- It feels like my whole adult life I've had short hair
and the last time that I had long hair was actually
when I was 15 years old in high school.
And so the reason why I wanted to grow my hair out this time
is just to cause a little bit of a difference,
a little chapter break in every thing
and just have a different style.
So now, my hair is actually pretty decently long.
You can see it's all the way down here in the back
and I can fully slick it back and everything.
So today I'm gonna be walking you guys
through my whole hair transformation progress,
which started 16 months ago, February 2017,
and I'll show you each little stage along the way
so you can see a little bit of inspiration and also see
how your hair might look as it grows through the phases.
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Okay, in this first phase of hair growth,
depending on how fast your hair grows,
for the first month, two months, maybe even three months,
you hair's gonna be in that awkward phase.
It's gonna be getting a little bit longer,
but not quite long enough to actually style (mumbles).
It's just gonna be sticking straight up,
and that is kind of a bitch.
So the way that I got around this is I was wearing lots
of beanies and lots of hats where I'd just leave the front
little tuft of hair here out and then I would use my hat
or my beanie to keep my hair pulled back.
That way it would kind of start getting used to slicking
back which was kind of my goal for this whole thing.
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So I've been told this by many a hair specialists,
don't wash your hair every single day with shampoo
because you'll actually strip the natural oils
out of your hair and it'll cause a lot of that shine,
the good natural-looking sleekness to your hair,
it'll go away and it'll become a lot more dead
and frizzy because you're just stripping
all those oils out every single day.
Instead, opt to wash your hair
with shampoo maybe every other week or so.
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Okay at this point, the hair can slick back,
but it doesn't quite have enough length to hold it down,
so the weight isn't there.
So it'll slick back but then over time as it's getting
drier and you're moving around through the day
and getting wind in your hair,
it starts to puff up which to me looks really, really bad.
Having it slicked back
and it's just kind of puffy and stuff,
I don't really like that.
And the way that I worked my way around this style
is that I would wear these crossfit headbands.
These crossfit headbands are so so so useful
because they will keep your hair pulled back tight,
but also it is a cool little style.
You know what I mean?
(mumbles) you have long hair,
but it makes it so you don't have to sit there
and style your hair for like a really long time.
You can just really brush it,
get it wet, put it in a headband,
and you're out and you're ready to go.
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Okay now you've been putting in work.
Okay well you haven't really been putting in work.
You've let your hair grow long enough
and resisted the urges to cut it,
but now it has the length and the weight actually
because of that length to slick it back
without any extra accessories.
So now you can use the headbands.
You can use the hats, the beanies like I mentioned before,
but really a hairband is gonna become your best friend.
When you're just around the house and stuff,
you can put it up out of your face
so you don't have any blasting you in the face and stuff.
But also, you can do it as a style.
So you can either do a full ponytail
and pull it all the way back,
or you can do a man bun on top,
which I know is really scary, but there are ways
to do it that don't make you, you know,
feel like you're violating your man code.
You can actually do a man bun.
It'll look cool, believe me.
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Now I do not use any hair products personally
and the reason why is because I'm acne-prone,
so if I use something like pomade or something with wax,
if I sweat, especially in the gym, that sweat
will bring that product into my pores and I'll have cysts.
I've had this happen many many times and my solution
for this was actually to use the same moisturizer
that I was using on my face, so it's actually face-friendly
and acne-friendly in my hair as it's wet and damp.
This just adds a little bit of a weight to it
so that you can move it around and it'll stay down more
and also just allows you to shape it a little bit
and have it have a little bit hold to it.
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Advantages to having long hair:
Having long hair allows you
to have a lot of different styles.
It allows you to use a lot of accessories
that you weren't able to before.
It adds a little bit of flavor to your face
and plays on the lines of your face,
and it also allows you and your partner
a little something to play with.
Now disadvantages are that you wake up with bed head.
You have to do something with your hair before you go out.
You can't just put water in it and run out.
You have to brush it, do water, slick it back,
some sort of accessory.
You definitely get lots and lots of nots
which is pretty annoying.
The showers take longer and you have to use more
of whatever product that you were using on your hair
because now you have three, four,
five, six times as much hair,
probably three, four, five times as much product.
So there you have it my friends,
a 16-month hair transformation,
a big difference from short hair to long hair.
I wanted to make this video for my own pleasure.
Just thought it would be fun to see myself go
from the shortest to the longest I've ever had my hair.
Also wanted to put this up here for any of you guys
who are trying to look at your own styles and you're like,
(groans) "Do I wanna grow my short hair out into long?
"Do I wanna do kind of the medium thing?"
You can kind of see the progression from my video here
and see whether or not you're gonna agree
with your hair being a bit longer.
Also thought this would be a really cool little hair
inspiration for people who are trying to grow it,
and maybe you're not comfortable with it yet
or you're kind of like fumbling whether
or not you're gonna let it keep growing.
You gotta push through that awkward phase
and it gets way way better as it gets longer.
So just stick on through it.
A lot of you guys have been asking for this video
on my social media all over the place,
especially on Instagram, make sure you follow me there
if you're not following me already, and I finally, finally
made this video for you so I hope that you enjoyed it.
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Team Beyond the Weak, CT!
- Lift heavy or die mirin, motherfucker! (growls)
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- [Man] CT.
- [CT] Lift heavy or die mirin, motherfucker!
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