Patience is not one of my virtues!

[ronise]

This time last year I cut my relaxed hair to about one inch on top and tapered in the back. I have decided to let it grow long for the first time since I cut my dreadlocs about 2 yrs ago. My problem - the front is taking forever to grow out of layers! My back is past my shoulders and my front is only midway my ears! Why do layers take so long to grow out?!

 

[CurlTalk]

I hears ya. I'm growing out layers now from a cut (longest layer being nape length then) a few months ago. my longest layer is SL; my shortest (outside of the bangs i'm growing back) are barely chin level.

But a few years back, I had a cut that sounds kinda similar to yours (it was ear-length at the top and sides and tapered in the back a la rihanna prior to the blonde bob-thing). I wanted to grow it out of the layers (which when growin out was so not cute, specially since my nape grows in slower than a one legged tortoise, so I waited till the back was long enough to get braided, kept my hair braided for a while (about a year or so), then got a blunt cut at just past ear level all around that I loved.