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Nonie, yes that is exactly my hair. i dont have as much extreme shrinkage as you, but the hair just appears the exact same length for the last 1 1/2 years since i big chopped. i only know it has grown when i blow dried this weekend. i was soo upset at first. arrggh. its soo frustrating.
Glamorous_chic because I love shrinkage, I never understand the frustration people have with it. I suppose it's because I don't need other people's opinion or view of my hair to enjoy it. So it doesn't show length. *kanye shrug* That's not a problem at all to me because *I* know what length it is.
I am not growing long hair so that other people can see it but so I can enjoy it and do things with it. If others see it, lucky them but I wasn't growing it for them.
I love that long hair has more styling options and I can enjoy them by stretching my hair even w/o heat into a pony puff, say, or into a beautiful updo. I supposed because flowing hair was never "my thing" (I didn't even play that game of using a towel and pretending it's hair coz I just never identified with hanging, flowing hair--I don't even wear my hair down when I flat iron!) I don't feel a need to have it straight and hanging.
I actually love shrinkage because it keeps my hair up and away from my neck, face and clothes so I don't have product making me feel icky. I also like that I can go from short to long to short all within the same week. Best of all, I love that my true length is kinda a secret that I can spring on people when they least expect it and scare the heck out of them.