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2,3 and 4 OMG so true!!!! That happens to me so much haha 

1. anything with hair does, no matter the length

2. think ahead? if it’s hot and you have a tank top just have one side behind your shoulder..takes 2 seconds3. let it dry overnight4. this happens with any hair length5. use a good conditioner and it isn’t a huge problem
other than an excuse to whine..i’m not seeing the point to this post. i have hair as long as the girl in the picture and with a little thought i avoid/don’t really care about any of the points you just made

my hair sheds like crazy too. it’s very very annoying.

No matter how pissed you get at it, never ever cut it. Ever. 

Yes. That all happens to me too, but I don’t mind at all. I LOVE my long hair. 

I’ve had my hair as long as my waist and I never really found it difficult.

well…i thought you would include washing it. that’s definitely a challenge for long hair, as well as putting color in it. and i cant even imagine it’s possible to do a doobi wrap with long hair…nonetheless, i wish my hair was longer. im letting it realyl grow this time

i LOVE my long hair. No complaints from me!

Cutting my hair was the best thing I ever did… really. I had super long hair (almost waist length) and got a pixie cut. I get tons of compliments and people tell me how great it looks. It was scary, but I really encourage you to take a leap of faith and cut your hair!

I hate my long hair.  It obscures my vision.  I get trapped in chairs if I lean back too far.  It turns kissing into hair eating.  I get split ends much easier.  It’s hot.  I use up a bottle of shampoo/conditioner every month and it needs so much more attention.  I had a hairdresser in China tell me that washing my hair is more difficult than washing 3 people’s hair.  I am cutting it off really really soon.  UUGH.  I do get complimented on it a lot though ^^  Oh well.  A year and a half of waist length hair is enough for a lifetime -__-

i get super awful split ends no matter what i do. stupid fine hair.

OMGOOODDDD, Yes I have the same problems too! It takes my hair like the whole damn day to dry after a shower, i’ve been thinking of getting out the scissors and cutting my hair real short just to prove a point(Although, i have no idea what that point is just yet lol)

So I just plat it that keeps it out of my way.

YES.

But I love my long hair regardless. I don’t really have to do much to it for it to be beautiful. And it’s thick and wavy and girls loooove playing with it. I’m actually like a lot of girls’ “Barbie”…they love dressing me up and putting on my makeup and styling my hair. Or trying. They don’t really know how to handle all of my hair.

layering and thinning out your hair can help speed up the air-drying process

The longer my hair is, the flatter and duller it gets. D:

My hair stopped right above my butt. I had all of those problems. Plus split ends and finding mysterious things in it when I came home… ew. But I only had it that long to donate it. So I chopped it off to chin length. It is WAY easier to deal with. My only problem is that I now look like a little boy if I don’t style it right :/

Use organic shampoo. It helps to slow down the shedding.

I like my long hair and have always had long hair, so I’m used to everything and it doesn’t bother me. if you install a soft water system(water softner), then washing your hair with that will gradually make your hair feel soft and smooth as cashmere.

cut it. 

@Justaconcept@xanga - definatly, i made that mistake before :\

My hair used to be down to my mid back, and although it wasn’t the healthiest, shiniest hair in the world, I loved it! …And then I cut it all off. Well, not all, but close enough: A little bit longer than the modern bob cut. And I never regretted something more! After one year, my hair is only a little past my shoulders. OH LONG HAIR HOW I MISS YOU!

Mine is quite long, and I love it!  It does take forever to dry, though.  What I hate is when I don’t put in enough cream and it gets poofy, but that’s more a curly hair thing than a long hair thing.  I’m still trying to grow it longer, believe it or not!

I hate getting those little phantom hairs that shed and then brush against your arm and you can NEVER figure out where they are.

For a short while, I considered cutting my hair, but my best friend and sister talked me out of it.  It does feel like a lot of work washing it every day.  And YAH, I DO have bad hair days.  I don’t like the shedding either.  Plus, there’s a lot of accidental hair-eating.

I even blogged about my hair.  It’s a love-hate relationship.  But, I won’t know what to do if I had made the mistake of chopping it all off.

cut it then? i love my long hair.

dont need to cut* your hair, just trim the ends and get it layered

Lol. On one of the saw movies this girl gets her long hair ripped out of her head..and dies. 

And that is probably like my worst fear ever.

Yes… my hair falls out like crazy. Love it though. It’s up to my knees

if you hate it, cut it….

I agree with this totally. But I am completely and totally depressed after I decide to cut it. The last time I cut it to my chin I felt so free and happy from my hair but I missed it so bad like a week after I cut it. I’m not going short again until I have kids.

My hair went all the way to my hips. And surprisingly, my hair was really healthy. But I also had all of these problems. I hated blow drying my hair, so in the winter, there was noooo way I was washing my hair before school. My hair wouldn’t be dry until school was almost out. But no, I get ya. But now my problem is… I miss my long hair but I like my short hair… Decisions decisions…

Cut it?

I went to renew my drivers liscense and I had to take the eye test. The kind where you look through the microscope like objects and see the letters. Well, I looked in and the guy asked me what letters I saw. I did not see a thing. I didn’t want to tell him because I was scared I would fail the test. I stood there squinting and praying I would see something. he was just waiting on me to read the letters to him. I was like “uhhhh uhhhh uhhmmm”..after finally realizing i wasnt gonna see anything I leaned up to tell him. Thats when I realized my long hair was covering the lense. He realized and laughed with me.

i agree with all of these points. i wanted to cut my hair for the longest time and i’m really glad i didn’t. i absolutely love my long hair, i think it’s super sexy.. except like someone else said, it gets in the way of kissing sometimes. ahaha

I’ve never seen anyone use “harsh” as a verb before. 

Same here. That’s why we got a mohawk. ;P

@ask_ashleyyy@xanga - LOLL OMG i thought i was the only one!

true omg my hair is EVERYWHERE

I’m currently growing my hair to longer than ive ever really had it…it’s already passed the stage where I tend to get scissor happy and snip it off… but I’m holding out. It just grows so slowly and meh… my hair is curly with big volume so meh… not fun.

I hate when I shut mine in the car door or roll it up in the car window.  I especially hate when it gets stuck under someone’s arm pit!  But I have really, long hair that sits right above my butt.  I cut it when I start tucking it into my pants.  

#4… Didja watch Sanctum?

ask_ashleyyy@xanga - AHAHAHAH! I know *exactly* what you mean!

All of the above.. My hair used to be past my butt.. Until I got sick of constantly sitting on it, it taking all night to dry, constantly getting stuck on EVERYTHING, & not being able to do anything with it because it was so long.. I cut it when I was 13, but it’s still to the middle of my back.

Hopefully you can do more with your hair than I can.. Mine refuses to do anything because it’s thick. Curling it is impossible & putting it in a ponytail gives me a headache. It just lays there.

So yep, I understand completely lol.

hence why I chopped mine off. If you have no intention of cutting it to fix these problems, why whine about them? 

solution. cut it off.

i shaved my head in october 2009. i haven’t had long hair since 2003, and i never even want to. short hair is just so much  more practical, and only chubby-faced and fat people can’t pull it off.

I love my long hair too, but that shedding business? Holy moly. I hear you lady,

I went for the bob for a little while, but that was even more maintenance than my long hair… with my long hair, I can just put mousse in it and be on my way.  If I had my short hair, though, I’d have to constantly flat iron it to make it straight… and that’s more damaging.

… how are you shedding so much?  the only way I drop any hairs is if I run my fingers through my hair and basically rip some out. otherwise you made some good points.

I recently cut my hair. It was down below my bra strap, but now it’s just about an inch past my arm pits. I’m so glad I cut it. It was getting so long that it would weigh down the top half of my hair, so I didn’t have any volume. I think long hair is sexy, but there comes a point where it’s just a long mass of hair, and even if it were 6 inches shorter, it would still be considered long and sexy.

This is a pretty easy problem to solve. I’ve had a pixie cut for years, and it’s wonderful. I’m growing my hair out now because I want a change, but I won’t hesitate to chop it all off again if it gets in my way.

Yeah, washing and drying time was why I cut my long hair. I have manageable shoulder length now and I love it. It is harder to style though. 

I have really long hair too.  It’s waist length.  I’ve had it shoulder length, but it looks awful because it is just so thick.  I don’t find it hard to brush my hair at all – but I do find it sheds SO much right now, more than ever.  That’s the frustrating thing for me.  Other than the fact that I just can’t seem to do anything with it so 99% of the time it’s in a ponytail.  I wish I knew how to do more with it.  
After I had cut it, it took years to get it back to the length it is.  So I doubt I’ll ever cut it again simply because it grows so much more slowly now days.  And for the most part I like it long.

@renoir_recluse@xanga - Same thing happened for me! Although I’ve been keeping it chin length lately.

@OP: If you love your hair the way it is, I wouldn’t cut it short. But I cut my hair short because I had horrible self-esteem. I had horribly curly, frizzy hair, and I had pretty bad acne. When I cut my hair short, I felt more encouraged to dress better and to go to a dermatologist and get my skin to a point where I’d be satisfied. Plus it just felt great to cut all of my hair off because it was like starting over, because I’d basically had the same hair since I was five years old.

@holdthekeys@xanga - This is definitely not an ‘excuse to whine’ she’s definitely making good points. If you didn’t care about any of the points don’t post on here. Shedding is more noticeable when you have like 15 inches of hair. Letting it dry overnight can cause HEADACHES. You’re more prone to getting it caught in things when it’s longer. Oh and using a ‘good conditioner’ only helps a little when brushing long hair. It’s still a problem thanks

I kept long (and very long) hair because I have natural wavy hair and only the weight of long hair can weighs it down, making it look neat. I totally agree with all of the above and one more thing – static! On days when the weather is dry my hair sometimes would stand or stick onto cling wraps because of statics.

long hair in general is SUCH a hassle. i’ve always had really long hair, i remember being little and having to pull my hair up front when i went to the bathroom because it was below my butt haha. it’s also heavy!

@xoyouandicollide@xanga - my hair is super long too and i still don’t understand why people feel the need to attack others on here :) KTHANKSBYE

my hair isn’t quite as long (a little past my shoulders) but i have the same problem drying it because it’s so thick.  i started washing it at night just so i wouldn’t have to get up at the crack of dawn to it could air dry for up to four hours. and tho i am trying to grow it longer, i may not now cuz it doesn’t seem like that great an idea =/ 

Agreed.  To all of them!  LOL and heaven forbid it’s curly.  Mine is super curly AND super long.  Makes #5 the WORST

3.It takes forever to dry.And since I hate using a blow-dryer, I air-dry my hair, which is a process that takes at least two-and-a-half hours.

get over it, you could have no hair.

Layer it?

I’ve had long hair in the past and since my hair is always so thick..it was a pain to wash and maintain and so I cut it every so often. I still do. I’m sporting a short do.

i used to have hair down to my butt, and even though it’s only just below my shoulder blades now, i still have a lot of the same problems as you, ha. the thing that was the worst for me when my hair was really long was random people touching it. maybe it’s because it was back in elementary school, but i had/have a really sensitive scalp, and even though my hair is only wavy it’s length made it easy to get little knots and little fingers easily got stuck and pulled my hair.

i got yanked by my hair by a pretty abusive substitute teacher once, and for whatever reason it’s still a little traumatic; i hate when people put their hands in/on my hair to this day…14 years later. that’s a big no-no. and i’ve never let my hair get anywhere near that long again.

my hair hits just above my buttcrack, is dark, and is ALWAYS falling out.  I had a friend’s mom express concern for my health because of the amount of hair I was losing.  It’s probably a normal amount, but the length and color makes it more noticeable.

There are little “tumbleweeds” of my hair in my room.

I MUST wear my hair up to eat, or I will inevitably end up with a mouth full of hair, or food in my hair.

I once visted a friend I had once lived with in his new apartment.  I got the tour, but never went into his bathroom.  A WEEK later, he texts me to tell me that he found my hair IN HIS SHOWER.  what?!

But, I get compliments on my hair almost every single day, so I guess I’ll keep it.

While long hair may be hard work, it’s well worth having.  I find short hair on women to be a major turnoff.  

My hair does everything you said already, all the time. (But it’s totally worth it. I cut it off before, and I’ve been regretting – and growing it back since then.) My biggest issue is it sticks to my seatbelt when I’m driving, and when it auto recoils…my hair gets sucked up there too. I’ve also gotten it stuck putting up the car window.
Currently, I wear mine wavy, and it reaches past my armpits. I definitely want it way longer though. When it cut it short, it was completely unmanageable, and looked like crap. Huge mistake. Never again.

That awkward moment where you sit down and you sit on you hair.

I have a love/hate relationship with my hair. It’s getting longer. It’s about my mid-back. I’m donating it though, so I can’t cut it yet. I love it when it’s curly, but I hate it while I’m taking a shower and brushing it. It takes me about 45 minutes to get all of the knots out. -_-

Then don’t have long hair…

I agree with you about long hair taking forever to dry, but my hair is super thick so….

Overall, my long hair is my crowning glory so to speak. It’s a part of my identity. I’d feel so naked if I cut my hair off.

I can’t imagine having anything else but long hair.

i hate my hair because it’s short and looks ugly short

I love my long hair. If it gets too long, I just get layers and bangs to freshen it up a bit.

My shedding is an endless topic of discussion amongst my friends. Its amazing where they find my hair – like my boyfriend’s brother’s armpit, his sandwich, and my friend’s boyfriend’s crotch (what?!). My boyfriend jokes that there is more of my hair embedded in his carpet than cat hair. He has 3 cats. lol

I shall have to join the ranks of people who say “cut it”. I used to have long hair, but then I cut it really short, and felt liberated.

My hair was down to my waist, and I decided to cut it to above my shoulders.  I miss how beautiful my hair was, and how much I could have done with it.  It was constantly tangled though, and going to college in colorado made it knot up like dreads because of the wind.  But hair always grows back! so I have another 2 years or so until it reaches the same length again(my hair grows hella fast)

I wish my hair was that long. I’m just beginning to like my hair…

i hate it when it gets caught in my necklace chain. ouch!

I hated my long hair, so I snipped it all off. Let me tell you, it was the most invigorating and amazing experience ever!

Problem now: how to keep short hair short!

After it’s been in a bun or some kind of ‘up’ style, it’ll get weird… one side of it will flip under while the other side will flip out. It’s just so bizarre and I can’t really wear my hair down after that lol. Sometimes I try to style it in a bun going the other way to counter the effects

Those things happen to me too, only brushing my hair isn’t so difficult, it’s just controlling it XD But I love my long hair and I’m growing it out until I can sit on it

i miss my long hair but seriously- cut yours off and donate it. it’ll give you a new look, give you a new confidence (i used to hide behind my hair too) you’ll give it to someone who REALLY appreciates it, and you’ll learn to appreciate yours more.

it’s worth it.

5 Reasons Why I Love My Long Hair:

1) It compliments my figure. 2) It makes me feel beautiful. 3) It never gets in my face. 4) It is more feminine. 5) My husband loves to run his fingers through it.

It gets caught in my zipper, and gets a zipper mark in it.  Throughout the day, no matter what, my hair always gets tangled near the nape of my neck!

i can add to the list!!!

1) it’s flatter
2) after you sleep and you wake up, it’s super tangled!
3) split ends

If you don’t like it then cut it. That simple. If you don’t want to get it cut the stfu.

Hey that’s how I feel about my hair now, though I am planning to cut it soon. I just don’t look good with long hair, sad to say. Though people have complimented me that they love my hair. I have to wear this hair so it’s my responsibility to care for it. Just love your hair and care for it.

put it up, cut it off, or quit complaining.

@Justaconcept@xanga - Hello, I’m Vyvyan normally I don’t look for girls on the internet but you are one beautiful woman.  May I ask you for a date? if not will you please add me? I promise I will be on my best behaviour.

If you’re so unhappy about it, do something. I really like having long hair, it suits me and the inconveniences don’t really bother me (like the air drying.)

(1) You shed perpetually with short hair, too. It’s just not as annoying.

(2) This should be a reason why long hair is awesome.

i just donated 12 in of my hair. it was at my waist. now its at my shoulders. i miss my long hair so much. i don’t regret cutting it coz donating my hair was on my bucket list, but let me tell ya!!!! nevarrr again! hahahahh i do like that my short hair doesn’t get in the way when i readjust my sleep position and i love that it dries so fast! but it keeps getting in my way and you can only wear your hair up and down. booooooooo. anyway i can’t wait til my hair gets long again

For me if I let it grow out even a few extra inches past too long my hair goes crazy unmanageable. Makes me frustrated and google pictures of short cuts.

 I have long hair too, I just recently cut off 5 inches, but before that it was past my behind. I have most of these problems, but it gives more than it takes away in my case. I recently had bangs cut, and I’ve begun to wonder what it’d be like to have short hair… it’s been long my whole life. I think cutting it short would be like amputating a limb at this point…

But I can understand where you’re coming from.

I don’t really shed that much, but it just looks like a lot because it’s so long. I clean out my brush every night because if I don’t I can’t even use it. It wraps around like 4 times per hair… it’s bad. Lol.

I don’t normally wear just tank tops, so I don’t have that issue…

I airdry my hair. I’d say about what you did, at least 2 hours. But that doesn’t bother me, since I shower at night just for that reason. And I like to just get up and get out in the morning rather than have to get up and deal with everything. I literally wake up 30-40 minutes before I have to leave. Get dressed, brush my hair and teeth, put some shoes on and grab my brown-bagged lunch and ready-packed backpack. The end.

Lol, I totally understand it getting caught in everything. Mine gets tangled, then I’ll move it while standing in front of a door and when I go to move it’s stuck around the doorknob… or when I get in the car too fast, like when it’s raining or windy, it’ll get caught in the door and then I can’t move until we stop at a red light so I can open the door and get it unstuck. I’ve also had it get caught in people’s jewelry. My boyfriend’s earring is it’s most recent favorite place to get tangled. It sucks on both ends, lol.

I never really noticed how much of a pain it is to brush it until I got my bangs cut. Brushing them is like 1,000 times simpler. XD

All this annoyance, and yet I can’t bring myself to get rid of it. It’s a part of me, so. And it makes me different. Having long hair is the reason people remember me. Either that or it’s because I bitched them out over something. Heh. =p

xX Ame ~*~ Hana Xx

OMG EVERYTHING. SO TRUE. WHYYY?!

If you brush/comb your hair multiple times a day, it cuts down on shedding of your hair and makes it way less tangly. A method I’ve learned is that when you condition your hair, comb through it with your fingers a little bit while you’re rinsing it out. I still suggest blow drying your hair. Use heat protectant on your ends and you shouldn’t worry about damage or anything (heat stimulates the scalp and promotes hair growth, so no worries there). As for your other issues, if you know you’re going to be cooking or something, discover some new hairstyles that will keep your hair back while also looking cute. I miss my long hair and I’m growing it out again, but when I had it, I absolutely loved it.

Cut it?

I think you can do a lot with short hair. Sometimes more versatile than boring blah long hair, I think. Haha

I have super short hair. While I don’t want really long hair, I think shoulder length hair really looks cute on most people. I’m trying to grow my hair to shoulder length.

Hahahaha. Omg. I used to have long hair too! Like down to my lower back. And I loved how long it was in general. I always wanted to have really long hair when I was younger. And when I went to an anime convention where I needed my hair in pig tails, it looked amazing because it was the perfect length.

After the convention I chopped off like 11inches. It was waaayyy too long. I had all of your problems. I shed. Since I go to a catholic school, my hair would always get caught in the big baggy sleeves of the mandatory sweater making me look like I had hair growing out of my wool armpits. It would also get caught in the desks sometimes. Most importantly, it was a pain in the ass to maintain. It took like 20min for me to wash my hair and like an hour for me to blow it out. it was horrid.

Whenever my boyfriend and I cuddle… he friggen lays on it.

I used to have long hair. I sometimes miss it, but you made me realize I’m glad I cut my hair! lol, but I still shed and find hair everywhere. It’s mostly because I dye my hair.

My hair is down to my waist, so I can definitely relate to ALL of these. While I love my hair long, I can’t wait until the day I cut it for Locks of Love. I miss my bouncy curls!

I love number two. I think it’s hilarious and people get a kick out of it.

i know the feeling with number one. when my boyfriend sleeps over he finds it everywhere for the next week. his clothes, on him, etc. it’s ridiculous. my hair’s almost down to my butt, and i don’t really get it caught on many things but the shedding thing is ridiculous, and although everyone sheds, this gets wrapped around everything imaginable. one tidbit for the brush… i got a brush at sally beauty that’s called the tangle teaser, i think, and it’s amazing. honestly it looks like a freaking doll brush but it goes through my hair like nobody’s business. i honestly think you would like it.

My hair’s not nearly as long as yours, but I still hate how long it is!  I would cut it short, but it’s so thin that it looks

gross

.  I’ve tried.  And every time I come back from the salon with short hair?  I come back crying.  Long hair sucks ass.  Especially in the Military.

I hear you! I had my hair halfway down my back until November- and once the school play was over, I cut it off to my shoulders! I couldn’t brush all the way through it for two months or so, but while you’re in a play at our school you aren’t supposed to cut your hair because they need to assess what they’ll do with it for the performance. And my character had crazy hair. So it sure was a relief to chop that off!

i love my long hair.

1. doesn’t everyone shed?

3. i air-dry too but i take showers at night, so the only problem is that sometimes my hair looks pretty funky from drying with me sleeping on it.

2, 4, 5. i don’t really have these problems.

Long hair can definitely be a hassle.  I can relate to it getting caught on random things, I’ve even rolled mine up in a car window X.X  I cut it super short one time about 4 years ago because I was tired of it and wanted change, but after that swore to NEVER cut it short again.  The other thing that used to bother me was that my hair is sort of wavy, so it took me forever to figure out which products to use to make it look nice.  Now that I have the routine figured out, though, I don’t mind it.

when my hair was extremely long (it was also extremely thick) it would constantly snarling and i couldn’t get a brush through it unless i had 2+ hours and i used to get it caught in my car door lol