Great video! I admire your cause in helping out the community by donating your hair. Another thing I have experienced as a guy growing out my hair, is the different reactions you get from people around you. Some people are very supportive, but others give you comments like, "you look like a girl," or "go get a haircut dude." These comments in addition to learning how to maintain and manage long hair for the first time definitely adds some difficulty to our path. But I learned not to mind too much, and instead focused on my goal and my journey. If there are any guys out there trying to do this, I highly recommend it! It's truly rewarding, and it'll go by quick. This video was spot-on, and I hope many people would be encouraged by this. I'm currently 14 inches and still growing :)
@CongregationOfSaints
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Thank you Eric, and kudos for blazing your own trail. Life reminds us that we are subject to criticism regardless of our choices. Doing this or that with one's hair is a great exercise in developing resilience to the trivialities of others' opinions. I have reached another 2 year-mark of sufficient growth to donate again, but I'm inclined to hang on one more year to see what length 3 years will bring...
@bobjohnson6131
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i have coarse thick hair so morning bed hair is chaotic. I've been just using sulfate free shampoo and conditioner then shirt drying it. Applying some hair oil afterwards. My hair comes out looking like a birds nest. Any tips?
@CongregationOfSaints
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Hi Bob, thank you for sharing! Deliberately growing one's hair to unexplored lengths is a very personal experience, so to offer my most sincere response to your inquiry I am going to write more than you were looking for and hope that something in it will be helpful to you. First, I'll disclaim that one's hair care regiment is in many ways a reflection of one's subjective philosophy, so I encourage you to categorize everything that follows as non-objective sentiment. That said - as an overarching narrative, I consider myself to be a product of God and nature. I therefore exercise great skepticism about being marketed artificial products which thrive on demeaning my sense of value as is otherwise inherently derived from those forces. In that disposition, I tend to abstain from most chemical compounds produced by the beauty industry and have used relatively very little of them throughout my entire adulthood. I say this only to convey a general basis for my approach. Meanwhile, in contrast to my suspicions of advertising, I have observed tangible benefits to exercising regularly. My own flavor of that is usually about 1 hour of fairly rigorous cardiovascular biking/running/elliptical which I do most every day. This produces a LOT of sweating which I find very refreshing, but presumably releases a high volume of natural hair oils too. Supplementing that ample perspiration, I tend to enjoy daily showers and most often just use water to thoroughly rinse my hair. On average I probably shampoo and conditioner about once a week, and I use those products in bar form (which is like a bar of soap but formulated for hair) because they are less wasteful and usually made from common natural compounds. Sometimes I go 2-4 weeks without actually using any shampoo, other times I use it many days in a row if I am performing grimy work. Afterward, I dry with a good shake of the towel on my head, though I do it less aggressively than I used to because a beautiful girl whom I love said that method was a good way to constantly break strands. But anyway, "sweating it out" as vigorously as I can and then showering regularly has kept me smelling very clean and arguably even very pleasing to interested parties, since pheromones are a powerful indicator of vitality and biochemical fitness for compatibility. I would describe my hair as thick and fairly easy to tangle, as opposed to silky, smooth, and easy to caress. It is not curly at short lengths, but develops wavy curls along the way and for the most part takes on the volume and body of "locks". I brush it about 2-6 times a month, and win a big clump of strands collected in the brush for my effort. But despite my relatively minimalist approach, I have often been told by female stylist acquaintances that my hair is uncommonly strong, vibrant, and dense, and comparatively grows very fast to astounding length. At present, my hair is bound in a pony tail that reaches to the bottom of my lower back, which is perhaps indeed something since my rugged activities regularly break or pull out hair; top among those hair-damaging activities is raising two young daughters who adoringly insist to clamor all over me. As is perhaps evident, the primary factors that influence my hair care arise from a very particular perspective on natural health, restrained consumerism, and a general dismissal against "caring too much". Sometimes I think my hair looks rad, shiny, and lustrous; MANY other times it looks or feels like a big dumpy mess and I have to figure out how to overcome my vanity and face the day. But in truth I'd say that necessary humility is among the most wonderful insights this hair growing pursuit can offer into the daily reality of women in our community, because less worldly men often expect females to impossibly brandish glorious tresses at every moment (along with flawless everything else). So yes, embrace the struggle if you can! I believe you will discover greater strength and appreciation because of it. That said, it's YOUR hair compadre! Short or long, thick or gone, it's both an amazing extension of your natural self, as well as an irrelevant and expendable accessory! You alone have the privilege to fiddle with it, obsesses over it, or chop it off as YOU see fit. By all means experiment with products, lifestyles and attitudes along the way. Thank you again for your question, I apologize if any elements verged on diatribe, and I hope you gleaned something useful!
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