Hair length

[Einna]

How long would someones hair grow if it was cut really short, like a buzz cut, and then left for 9 years? I don't just mean not cut, I mean left. As in not touched, brushed, washed, etc. I realize it would just be a tangled mass, but how long would it be? I know hair grows slower when you don't keep it healthy and trimmed, and I know it's taken me six years to grow my hair to the bottom of my shoulder blades from my jaw, so my guess is somewhere between the bottom of the shoulder blades and the small of the back would be pretty close to right. Right?

[Tundra]

I'd say the small of the back... but most people's hair has a 'limit' that it grows to. I haven't cut my hair since i was about 7. Mine's to just above the small of my back when it's straight. And thats the longest it's ever grown.

[Einna]

Wow...so I got it right?
*Backflips*
:D :D :D

[Tundra]

I think so. Well, obviously mine is like, combed and washed and so forth...
This person's hair might LOOK shorter because of the tangles though.
Oh, something about mine, for some reason it's shorter in the front.

[Einna]

I think the shorter at the front thing's just cause you got hair growing further down the back of your head than you do the front.
Hehe...I just got a funny mental image though...the hair question is for my main character, Danuin, 'cause when they first find him he's been simering crazily in a jail for nine years. I think his hair would be like...Va-BooM! Huge! Sticking out in every direction afro style hair. Or dreadlocks. Maybe I'll give him dreadlocks to appologize to Frankie...sorry, one of my mates. She hates me 'cause I made Danuin nasty for parts of the books. Hehehe. :twisted: I'm evil.

[Gholam]

Well in the space of eight months my hair went from a number 4 buzz cut (4mm I think dont know exactly) to my Jawline or just under my ears.

[Sammi]

In the past one and a half years, my hair went from just a couple inches in length to the top of my shoulderblades at the back. It is just barely shorter in the front.

[Ariella]

....I'm saying around waist-length.

And WOW they're gonna have to shave all their hair off when it comes to washing it.

[vindemiatrix]

It depends on the person. A lot of people can't grow their hair longer than mid-back, and some people can grow it so long that they can sit on it. Really you could pick any length, and he could almost certainly have hair that length in nine years. However, if he hasn't washed it for nine years, he'll almost certainly have to cut it all off again when he comes out.

[purplehaze]

A little off-topic but wrt limits that's true. My hair only ever grows to my shoulder blades at most. And that takes a LONG time!

[moses]

i know a couple of people that have hair down to there knees.... :? it doesn't look very good

[not_your_pixie]

I have my hair cut above my ears ( never shaved it though) quite a few times and in a year, if left uncut will grow past my waist.....then My hair has always grown fast.....

[snooze]

I'd spent years growing out my hair, it was partway down my back, and then I got it cut to chin length at the beginning of the summer. It's suddenly shot out to near shoulder length and I have no idea how or why, but it never grew that fast when I wore it long. Then again, I kept trimming it so my growing-out bangs could catch up.

[Sulis]

It really is an incredibly personal thing... My hair's pretty healthy, and grows REALLY fast... I had it cut to above my shoudlers, and it was down to my waist 2 years later. Waist-length after 9 years seems sort of short, to me.

However, it is going to get rather matted, and no matter how "long" it is, it's probably going to look at least 1/3 shorter than it actually is.