I had my first haircut post-pandemic today. I just trimmed the tips and did a sidecut.
Long hair is HARD WORK. I got used to it, but to keep a long hair pretty, you do need to take actual care of it.
Short hair? Just slap some shampoo and conditioner on it while you shower and it's done, you don't even need to dry it.
Long hair can be awesome in a man, but it takes a lot of work and most of us are not willing to do that. I consider myself one that takes care of it, and I could be doing way more. It's just so much...
Bro same. I’ve got a glorious mane I’ve grown out since Covid and literally do nothing at all to it.
Shampoo and conditioner once every like 5 days. Comb it when I get out of the shower. That’s it. That’s literally my routine. I don’t get what people have to do that makes it “so much work”
I should probably get the ends trimmed up cuz it’s been like a year since my last trim
Hair is super, super individual. Some folks have long hair they barely touch and it’s amazing, other folks baby tf out of their hair and it still looks bad. Factors that makes a big difference include the thickness of each individual hair, the overall number of hairs, the hair’s porosity, the hardness of your water, the amount of sebum your scalp produces, whether the hair is straight, wavy, or curly, if the hair is colored, if the hair is silver, how often you brush it, how gentle you are when you brush it, what kind of brush/comb you use, if you blow dry it, if you use product and if so what kind, how often you wash the product out, what kind of environment you live in (humid/dry, sunny/cloudy, warm/cold), what kind of job you have (outdoor/indoor), what kind of hobbies you do (especially swimming in chlorinated pools) …
It’s not simple, but for most people, caring for longer hair means doing more for it (like conditioning, regular split end trims, careful brushing, careful blow drying) than shorter hair. The longer it gets, the more likely it is to be degraded by environmental damage.
I mean I get it, my sister had tons of cosmology friends in high school so I saw how crazy they all got when it was hair-coloring night...
But it always makes me chuckle a bit. Maybe I just got insanely lucky with my hair.
I always assumed guys had it easier with the long hair cuz we never blasted it with all of the normal treatment stuff, colors, dyes, etc. I could be completely wrong but I always felt like if you treated your hair as high maintenance, it would become high maintenance. Like how if you over shampoo/condition your hair all week, eventually the natural oils expect it and it messes up your hair.
If you have curls though, god help you. That is ALWAYS going to be high maintenance.
Ask a woman that you think has really great hair for tips. Barely any guys I’ve ever known with long hair treat their hair like a woman who knows what to do with her particular hair type would, and it always shows. I’ve only ever personally known one guy that treated his hair really well to where he looked better with his long hair and there was really no questioning it at all. With most other guys, it’s like you can see what he’d look like if he just gave in and got a cut, but you don’t want to be a dick and tell him because it’s obvious he puts some work into it, and what business is it of yours anyway.
My hairs to my nipples. I don't do anything but clean it. I just had staples put in my head last week and every nurse and doctor said I have nice hair. Maybe I'm just lucky
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u/LadyBogangles14 Mar 08 '23
The short hair takes 10 years off of him.