My hair hits its maximum length before I can sit on it, so nifty!
I always thought you looked really awesome with your various iterations of short hair, and I think it was shoulder-length when I met you? So assuming our definitions of medium-length add up (just above shoulderblade length) no, I've never seen you with medium-length hair.
My opinion? (not that you asked for it): Please don't get layers. You're too smart for that look. XD Of course, your point about always being able to cut it shorter is a good one.
What I did when I was going to donate my hair was look around at lots and lots of pictures of hairstyles online until I found one I could identify with and thought would suit my face. I ended up with a picture of Trinity from the Matrix. :P (Whether that suited my face is anyone's guess, of course. lol)
Does it? I thought I remembered it getting quite long, but maybe it was just to the small of your back or something. (I also remember how the roots of your hair were coffee-black, but the tips were almost red. I've got something similar going on now, if not quite so extreme.) Also, I'm kind of curious about what my hair's maximum length actually is. I mean, I fairly clearly haven't hit it yet. However, it's enough of a pain as-is; I'm not sure I want to find out how long it'll get! I've had various acquaintances and/or random strangers tell me not to cut it, and I'm like, dude, can you imagine taking care of knee-length hair? Because I can, now, and it doesn't sound so appealing to me
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My hair's maximum length is just past the end of my lumbar curve. Long enough to sit on it only if I tip my head all the way back. :P
I am fortunate in that my hair is not very bulky, so it is actually easier to maintain at longer lengths than it is at shorter ones -- it grows very quickly, so shorter hairstyles necessitate frequent haircuts, which gets EXPENSIVE. And at middle lengths it tends to slip out of any attempts to restrain it, so unless it's long enough to pin to my head, it just gets in my face. lol
The layers thing was a sorta flat joke about the type of women who wear their hair in layers, because they tend to be the same women who have fallen for the "smart women don't get anywhere" thing. Not always. Even so. :P
For texture, some mousses do very nice things with minimal fiddling. I'm not sure what sort of texture you mean exactly, though. Have a picture?
I haven't done too much to my hair since I got it cut while I was in New York with you. I realized the other day that it was long enough now to put up in a bun - and it didn't weigh my head down the way it used to! I can even use those big thick hair clips that I could never use because I had so much thick hair all piled up in a mass. I remember I was so nervous about cutting so much off, but it ended up being a great decision and I'm glad I did it. I suspect the lesson here is that it's only hair; it will grow back, even if something horrible should happen, which it probably won't. Even though it can be hard to believe when it's your hair on the line.
So I suppose I cast my vote for trying something new but equally interesting, just for the spirit of it. Medium length hair definitely isn't a bad thing if that's what you want to try. But you might want to wait until after the wedding, just in case. I can think of so many cool things to do with hair as long as yours is now. *grin*
I'm actually pretty on-board with the whole "it's just hair" thing. I've been doing this in various iterations since I was in elementary school, when my mom made me get my hair cut off because it was too hard to take care of. (It was both thicker and finer than my sister's, which made it tangle like mad.) That was the only time I really howled about getting my hair cut. After that, I was fine, and eventually I grew enthusiastic about it. *grin. I'm glad you can do cool stuff with your hair, though. That's always fun.
Oh, yes. I'm definitely keeping the length until the wedding. I think I'm going to sell it, actually - having looked around, I'm pretty sure I can get at least $1,000 for it, which I really can't pass up right now. And for that, I have to keep all the length. So until then, I will have lots and lots of hair to do cool things with. ^_^
I would make a joke about not letting this turn into "The Gift of the Magi" except I'm not sure what Mike would sell that would be of equivalent value. Probably something involving video games. (Video games being the modern equivalent of a snazzy watch? Oh, how times have changed... *grin*)
Ha. Probably not. I'm pretty sure that very few people think video games are as classy or as valuable in a non-monetary sense as a snazzy watch. I think the modern equivalent of a snazzy watch is still a snazzy watch. ^_^
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My hair hits its maximum length before I can sit on it, so nifty!
I always thought you looked really awesome with your various iterations of short hair, and I think it was shoulder-length when I met you? So assuming our definitions of medium-length add up (just above shoulderblade length) no, I've never seen you with medium-length hair.
My opinion? (not that you asked for it): Please don't get layers. You're too smart for that look. XD Of course, your point about always being able to cut it shorter is a good one.
What I did when I was going to donate my hair was look around at lots and lots of pictures of hairstyles online until I found one I could identify with and thought would suit my face. I ended up with a picture of Trinity from the Matrix. :P (Whether that suited my face is anyone's guess, of course. lol)
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I am fortunate in that my hair is not very bulky, so it is actually easier to maintain at longer lengths than it is at shorter ones -- it grows very quickly, so shorter hairstyles necessitate frequent haircuts, which gets EXPENSIVE. And at middle lengths it tends to slip out of any attempts to restrain it, so unless it's long enough to pin to my head, it just gets in my face. lol
The layers thing was a sorta flat joke about the type of women who wear their hair in layers, because they tend to be the same women who have fallen for the "smart women don't get anywhere" thing. Not always. Even so. :P
For texture, some mousses do very nice things with minimal fiddling. I'm not sure what sort of texture you mean exactly, though. Have a picture?
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http://www.hairstyles-haircuts.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/japan-hairstyle.jpg
http://www.hair2009.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/77.jpeg
I'm not sure how well I could pull any of them off. Though I did do pretty well with a shaggy pixie, actually. I was pretty fond of that one.
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So I suppose I cast my vote for trying something new but equally interesting, just for the spirit of it. Medium length hair definitely isn't a bad thing if that's what you want to try. But you might want to wait until after the wedding, just in case. I can think of so many cool things to do with hair as long as yours is now. *grin*
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Oh, yes. I'm definitely keeping the length until the wedding. I think I'm going to sell it, actually - having looked around, I'm pretty sure I can get at least $1,000 for it, which I really can't pass up right now. And for that, I have to keep all the length. So until then, I will have lots and lots of hair to do cool things with. ^_^
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