What did you consider ''long hair'' before you joined LHCF?

I considered long hair thick/healthy mid backish length hair. I still consider that long hair.

Shoulder - medium length
Securely armpit or longer - medium long
Bra strap and longer - long

Thickness also plays a role. Even with my own hair, if I'm thinly at bra strap then I don't think of it as long even though in length it may be.
 
Anything a couple of inches past the shoulders was long to me. Now I'm almost APL, I'm happy with it but I still feel like I'm just starting to acheive real length.
 
Like u ladies here I thought APL was long but to tell the truth before being introduced to Cathy Howse then to LHCF I just didn't think much of my hair and I didn't expect much outta it. uknow.
 
skyborn09 said:
Like u ladies here I thought APL was long but to tell the truth before being introduced to Cathy Howse then to LHCF I just didn't think much of my hair and I didn't expect much outta it. uknow.
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me, too. before hair boards i didn't think much about hair, either. i've been natural for 12 years and the last time i straightened my hair was in 2001, so i didn't really get to see its length anyway. and i never thought about taking one of those pics with the hair stretched, just didn't even occur to me. i guess i thought apl was long, but since the hair boards i think bsl. on my super shrinkage, that still wouldn't be very long, though.

i finally took one of those length shots and, to my surprise, the twists at my nape can be stretched to near APL. My hair's been longer than this (cut it a couple times), so I guess by my own standards, I had "long" hair! :rolleyes:
 
I used to think SL was long on a BW because that was the longest length I saw. My hair would always get to that point before it started to break off (on my clothes, which I know now or from being over-processed) and people would say that my hair was long. Now I think thick, healthy, even APL is long.
 
Pre LHCF I thought APL was long or hair that was past SL.... I was used to seeing BW with SL hair, however I rarely saw BW in particular with APL or longer.. Even now since I reached APL and beyond people swear my hair is long and I'm like it is.. Being on LHCF have defitnitley changed my thinking about length... :spinning:
 
i considered neck length long for black woman and feet length for white woman. sorry:perplexed

but ever since joining LHCF i have learned that no length is impossible for any race. i use to think i could never get past neck length. well now my hair is APL and i am pushin for BSL by the end of this year. with the regimen I have used every since I joined this site... i believe I will get it. thanks LHCF!!:grin:
 
I always thought APL was long. I seldom saw anything longer than that, and when I would just stare at them like my nephew did when he saw motorcycles (when he was 2). I think I am currently APL (I'll know for sure after I get my hair relaxed tomorrow).
 
My ideas about long hair didn't change after I joined LHCF but after I visited Hawaii a few years ago. I was already kind of snobbish about what I considered long hair but after that?:lachen:

When I hear people around me talking about so and so's "long" hair that is touching her shoulder blades I just wanna bust out laughing because it's like a joke to me.
 
Before LHCF, SL/APL was long, honey! And BSL and longer was very long. Now it's like SL/APL is short and BSL is medium... I'm crazy though :crazy:
 
Caramela said:
Before LHCF, SL/APL was long, honey! And BSL and longer was very long. Now it's like SL/APL is short and BSL is medium... I'm crazy though :crazy:
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This is kinda how I feel too. My best friend has to remind me all the time that my hair "is" long.

I think I hang out on fotki way too much. it is skewing my reality.
 
I though full shoulder length was long and my eyes would bulge out if I should see hair any longer then that and then I would think its not real and i would study it to find the tracks but I was never rude enough to make a comment of course. Now Brastrap and midback is long to me. I still dream of getting to Armpit length. Its been two years and I am still keeping hope alive. :perplexed
 
before joining, shoulder length and/or maybe an inch or 2 lower. now i consider that medium. at the apl mark is what i consider long:grin:
 
Joyful1 said:
Before LHCF I thought anything past SL was long. Now, BSL or longer on other people. Since my hair is natural, I think I have to get to almost waistlength for my hair to look long (but I have learned to love the shrinkage). :yep:
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That's me too
 
Thought full shoulder length was long APL left me :love::wow:I very rarely saw Full APL. Still not very common.
After LHCF~ APL to BRA is long
 
TLC1020 said:
Pre LHCF I thought APL was long or hair that was past SL.... I was used to seeing BW with SL hair, however I rarely saw BW in particular with APL or longer.. Even now since I reached APL and beyond people swear my hair is long and I'm like it is.. Being on LHCF have defitnitley changed my thinking about length... :spinning:
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Your hair is so pretty do you trim your ends routinely or dust?
 
Thank You Summer 74!
No I don't trim my ends that often and thank goodness that I don't have to. I wear a bun seven days a week which save my ends from needing to be trimmed.

Summer 74 said:
Your hair is so pretty do you trim your ends routinely or dust?
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Anything that was slightly past SL. And don't LET it be a thick SL, I would be gawking! :blush:
 
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