You are beautiful. The end.

If I grow out my hair I get a serious case of "mom hair" so it has to stay short. Good luck with yours!

I last trimmed my hair in November and bangs in December. I've since decided to grow out my hair (and bangs!). It can't grow fast enough. Wish there was a pill for that. There's a pill for everything else! Cheers!

Trying to grow out a pixie...it is HELL. My hair is crazy thick & sorta wavy (more like "crooked" than "curly") and at the moment I think I look like a q-tip.

I'm growing my hair out as well, decided to start around October, of course right after I got a haircut. I've had a pixie for 17 years, chopped it all off (little over 12 inches) after my first boyfriend dumped me when I was 16. Since then I've had it not more than an inch long except for my wedding wherein I grew out some bangs to please my mom. I've decided to grow it out because I'm bored and don't want to dye it anymore. I usually do funner colors but I'm about 50% grey now and I LOVE it, (plus I earned this salt, dammit). So I'm lettin' the grey do its thang.
I'm in the phase right now that you are in exactly. Longer sideburns and bangs but I'm keeping the back trimmed to avoid any mullet-lovers' attentions. So I tuck the burns behind my ears usually, occasionally I'll put in product and let the burns do what they will a/k/a flip out.
My daughters miss the funner colors, but this morning when we woke up to frost my 5-year-old proudly exclaimed that the backyard looks just like my hair! I was excited to say she's right.
Good luck to you/us!

"is anybody else going through this process....."

let me tell ya, sweetheart, my last hair cut was more than 16 MONTHS ago!! i. hate. my. hair. i sooooo want a new 'do it's not funny. EXCEPT! now that one of my dearest friends must undergo chemo, i'm even more committed to growing that ponytail to donate; on those days i want to rip it out by the roots, i'm reminded of the hair that falls out by the handful for her...

am i even allowed to have a bad hair day?? it's guilt piled upon guilt.

Going through the same thing. I shaved my head to the skin in December 2010 to support a friend who had to have brain surgery, and have been growing mine out ever since. I've taken a headshot every week since then to document the process.

I'm growing out my pixie crop.

I have to stick about 7 hairclips in my hair to prevent myself from looking like Kevin Costner circa Robin Hood.

(Having birthed no babies, ran no marathons and hunted no bobcats, I'm excited to be sharing a Journey with you, Heather.)

i'm going through this process as well and i've almost had to handcuff my hands behind me so that i don't cut my own hair. the bonus is the pregnancy and wackadoo prenatal/hair growing vitamins. the not-so bonus is that my hair is HUGE and mega wavy. i can only hope that i don't give in to the desire to chop it all off after this baby is born... then again, i'm not exactly logical postpartum.

here's a link to my latest mane/fro picture... http://www.mybottlesup.com/2011/12/according-to-my...

good luck. patience is not a virtue of mine.

Yup! I am doing this as well! I have my next trim on Wednesday and I will post Part Two of my series then.

http://thedabblist.typepad.com/the-dabblist/2011/1...

Warmly,

Elizabeth

A few years ago... I was 22, I think, just out of college ... I was really into curling my extremely thin and straight hair to make it wavy. It took a lot of work.

My mom heard about this new, supposedly "revolutionary" type of semi-perm that was designed for hair like mine, to make it wavy, just like how I was styling it at the time.

I was NOT buying it, but my mom, her friend, and her friend's hairdresser convinced me to do it over drinks one night.

So in a couple weeks I have an appointment with the stylist I met (who assured me she was a pro at this) to get this perm done. GOD, A PERM. WTF WAS I THINKING.

Anyhow, the stylist starts snipping and chopping away at my hair first, and I'm all, "Wait, how come you're cutting it? I want to look like I have more hair, not less." And she's all, "Don't worry! I am cutting your hair to look BETTER when wavy! This will help!" So she continues to give me the Rod Stewart feather look.

Then comes the 2 hour perm process.

It ends...

AND MY BEAUTIFUL DARK BRUNETTE HAIR IS FUCKING ORANGE FROM THE CHEMICALS.

AND NOT WAVY.

JUST AN ORANGE FRIZZ FEATHERED BALL.

I cried so hard, people... I cried so hard. Couldn't hold it back. I felt guilty and immature, but good god, my hair looked awful.

The stylist, getting upset with guilt herself, is babbling, "I don't know what happened! Oh no, oh no! I'll fix it, and you definitely don't have to pay for this!"

As soon as she said she wouldn't be charging me, I was out of that chair like a pop rocket. I drove home erratically through my veil of vain tears, and when I got there and burst through the door, still crying, the first person I encountered was my nephew, about 8 years old at the time.

He was very concerned about how upset I was, and I calmed down enough to tell him that I didn't like my new haircut.

"It's OK, Aunt Lauren, I like it," he said soothingly, patting my head. "You always look so pretty."

My heart melted.

"But it smells stinky like eggs," he continued, scrunching up his nose.

God I love that kid.

~FIN~

Yes! But I started from scratch, because that's how I roll. I went through chemo last summer, so my hair is just now growing back in crazy swirls and curls. I had to comment, because I was just talking about this very thing on my FB reader page: www.facebook.com/pages/Sarah-Addison-Allen/3639504...

My hair was almost as short as yours when I decided to let it grow out long enough to donate. I'd always wanted to have really long hair at least once in my life but never got past the awkward cut-this-shit-OFF phases of growing it out. I thought have a worthy goal would help, and it has.

That was in September 2008. As the layers grew out, I had them cut off because I wanted it all to be one length. This photo - http://www.flickr.com/photos/30580050@N05/6349130294 - is my hair as of about 6 weeks ago. The length you see there is what had been my bangs and the areas framing my face a little over 3 years ago - maybe about 2" long then.

Since I want to keep some length after I cut it to donate, I still have a couple more months to go. I'm hoping it'll be "ready" by March sometime but it may take a little longer.

So that's how I went from super short to approaching my waist - doing it with the goal of donating it. Oh, also? Telling people that's what I was doing when they commented on having never seen me with anything other than super-short hair. I figured if I told people my motivation, I'd be less likely to get it chopped off when it became an inconvenience. That's working so far.

I will say that now I totally understand people who go after their own hair with office scissors sometimes..,

I thought, for a brief hot moment, that I would grow my hair out. Got it to here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1015045610...

Then promptly cut it. That shit was driving me NUTS.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1015047840...

*wondering if those links even work*

Whoa. I totally give you credit for making the money you do by blogging about growing out your hair. Ain't America great?