Things they DONT tell you about having long hair...

Misjudging the :afro: Can lead to injury and/or death.


I took my weave:kiss3: out last night and decided to let the fro:afro: sho out tonight.


:driver:While getting in the car I misjudged the height of the fro and caught a quick case of whiplash :rocker:. I was still a little dizzy :reddancer:and startled when I pulled the seatbelt around to buckle, I felt a few strands caught beneath the belt. I leaned forward and back to release them only to tangle the top of the fro in the clip on my garage door opener which is clipped to my visor *Deer in headlights*:eek2:



I could see LHCF threads passing before my eyes as I try to figure out the safest way to save my strands and figure out why my car is trying to kill me:vette:


I pull the garage door opener off the visor and realize that I'm going to lose some strands so I shouldnt fight it but just give them to the car.:cry4:


Without thinking, I put the garage door opener back on the visor:deadhorse: BUT I moved it over :nono: Two stoplights later and my "jam' playing ....BAM! Im caught up again the the clip :pullhair:again.


Pour some licka for the 15 additional strands that are now ride or die type strands I gave my car tonight.

My hair is getting long and I'm loving it :dance7:


The remote is now in the glove compartment :look:
 
^^^^^^^:lachen::lachen::lachen::lachen::lachen::lachen:

How bout when you walk by a clothing rack and get whip lash and hear your strands rip out cuz it got caught as you walked by?
 
One reason I stopped wearing my hair out and flat ironed and riding with all the windows down was because loose strands coiled up into the mechanism of my driver seatbelt. I had to take it to the shop and pay a couple of hundred dollars to have it replaced. :nono:
 
My Friend said:
Misjudging the :afro: Can lead to injury and/or death.


I took my weave:kiss3: out last night and decided to let the fro:afro: sho out tonight.


:driver:While getting in the car I misjudged the height of the fro and caught a quick case of whiplash :rocker:. I was still a little dizzy :reddancer:and startled when I pulled the seatbelt around to buckle, I felt a few strands caught beneath the belt. I leaned forward and back to release them only to tangle the top of the fro in the clip on my garage door opener which is clipped to my visor *Deer in headlights*:eek2:



I could see LHCF threads passing before my eyes as I try to figure out the safest way to save my strands and figure out why my car is trying to kill me:vette:


I pull the garage door opener off the visor and realize that I'm going to lose some strands so I shouldnt fight it but just give them to the car.:cry4:


Without thinking, I put the garage door opener back on the visor:deadhorse: BUT I moved it over :nono: Two stoplights later and my "jam' playing ....BAM! Im caught up again the the clip :pullhair:again.


Pour some licka for the 15 additional strands that are now ride or die type strands I gave my car tonight.

My hair is getting long and I'm loving it :dance7:


The remote is now in the glove compartment :look:
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:lachen::lachen::lachen::lachen: I'm in tears over here! :lachen:
 
My Friend said:
Misjudging the :afro: Can lead to injury and/or death.


I took my weave:kiss3: out last night and decided to let the fro:afro: sho out tonight.


:driver:While getting in the car I misjudged the height of the fro and caught a quick case of whiplash :rocker:. I was still a little dizzy :reddancer:and startled when I pulled the seatbelt around to buckle, I felt a few strands caught beneath the belt. I leaned forward and back to release them only to tangle the top of the fro in the clip on my garage door opener which is clipped to my visor *Deer in headlights*:eek2:



I could see LHCF threads passing before my eyes as I try to figure out the safest way to save my strands and figure out why my car is trying to kill me:vette:


I pull the garage door opener off the visor and realize that I'm going to lose some strands so I shouldnt fight it but just give them to the car.:cry4:


Without thinking, I put the garage door opener back on the visor:deadhorse: BUT I moved it over :nono: Two stoplights later and my "jam' playing ....BAM! Im caught up again the the clip :pullhair:again.


Pour some licka for the 15 additional strands that are now ride or die type strands I gave my car tonight.

My hair is getting long and I'm loving it :dance7:


The remote is now in the glove compartment :look:
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H I L A R I O U S :lachen:
 
if you BC'd and then struggled to retain length for years people go kind of crazy.

in my 1st year on LHCF i retained 5 inches and only wore protective styles so people really didn't see my length. when i flat ironed for last Christmas my mom was like :shocked: when i got home she was telling my dad to go see my hair (not me :look:) like it was some some exotical beast. my granny at Christmas dinner ordered me to never cut my hair again. others can be really invested in your hair.
 
I love this! As my hair went from APL to BSL and now on its way to MBL I am definately seeing a lot of these things as well...the hair getting caught in the arm pit, flying everywhere on a windy day...being too "exotic" when curly for business meetings at work...the works! I have to say, getting asked if my hair is real happens ALOT and it actually discourages me from ever playing around with extensions...just in case someone asks that day and I have to say its NOT all my hair...I think I will stick to natural. Thanks for sharing!!
 
You should be careful not to slam your hair in your car door. Or to have it under your purse strap. OUCH and DOUBLE OUCH!

I don't know if someone mentioned it but sometimes your SO/DH will roll over on it while sleeping and once again OUCHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
 
Yay! I have one!

When you don't do protective styles just for yourself anymore. Instead, you put your hair away so your jealous, sneaky arse coworkers can keep their hands out of it. One chick in particular is forever trying to tug on a section when she passes me. So I keep a Goody clip and a hair tie on me at ALL times.


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*You wear buns and ponytails to keep your hair out of the way, not because you are trying to protect your ends. - This is me now!

I always thought that I would wear my hair out everyday once I hit BSL, but it's just not practical for my everyday busy life.
 
I wear my hair out quite a bit, but it does get annoying at times. My hair will catch on anything! It usually happens when I'm under pressure to do something like pay for my groceries. I was in line at Trader Joes and at the checkout, they had these baskets that looked as if they were trimmed with velcro. I didn't even notice, until the back of my hair attached itself to one of these baskets. This was really embarrassing because the cashier couldn't understand why I wasn't moving forward. I refused to just rip my hair from the basket.
It was a mess!
 
:lachen::lachen::lachen::lachen:

I'm sure you bought the basket, right?:look:




kellistarr said:
I wear my hair out quite a bit, but it does get annoying at times. My hair will catch on anything! It usually happens when I'm under pressure to do something like pay for my groceries. I was in line at Trader Joes and at the checkout, they had these baskets that looked as if they were trimmed with velcro. I didn't even notice, until the back of my hair attached itself to one of these baskets. This was really embarrassing because the cashier couldn't understand why I wasn't moving forward. I refused to just rip my hair from the basket.
It was a mess!
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Omg that was me yesterday...midway talking into the radio and a girl walks past me and SOMETHING she was carrying caught RIGHT onto my hair. No one could understand why I started screaming cause it was pulling it right at the roots and the ish hurt! I grabbed her and hollered to keep her from walking further away and someone became loose.

Sheesh!
 
empressri said:
Omg that was me yesterday...midway talking into the radio and a girl walks past me and SOMETHING she was carrying caught RIGHT onto my hair. No one could understand why I started screaming cause it was pulling it right at the roots and the ish hurt! I grabbed her and hollered to keep her from walking further away and someone became loose.

Sheesh!
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Wooooooow. :perplexed

"I grabbed her and hollered to keep her from walking further away.."
That part made me chuckle tho. I imagine you turning her around and yelling in her face :lachen:

:pullhair::freakout:
 
I've been having fun playing with different styles but people are always telling me how I pretty I look with a bun :perplexed. I guess I'm one of those people whose features pop more with hair pulled back. Ah well, at least that's some motivation to protective style more often.
 
Nobody told me there was a technique to air drying hair. I went into it thinking hmmmm air drying is simple, right? Wash your hair, let it dry. So I did just that and my hair was dry and broke off when I tried to comb through it, tangled because of all the new growth and different textures... Now I realize that some of us need to be creative in order for air drying to be beneficial.

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I am only SL but I have been eating my hair lately. I also have gotten it my mouth while brushing my teeth and my least favorite:

Wind and lip gloss don't mix. I have almost given up on lip gloss. Maybe I will start using a hair product like coconut oil on my lips so my ends at least get conditioned. :lachen:
 
I didn't know that I would have to give up spiral sets once I reached a certain length. :nono: :sad:

Spiral sets (done on 1/2" rollers) were my go-to, low manipulation style during the early stages of my HHJ, which really helped me retained length. Well, I wore one a couple of weeks ago, and although it look good, detangling those little curls after 7 days caused some unnecessary breakage. So, no more "tiny rollersets."
 
NaturalBeauty<3 said:
Wooooooow. :perplexed

"I grabbed her and hollered to keep her from walking further away.."
That part made me chuckle tho. I imagine you turning her around and yelling in her face :lachen:

:pullhair::freakout:
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lol no I was sitting down in a low chair and I'm short so every already towers over me. Everything is fast paced where I work too so imagine all of this happening in a span of a few seconds and then me going back to work like nothing ever happened :lachen:
 
ADB said:
1. People will stare at your hair and then stare at your child's hair to see if it's long too. I guess they figure that if your child's hair is long then your hair has to be real or your child wouldn't have gotten the long hair genes.

I notice people do this to me and my baby girl all the time.:ohwell::blush:


2. You might receive nicknames like Barbie, Pocahontas, or Princess. :lol:
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I.cannot wait to b called Pocahantas

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Lucie said:
You should be careful not to slam your hair in your car door. Or to have it under your purse strap. OUCH and DOUBLE OUCH!

I don't know if someone mentioned it but sometimes your SO/DH will roll over on it while sleeping and once again OUCHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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that roll over thing happens all of the time! :lol: even my children do it! i'm always saying get off of mommy's hair! by the way, i am just barely APL right now. oh my hair gets caught up in the seat belt too.
 
I will add -

Friends will sentence you to death if you talk about wanting a hair cut.

"I want to cut all your hair off and make me a nice wig with it"
 
They dont tell you how heavy your hair will be once it gets past a certain length. Especially when its soaking wet!
Add another 10lbs! Lol
 
People assume you just have "good hair". They don't think about all the hair care you do daily to maintain that length.
 
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