If you’ve gone from a long hairstyle to a short one, what prompted your decision?

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1. quit a job i had for years and got a new one, so i figured id go into the job with a new short hairdo? idk but i cut it like 6 inches and am trying to grow it back out

2. Longest I have had my hair was boob length.

   Reasons:
   2010: obsession with Alice’s hair from twilight
   2016: sexual assault
   2018: felt like I was finally allowed to
   2019: pixie cut to shaved – for the hell of it

3. I went from hair about halfway down my back, to getting a long bob with half shaved side. I’ve now grown out to past shoulder length and keep the shaved side. I got tired of being confused for a teenager and I really wanted to change up my style. I’m in my late twenties but with my short stature and baby face, I legit get carded for things like lighters and rolling paper lol

4. I got my first pixie in college, I LOVED it! My hair grows very fast so I’ve had it various lengths over the years. My first time, it was a chin-length bob when I cut it off. Had it short for most of college, started growing it again when we moved abroad and I was afraid to get a haircut in a foreign language 🙂

   Had it cut again right before pandemic shutdown, now going on 2.5 years of growth and it’s almost to my boobs. I’ll probably grow it another year and then do the chop again. I have donated to hair charities in the past too.

   I love how light and easy it is. It works well with my face shape, but requires a hair visit every 6 weeks to keep it looking not-scraggly.

   I have thick curly hair but it’s very fine.

5. Medical. 1) I couldn’t physically and emotionally take the energy to wash it, brush it, and keep it okay at a longer length so I had to cut it. 2) The extra weight was causing pain 3) I’m heat intolerant and the added heat from it was making my health issues more severe

   I took it from probably mid back length to above my shoulders. It made my qualify of life better, but I grieved bc it wasn’t really by choice that time. My hair also grows slower than it used to when I was healthier

6. It touched my butt and then I cut it off just longer than a pixie cut

   I live in Florida and have curly hair

7. I had waist length hair when I was younger, then I cut it short, and now I’m almost at waist length hair again. When I cut my hair short, it was slightly above my shoulders, it was due to my hair accumulating damage and becoming thinner. I was under a lot of stress and my hair lost a lot of it’s volume so I decided to cut it short, take care of my health, and grow my hair out.

8. I fried it By bleaching my hair so many times. It was shoulder length and my ends felt like wet spaghetti so without hesitation I went to the salon, told the hairdresser to go as short as we could while still leaving me something to style and boom, pixie hair cut.

   It was fun. I’d do it again if I had to but I’m not gonna do it willingly again without good reason. The grow out period is aaaawful

9. My hair was half way down my back and I thought about trying something new for a long time. Kept it long for my wedding to have the hairstyle I wanted and cut it afterwards into a bob. I liked it and kept it a few years, but because my hair is really thin the bob was a lot more work in the morning than long hair. Grew it out again and now it touches my boobs. I think I’ll cut it a bit soon, but it’ll stay long.

10. I like change. I grow it to my butt, then cut it off at my shoulders. I get bored with my hair.

11. I cut my hair in the beginning of 6th grade. Went from 3 ft to shoulder length. My hair length was long because my mom wanted it long. Hair = wealth, health, and beauty in my culture. So when I cut it (hated maintaining my long hair), she whooped my ass with a flip flop lol.

    Now i cut my hair every now and then. I do prefer shorter hair though since it matches me better and is easier to style (straighten it and BAM, goes with every outfit lol).

12. I went from shoulder blade length to pixie in high school, because I thought it would be easier to manage. I was horribly wrong. Hair has been pretty much back at the original length ever since.

13. The heat. The area i live in gets hot and humid. I was tired, frustrated and hot 🔥 so I said chop it off and leave it long enough for a small ponytail lol half of it went bye bye!

14. Went from long to short at the end of college

    1: MUCH Easier to sleep with shorter hair

    2: Don’t have to spend as much time on it while showering

    3: Feels a lot better having short hair when you live in a hot place

    4: Felt like my long hair was constantly getting stuck in stuff lol

15. I went from hip length to a pixie cut. It helped with my headaches and I didn’t have to do anything with it. Im growing it out now so I can dye jt

16. I’ve done it for years

    When my hair reaches below my chest i get the urge to cut it anove shoulderlenght, then i let it grow again and the cycle resumes

17. I don’t know the exact length of my longest hair, but I did chop off 18 inches for a hair donation when I was in middle school, and then another 7 inches after it grew out again. Also donated hair again (8 inches) before my undergrad degree started. The decision was mainly prompted by either the charitable aspect of donating, a degree of boredom with the current longer hair, difficulty styling, or looking for something to refresh my appearance so that I’d feel more confident.

18. My hair was long enough I would sit on it, in a braid it was still almost to my belly button, and I loved my long hair… it was natural and shinny and healthy and so pretty.

    However, ever since I was little I’ve had long hair – but I usually just threw it in a pony or messy bun because it’s so much work. Honestly I always wanted to shave my head just to see what it would look like, but even the thought of a pixie cut or undercut was terrifying to me because of how long it would take to grow out.

    But, I cut it to my breasts and that was a huge and positive change. Then a few years later after a bad bleach job I said fuck it why not and just shaved my head completely and then bic’d it. I was obsessed!!! I loved having no hair it was 0 work, I felt so cool and amazing and it was freeing. I had used my hair as a shield – literally – for so long and now there was just no hiding. I kept.it shaved for 2 years then played around, pixie cut, mohawk, mullet, I’m growing it out again now though. The craving to throw my hair in a pony every day has never gone away