Want long hair? Head South!!! (???)

[Nonpareil]

Okay, I may be right or wrong on this, but it is through my extensive 'scientific' observations that women in the south, when given all the resources and knowledge on haircare, generally have longer, healthier heads of hair (this is not including the clueless women who bleach and fry their hair to death and insist on wearing horrible weaves - this is just plain ignorance). My own hair has grown at a much more accelerated pace since I moved to Atlanta from DC. I have not been to a single hairdresser either. Perhaps it's the climate or something in the water - I dunno. I've eliminated the other variables/factors that could be influencing my growth - including my extreme and obsessive vitamin supplementation which I haven't changed very much.

Where I go to school, there are so many girls with long hair - there are far less weaves here than one would actually think. Those that don't have extremely long hair do have a nice, full, and healthy head of at least below shoulder length hair. I dunno, what's your weigh in on this?

 

[GoingBack]

I'm not sure if I agree with this. I have lived in the South my entire life and I must say that I've seen more than enough tore up heads and jacked up weaves than you ca shake a stick at. I think that you just may be fortunate enough to run into women who know how to take care of their hair.

 

[model_chick717]

I think there's some truth to it. My hair hair has been growing like a weed since I've been in Miami. I think the humidity in the air in some way adds moisture to the hair--as long as you aren't trying to fight it by wearing straight styles--I mean by using too much direct heat to maintain straight styles...

 

[Allandra]

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virtuasis said:
what's your weigh in on this?

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I think it depends on what one does / doesn't do to their hair and genetics for some.

 

[HollyGolightly]

Well, one of my friends from Florida has very long, thick hair, and she grew it by wearing quick weaves, which are pretty fashionable down south. She also stretches relaxers and doesn't relax it bone straight.

 

[Nonpareil]

Oh yeah, I'm texturized too and I learned my lesson about trying to go straight here - at least in the summer.

I've got pics in my album where my hair pretty much

at my last attempt.

 

[model_chick717]

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Keisha_gurl said:
Well, one of my friends from Florida has very long, thick hair, and she grew it by wearing quick weaves, which are pretty fashionable down south. She also stretches relaxers and doesn't relax it bone straight.

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Okay, that's it---I just may go and cop a quickweave and give it a try....haha

 

[model_chick717]

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virtuasis said:
Oh yeah, I'm texturized too and I learned my lesson about trying to go straight here - at least in the summer.

I've got pics in my album where my hair pretty much

at my last attempt.

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Actually virtuasis, I checked out your album--you and your hair are so cute!

I love the color...

 

[bettydavis]

Well I live in Canada, one of the colder parts, and here there are very few black women with long hair, esp type 4s. Most have between ear and shoulder length. But when i was travelling in the States I saw that on average there were more black women with longer hair. I think its partially because of ignorance but I wonder if climate does have something to do with it. Hmm....

 

[Nonpareil]

Yup - that's really true too about the quick weave - I made my own wig of sorts out of a weaving net cap and some synthetic tracks - I kept my hair cornrowed underneath for a week at a time - kept Surge and my Oil Blend #1 on my scalp, and it went from 2 to 4 1/2 inches in about 3-4 months.

 

[Nonpareil]

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model_chick717 said:
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virtuasis said:
Oh yeah, I'm texturized too and I learned my lesson about trying to go straight here - at least in the summer.

I've got pics in my album where my hair pretty much

at my last attempt.

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Actually virtuasis, I checked out your album--you and your hair are so cute!

I love the color...

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Aww, gee thanks!

 

[kitchen_tician]

I'm also a DC/ATL transplant.

and I've also noticed the same thing. My reasoning has to do with how traditional many southern women are with hair and many don't believe in cutting/trimming alot.

Some of my southern aunts, g'ma, cousins are very "hair struck" and don't believe in cutting your hair. I just went to DC a few weeks ago and noticed that many of my friends and relatives have short hair, because they like to cut it and they like different styles.

Of course I think genetics and hair care play an important role as well.

 

[model_chick717]

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kitchen_tician said:
I'm also a DC/ATL transplant.

and I've also noticed the same thing. My reasoning has to do with how traditional many southern women are with hair and many don't believe in cutting/trimming alot.

Some of southern aunts, g'ma, cousins are very "hair struck" and don't believe in cutting your hair. I just went to DC a few weeks ago and noticed that many of my friends and relatives have short hair, because they like to cut it and they like different styles.

Of course I think genetics and hair care play an important role as well.

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I agree--I think the "city girls" tend to be a little more into hair trends than the women in the south. It seems long hair rules--real or fake, down there...

I've kept my hair at an inch or two below collarbone length for years only because my hair is so thick and hard to manage--but I'm trying to let it grow to bra-strap length but it's such a chore to wash and detangle. I think I may give the quickweave method a try or even go back to sew-in weaves...

 

[WaterMoccasin]

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model_chick717 said:
I think there's some truth to it. My hair hair has been growing like a weed since I've been in Miami. I think the humidity in the air in some way adds moisture to the hair--as long as you aren't trying to fight it by wearing straight styles--I mean by using too much direct heat to maintain straight styles...

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Co-signing! Just as people's hair in general tends to grow faster in the summer...
I used to live up north in the US and although my hair behaved better, it did not grow as fast in the winter/north as when i went south/summertime. Shucks whenever I went home (Bahamas) on breaks, my hair would shoot out of my head like I don't know what- my growth rate would like, double. For example, when I came home at the beginning of summer, in 3 weeks, my hair grew an inch.

 

[Ayeshia]

Im waaaaay in the north (one hour from montreal canada) and I still get a lot of growth ...I could only imagine what my growth would be like in the south

 

[atlien]

For me, this has not proved to be true. I lived in NY and my hair was much longer then it is now (currently in GA). Reason being is because when I was in NY my mom relaxed it for me ( with super extra care) and I went to the Dom every 2 weeks to get a wash N set. My hair was healthy and long. My little sister lives in NY and her hair has never been longer(2 inches past bra strap)She follows this regimen my mom applys the relaxer for her every 4 months and she goes to the DOMS. I think the #1 important factor is how you care for your hair no matter where you reside!

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One more thing.....Uptown New York Harlem there were a lot of black girls with long hair...when I lived there

 

[Leslie_C]

Some quick weave styles look pretty cute, but the girls around here have taken it a step too far and it just looks way too ghetto for me...lol. Im talking fingerwave in the front, ponytail on the side, short on one side, long on the other....its like a competition for who can have the most ghetto quickweave...??????? hahaha.

I wouldnt mind having one that just looks like a bob or wrap style or a neck or shoulder length wavy style.

The concept is on point though, and that would work with any style like phony ponies, instant weaves, and cornrows. You are leaving your hair alone all week until u wash it, which really helps to retain length. my hair grew ALOT in the year I was addicted to phony ponies!

 

[kitchen_tician]

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BahamaMama said:

Co-signing! Just as people's hair in general tends to grow faster in the summer...
I used to live up north in the US and although my hair behaved better, it did not grow as fast in the winter/north as when i went south/summertime. Shucks whenever I went home (Bahamas) on breaks, my hair would shoot out of my head like I don't know what- my growth rate would like, double. For example, when I came home at the beginning of summer, in 3 weeks, my hair grew an inch.

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I also agree with this. It's something about the heat.

I think that's why this thread was created. Growth Spurt and Warm Weather

 

[dreemssold]

I think if you are already taking good care of your hair, moving to a climate with more humidity (note, not just warmer weather, because moving to Arizona wouldn't do much for your hair...UNLESS, it made you increase your water intake

) will definitely help. It's added moisture, and we already know how good that is. Now, if your (not your, specifically, but the general your) hair is jacked up, and you don't take care it, I don't think it matters if you move to the rainforest

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[myco]

Good point

 

[Dare~to~Dream]

Um, I can't say that's true...not for me or the people in my area. I lived in the "deep south" all my life and I rarely see people with longer hair...the ones who have it got it by genetics. These people don't take supplements..nor do they moisturize their hair or do protein treatments but yet it still grows. My hair is finally inching past shoulder length now with the help of Surge but before that it never was past shoulder length that much...

 

[adrienne0914]

LOL @ "city girls"... this is funny. yeah, it's in the south, but yall act like atlanta is not a big city.

i don't know if i agree with this. maybe it's the humidity (aka moisture), but you don't have to be just in the south to have that...

 

[Dreamn]

right, summer here is just as humid as anywhere, its not humid in all of the south all year round. everytime i go down south the amount of long hair i see is just as often as the ones i see home, up north

@ adrienne, i was thinking the same thing, atl, miami, and others in the south are big cities, maybe not NY and LA big, but still big cities

i think that some of us may just be "in the right place at the right time" to see so many long haired girls. i think your routine may have more to do with retaining your growth than humidity. bad hair care routine and all the humidity in the world wont help you out.

 

[nurseN98]

It might have something to do with the type of water where you are as well. I was just talking to a friend of mines in Chicago who goes down to Mississippi every month or so to visit with her family and she notices that when she washes her hair down there, it is a lot softer and healthier looking and doesn't shed as much. She says that all her family down there has really nice, thick and long hair that is really soft.

 

[Dare~to~Dream]

I live in Mississippi and I always thought the water was quite hard here...maybe I need to get a kit to find out.

 

[Honeyhips]

I agree my cousins came home from school (in atl) and their hair was longer, much longer and healthier looking. Plus I heard the way they do perms down there is better. like they don't let them sit on the hair to long.

 

[Taliah]

i don't know about this, but i can say that i have never seen so many black woman with long hair as i have anywhere in the country like i have when i'm in LA, well cali period. i stayed in LA for about two months and my hair grew a lot. i live in miami, so the south is not doing a thing, besides i don't see many black woman with long hair here?

 

[sweetpineapple]

I partly a gre with this. I think that thw way you take care of your hair makses a differnce no matter where you live. Warmer climates keep the hair follicles open more for growth, but genetics and care, play the biggest part I think.

However when I went to africa my growth rate did speed up just a little bit.

 

[jainygirl]

I live in Atlanta and i've been noticing alot of long hair as well. Just in my one class of 15 ppl 8 of which are females; 3 of them have hair that is AT LEAST bra strap length. That does not include me -- i''ve probably got the shortest hair of the chicks in my class with hair past their shoulders actually. So there must be some truth to this. I mean i know all us didnt just coincidentally end up in the same class

 

[Mahalialee4]

I live in Northern Canada ya'll. We had NO summer and my hair is growing, well, slowly, but I have been using plastic bags to steam my hair....one can always hope that the hair follicles will buy "fake rain forest conditions." ...sigh....Bonjour