Why are you growing your hair long?

Why am I growing my hair out?

  • The challenge!

    Votes: 245 23.7%

  • I LOVE long hair!

    Votes: 485 47.0%

  • I look best with Long Hair.

    Votes: 264 25.6%

  • I really don't know.

    Votes: 38 3.7%
  • Total voters
    1,032
  • Poll closed .
I love long hair and look HELLA HOT with long hair (any lenght) :D but my preference is really looooooong hair
 
It's only the challenge for me. I've had hair from bald to APL, but I've never took the time to care for my hair. Overall, it was always in "ok" condition, and always grew really fast, but I never cared about the health of the hair itself - just the style. Now, I want to have APL hair or longer, that's not just long, but healthy.
 
i have a big head so it just looks better on me!! plus the last time i had APL was before i was relaxed now i know how to take care of my hair better and i would like to see it that long again ...Long hair = :love2::lick:
 
The word of God states that a woman's hair is her beauty and I like long hair becasue of this and becasue I just do. It also looks good on me but it also increases my confidence and sex appeal for some reason I think. I like the way it feels when it blows in the wind and brushes softly against my shoulders when I move....uhhhmm, I hope this doesn't make me sound too vain:nono:!
 
Because to me, a black woman with gorgeous healthy long hair (whether relaxed or natural) that is HER OWN is so incredibly beautiful. I love the way I look with long hair, and there's no reason why I can't just grow my own.
 
My hair was down to my A** when I was a kid until I made the horrible decision to get a perm. Now I'm curious to see IF I can get back there and I think it would look good on me as an adult.:gorgeous:
 
I'm growing my hair long because the last short haircut I had, people kept calling me "Sir" "dude" or "son". I didn't think I looked that bad, I rocked it for two years and then I saw pics and didn't know who I was:lachen: So here I am, shoulder lenght, APL, I'll take it. No more ear lenght for me.:nono:
 
My ex told me he likes women with long hair, so I started to grow my hair long. We broke up - but I was already committed. Now I just want it as long as it can be. I've always had shoulder length or shorter. Now it's on my back and headed toward apl.
 
I have an oval face which is supposedly the best shape because it looks good with hair of any length, but I disagree. I look jacked up with anything shorter than below shoulder length in my opinion. But I also see it as a long-term project, and I love a good challenge. Especially one that ends in long, healthy hair! :)
 
Honestly because it's something to do.

Hair is a hobby.
I'm constantly doing weird things to my hair.
My newest challenge is: Long AND Natural.
 
I started this thread a year ago....and now my answere is this:

I like being glamorous. I like to be able to have long full curls that are glamorous. I ran into a grade school teacher of mine who was ALWAYS on point way back then. She is now 70 and looks INCREDIBLE. She has long silver locks (she always wore her hair long), and it looks great on her. This woman looks GOOD ladies. She still has her style and her hair just compliments her. She is glamorous. I want to be like that when I grow up.
 
I want my natural hair to hang to my butt when I twist it, unstretched.

I saw a model with butt length natural hair on Oprah when she first started. At least I think it was Oprah but that was a long, long time ago. She used to have that hair stylist on all the time, the white guy with the spanish accent. I think his name was something like Jose Eber. He had a long ponytail himself. He was just besides himself with this model because her hair wasn't permed or anything. At the time I thought she was mixed and blah blah blah. Since coming to this board I have since found out that you don't have to be mixed to have long healthy hair.
 
I've wanted long hair since I was a child, I had a lot of hair and it reached mbl. But my mother didn't know how to deal with it so I have many painful hair memories. I now know how to style and groom my hair so I can't wait to reach hip length. :yep:

Long hair is just so feminine and a symbol of womanhood. I don't have to feel self counsous about it, just let it grow. So it's a lifelong dream, I have every confidence that I can grow VERY long hair. Plus, I want to knock down the misconceptions about black hair. There are a lot of them and I can't wait to slam them down! :grin:
 
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It's amazing to see hair that you were always told wouldn't or couldn't grow do exactly that.
Black hair is a treasure. Read the black prayer.:drunk:
 
I'm growing my hair long to challenge myself and hope to show my mother ans sisters that you can have long, healthy, relaxed hair.

Its my hobby and a goal too.
 
If i were to be perfectly honest, i'm kind of looking forward to exploiting people's ignorance. What do I mean? Well, I'm half-latina, but i don't look like people's idea of a latina because my skin is dark and my hair isn't long or soft (3a 4a mixture, i think). So, when my hair is long, people are more quick to ask me what I'm mixed with, and I like that. Although, it makes me sad that so many black women think you have to be mixed to have long hair. It's not true! All the women on my mom's side from the West Indies have had loong hair and their hair is just as coarse as any african-american woman's (they just used coconut oils all their lives, and bunned everyday for religious reasons...go figure).
 
I'm reclaiming my longer locks from my youth! I need to prove that these memories I have of myself as a child with thick pressed braids hanging down my back was real.:lachen:Meanwhile, I'm just working on getting my hair healthy first. :yep:
 
When I was little, I had MBL hair, but putting chemicals in it damaged it. In my late and early 20s, I had MBL hair again after a transition, but I did not care for my hair during the transition, and went BACK to the chemicals and had to cut back. It's been a back and forth struggle for as long as I can remember, and I just want to have healthy hair 1sts, long hair second. It's btwn APL/BSL right now when stretched, and I'm looking forward to growing it longer just to say I can.
 
When I had shorter hair I would always admire females with long hair. So one day I decided I would get out of this state of awe and grow my own darn hair long. Plus I just love seeing long hair on a black woman. It always prove stereotypes wrong!
 
I just wanted to try something different. My hair has always grow to about to apl without me even trying, but it wasnt healthy because I always put dye in it or was flat ironning (sp) to death.
 
SoforReal said:
When I had shorter hair I would always admire females with long hair. So one day I decided I would get out of this state of awe and grow my own darn hair long. Plus I just love seeing long hair on a black woman. It always prove stereotypes wrong!
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AMEN to that what you said about the STEREOTYPES, because girl people always assume when they see a black chick with long hair "It's Weave" like black women can't have long hair unless its a weave. :rolleyes:
 
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