The history of my hair.... hmmm....

Well - add another bald-headed toddler with taped on bows and bonnets to the list!!!  I had a super-fine wispy hair/ bald look for 2 years.  then, thick little blond curls at the nape and fuzz over the top.  By three, I had sausage curls all over to the shoulder.  By 4 1/2 (kindergarten) It was straight, brown and braids past the shoulders.

From Kindergarten till 10th grade it grew - was usually around waist length, depending upon trims.

In Junior and senior years of highschool, (1980,81) Practically destroyed my hair with perms and bleach.  By graduation had a waist-length kinky perm on pale blond hair. LOOKED AWFUL (especially with my VERY fair skin and dark brown eyes)!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ('course, didn't think so at the time)

18 - 24: back to natural brown color - slowly recovered hair health, trimmed 5-7 inches per year.

25: pregnant.  HUGE HAIR GROWTH.  Addition of auburn and black coarse curly hair growth during and ever since pregnancy - allowing greater growth and strength to formerly only baby fine hair.

26: Hurray for all those pregnancy hormones in past year!  Hair to thigh!  Of course - when my son was a year old I had a spiral perm put into the thigh length hair - (my cousin and 2 of her stylists took 4 hours to get all of the rods in - and they couldn't fit my hair into the shampoo basin due to the enormous size of my head and it took two people to help me walk - my head must have weighed 30 pounds - ha ha

27-35: letting the perm grow out.  Letting hair achieve "natural" color/state/health. Back to trimming 4 - 5 inches/year - to get rid of the once stunningly beautiful curls.

35-41: Back to plain hair.  wavy but healthy.  currently below tailbone length - seeking thigh length hair again. Resolutions: NEVER perm or color hair again!!!!!

nightowl

The shortest was when I was about 4 and it was one of those Dutch Boy type styles, chin lenth with bangs, actually it did look cute.   After that it was never shorter than shoulder length, that was when I was starting high school. It wouldn't have even been as short as shoulder length except I tried bleaching my dark brown BSL hair blonde after having a permanent   (totally stupid but I was only 14) and it broke off something terrible.    After it grew out from that fiasco it has never been shorter than mid-back between BSL and waist length. Right now it's the longest it has ever been and it's hip length almost tailbone.  

Anais Satin - a half-pixie?  Is that half the length of a regular pixie or longer than a regular pixie?  Have we
"super-sized" our hair now that it's much longer than a regular pixie he-he.  My weird sense of humor is taking over today--too much time in church meetings

Anais - Oh yeah.  I had that for awhile too  Actually I really liked it on me, but it got boring after awhile.  Worked well with hats though.

Maybe having extremely short hair makes us appreciate our long hair even more?

Shortest- when I was little!  But shortest post-haircut was when I had 'unwanted visitors' - too long to comb completely - beneath shoulderblades to just beyond tops of shoulders.

Longest- at the moment - 32 inches at the last time of measuring (I was rather bored at the time)

HAHAHAHAHAH, I love this!

OK, so everyone is going to be jealous. I had THICK hair as a toddler. (Of course, now I'm making up for it by having the most maddeningly thin, flat, impossible-to-do hair EVER!)

By age one my hair had come in, thick and brown. Then, in patches (yes, in PATCHES) it slowly turned white blonde. By age two I had thick little white-blonde pigtails. By four I had waist-length hair, still white blonde, still thick and stick-straight.

Then some time in elementary school it thinned out considerably, bowing to the genetics of my mother, who has it even worse...and my mom and I both have been fighting with it ever since. I kept wearing it long (to my mom's total annoyance, because it snarled like nobody's business) but putting it up for ballet every day was a calamity involving rubberbands, metal pins, half a bottle of hairspray, a ponytail by the end of class anyway, and handfuls of torn hair when I tried to get the rubberband out. And eventually chopping it all off in exasperation.

Ever since then, every attempt to grow it out again ended in disaster and another haircut before I could get very far because I abused it terribly. Somehow, brilliant me, I didn't realize how uncommonly fragile my hair was or the fact that I couldn't do a lot to it that my friends COULD do to their hair.

The shortest my hair has ever been was when I found this message board...3 inches after the latest and worst disaster, a perm that literally burned off some of my hair. Longest was waist-length in high-school. I look back on that with mixed feelings. I adored my hair long but it was in horrible condition.

Now I'm aiming to find my terminal length. I have a loooooooooong way to go. I reached waistlength last time in three years...but that was without so much as a single trim. Now, who knows?

Ella

Growing up, my mom kept my sisters and my hair between our chins and shoulders. Mine is curly, so it was kind of cute. I didn't mind much.
The longest it has been is waist length my the end of high school, when I cut it to just under my chin. It was cute, but I looked much younger than I was (about 14 when I was really 18)
I still have that problem: "No, I'm not 17. I'm 21." sigh. I've been told not to worry about it too much. I wear my hair up to try to look older, but it doesn't help.
Meg