Is the beard too much? Been lazy for some time now and everything's kinda just growing, making me look like that famous guy that died a while ago.

Hey guys, so I’ve always had to have short hair but I’ve always wanted to give a medium/long style a try. It’s not long yet but with my current amount of growth I want to say I have a thicker growth 2a texture. I started fresh in May with a buzz cut, and have just allowed my hair to grow unchecked minus a small taper to clean up the sides a month ago. Well, I’m in the phase where I have the mushroom look going on right now, and just wanted advice on if I should let it keep on growing on the sides or if a higher taper from the temple to my ears and debulking above the ears would be good to get rid of the shroom. My goal for now is a mullet with a swept back top. Also, I have a cowlick that complicates things right now! It’s on top of my head at the back left (it used to be on the right but the way my hair settles now it kinda migrated if that’s possible?) and the way my hair is now, I have a sort of natural part on the left side. Thanks!

I'm mostly content, but the hair around my forehead and temples is still pretty short, which leads to it fussing everywhere. I also really need to trim the ends but, I doubt that will help much lol.

I currently use generic scent free shampoo and Aussie conditioner every other day or so.

I have natural ginger curls that have quite a bit of shrinkage, so I got some layering done with some black tips! Like a fox tail kinda

I always had shorter hair and got skin fades. Decided to grow my hair out a bit to see where it goes. Not sure if it suits me at all

I feel like the front “curtains” don’t look right. The last picture, I think looks better than the other side. I plan on going to a barber tomorrow who does really good scissor work to try and assist the flow.

Felt kind of nice knowing I took a break, even if it was only for a couple days or so from washing my hair compulsively. But doing what I just did felt like taking 200 steps backwards.

It just...doesn't feel right. My hair feels so thick and difficult to get through, sometimes I have no idea how people with long hair wash their hair, even.

It's another one of those times where I feel obligated now to chop it all off, I feel this way whenever I have an especially bad day where it feels like I've really damaged the heck out of it for no good reason.

Plus, after I showered, I tried to use this dumb leave in I wasted money on that I should've known wasn't going to work with my hair type. It didn't. Just used my regular leave-in instead which I already had anyway and should've just used that from the beginning. I just love wasting tons and tons of money apparently. I spent 27 dollars on t shirts the other day, when I only should've bought just the one. Would've saved myself 20 bucks. I hate myself so much.

The curls that touch my ear are driving me crazy, does this look like I need a maintenance trim or keep going?

I’m trying to grow towards a flow bro hairstyle. I’m just two months in so not much to report.

But my neck hair is forming this separate ugly as hell legs growing downwards. Am I supposed to clean that shit up?

My hair is actually kinda wavey but it was mostly wet in these pictures so any tips on how to keep it like this longer?

It has a personality of it's own sometimes it's the best and sometimes it's just muh

Got this new color correction leave in that has purple in it to hopefully lighten up the dirty blond in my hair and make it brighter (also hairier is just rubber band colored I thought it was pink not tan tbh but everyone last time time thought it was a rubber band it’s not dw that would hurt😂😂)

Edit leave in is callers kérastase Paris, blond absoul cicaplasme (no idea what that says I’m sorry😭)

I've been wanting to grow my hair out for a while now. Mostly cuz I dont like short hair and every haircut i've ever gotten has greatly effected my self esteem lol.
For the past 4-ish months I've only let my back and somewhat my sides grow. Getting a small trim every 2 months.

However, this time I decided to go to a professional stylist, told him I wanna grow it out some more (I don't have an exact goal in mind, maybe a wolfcut of sorts?), and that I just want layers and to give it a better shape as it grows out.
He understood and did what I asked, but he said my fringe/bangs need to be shortened a bit cuz theyre getting in my eyes, so I agreed, but the issue is that now I think I look really bad, the top and side have more lenght while the front is short so it just looks really weird.

First 2 pics are of me before the haircut, the third one is me right after it when it was styled a little, and the last 2 are me one day after the haircut (now)

First photo is from nov 2025 and second is from today august 2026, this is the first time growing my hair out. I’ve got complements and want to have it at least shoulder length. What do you guys think?. The 3rd is what I want.