had long hair. My cousins on my dad's side have long hair. I'm not sure about my cousins on my mom's though.

 

[Computer Blue]

I think its a combo of nature and nurture in general. On my father's side great grand had coarse type 2/3 HL hair and like finally free's daughter only used vaseline on wet hair. My grandma had coarse type 3 hair & in my lifetime was wl, .I definitely get my hair's somewhat high tolerance for heat from her. Other relatives with mbl-wl relaxed hair.
On my mom's side the hair is fine and not very dense with a few longer, coarser haired people a one is 4b relaxed and another 4b loced. On both sides I have
relatives who aren't very nice to their hair and haven't seen their potential, or simply choose to keep it shorter.

 

[RainyDaze]

My maternal grandmother and great-grandmother had waist length hair. There is Native American and Irish ancestry on my mother's side of the family. However, only me and a few of my cousins have had very long hair. When my grandmother was 30 yrs old, she decided to cut her thick waist length hair to a very short cropped cut and has kept it very short every since. For some reason, I never asked her why. I guess she doesn't like long hair. My mother used to keep her hair SL or shorter, but decided to let it grow out. It is currently MBL.

Not too sure about the ethnic mixture on my father's side, but two of his sisters have long hair.

My hair seems to grow pretty fast, but in the past 2 years I've had to get several inches cut due to chemical and heat damage; I think the stylist was also a little scissor happy. I am trying to prevent that from happening again.

 

[Misshairdiva]

No. Long hair does not run in my family. For YEARS my mother told me to get over trying to grow my hair long because Black women just can't do it. Well, ofcourse three years later I have now proved her wrong. Now my cousins are asking me for hair care tips and advice. My daughter used to be just like me having and keeping shoulder length hair until she started reading this board, cutting out relaxers, blowfryers and curling irons, and now her hair in less then two years went from sl to mbl.

 

[niknakmac]

no long hair on either side of my family and type 4z on both sides.....

 

[Kinkyhairlady]

I would say yes long hair does run in my family but some of us have not taken good care of our hair and it has broken off. All of my aunties have gorgeous brastrap length hair, their daughters as well. My moms hair is fine and grows long only when she takes care of it same goes for my sisters except for one who has like 3a type hair that seems to grow like a weed no matter what. I think it just matters how one takes care of their hair.

 

[Aviah]

Mother's side does. Not sure about Father's side. Mine was about BSl-MBL when young but as I got older and let the wrong things get to it it diminished. Stayed between Sl and APL for a long time. Before my cut in SEPT it was about 1.5 inches from BSL in the back.

 

[niqu92]

on my dads side everybody has long hair [MBL&beyond].the hairtypes on my dads side run from 1a-3c however most ppl have 1a/b or 2a/b.

on my moms side length varies,most ppl have SL hair but their hair is very strong.Some ppl have BSL-MBL hair.On her side the hairtypes run from 3c-4b

ive always had very long hair so i think i get it from my father and my hair also happens to be very durable so i think i get that from my mother

 

[vainღ♥♡jane]

not particularly. i only know myself, and 1 cousin that can actually get past apl. we both would go back and forth to apl or bsl . everyone else is just regular. ♥

 

[nappystorm]

On my mom's side and the great thing is everyone is 4a or 4b, so I never believed the myth that type 4 hair couldn't grow. My hair grows the slowest and it grows 1/2 inch a month. I think my aunts' hair grows around 3/4 to 1 inch a month. My cousin's hair is the shortest and she is SL.

My dad's family has type 3 hair and the average length is SL or CBL. The longest is full APL.

 

[abcd09]

My dad's side is mixed with Indian pretty recently and all his sisters have long hair. My grandmother did as well. No relaxers

My mom's side has courser hair and all the women keep their hair shoulder length and use relaxers. I think my mom's hair has been shoulder length. She's done it all. Straight. Pressed. Afro. Jheri Curl. Straight again, and back to afro, and no relaxed/curly. It's a beautiful color. I would think she is a 4a and my sister and I take after her texture more than my dads.

 

[frida1980]

Mixed bag. On my mother's side, most of my family has SL to APL length. There are some with BSL and MBL hair. But mostly SL length. I'm one of the long ones.