Long hair ladies, can I live vicariously through you?

[I Am So Blessed]

It's almost 2am and I can't sleep so I might as well post a story.

I had to run to a BSS in Boston today because I was looking for large rollers. The second I walked in I immediately got the stank eye. That made me giddy! LMAO I found my rollers and Bobby pins and stood in line to pay. This stranger came up to me and asked what length was I wearing, she wanted to get that same hair. I looked at her all confused, of course playing dumb cuz I know what she was weave checking me. I said oh I'm sorry this is my hair and she goes oh I know but what length is it so I can buy the same one. I said well I don't know, I don't normally measure my hair *batting eyelashes* the sales person who had just given me the stank eye said "she's about a 16 inch" I was like wow you're good *lying* they went back and forth about the length and the customer wanted to get something similiar to my length and texture. I said I should work here *stank eye again*. I thought of you guys when I turned around, smiled at the cashier and then ran my hands thru my hair and flipped it LMFAO the cashier didn't smile back!

There's something magical about being 39 and getting the stank eye from somebody 25+ years younger than you. Wooooosah *karate kick*

OH NOOO BM, OH NOO lol. GET EM!!!!, you have a way with words! hahahhhhaaaaaaaaaa<----laught @ "cashier didnt smile back" lol
stank a$$ B's...excuse me. shoot if i was the cashier i would have been trying to learn from you. BM you should have parted your hair and been like "see, its mine"!!!! and you should have been like "freak yo weave, freak yo weave!!" in your best(dave chapell/rick james voice"

 

[I Am So Blessed]

Hey This is not exactly my hair experience, but it's one situation that has inspired me to grow long hair. Last Sept I had a cousin visit from London. We are both similar in looks and attractiveness. However two big differences were our height (I'm 5'9" she's 5'4) and our hair lengths. Mine was stuck at uneven SL and her's full APL. To the majority of black folks that is considered "LONG". Both of us are natural, however, my hair was in kinky twist extensions and her hair was flat ironed. I kept telling her when people see black women with long hair, they automatically think its a weave sinces weaves are so common here. She told me she was used to it because people think and do similar in London. Little did I know that when I toured her around ATL over that weekend she had plenty of "I'm Not Wearing a Weave" Tricks up her sleeve. She swang that hair willy nilly all around town, kept running her hands through it to push it out or her face, kept on dropping stuff to pick them up at weird angles so her trackless scalp could peek through. OH BOY OH BOY did it work I observed guys taking extra extra long glances, angrily glaring women darn near ready to race up and do the " finger rake her scalp" weave check, men cheesed extra hard at her when the wind blew it up to show her hair in it's "Not Fake" glory. She got 5-6 phone number offers/approaches/hollas that day. I got 1 (which saved me from pushing her into oncoming traffic ). It's amazing how one factor such as long hair can have such a powerful advantage in opposite sex attraction even when all other factors are equal. Short hair is not the truth, unless you're Halle Berry. The conclusion to this social experiment is: Long Hair, People Care. THE END

great story!! and its the fricken truth!! and definitly @ BOLDED!!

 

[I Am So Blessed]

Boston Maria i know you have more stories. lol

 

[I Am So Blessed]

Now you know you got us at that story.



Oh no, not the last!

But I will be doing that, if DH wants to make me mad he better make it up.



Tell your cuz to give some tips.

I remember a while back I did a google search on why men like long hair. One comment I remember a guy saying is he would rather a chick with average hair that is long than a chick with beautiful hair that is short. I was like.

Most said if they like the girl and she is attractive that is most important, but that there ain't nothing like long hair.

Of course a sistah chimed in that it wasn't fair because black womens hair will never grow past SL. I stopped reading after that.erplexed

i have read that tooo, i found it on yahoo lol. i googled it in because i wanted to know why men love long hair. and girl, after that girl chimed in and said that, i wanted to smack her, she aint speaking for all of us!!!! i didnt like that at all.

 

[♦K.O♦]

This is a funny thread!

All I'm gonna say is WIND is my friend and I like dropping things on the floor in front of the occasional hater.

 

[NikStarrr]

This is the best thread ever. *subscribing*

 

[LadyPaniolo]

This thread is making me want to start wearing my hair out more often... except for the part about the psycho haters jumping on long haired divas....

 

[Mz.Shug]

AdoraAdora talking about long hair and cleavage just reminded me of something. Last August I was coming home from church. It is hella hot in my city in August. I had a nice dress on (gotta look cute for Jesus) that was low cut (don't worry y'all had it safety pinned while in church). I was stopped at a red light. Sitting in my car looking fly...hair swept over one shoulder laying right in my cleavage. This man making a left turn almost drove on the sidewalk staring at me in the car. My hair, cleavage, and poppin lipgloss had him stuck. lol.

GET 'EM!!!


I am def. subscribing to this thread and everytime I think about being lazy w/ my regimen I'll read it! I know there's more long haired women out there w/ stories.....lurking or not SHARE!

 

[wannabelong]

This thread is making me want to start wearing my hair out more often... except for the part about the psycho haters jumping on long haired divas....

I know right!!! I said I was going to co-wash and bun for the rest of this month. Girl, I'm ready to wash, DC and rollerset and get to flippin and swangin.

 

[Bluetopia]

My inner Bohemian Goddess can't wait to be able to wash my WL hair, moisturize & seal it, and then braid it up in two french braids or pochohantas braids for a week or so before rocking a braidout for my 2nd week. (like Sylver2 and a few other 4a/b ladies I've realized washing every two weeks works best for me)

so after all the pochohantas braid talk on here I stumbled across a vid where a sistah was rocking them and thought oh goodie!!

until i realized it was a video saying how great Pink Moisturizer is nono:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUJgDRSuLyg&feature=related

this just goes to show that some people have long hair in spite of their practices/products.

My best friend is a perfect example of this. He hair loves heat and she uses a flatiron almost every day, I'm not sure if she even wears a wig cap under her half wigs and when she was last staying over here I was extra indignant and all at her when i spotted her travel size of container of the pink stuff in my bathroom.

(seriously i almost recoiled away from the bottle like a vampire in sunlight for fear that the mineral oil and other garbage in there would jump out and attack me)

but here's the thing....her hair is gorgeous and grows like weeds irregardless of all of that.

 

[LadyPaniolo]

^^^ It works for her.... I wish my hair would tolerate all that abuse... but my hair is independent. It would pack a suitcase and bounce before putting up with all that

 

[I Am So Blessed]

My inner Bohemian Goddess can't wait to be able to wash my WL hair, moisturize & seal it, and then braid it up in two french braids or pochohantas braids for a week or so before rocking a braidout for my 2nd week. (like Sylver2 and a few other 4a/b ladies I've realized washing every two weeks works best for me)

so after all the pochohantas braid talk on here I stumbled across a vid where a sistah was rocking them and thought oh goodie!!

until i realized it was a video saying how great Pink Moisturizer is nono:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUJgDRSuLyg&feature=related

this just goes to show that some people have long hair in spite of their practices/products.

My best friend is a perfect example of this. He hair loves heat and she uses a flatiron almost every day, I'm not sure if she even wears a wig cap under her half wigs and when she was last staying over here I was extra indignant and all at her when i spotted her travel size of container of the pink stuff in my bathroom.

(seriously i almost recoiled away from the bottle like a vampire in sunlight for fear that the mineral oil and other garbage in there would jump out and attack me)

but here's the thing....her hair is gorgeous and grows like weeds irregardless of all of that.

wow BT, i saw this vidoe too and was all happy at first untill she pulled that pink bottle out, than i was like wtf-reak?

edited to add. But her hair is straight-up hair porn for me.

 

[exoticmommie]

@Exoticmommie -You're hair is already soooo lush and healthy...it won't be long before you're reaching those super lengths as your hair grows fast!

Thanks hon! I am trying, and stuff like this just motivates me. You hair looks great too!

Get'em girl...get'em!!!

I wish my hair was long *sigh*

You better get outta here with that I wish my hair was long stuff.

I wish I had something interesting to say

I rarely wear my hair down so I don't think about the length often.

Having long hair is lovely and it feels so nice when I wear it down, but I have to think about it at all times...I don't want it to get stuck in a seat or snagged by someone in the subway when it spills over behind a seat and someone leans on it (it's happened a few times )
It can get stuck anywhere.

My nightmare is for it to get stuck in the elevator and scalp me

When I happen to wear my hair down I can see those white businessmen on the subway peeking over their morning papers...to give me the look

A lot of people here have really thin and whispy hair, so I get a lot of compliments on the thickness of my hair. They struggle every morning to make their hair look thicker than it really is.

Sometimes I think about cutting it shorter so that it would be easier to wear down/out, but my sister loves my hair and told me to never cut it.

You better not cut that lucious hair, I'll allow trims but no major cuts.

I don't get comments from strangers very often. I think most assume my hair is weave and I'm okay with that. LOL. A few months ago my inlaws and I were out to breakfast after church. While we were waiting to be seated, a lady told my sister in law and I that we both had really pretty hair. Both of us were MBL at the time, but my hair is real, hers is a really good weave (she wears that expensive Indian hair). I took it as a good compliment and felt even better that my hair was grown from the scalp.

The day before Christmas I went to Fantastic Sams to get a trim. On my way out a few white women were looking at me crazy. My hair was way longer and thicker than theirs. I just tossed my freshly flatironed hair around and waltzed out the door.

Okay....last story. A few months ago I was at the BSS looking for some setting lotion. I overheard the girl that works there helping a woman looking for a good detangler for her child's hair. The BSS girl was giving her HORRIBLE advice so I chimed in. I recommended some products to the woman after telling them how long my hair is and how easily it tangles. They both ignored what I said and went on about their business. After that customer left, I asked the BSS girl to grab some flexirod rollers from a high shelf for me. She was curious how to use them, so I pulled a LOOOONG strand of hair out of my pony and demonstrated how to use the rollers for her. Then she says "Oh, your hair really is long. I thought your ponytail was a phony pony". Smh.

You sure showed those yt chicks, flip it girl!

I would have been like

And no wonder they ignored you, they thought your hair was fake, great tip on how to show it's real.

AdoraAdora talking about long hair and cleavage just reminded me of something. Last August I was coming home from church. It is hella hot in my city in August. I had a nice dress on (gotta look cute for Jesus) that was low cut (don't worry y'all had it safety pinned while in church). I was stopped at a red light. Sitting in my car looking fly...hair swept over one shoulder laying right in my cleavage. This man making a left turn almost drove on the sidewalk staring at me in the car. My hair, cleavage, and poppin lipgloss had him stuck. lol.

 

[Ms. Feliz]

That video is hilarious

 

[LadyPaniolo]

^^ lol You Get the Hair Flip!!!!

I tell you what, when my hair gets really long like FlowerHair for instance, I'm going to be finally wearing it out instead of these wigs and braids... folks better get ready b/c I WILL do a hair flip in a second on a hater!

 

[PinkyD]

i know i sound greedy and maybe anorexic, but i neeeeeed my hair to look like the last pic in my siggy. lol. i wish i had started this hair journy in high school.

I want to slap myself for not finding this site and starting my journey in High School! To think I could have been typing this message while brushing hair off my cleavage in slo-mo, instead im drooling over others! Ilove this thread it is so inspiring.

 

[ebonimama]

Two stories:

I was in the beauty salon getting my hair done. I wore a bun in, so you can imagine the shocked stares I got as my beautician flat ironed my hair. She asked me how I wanted it styled and I told her to part it in the middle. My hair is all one length, so my hair hung to apl all the way around. I'm telling you those ladies couldn't take their eyes off my hair, and they knew it was all mine!

Fast forward 1 year: For New Year's Eve I wore my hair in a bantu knot out. For the longest nobody said anything about my hair. I was a little disappointed. Then towards the end of the night my mom looked at me and said in wonderment...I just realized, that's your hair isn't it? I just nodded like it was no big deal, but then I had an aha moment...everybody thought I had on a weave lol!!!!!

 

[LadyPaniolo]

That's so funny... nobody even considered it could be yours SMDH. That's why some posters think weaves etc are ruining the value of growing your hair long... because people will just think it's a weave anyway and are somewhat desensitized to it.

 

[priya19]

I wish my hair was as long as some of yours...=(

 

[wavezncurlz]

My inner Bohemian Goddess can't wait to be able to wash my WL hair, moisturize & seal it, and then braid it up in two french braids or pochohantas braids for a week or so before rocking a braidout for my 2nd week. (like Sylver2 and a few other 4a/b ladies I've realized washing every two weeks works best for me)

so after all the pochohantas braid talk on here I stumbled across a vid where a sistah was rocking them and thought oh goodie!!

until i realized it was a video saying how great Pink Moisturizer is nono:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUJgDRSuLyg&feature=related

this just goes to show that some people have long hair in spite of their practices/products.

My best friend is a perfect example of this. He hair loves heat and she uses a flatiron almost every day, I'm not sure if she even wears a wig cap under her half wigs and when she was last staying over here I was extra indignant and all at her when i spotted her travel size of container of the pink stuff in my bathroom.

(seriously i almost recoiled away from the bottle like a vampire in sunlight for fear that the mineral oil and other garbage in there would jump out and attack me)

but here's the thing....her hair is gorgeous and grows like weeds irregardless of all of that.

I love that chick's pocohantas braids! And I used that pink stuff for years when I wore long french braids everyday in high school. . My hair loved it. I'm still not so sure what's so bad about it. I know mineral oil but I use other stuff that has it too and not been affected.

 

[Bluetopia]

How long have you been loc'd?

When you take your locks down you lose a good 50% of the hair (even more than that the older the locs are). So depending on how old they already are waiting 3-4 extra years wont necessarily equate as much salvagable hair as you'd think.

omgomgomgomgomg this is a dangerous thread. i hadn't planned on taking down my locs for another 3-4 years, but mannnnnn yall are going to mess me all up. i want to take them down NOW!!! lol hmm now i'm actually gonna wait for boo to wake up so I can see his reaction when i mention this definitely living vicariously through you long-haired ladies!!

 

[exoticmommie]

I love that chick's pocohantas braids! And I used that pink stuff for years when I wore long french braids everyday in high school. . My hair loved it. I'm still not so sure what's so bad about it. I know mineral oil but I use other stuff that has it too and not been affected.

Yeah my daughters 3c hair LOVES LOVES LOVES proclaim olive oil moisturizer, it has tons of petroleum and mineral oil. I tried the organic route with them, and their hair just laughed at the coconut oil, olive oil and kids organics. I think it's because their is hair is thirsty just like their dad , same hair type and all. Plus it is extremely dry here. His hair laughed at the aloe vera gel, rose water and oils as well. oke:His hair loves eco styler and cheap conditioners for moisturizers, he just uses the oils for shine. Different strokes for different folks.

 

[wavezncurlz]

I agree! ^^^Your kids are sooo cute!

 

[exoticmommie]

I agree! ^^^Your kids are sooo cute!

Thanks.

 

[PeaceFlow]

Does anyone know what this guys name is, he makes me laugh so much on siggies

Thanks for all the stories

 

[I Am So Blessed]

Does anyone know what this guys name is, he makes me laugh so much on siggies

Thanks for all the stories

i almost died when when i saw this giff.... we'll all be doing that dance when we meet our goals!!

 

[hopeful]

Exoticmommie, thanks for starting this thread! I give it 5 stars!

 

[exoticmommie]

Does anyone know what this guys name is, he makes me laugh so much on siggies

Thanks for all the stories

I don't know his name but type in spirit of truth on you tube search.

 

[MrsHdrLe]

More More MORE!! Come on long hairs! We want more stories!
Excellent thread Exoticmommie!

 

[exoticmommie]

More More MORE!! Come on long hairs! We want more stories!
Excellent thread Exoticmommie!

Do you have any stories to share in the mean time? You hair is fab.