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I had long hair throughout my last year of high school and my first year of university, and I'd never do it again. It was shoulder length by the time i got it cut (to about an inch and spiky). I seem to be the only guy who doesn't like long hair, and the type of women it attracted.
I didn't like the maintenance and how it always got in the way and I especially didn't like how it made me look like a stoner, even when clean and cut nicely and I was dressed formally. I just have that type of face, I suppose, and combined with long hair I looked like a junkie.
When I say I didn't like the women it attracted, that's not strictly true, but I must say that a lot of women were attracted to the hair. They assumed I was some guitar-playing indie kid (which I wasn't) but also that many would go crazy when I mentioned getting it cut. I got sick of it early on but kept it partly because so many people liked it like that and said it looked good. Not so much bowing to peer pressure, just hearing that people liked that look and me thinking that's fair enough. Anyway, when I eventually got it cut a lot of people missed it, they missed the indie-rock shit that was never there in the first place. This was all during my first year at university so there's some room for stupidity and peer pressure and a focus on image.
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