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I used to think shoulder was long for black hair. I thought only a certain grade of black hair could be long or black hair that was super strong. I know it might sound silly but that's what I thought. Of course I know better now. :-)
 
KandyCurls said:
I've been a LHCF junkie so long that I've forgotten what "long hair" is on a black girl outside of this forum. Even if your hair touches your shoulders it means you must be indian on your daddy's side





I love how every black woman with anything more than meager strands has some random indian in the family :drunk: I wonder if its the same guy going from family to family blessing us all with some good hair:yep::lachen:
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A few months after I went natural, one of my male friends touched my hair and was amazed at the texture. Then he asked me why I went natural. I said "I don't need a relaxer". He said "Oh yeah, because you're mixed". Umm...I get that a lot so I'm used to explaining (I'm not mixed), but the kicker is he's met my parents before! Did you just make up different parents for me in your head?
 
I'm so tired of the regular Indian routine they have enough faux members as a result I try to be a bit more creative. I'm usually of Moorish decent mixed with 1/20th Hun, 1/16th Viking, and some other obscure ethnic group either real or imagined. With the imagined ones I usually ask them if they've heard of it and watch as the majority of men especially lie their butts off as they showcase their superior intellect. I find it's much easier to go along their stupid assertions than to argue with them.
 
The worst one is people "KNOWING" I am mixed because I am light skinned. Like how dare I try to tell them otherwise. :rolleyes:

But to answer your question, I used to MARVEL at anyone whose hair was full SL or longer. I mean sometimes I still do (there are plenty of times I will see a girl with shorter hair than mine, but the fullness just makes it look va-va-VOOM), but I used to be guilty of thinking they had some genetic secret if they had APL+ hair.
 
Well I think that there is standard "long" and then there is looooong (like LHCF long, heehee). I would consider anything at least APL "long." A lot of men also think that hair can be too long (pish tosh); I was with my bf the other week and this girl had really pretty hair, and I was like ooooh I love her hair it's so long and healthy looking! And he's like, "Ew, she needs a haircut." I think her hair was like WL. Moral - don't listen to men. They are totally different than us, lol!
 
LOL at your story. I thought women hung around college to meet potential husbands not the other way around

Before LHCF I felt APL was long on people I'd see on the street. Coming here made me feel BALD! But it inspired me to keep growing my hair longer.
 
I am new to this forum and I still consider APL long. My hair has always been fairly short only reaching SL twice in my life for a very short period of time. When I was growing up on a few black girls had ponytails that reached their shoulders. It was very rare. Even now when I look around I rarely see AA women with hair past APL unless they have locs. So considering all of the AA women in the country it is still a small percentage and for many of us it is rare to see.
 
Everyone in the US ... nay the Western Hemisphere... is mixed with something. Show me someone who is not mixed, and I'll show you someone just off the boat from the old world... or the deep dark unexplored jungles of South America.
 
I've always had hair that was just below my shoulders. I found Cathy Howse in 2004-ish and my hair grew to just above APL and now my hair is full APL if not a little longer. Since I always wanted MBL hair, I never considered my shoulder length hair long. I just considered myself "fortunate" since most blacks girls I saw growing up (and still see) were neck length at best. No one's ever accused me of being mixed before but I never wear my hair down. Maybe if I'd worn my hair out at school, girls might have asked questions but I don't know. I really don't care what people think or assume. If I did, my hair wouldn't be retaining because I'd still be taking people's (bad) advice on unnecessarily trimming and moisturizing with grease.
 
I never really thought SL was long but I definitely thought hair clearly touching your back without having to do some crazy head jerk wasn't the norm (basically a few inches past SL) and APL was long. Before I BC'ed I was pretty much APL and though that's longer than my hair has ever been and I was proud of that, I still felt my hair was just eh.... Darn you LHCF!
I've noticed that lots of women have longer hair now (between SL and APL as opposed to seeing mostly NL and barely SL women when I was younger) but I still think the majority of people do think that it's not normal to have hair much longer than SL.
 
The sad truth is that a lot of black people have never, (or rarely) seen a black woman with long hair that wasn't weave. And if they did, the woman was usually biracial. Or looked it! I know that's been the case for me. In my family, the women whom I'd considered to have long hair, had hair that was about SL or a little longer.

On the other hand, a lot of the ladies here have grown some serious length and having been exposed to this, our ideas about length potential for black women have really changed! The same SL that I once considered long, is now just medium to me. I still consider APL pretty long though! :grin:

It's really sad I know, but it is what it is. I can just imagine how frustrating it is having all your hard work and dedication to your hair being chalked up to, "Oh, she must be mixed." Sadly, I don't see this type of ignorance coming to an end anytime soon.

I'd be surprised if even I, with my caramel brown skin will be able to have SL hair or longer without getting the "mixed" label slapped across my forehead! :perplexed A lot of black people just don't know any better. :nono:
 
So many people believe this. It is sad because they are basing long hair on color and not proper hair care.
 
yeah.lol. I still consider APL long on some ppl IRL. But SL isn't dat long to me,since I'm SL now. Recently, I saw some black girls on fb bragging about their long hair and how others thought they were mixed and when I looked their hair was just touchin their shoulders. smh The longest hair I ever saw on a black woman IRL was my black WSL roomate last year, so I know those lengths are possible.
 
Sianna said:
I'd be surprised if even I, with my caramel brown skin will be able to have SL hair or longer without getting the "mixed" label slapped across my forehead! :perplexed A lot of black people just don't know any better. :nono:
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Well, I know no one is gonna look at my chocolate face and think I'm mixed, so maybe I can take some credit! :lachen:
And if I ever do get asked, I'm going to make sure I include something crazy.
"Boy, you ain't know? My daddy got that Croatian blood!"
 
This reminds me of a trip to the BSS with my daughter and grandson a few weeks ago. He has 1c/2a hair and a woman said he was handsome. I said thank you and then she asked if he was mixed. I said no he's black, his mother is black and his father is black. She then proceeds to say "Oh because he looks like he is mixed with Indian from India". I said no he's black and pointed to my daughter who is a bit more chocolate toned than my grandson and I and then she looked at my grandson and I and repeated her Indian from India comment.

At that point I just walked away.
 
I dunno.. but I've always considered APL long for any race/ethnic group. I mean... it aint short. I think HL and WL is super long for any racial group as well.
 
Um I know which community college you're talking about. No they don't go there. Or if they do, they have no real plan they just want to say "I'm in college" or to get their mamas off their backs. speaking of peoples ethnicity being switched.... when did the side eye smiley turn yellow? he got some indian in him?
 
APL-BSL was long on this board back when it first started. Over the years more people showed up with longer hair. Shoulder length IS long for me - I'm tall, and maybe my body's just shaped differently, long neck or summin'.

Why is this always debated on hairboards anyway?? If we were logging in from the Congo I can see it if nobody is mixed but ... most lhcf'ers are not logging in from the Congo somebody's gotta be of mixed heritage. I'll start - my grandaddy is black-indio (native american that is). And no you can't tell it - I just have straight up African hair - so you see one thing has little to do with the other. (but I do have cousins with the "indio" hair).
 
LadyRaider said:
Everyone in the US ... nay the Western Hemisphere... is mixed with something. Show me someone who is not mixed, and I'll show you someone just off the boat from the old world... or the deep dark unexplored jungles of South America.
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Not true. You should know better than this. There are plenty of second generation American ladies of African heritage on here. I would wager that the vast majority of them are not mixed.
 
I don't think people were really trying to debate what exactly is long...but more like, how come if a black girl has longish hair, she has to be mixed with something, but if someone of another race has long hair, no one bats an eyelash - which comes from the misperception that black hair doesn't grow long.

Also, I believe when people refer to "mixed" they are talking about directly (each parent a different race). I didn't see any "debate..."
 
afrikurl said:
Um I know which community college you're talking about. No they don't go there. Or if they do, they have no real plan they just want to say "I'm in college" or to get their mamas off their backs. speaking of peoples ethnicity being switched.... when did the side eye smiley turn yellow? he got some indian in him?
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LMBO :lachen::lachen::lachen:
 
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