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My hair looks something like this. I want to grow it out long. How do I plan for it?
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My hair looks something like this. I want to grow it out long. How do I plan for it?

I've never had long hair before, but I want to try it out. I know it's something that will take a while to achieve, so thinking about such a long span of time wants me to have a plan in place, because it will motivate me to see it through. Most of my hair is very straight, however my sideburns and the area around my ears can be curly.

  1. Will it cause any issues down the line that my sides are starting out tight, and the very top is longer? Or should I start totally anew and cut it all down to the same length?

  2. How long am I really looking at to achieve this, timewise? By long hair, what I'm envisioning is that it's a length where I could tuck it all back behind my ears. I don't think I want it so long to be able to put it in a ponytail.

  3. Are there ways to manage the inevitable awkward phase? What maintenance should occur in the time I'm growing it out, and what should I ask my barber to do?

Would love your input so I can have expectations about the process, and get a plan in place to keep me from abandoning this idea.

u/mellamoderek — 4 hours ago
🔥 Hot ▲ 74 r/nycrail

What is the proper etiquette for these stairs?

For me, always stay to the right. Slower people against the wall, faster people to their left. So essentially, the row on the left should always be for descending, and the row on the right for ascending. With the middle row, it can be 2 ways, with people going in either direction on their right, BUT, when trains are coming/going in the station, the middle should be overflow for whichever way the crowd is headed.

u/mellamoderek — 12 hours ago
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Those of you with kids, do they consider the music we grew up with "the oldies"?

Growing up 90s/early 2000s, the music my parents listened to was old, man. Well, it seemed that way. It was a lot of music from the 60s and 70s. A lot of rock and roll. But also stuff like Motown and disco if it was my mom. In the car they often listened to "Oldies 103.3", so that helped attach the notion that it was music from a time past.

But now, music from the 90s is 30 years old, so the time between now and when that music came out is just like the amount of time between my parents' music and the 90s.

Of course, it is hard for me to hear "Wannabe" or "When I Come Around" and think of it as the Oldies, but do your kids?

Also, and this is just my feeling, but musically, songs from the 60s and 70s were (seemed) very different than songs from the 90s. But, I feel like today's music is not always so different stylistically than what we grew up with. Don't you think "Hot in Herre" would be a banger if it were released into the universe for the first time ever tomorrow? It would definitely be all over the place.

Edits: The comments have made me aware that "The Oldies" specifically refers to some mid-20th century genres. My parents often talked of "The Oldies" so I just saw it as a term to mean old music. So what I mean from this post is about the sense of 90s/00s music being "old fashioned".

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u/mellamoderek — 5 days ago