Cutting long hair
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Topic: Cutting long hair
Posted By: Metallica999
Subject: Cutting long hair
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2011 at 11:32am
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So, i've been seriously considering cutting my hairs... I like them, but taking care of them takes me too much time plus I'm getting bored of them. Has anyone on here ever made such a drastic change? Did you regret it? Share some experiences please... :D PS: I've been having long hairs for 5-6 years... |
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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2011 at 11:46am
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I did it last year in July after having long hair for around 5-6 years like you. I don't regret it for a second. Showers are a lot quicker since I'm not pulling knots out of my hair. I got used to having long hair since I never had to worry about "styling" it before going out. I know it's more socially acceptable for a man to have shorter hair, but that's not why I did it. I wanted a change, and the haircut got me one. I had just come back from university before I cut my hair, and now I wish I had it shorter back then so I'd look better to the ladies on campus.  ------------- https://armchairmaestro.com/" rel="nofollow - My Music Blog |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2011 at 12:58pm
Anything for the ladies .
I had long hair for 10 years, but inherited baldness made me look like a joke, so off it went. Honestly I miss my long hair, but mostly when I�m bangin� at shows. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: SKwid
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2011 at 12:59pm
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ive actually considered it, with my hair down to about my Nips, but im worried im going to miss it, and it too more than a year and a half to grow this long  -------------  
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Posted By: SKwid
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2011 at 1:01pm
thats why i havent yet. still love being able to windmill and my younger brother still has hair as long as mine  -------------
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UMUR wrote:Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2011 at 1:25pm
I thought I was going to miss it too, but so far I do not. I'll look back fondly at my long hair when I'm 40 I'm sure. ------------- https://armchairmaestro.com/" rel="nofollow - My Music Blog |
Posted By: The Angry Scotsman
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2011 at 4:50pm
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I always hate getting hair cut, which is funny because it's a nightmare. I don't have "long" hair. It's big. when it grows it gets curly and crazy and everywhere. When it gets unruly I stop messing with it. When I come out of the shower I do what I can then leave it. Besides, long hair is so metal.....wild and unkempt is so much more post-metal ------------- Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer and Testament. The real Big Four of thrash metal! Listen to doom metal, worship Satan |
Posted By: The Angry Scotsman
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2011 at 4:53pm
Didn't wanna go skullet like Devin? I actually have been cutting my hair more often now, since I am trying to do the whole work thing.  Also, I've always prided myself on being alternative, or post as I'd call it now. I love being with my younger brother and his metalhead friends. All black, long hair, death metal shirts, ripped clothing, beards, the denim jackets with patches all over. Then there's me in my regular jeans, plain shirt, clean shaven fave and 60's style curly psych rock hair. Rocking out with them. I love it.  ------------- Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer and Testament. The real Big Four of thrash metal! Listen to doom metal, worship Satan |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2011 at 4:56pm
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The best that I was ever able to do when I grew my hair "long" was the Tom Petty look, and it never really worked for me very well. Now that I am 40, I do look back fondly on those days, but I definitely prefer my hair shorter. It always feels so good to get a haircut after I have gone 2 months or so without one. ------------- 
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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2011 at 8:37pm
I never realy hade long hair, i tryed some times to grow it a litle longer, but it dident work out, i yust dont think i whuld fit in it, so i keep it short. And then again i never understod why you need long hair to be a hard rocker, but i listen to so much difretn music so im no true hard rocker i gues. And i always prefered to look normal, and long hair whuld probobly yust get in the way but you never know 1 day maybe i get some wierd idea and start growing it, its not to late when you still got hair on your head, and i got pretty good growth, and im very happy for that, the horror of starting to get bald!  ------------- http://www.riseaboverecords.com/wp-content/uploads/BLOOD-CEREMONY-new-2016.jpg |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2011 at 11:59pm
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I had long hair for several years, cut it last April. It really was a lot nicer to have short hair, and most women definitely prefer it, but I did/do miss it quite a lot. I grew a new friend on my upper lip to help with the loss |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2011 at 1:28am
Long hair only looks good on men if you are David Bowie.  Most people don't realize this, but Labyrinth was actually a documentary of David Bowie's daily life at the time. So you should cut your hair. I've never had very long hair, but it gets annoying to deal with when it's been a long time since I got a haircut, I can't imagine how annoying it would be if it was shoulder/chest length. ------------- 
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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2011 at 4:47am
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A week ago or so I grabbed my ponytail and cut it off almost all the way. Now I've got this kind of kurtcobainish length. I had a long hair in 2005 as well when I had to cut it for military service, that hurt back then but now after growing it back I was getting increasingly bored with the long whip. I hardly ever unleashed it even at metal gigs. Still, I'm not ready to have a short short hair, it would need constant recutting. I'm cutting it when the baldness becomes too much to handle. ------------- http://iamthreepeople.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow">  <- Click on this!
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Posted By: SKwid
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2011 at 11:28pm
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Im probobly going to cut my hair soon, need a good summer job. and i need some tail  -------------
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2011 at 11:43pm
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Never had long hair. I've had a buzz cut for a looong time. As a result, I haven't combed my hair in years. ------------- Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: Metallica999
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2011 at 10:59am
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Interesting replys. As for me, i still have no idea if i should cut my hair or not. Damn. :D I would love to have short hair, but I'm afraid i'm going to miss long hair... |
Posted By: Vic
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2011 at 12:42pm
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Cut it once, since I had to join the army (compulsory service in Greece). It was a traumatic experience. I've grown it back since then and hopefully I won't have to cut it again. Thankfully, my wife prefers long hair. ------------- 42 |
Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2011 at 12:52pm
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I'll never cut it!!!
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2011 at 2:16pm
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" I won�t cut my Hair" .
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Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2011 at 4:22pm
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But they cut their hair anyway, them posers (except Jesper, I guess) ;-)
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2011 at 12:50am
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^Yeah but D-A-D are still Denmark�s number one hard rock act. Rock�n�roll to the bone. Scandals and all too. Remember when Stig beat up Thomas Helmig ( the Danish pop king) because the latter had run off with Stig�s model girlfriend? ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Balthamel
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2011 at 3:41am
In norway, volbeat is the most popular metal band...  ------------- 
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2011 at 8:45am
In America we have all of the wonderful crunkcore bands.  
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2011 at 9:00am
Well that�s very much true for Denmark too. Volbeat are huge in Denmark at the moment. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2011 at 4:48pm
I actually don't remember that. When did that happen? I must admit that I lost interest in D-A-D after "Helpyourselfish" (I still love all the albums up until and including "Helpyourselfish" though). As for Thomas Helmig, I like the "K�re Maskine Album", but there's nothing in the rest of his career that interests me. -------------
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2011 at 7:23am
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Ever since I was 14, I started to grow my hair,and they've remained shoulder-length and middle of the back at longest, but I've always kept the top and front half relatively shorter (ears covered, but no longer on the side , and defintetly not hindering the sight).... In other words I never use my ears to hold my hair >> go to the barber max 4 times a year.
I never thought the care for longer hair was an issue... I wash them everyday in the shower just before the rest of the body, just dry roughly them with a towel, comb and let them dry and fall into place... that easy .... I've grown a goatee and more recently a full beard (it seems most women like it), but I find that a lot more a pain to keep trim than the hairs. ------------- my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....
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Posted By: SKwid
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2011 at 2:57pm
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i haven cut my hair in almost 2 years. just pull my bangs back around my ears, let the sides hang flat. i like to comb my hair in the shower, with the shampoo in it first then again with the conditioner, easier to gets the knots out as my hair is quite curly. -------------
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Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2011 at 12:42pm
I have had my hair long since I was 5 (down to my waist) because in my household it was considered acceptaple to allow me to look as I wished even as a kid. It is at the back of my thighs now when I stand up and I could not bear to lose it in any circumstance. Although I am female, I constantly have people on my back telling me it would 'look nicer' some other way or getting shouted at in the street to get it cut by hooligans. I would NEVER give them that pleasure. People are too concerned about fitting in, as far as I can see though, the people who want everyone else to change for them are not worth listening to.
They are small minded and get uncomfortable the moment that they see anyone who isn't a conformist coward and then they take the first viable chance to insult you and tell YOU how to look, behave, think and even who you should associate with. As for men, short hair is an imposed stereotype created essentially by the same kind of people as I mentioned above. As far as I am concerned there is nothing more attractive than long hair in both sexes, it keeps you looking well proportioned bodily, softens the look of harsher features and let's face it 'the wild, primeval look' is always sexy! ha ha! 
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2011 at 1:04pm
Nice to hear a girl defend longhaired dudes  . Damn that baldness itches even worse now
Oh and big fuck you to conformity in the process too. You are a cool fox  ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2011 at 1:40pm
Why, thank you! I'm most flattered! 
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Posted By: SKwid
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2011 at 4:19pm
i Agree inb4 colin wishes he never cut his hair and UMUR still is bald -------------
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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2011 at 4:51pm
I'd like to know where all the girls were who liked long hair when I was rocking that look for 5 years. I agree that it is ideal to have your hair however the heck you want it, but when you get to the point where you want to start a career that having more of a "unique" look it is more troublesome. When it comes to males, anything that can be easily fixed (getting a haircut, trimming facial hair and /or going clean shaved) is what is, more often than not, looked for. It all depends on the job of course. I don't agree with it, but that's how it goes. ------------- https://armchairmaestro.com/" rel="nofollow - My Music Blog |
Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2011 at 5:43pm
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Work should not shape the lives of people in thier own personal time and business. It is a very bad problem nowadays and something should be done about it before it gets totally out of control. I heard about a case of a Swiss bank whose employees were given a big wad of papers purely about what their appearance should be like down to such meaningless details as thier TOENAILS!!! How crazy is that?! Some of these pigs seem to think they own you even though it's you who's making most of the cash for them. Sick isn't it... |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2011 at 11:54pm
| Nah Christian, I'm liking the ease of short hair at least for the time being |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2011 at 12:00am
Toenails? Damn that is sick!! ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: The Angry Scotsman
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2011 at 3:37am
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I cut my hair recently It's fine, I just am so used to it being long I can't take it like this at first, though it's gotten many compliments. Of course me being the borderline hipster I am, my hair was never metal long...just curly and out of control ------------- Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer and Testament. The real Big Four of thrash metal! Listen to doom metal, worship Satan |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2011 at 9:21am
Same here. Though the first few weeks with my hair cut, I kept reaching back to adjust my nonexistent ponytail. ------------- https://armchairmaestro.com/" rel="nofollow - My Music Blog |
Posted By: SKwid
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2011 at 10:45pm
depending on how my summer job is, i may or may not get it cut ill probably donate it to some wig charity or whatever, when i do cut it, because its defiantly long enough -------------
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2011 at 10:40am
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So anyone done anything crazy with their hair lately ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Pelata
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2011 at 11:45am
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Just keeping it buzzed down...
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Posted By: SKwid
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2011 at 11:47am
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Kept growing it, I was thinking about putting it into dreadlocks, but I don't think my employers would like that. Too much, the only reason I still have long hair with them is because I was hired with it -------------
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Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 9:36am
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Boy, I'm glad that I have a job where looking like a freak almost seems to be a positive feature. I still have my long hair, and I look like something in between a sailor and a caveman beardwise. -------------
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Posted By: Kingcrimsonprog
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2011 at 5:59pm
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I'm the same as most people here, I had it long for about five years then cut it. I don't suit long hair and I'm glad I cut it, but I still get the odd pang wanting it back every so often. Mostly however, I'm glad its gone
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Posted By: FallingxSkies
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2012 at 2:39am
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super old post I know but I personally love it when a guy has long hair ^^ but I think people should go with what they're more comfy with :D ..................like llamas I guess O.o or maybe squirrels :3 |
Posted By: SKwid
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2012 at 2:49pm
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I think i might cut my hair soon, its getting to be about time -------------
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Posted By: IMPF2112
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2012 at 7:29pm
long hair can look pretty fucking awesome on the right people, but it doesn't really work for me at all. whenever i grow my hair long, it always naturally sticks up into an afro  . now looking back at older pictures of me, i can't help but cringe at how my hair looked back then. right now though, i am actually quite satisfied with my hair. it's grown a little bit since my haircut, although it's still pretty short, and i think it looks just right.
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