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wombat1138Yow.
Every ten years or so, I trim my hair to elbow-length; it's grown back to about fingertip-length again, which seems to be its natural limit-- the ends are getting crisp and tangly, and it isn't helping that I have to leave it braided every night to keep it out of the way of the CPAP headgear. Sigh.
Every ten years or so, I trim my hair to elbow-length; it's grown back to about fingertip-length again, which seems to be its natural limit-- the ends are getting crisp and tangly, and it isn't helping that I have to leave it braided every night to keep it out of the way of the CPAP headgear. Sigh.
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on 2008-10-18 03:54 am (UTC)Also am envious that she can get away with washing her hair only twice a year.
oh... geez
on 2008-10-20 12:40 am (UTC)Hair to *fingertip* length? I've only gotten my hair to the length where I could sit on it once - and was about to go crazy. In fact once my hair gets to about my hips I'm raring to get it chopped off and donated.
Haha, I'm almost tempted to try, but generally when it's long enough to donate I already get headaches/my hair feels too heavy and it's too much to put up/stay up.
Wow.
The world record is >18 ft.
on 2008-10-20 04:37 pm (UTC)(Despite the captions, these other pix (http://majorlycool.com/item/super-long-hair/catid/20) can't be her unless the little girl in pink is ~9 ft tall. The big bowl of water in the first pic looks remarkably gacky, though.)
Supposedly your scalp adjusts to the amount of hair-washing you subject it to, since every time you scrub out all the natural oils it has to replace them, but if you don't, then it stops oiling up as much. I'm not really sold on the idea of washing it *that* infrequently, though-- even if you don't get particularly sweaty/oily on your own, it does pick up smells from stuff around you like cooking etc. OTOH I discovered recently that in pre-Meiji Japan, despite the frequent hot baths for the body, people tended to maintain their hair on a daily basis by just combing it (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE1D91539F930A15752C1A960948260&sec=travel&spon=&pagewanted=all) (paragraph 8), and it only got washed about once a month (http://books.google.com/books?id=jbXurIlB_pUC&pg=PA14).