The Definitive Answers to your Questions on Long Men’s Hair!

The long-haired world to a to-be long-haired guy can be confusing. I see this all the time at our barbershop: folks wanting to grow their hair don’t know how to start or what to do.

Even worse is when their heads are so full of long-hair myths that they give readily up on their rock-star-like long mane dreams. That’s not good, and that’s what this website is all about: to give you guys all the knowledge/information/advice/tips on sporting an epic head of long locks.

What is to now follow is a FAQ guide on long hair for men. At the barbershop, I encountered many questions on long hair that are asked by our customers ad nauseum (i.e. over and over again), so I want to publish this guide with many of the questions (and their answers) that I’ve gathered over the years by being a long-haired barber. Moreover, I’m happy to keep updating this FAQ guide with more questions and answers on long men’s hair as more questions come along.

And, of course, you’re more than welcome to ask questions in the comment-section below this guide if you happen to have a particular question that you’ve yet to find an answer to.

Now that we’ve gone through the preliminaries to this FAQ guide, it’s time to get to the meat of it: Long Hair Answers for Your Long Hair Questions! Here’s the list of questions (with their respective answers) listed; you can also click on each listed question if you want to go directly to its answer:

• Can I grow my hair, as a man, just as long as a woman can?
• So can I ask my mother, sister, wife or any other females for advice an tips on long hair?
• Bro, I can’t grow my hair longer than shoulder length!?
• Can I grow my curly hair long?
• Can black men have long hair and/or grow long hair?
• What hair products do I need to grow my hair long?
• Should I avoid using a fine-tooth comb or hair brush if I have long curly hair?
• Ok then, let’s get to the point: how do I grow my hair long?
• Wow, I hadn’t thought of all of that and it’s starting to make me nervous. Can you tell me the benefits of being a long-haired dude before I completely trash my long-hair endeavors?
• Which are the best hairstyles for long men’s hair?
• Hang on, so you’re telling me that my face’s shape isn’t something to consider for my long hairstyles?
• How about hair-styling tools for long-haired males?
• Can I train my hair as a male? I’ve heard some hairdressers and women say that training one’s hair is possible
• Can I color, dye or highlight my long hair?
• Well, I do dig the Willy Wonka hairstyle, what do you think about Johnny Depp’s Willy Wonka hair?
• Does a beard look good with long hair? Will sporting a beard with long hair make me look too scruffy?
• Will I look like a woman if I have long hair as a male?
• Can old men have long hair?
• Can young boys and children have long hair?
• What are the best websites for long men’s hair?
• Got more questions on long hair for men?

I hope that you enjoy (and embrace) this guide, my fellow long-haired/to-be-long-haired folks!

Can I grow my hair, as a man, just as long as a woman can?

Believe it or not, I do get this question asked frequently. The short answer is Yes; the long answer is, why would you even think that you would not be able to grow your hair as long as you want it to grow, dude?

Men’s hair and women’s hair are identical in just about every facet concerning their biology. Sure, men have to deal with male pattern baldness (i.e. male hair loss) and men secrete more follicle sebum than women, but, in the overall scheme of things, men’s hair and women’s hair are equal.

So, next time that you see a lady sporting some astonishingly-long mane and you want to emulate that hair length, then do rest assured that you too can “potentially” grow your hair as long as hers, which brings on the next question.

So can I ask my mother, sister, wife or any other females for advice an tips on long hair?

Without a doubt! The immense majority of females have grown their hair to a long length at least once during their life. Considering that the hair-growing process is a long one and much is learned about one’s hair during such process, it’s only normal that many women have a thing or two to teach you about your own long hair, especially if you’re new to growing your mane.

In the grand scheme of it all, women are great resources to (nicely) exploit in your quest for your long-hair goals; after all, growing and maintaining women’s hair is practically the same as growing and maintaining men’s hair. Just make sure that you’re asking them nicely and that you leave the ego at the door; for some reason, some men cannot put up with having a woman telling them things that they don’t know. Don’t be one of those childish dudes who won’t take advice from a female and do listen to your mother, sister, wife, girlfriend or any female who has grown her hair long.

Bro, I can’t grow my hair longer than shoulder length!?

Right, men’s hair has an average lifespan of two to eight years. What does this mean? That the approximately 100,000 hair strands in you scalp will fall off (i.e. shed) at anytime between two to eight years.

To understand the above, we need to go back to the unique biology of hair. Each individual human hair strand, in both men and women, goes through a life cycle consisting of three phases: anagen phase, catagen phase and telogen phase. Each phase is marked by a distinct set of intrinsic events that occur to a hair strand and which, altogether, make up the genetically-determined life cycle of the hair strand.

Anagen phase

Also known as the “growth stage” in men’s hair, the anagen phase is the phase in which a hair strand grows continuously as it is being produced in its follicle. Unlike most people think, hair actually grows from its root (i.e. bulb) in the follicle as the follicle keeps adding building blocks of protein to the hair’s bulb. The action of adding more building blocks to the hair’s bulb is what causes the vertical growth of the hair strand as well as the strand’s thickness.

The anagen phase in men lasts two to eight years and it allows a hair strand to achieve its terminal length; the hair keeps growing during the anagen phase until the body signals the follicle to cease production (and thus any further growth) of the building blocks for the hair strand.

Catagen stage

As the body signals the follicle to stop producing more of the hair strand, the follicle starts to shrink in size so as to render itself non-productive and sterile. As the follicle shrinks, the bulb (i.e. base) of the hair strand is pushed up and out of the follicle so as to prepare the follicle for the next and third stage of its life cycle: the telogen phase. The catagen phase of hair lasts two to four weeks and is progressive (i.e. not abrupt). At any given time, about one percent of your total hair is going through the catagen stage.

In layman’s terms, the hair follicle wants to stop its hair-manufacturing and get rid of the hair strand that it has been manufacturing non-stop for two to eight years, and the way for the follicle to get rid of the hair strand is to shrink and “spit out” the hair strand. Incidentally, the hair strand does not become de-attached from the follicle during the catagen phase; the hair strand simply stops growing and reaches its fully-terminal length as the hair strand is pushed up. This is why some people report that they were experiencing some great hair growth and, out of a sudden, they started shedding lots of hair strands (with the shedding of hair being the direct effect of the telogen phase).

Scientists are still not 100% sure on the exact reason for the catagen phase of human hair, but it is widely believed that the catagen phase is simply a transitioning phase to prepare the hair strand for its temporary resting state (i.e. the telogen phase). Basically, the catagen phase is what stands between the anagen phase (i.e. hair-growth phase) and the telogen phase (i.e. resting phase).

Telogen stage

Once the hair’s follicle has shrunk to its final (shrunk) size, the follicle is now to remain dormant anywhere from one to five months.

At some point in the follicle’s resting period, the follicle will soften up, preparing the follicle for a new hair strand to product. The softening of the follicle and its awakening are what cause the catagenic hair strand to be further pushed up and completely “kicked out” from the follicle, causing the hair strand to become de-attached from the follicle and fall off; this is what causes hair shedding.

Again, in layman’s terms, the telogen phase of human hair is the period in which the follicle takes some rests so as to get ready to produce a new hair strand and discard the previously-produced hair strand.

The telogen phase is critical in the healthy state of a male’s hair as each follicle in your scalp is predetermined genetically to produce a hair strand continuously for two to eight years, which is a metabolic-stressing process. The follicle needs the telogen phase to be able to fully recover from the taxing anagen phase in order to product a healthy new hair strand.

You’ve got two to eight years to grow your hair!

As mentioned earlier, the hair life cycle in men lasts anywhere from two to eight years; likewise, the average hair-growth rate for males is one half on an inch (i.e. one centimeter or 0.5 inches) per month. All of this is dictated primarily by your genes, although your diet and overall health status can impair and shorten both your hair’s life-cycle and your hair-growth rate. With all this said, any male with medium-length hair, as depicted in the following picture, can grow his hair to at least jaw-length.

Medium-length hair is the most-common length at which a male will decide to start growing his hair long; seldom, will a male with short hair have a breakthrough experience of wanting to sport long dangling tresses. It’s very typical for a male with medium-length hair to keep avoiding haircuts just because he can’t be bothered to cut his hair, and, the minute that his hair starts hovering over his eyes, he will get hooked on having long hair. I’ve seen it too many times with our barbershop clients!

Let’s continue with the life cycle of men’s hair: If you happen to have gotten the short end of the genetic stick and your hair’s life cycle only lasts two years, then you can only grow a maximum hair length of 12 inches or 30 centimeters (just below the shoulders), and that’s provided that your health and diet are in good order.

On the other hand, a male whose hair has a life cycle of 8 years and a hair-growth rate of three quarters of an inch (0.75 inches or 1.5 centimeters) will be able to grow a maximum hair length of 72 inches or 180 centimeters (down to the ankles for a six-foot male).

I don’t need to tell your that the hair-length difference between 12 inches and 72 inches is huge, and the above can be the reason for never getting to have your hair longer than shoulder length or for having hair that just grows and grows to no apparent end.

Can I grow my curly hair long?

Oh, here’s another commonly-asked question that I get asked frequently by curly-haired dudes. The answer to this is a big “Yes, of course you can”. Your hair’s life-cycle/lifespan and growth rate is not affected by your hair type, yet plenty of curly males tend to think that they aren’t capable of growing long hair.

To be fair, there’s one particular issue revolving around hair growth that curly-haired guys have against them and that’s their hair shape. As curly hair grows, it does so in a spiraled manner instead of in a straight vertical manner. Thus, due to the many additional curves that curly hair has to take as it grows, it loses a lot of its visual length (i.e. what you can see in the mirror) when contrasted to its vertical length when the hair is pulled and flattened. You can see this by yourself by standing in the mirror and softly pulling and extending any given curly lock on your head with your fingers: notice how your hair becomes “visually” longer as you keep pulling your hair until it is completely flattened. Now let go of your fingers pulling the curly lock and notice how the lock coils back and thus “shrinks” back to its natural state.

Interestingly enough, the visually-shrinking process of curly hair detailed in the previous paragraph is what also causes curly hair to look thicker than straight hair. What a curly lock loses in visual vertical length as it grows, it more than makes up for it by becoming wider as it grows since the circular pattern of the waves, coils and kinks takes up horizontal space. This phenomenon explains why curly-haired men can have very thick-looking and dense-looking hairstyles like the Afro hairstyle which stay upright at long lengths. It’s also the same reason as to curly men complaining about needing so many years for their curly hair to hang down and dangle in curtained hairstyles while still looking visually short (or shorter than the hair’s actual long length).

If this isn’t your first time looking online for information on long hair or men’s hair, then chances are that you will have come across the works of Rogelio Samson, who is best known for his awesome blog called “Manly Curls” and for this two best-selling books: “The Men’s Hair Book” and “The Curly Hair Book”.

Rogelio Samson is a famous hair-guru who sports an impressive mane of curls which has been as long as hip-length; in fact, he currently has his hair at this length as he recently told us during an interview which I will be publishing very soon on this website.

Rogelio Samson has documented everything under the sun on men’s hair and he has published it all on his books and websites. Even better, his uber-long curly mane is a perfect example to showcase that curly-haired males can indeed grow their hair very long and just as long as straight-haired folks.

Here’s a very-interesting video of Samson’s long curly hair which illustrates the very-same concept of curly hair looking shorter than it really is. In the video, Rogelio initially has his hair wet and then, as his curly hair dries over the span of four hours, his curls shrink in length and become wider; this latter state being his hair’s natural state and what all curly guys experience when their hair is drying:

Now, that’s some curly-hair shrinking, don’t you think? Therefore, the smaller visual length of curly (as compared to straight hair) is a natural occurrence that yields no negative magnitude as far as growing curly hair long goes. To put it the easy way: just forget about such minutiae and don’t let any of this discourage you from growing those curls of yours!

Here’s another example of the differences in length when curly hair is at its normal state of curliness versus when curly hair is flattened by straightening it.

In this case depicted above at the barbershop, this client had his curly hair straightened with a hair relaxer (more on that later). Pay special attention as to how the customer’s hair first (visually) looks like it’s short (in the pre-straightened pictures) while the hair (visually) then looks to be of a medium-to-long length in the post-straightened pictures. The visual difference is striking, to say the least!

It’s fair to say, regrettably, that men’s curly hair is more problematic and more difficult to take care of (and thus to grow optimally) than straight hair. That’s how things are, yet, if there’s one person whom you should follow religiously when it comes to curly-hair knowledge (and overall knowledge on men’s hair), then that’d be Rogelio Samson. It’s as simple as that.

Not that you would not get all your needed long-hair wisdom from this site, but Rogelio Samson’s sites (e.g. Manly Curls) and books (e.g. “The Men’s Hair Book”) are the best resources for those of you wanting to know everything that there is to having a great head of curls (and at any length or of any type). Just don’t forget to keep checking this site!

Can black men have long hair and/or grow long hair?

Well, here’s yet another one of those awkward questions that I get at the barbershop, and this question is asked by black males themselves. One would think that the answer to this question was very simple (a big “Yes”) but, somehow, curly-haired males and black males alike have all been brainwashed to think that they can’t grow their hair long.

Part of where the myth of black men not growing their hair long stems from is related to the upbringing of many black males in the United States. An incessantly-common saying by many black females with kinky-curly hair (i.e. a very-common hair type in African Americans) is that their hair takes forever to hover over their shoulders or reach their chests. Many of these women have to resort to straightening their kinky curls with harsh (hair) relaxers which damage their hair over the long term and which contribute to traction alopecia.

Here’s a textbook example of a black female suffering from severe traction alopecia caused by the use of hair relaxers and tightly-combed hairstyles. Sadly, this is a case this is far-too common among African-American women.

If this wasn’t enough, the use of hair weaves, which are widely used by African-American women, is also a cause of traction alopecia as well as an amplifier when combined with other causes of traction alopecia as described in the preceding paragraph to this one. The use of hair weaves is so necessary to some African-American females that they will still wear them despite the weave being in a putrid state due to a lack of long-hair care.

Here’s a recently-chopped weave at the hair salon which belonged to a black female who was losing her hair (i.e. traction alopecia) due to the poorly-attached and severely-damaged hair weave.

The reliance on hair relaxers, weaves, wigs and hair extensions by many African-American women has caused them too many problems and is the reason for many of these females rejecting the notion that African-American men (or women) can grow lustrous long curls. It’s a sad state of affairs when the lack of hair-care knowledge of a portion of the population has fostered myths that impede the long-hair goals of others. By the way, it isn’t just African-American females who use hair relaxers and weaves: plenty of other females from other races in the United States (and internationally) do use these hair relaxers and hair weaves; it’s only that African-American women, in particular, are the most likely to use such hair-modifying tools.

Here’s a set of four before-and-after pictures of a black male with kinky-curly hair at the barbershop who asked to have his hair straightened via the use of a hair relaxer. You can clearly see the outstanding hair-straightening effects of a hair relaxer in the sequence for these four pictures:

So, before you go and think that this issue of hair relaxers and traction alopecia is specific to women and that you, as a male, are immune to it, then I strongly recommend that you digest the set of four pictures I’ve just given you and that you now carefully pay attention to our following barbershop photograph of a male customer who destroyed his hairline due to his long term use of hair relaxers and braided styles like cornrows, which were inadequately braided and were also braided too tightly.

In this customer’s case, the over-tightening of his braided hair during the braiding process caused an extreme form of constant chronic tension on the follicles. Because of this horrendously-tight tension, the follicles finally gave up and the hair stands growing from the follicles were ripped out with no mercy, leaving an obliterated hairline as you can see. This customer did also sport his braided locks as manbraids which is a hairstyle combination of a manbun with braided locks of hair.

When it comes to hair relaxers (by far, the most popular hair-straightening method for African-American women, even when the hair has been fully straightened by the relaxer and because of the palpable damage to the hair strands produced by the relaxer, a female’s hair will not grow very long as the growing hair-strands break with much ease when manipulated slightly so as to style the hair. The breaking of the hair strands from relaxer-induced damage then makes the hair shorter again, which automatically kills any new hair growth achieved over the last weeks or months. Realistically, it’s like getting a (bad) haircut.

Here in the United States, the use of hair relaxers by African-American females is very extended, and hair relaxers have gained notorious names like “creamy crack” due to the inherent need for this hair-straightening product to be applied on a monthly basis on any recent hair growth. As you can imagine, African-American men have experienced the drama and painful experiences of their (female) loved ones that are associated with using hair relaxers, and they (African-American males) too have been able to see first hand how incredibly-complicated kinky-curly hair can be, especially if attempting to grow the hair to a long length.

If you add the earlier-explained shrinking phenomenon of curly hair to the fact that straightened hair (via relaxers) breaks easily, then you’ve now gotten yourself a recipe for never achieving the straight-haired manes of the latest female (and male) celebrities. However, the great news for black folks with kinky-curly hair is that they can grow their hair as long as their genes allow.

When growing one’s curly hair as a black male, the only main thing to adapt differently to straight hair is the use of a conditioner. Conditioners should be used on an almost-daily basis or even on a daily basis. Conditioners lubricate the curly hair strands, which goes a long way in deflecting any chances of developing hair tangles and/or hair knots. Factually, curly-haired males of any race should follow this same principle of frequently using a hair conditioner; this principle isn’t isolated to just black men’s hair care.

The advice in this Frequently-Asked-Questions guide and on the rest of my LongHairGuys.net website is just as useful for black males with long kinky-curly hair as it is for white males with long straight hair. And the slight differences in hair care between long kinky-curly hair and long straight hair have too been documented in this guide and in the rest of the long-hair guides that I’ve published on this site.

Seriously, if you’re a black male, you have it all in you to grow your hair long as you’ve always wanted it to be, plus you have the resources on this website to guide you and aid you throughout your long-hair journey. So have no hesitations and grow that epic mane that you’ve always wanted!

What hair products do I need to grow my hair long?

The beauty (pun intended) of long hair is that it requires practically no hair products at all. You can grow your long mane without using any hair products; the video of Rogelio Samson’s long hair above was taken without him using hair products for weeks, for example. I do recommend, however, that you have a small foundation of hair products to use at anytime while growing your hair long and once you’ve achieved your desired hair length.

To start growing your hair long, you will need the following products:

• Leave-in conditioner: try to use a leave-in conditioner as your main hair-styling product. When you’re growing your hair, you will want it to look natural and be simply styled, and leave-in conditioners achieve this perfectly. Leave the heavy hair-styling for once you’ve achieved your desired hair length.
• Conditioner: use a conditioner every day if possible. And, above all, always use a conditioner when you shampoo your hair! To do this, simply rinse out the shampoo by using water alone while in the shower and, immediately after rinsing out the shampoo, coat your hair with your chosen conditioner.
• Shampoo: while growing your hair long, you should use a shampoo infrequently. A good frequency of shampoo use for men growing their hair long is once every three days. It’s in your interest to find out your most-optimal frequency, though, as factors like sweating a lot or suffering from dandruff can require that you increase or decrease your use of shampoo.
• Styling cream: if you’re still wanting to style your growing mane, then use a hair-styling cream to do so. This type of product works very well to loosely style your hair while achieving some holding strength on your hair so that you hair remains relatively tamable. Because it provides some pretty good natural shine, a styling cream is great for tying your hair back into a man bun or a ponytail with a wet-shiny finish to your hair.
• Wide-tooth comb: use a wide-tooth comb whenever you use a conditioner on your hair. The wide-tooth comb is there to help you remove any tangles and/or knots that form on your hair. Trust me, tangles and knots on your hair will happen sooner or later, and you will want to have a wide-tooth comb as well as a good hair-conditioner nearby.
• Lots of headbands and hair elastics: buy as many headbands and hair elastics as you want, the more the better! You will keep losing them, yet they are very cheap; so it’s all good in the grand scheme of it all. You can buy basic hair elastics (though make sure that they’re metal-fee) or you can get hair elastics with more-convoluted designs.

I’ve gone through the above products in my long hair products guide that I published for men who are growing their hair long as well as for men who already have their hair as long as they want. Study this hair-product guide of mine as it will save you a lot of money down the line since you only need, if at all, a small-albeit-solid selection of men’s hair products for your long mane.

Once your hair is as long as desired, it’s then that you can experiment with hair-styling products that allow you to achieve different textures, shines and shapes.

There is a myriad of long hairstyles that you can try on your long mane at any given time, so the trick is to know which products suit which hairstyles. Take a good look at this hair products guide for men’s hairstyles which highlights the range of hairstyles that are suited for each men’s hair product; this linked guide along with my long-hair product guide above will be all that you need to make your product-purchasing decisions, although there are other guides in this website that are worth reading for your hair-product knowledge too.

Here are the top hair-styling products that you can use to style your long hair as a male:

• Light-hold hair gel and medium-hold hair gel. Sometimes, a medium-hold hair gel will be labeled as being “firm-hold”. Tomato/to-may-to, it means the same.
• Hair mousse.
• Light-hold pomade. Only get water-based pomades; do not get oil-based pomades or petrolatum-based pomades.
• Hair clay, which is a type of light-hold hairstyling wax.
• Hair spray.
• Styling cream (use it just as you used it while you were growing your hair long).
• Leave-in conditioner (the same pattern applies as with styling creams).
• Natural oils and/or natural butters such as shea butter, coconut butter, argan oil and olive oil. These are specially-useful hair products for curly men along with hair mousse and leave-in conditioners. With natural and butters, always strive to get the raw and unrefined form of any of these oils and butters. If this isn’t possible, then try to, at least, get hair products that contain a high percentage of these natural oils and butters.

You can also start using more-intricate products for hair-care as said products will help you to keep your long hair looking great for the many years ahead. These are the hair-care products that you can use to maintain your long mane as lustrous and as epic-looking as you’d ever get:

• Chelating shampoo.
• Clarifying shampoo.
• Deep conditioners.
• Hair masks.

Again, I’ve explained and detailed all the above-listed hair-styling products and hair-care products in my guide on hair products for long-haired men.

Should I avoid using a fine-tooth comb or hair brush if I have long curly hair?

Yes, do not use either a fine-tooth comb (i.e. regular men’s comb) or a hair brush on your long curls! Doing so will inevitably have you pulling your hair so hard that you’re bound to rip out healthy hair strands from your scalp. By the same token, you will be deforming your naturally-shaped curls and will be turning your curls into frizzy out-of-shape locks that will make you want to chop off your curls. Want to know what brushing your curls will look like? See this picture:

The gentleman in the picture is a barbershop customer who has a good-looking head of kinky curls ever since upping his hair-care game (as explained in this site). However, he decided to use a hair brush on his tightly-coiled curls just to see what the commotion was about with using hair brushed on long curly hair. As perfectly illustrated in his picture, all that he got was a very frizzy unshaped curly mane that took three days of using conditioners, deep conditioners and hair masks to return to its naturally-curly and good-looking long mane.

As a contrasting example to the previous example of frizzy hair caused by using a hair brush, here’s another curly dude with long hair who, this time, has never touched a fine-tooth comb or a hair brush for as long as he has been growing his curls from a buzz-cut haircut:

If you ever doubted that using a hair brush or a regular men’s comb for your long curly hairstyles would not do you any bad, then this picture will remove any and all doubts. As a side note, I will say that brushing your long curly hair (with a hair brush) for weeks at a time will damage your curls irreparably, meaning that your curly hair will look bad and frizzy permanently. So just say no to hair brushes and fine-tooth combs, and only use a wide-tooth comb if you feel like styling your long curly tresses.

Ok then, let’s get to the point: how do I grow my hair long?

You thought that I had skipped that question, right? After all, how could I not deem such a question a priority since each and every potential long-haired dude asks this exact same question? The answer, my dear readers, is very simple.

Ok, ok, I’m kidding with that picture of Donald Trump’s fabulous long blonde hair and his passion for Elvive’s hair products. Let’s get back to being serious here, folks.

To grow you hair long, all that you need is patience. There, I said it. Forget about hair products, hairstyles, manbuns and hair-aesthetics. Instead, ask yourself these questions if you want to grow your hair long:

• Am I willing to go through 12 to 30 months of waiting time just to be able to sport dangling locks that caress (and sometimes, bother) my eyes, mouth and beard and which sometimes get caught in the most random objects like jacket zippers?
• Do I really want to wait so long so as to be able to sport some of those trendy man braids or man buns?
• Do I foresee any future impediments to growing my hair or to having long hair such as getting a new job or joining the military?
• Am I ready to invest an extra amount of time, effort and money on my long hair than I already do on my short hair or medium-length hair?
• Do I, without a single iota of a doubt, want to be a long-haired guy or am I just chasing a hairstyling trend such as the man-bun hairstyle trend or an evergreen male-hair trend like the dreadlocks hairstyle?

The questions that I’ve just listed are the ones that you need to be seriously and honestly answering. There’s no point in spending the next 12 months growing your hair long, only to find out that your girlfriend hates your long hair and has threatened you with leaving you if you don’t cut your hair short. Oh, such (extreme) scenarios do happen; I’ve heard enough long-hair-cutting stories throughout my barber career to make the burliest of men cry. Here’s a photograph of a barbershop customer whose girlfriend had pretty much imposed on him that he had to cut his growing curly hair.

It really is a sad day for all long-haired men worldwide when one of our kind goes down because some selfish woman has convinced our long-haired brother to part ways with his growing/long manly mane. Don’t fall prey to this type of mental manipulation, folks: it is exceptionally common and no woman is worth being with if she cannot/does not respect your desire to have long hair!

Myself, being a long-haired dude (and a barber, to boot!) and having seen thousands of long-haired scalps, I can attest to the following characteristics and factors that, were you to satisfy them, will ensure that you happily reach your hair-growing destination and that you remain one of our kind (i.e. long-haired dudes) for eternity (OK, I’m kind of joking here with the “eternity” thing; let’s just say that you remain one of us for as long as you want):

• You have plenty of tenacity.

• You’re fully motivated, inspired and dedicated to growing your hair long.

• You can see yourself with long hair, can imagine yourself with long hair and you’re dead-serious about having long hair.

• You’re happy leading the way, your way. This is also known as “going against the herd” and if you need social validation to make decisions in your life, then you’re going to have a tough time leading your own way, which undermines your ability to stay put during your mane-growing period and also once you’ve become a long-haired dude.

• You can get your creative juices flowing when you’re required to think outside the box during your hair-growing journey (e.g. I forgot my hair elastics at home, how do I now keep my hair from dangling in the wind?). My goal with this website is to give you everything needed for you to sport the best mane of locks that you will ever want, so keep this website as your go-to reference so that you’re always full of creative ideas to apply (pun intended) to your hair. As I wrote earlier, another excellent resource for long men’s hair is the book titled “The Men’s Hair Book” by Rogelio Samson; this book is a must-have for any long-haired male (I keep several copies of the book in my barbershop for customers to read while they’re there).

• You are pretty sure that there won’t be any adversities for the next 12 to 30 months that will force you to have to cut your hair short. I’m talking of controlled adversities such as changing up your mind about growing your hair, the chance of being promoted or employed in a corporate job, succumbing to peer pressure from family members or friends, etc. It goes without saying that personal adversities such as a life-threatening illness (e.g. cancer) or male-pattern baldness are obviously not implied.

• You can afford to spend 10 to 15 more minutes in the bathroom every single day than you currently do. This is an average time for your daily long-hair needs; it can be much longer if you want or even slightly shorter, but, if you do not expect that you will be able to make room for an extra 15 minutes of your morning-ritual time, then you’re going to experience some drama and inconvenience stemming (no pun intended) from your long hair.

• You do not care what others may say about your physical looks. It comes with the territory: you will face strong opposition in all kinds of forms (and even bullying) while growing your hair long and once you’re a long-haired dude. If you don’t have thick skin, you’re likely to crumble under the generalized social pressure of having short hair as a male. Thankfully, trendy hairstyles like the man bun and the top knot have reduced some of the long-hair stigma that long-haired males have experienced since the 1960s in Western countries, but it is an absolute fact that you, with your long hair, will still be the social exception to the rule and not the norm.

• You really want to, deep inside of you, be a long-haired dude. Now, I’m not saying that there’s anything inherently wrong with wanting to grow your hair long so as to sport the latest hairstyle trend, but you stand a much higher chance of successfully pushing through (and enjoying) your hair-growing journey if you have a burning desire to be a long-haired guy. Notice how I say a “long-haired dude” and not “have long hair”.

So, what are your answers to the questions that I’ve typed and do you genuinely believe that you have what it takes to become a long-haired guy?

Wow, I hadn’t thought of all of that and it’s starting to make me nervous. Can you tell me the benefits of being a long-haired dude before I completely trash my long-hair endeavors?

Absolutely. Becoming a long-haired dude is something that you must give a try to at least once in your life. The feeling of freedom and self-expression that you will experience from being a long-haired dude is just incredible. I don’t think that there are any words that I could use to do justice to what you feel once your hair is dangling in the winds.

The power of being yourself, of accomplishing your goals, of bettering yourself, of being in control of your future, and so much (much!) more. And, despite the powerful emotions that long hair will make you feel, it (long hair) will also show you wisdom and teach you humbleness and humility in an extraordinary (and almost magical) manner. And, yes, you may think that I’m some kind of flower-power hippie spouting some mystical long-hair nonsense, but I guarantee you that you will feel these strong emotions once you’ve become a long-haired male. Sure, you may not feel them as strongly as other long-haired dudes do, but you will feel them.

By the way and just as a final piece of advice, if you’re already associating hippies and long hair with some type of pre-conceived polarizing connotation, then you probably won’t last too long in your hair-growing journey. Seeing long-haired men in a negative light and/or regarding long hair in males as something unequivocally wrong or bad and yet still wanting to grow your hair long is a very good start to a self-destructive path to growing your hair (i.e. you won’t make it too long before you’re chopping off your growing mane and going back to non-long hair). And hippies are a cool bunch, just so that we’re clear.

Which are the best hairstyles for long men’s hair?

Let’s get down to business. So, you’ve already read the preceding sections on this guide and you’re now itching to either grow those locks of yours or you already sport a well-cared head of long tresses and you’re interested in new hairstyle looks. Ergo, it’s time to talk about long hairstyles that will suit you and that are feasible options for your long-term goals.

Long hair is extremely pliable and malleable; this is because, the longer the hair is, the less resistance it has to stressing inputs (i.e. styling it). That’s great news; however, long hair is very heavy too, which means that you cannot shape your hair via its styling. If you’re looking for a cute Faux Hawk hairstyle or for a Bieber-inspired brush-up hairstyle with long hair, then you’ve gotten yourself the wrong type of hair length.

Long hair can be worn in two main forms: down or up. A “down” hairstyle simply implies that the hair is left to hang down and isn’t tied; on the other hand, an “up” hairstyle (i.e. an “updo”) implies that the hair has been tied and secured, even if it’s still hanging down as with a ponytail hairstyle.

There are dozens and dozens of long hairstyles for men and they are available to you regardless of your hair type (for the most part). I’ve published a very-popular guide on long hairstyles for men that is referenced daily by thousands of males who want to acquire specific knowledge on hairstyles that suit their preferences. As a long-haired dude or as a potential long-haired dude, you must study my long-hairstyles guide as you will benefit plentifully from it and you’ll be able to extend your range of doable hairstyles.

When it comes to hairstyles for long-haired men, you’ve got to forget about face shape, hair color, skin color and all that nonsense that has been perpetuated by many hairdressers over the years.

The only thing that matters when choosing a suitable long men’s hairstyle (or haircut) is your hair type. It’s that simple. Even simpler is the fact that men’s hair types are limited to four types and that your own hair type will be one of the following four hair types:

• Straight hair
• Wavy hair
• Coiled hair
• Kinky hair

It must be duly noted that men’s curly hair, as a whole, is not a hair type, but, rather, curly hair is a “hair texture”. Curly hair can have different forms of expression, and said forms are wavy, coiled and kinky. Ergo, wavy hair, coiled hair and kinky hair are three curly-hair types and three hair types out of four hair types for men (the other men’s hair type being “straight hair”).

This hair-type categorization is one that has been acknowledged by barbers around the world and it’s one that I also use. This particular way of dividing men’s hair into four hair types is also known as the ISEZ hair-type system and it was developed by none other than Rogelio Samson, among other hair-specific methods and systems that he has pioneered and developed over the years.

There’s more to men’s hair types than just what I’ve written, and you can get an extensive and extremely-useful insight on your hair type by either reading Rogelio Samson’s “The Men’s Hair Book” or by following his works. See why I recommended earlier that you follow this dude as one of your long-hair references?

Choosing the best long hairstyle for you is as easy as identifying your hair type and then choosing those long hairstyles in my aforementioned guide that you fancy the most and which suit (more or less) your particular hair type. I’m not even kidding; that’s how easy it is for you to choose great long hairstyles.

No need to wind your head up with face shape, eye shape, jawline shape, symmetry/asymmetry, personality, music taste or even your aura (yes, I’ve heard some new-age hairdressers recommend choosing a hairstyle based on your aura… Again, I’m not kidding).

Hang on, so you’re telling me that my face’s shape isn’t something to consider for my long hairstyles?

Using one’s face shape as one of the main variables in choosing a men’s hairstyle is a time-wasting mistake that has been regurgitated by uniformed (yet good-willing) hairdressers for years and years. There’s no need at all to consider your face’s shape when choosing the best hairstyle for you because the conventional notion of using face shape only uses the full frontal shape of your face.

If you were to take into account how you look so as to choose a good hairstyle, you’d have to take into account the whole head, including the shape of the face from a three-quarter angle and from a profiled angle. Not just that, but you’d also have to use both sides of the head independently to asses the potential aesthetic of a hairstyle on you. And don’t forget to include and evaluate your facial symmetry, or, better yet, your facial asymmetry as most men have some grade of facial asymmetry (ever heard the saying of “having a good/handsome side to one’s face”?).

Going back to one’s head as a whole, your skull’s shape, ears’ shape, eyes’ shape, mouth’s shape and your facial proportion would have to be added in to the basket of variables to consider if you truly want to choose a hairstyle based on your physical traits. See how stupidly complicated things are getting?

Simply put, facial shape alone is not a good indicator to use for selecting suitable men’s hairstyles and it can easily lead to choosing unsuitable, inconvenient and/or unpreferred hairstyles just because someone somewhere has stated that an oval-shaped face benefits the most from tapered haircuts.

Last but not least, men’s faces cannot be boxed into categories simply because the anatomical face is made up of many bones, muscles and tissues that can make the face look rounder around the chin yet vertical across the outline of the middle face; all while the forehead is shaped as a triangulated rectangle. How’s that looking so far as a supposedly-predetermined facial shape, huh?

Listen up, I’m a barber and I used to do this same mistake many years ago until I realized that the best hairstyles for a male are those hairstyles that he (the male) fancies the most; there’s absolutely no need to turn this into rocket science. Even highly-recognized hair experts like Rogelio Samson completely forego the use of facial shape when determining optimal men’s hairstyles. Go with your personal preference when choosing a short/medium/long hairstyle and call it a day; you’ll be saving yourself from one-too-many headaches.

How about hair-styling tools for long-haired males?

Sooner or later, you will come across products like flat irons (i.e. hair straighteners), hair dryers, curling irons and hair clippers (the latter you’ve probably come across in the past). All in all, you do not need any hair-styling tools; just about all long men’s hairstyles are very easy to achieve and wear, so you don’t need any hair products outside of the very-basics that I’ve described earlier on this FAQ guide.

Hair-styling tools are most popular among females with medium-length hair and long-length hair, so there’s no doubt that such styling tools are useful and work as expected. As it matters to you, anything that works for a female’s mane will also work for a male’s mane; don’t let anyone fool you into thinking otherwise.

I’d go as far as to say that men’s hair is more delicate than women’s hair; yep, you’ve heard that right. I’d have to go on a very off-track tangent to discuss the reasons for male hair needing a more careful approach to hair care than female hair, and this isn’t right now the place nor the time (perhaps I could publish a future article on this). The take-home message is that you can use hair products that females use and you will get the same expected results that women get.

I had to write this last paragraph because I want you to know that using hair-styling tools isn’t an effeminate thing or an emasculating endeavor. By all means, I don’t see John Wayne ever wanting to use a flat iron on his short hair back in the 1960s, but that doesn’t mean that using a flat iron is a less-masculine act than chewing tobacco. Remember, being a long-haired dude requires that you go about your business as you want to and not as others want to. Heck, you can stick blue flowers in your long mane if that’s what you truly want to do; just don’t get hang up on what others think of you being a long-haired dude.

So, after my introduction on how hair-styling tools aren’t estrogenic compounds (i.e. you won’t lose your manliness by using them) and how you should use whichever hair products you want to use to irrespective of what others may say, it’s now time to tell you about all hair-styling tools for long-haired guys.

Hair dryer

A hair dryer will allow you to dry your hair faster and achieve a bigger volume of hair than you’d otherwise be able to achieve via other means.

A good hair dryer should be ceramic-based or titanium-based and it should ideally be ionic. Why? Because regular cheap hair dryers will cause a lot of frizz on your hair especially if you have curly hair!

A ceramic-based or titanium-based ionic hair dryer will instead tame any natural hair-frizz of yours and make your hair shine a little bit more. These hair dryers aren’t cheap, but they are life-savers for guys who either want to improve the aesthetics of their hair (e.g. have more-voluminous hair or shinier healthier-looking hair) or who want to dry their hair faster while taming their naturally-frizzy hair.

Hair clipper

As a long haired-dude, you will rarely need a hair clipper unless you have an undercut haircut or undershave haircut.

Usually, men with undercut haircuts will be sporting man-bun undercut hairstyles or top-knot undercut hairstyles, so, if you’re sporting such hairstyles, then having a hair clipper will be not just very convenient but it will also allow you to save a lot of money down the road as you do your own haircut maintenance.

A perfectly-possible use of a hair clipper for a long-haired guy is to buzz/clip the hairline across the scalp and keep the hairline on the nape squared. At our barbershop, we usually square up our long-haired customer’s hairline so as to improve the aesthetics of their long hair from behind, as an unkempt neck hairline can destroy an otherwise-good-looking long hairstyle.

Flat iron

Flat irons have remained as unknown obscure hair-styling products for men until recently. This is because flat irons have been commonly associated with women and women’s hair. The increasing trend of hair care for men has done a lot to knock down lots of mumbo-jumbo myths and false notions surrounding men’s hair, and, while there’s still a lot left to knock down, we’re at a stage where a male using a flat iron to straighten his hair is seen as a socially-accepted errand.

Flat irons are very-useful styling products for long-haired men because these hair-styling products allow a male to have a wider variety of long hairstyles available to him at any one time. Flat irons fully straighten curly hair (i.e. curly hair becomes straight hair) by using heat as a structure-changing stressor on a male’s hair; curly hair is rendered straight in seconds by running the flat iron through the hair.

A flat iron is used by clipping it to a lock or several locks of one’s long curly hair. The flat iron is clipped at the base of the lock/locks and is run through the lock/locks right till the tip. One can decide to use a flat iron on all of his curly hair or only use a flat iron on several curly locks only for a tousled hairstyle look.

For those of you unaware of what flat irons are truly capable, here are two before-and-after pictures that show a barbershop customer who used a flat iron on his wavy hair as instructed. Here’s him with his naturally-curly (i.e. wavy) hair prior to using a flat iron.

The next picture below is him after he straightened his long curly hair with a flat iron. He did it the right was as was instructed by using a heat-protecting spray on his curly hair before he went ahead with completely straightening his curls.

As with hair dryers, you want to use a ceramic-based or titanium-based flat iron. Additionally, you must spray your hair with a heat tamer (i.e. heat-protecting spray) so that you don’t damage (i.e. burn) your hair when using the flat iron due to the high heat emitted by the flat iron; this high heat is what, after all, straightens your curly hair, but the heat tamer will protect your hair from heat damage while still allowing the flat iron to do its job.

Curling irons

Curling irons do the opposite of flat irons: curling irons allow you to curl your hair into spirals and ringlets of different sizes. Curling irons achieve the curling of the hair strands via the same heat-modifying mechanism of flat irons.

Curling irons aren’t as popular with men as flat irons are, but they (curling irons) surely are very popular among straight-haired females. And, as I’ve mentioned before, if it works on long women’s hair, it will surely work on long men’s hair!

Aim to buy a high-quality iron as low-quality irons cannot sustain nor maintain high temperatures consistently, which leads to uneven curling results and extensive damage despite using a heat tamer. A good curling iron will run for about 50 bucks to 200 bucks. Anything cheaper will very likely not yield good-enough results.

Can I train my hair as a male? I’ve heard some hairdressers and women say that training one’s hair is possible

No, you cannot train your hair. Hair-training is one of the silliest hair myths that are still being parroted by some ignorant hairdressers (and, thus, their customers) and by some people who are tying to sell you products that purportedly will make your hair behave as you want it to.

Your hair is dead, or, at least, the hair that you see on your head is dead. The living part of a hair strand is the bulb and follicle, and they behave as determined genetically by your DNA. Your hair grows curly and has a cowlick on the right side of your forelock because it says so in your genes; there’s nothing that you can do about that. No product or technique will make train your hair to behave in whatever fashion is being advertised.

Some shady people will call the styling of your hair or the straightening/curling of your hair as “hair training”. Not a fat chance, my fellow reader. What’s actually occurring when your hair is becoming curlier or straighter due to the use of a hair product is that the protein blocks in your hair are being modified structurally, but that’s because the product itself is meant to do so! Your hair, itself being dead tissue, simply complies to a hair-modifying product in the same manner that a sheet of metal can be shaped into a looped spiral.

If you come across someone claiming that you can train your hair, disregard his or her advice and remain skeptic of any further advice. Most of the time, the people whom I’ve come across claiming that hair-training is possible are people who are selling a scam product meant to empty your wallet. “Caveat emptor” never sounded so good.

Can I color, dye or highlight my long hair?

Yes, just don’t get too Willy-Wonka with your hair’s coloring, please.

Avoid bleaching your hair as using the harsher hair-coloring treatments. If available, use henna to color your hair, which will give you a red/earthy tone to your natural hair color. Henna is the least damaging of all hair-coloring treatments and usually looks good long men’s hair.

On the other side of the hair-coloring-treatment spectrum, bleaching your hair is a sure-fire way to permanently damaging your hair, which is why you should avoid it at all costs if you care about the long-term looks and state of you long hair.

Well, I do dig the Willy Wonka hairstyle, what do you think about Johnny Depp’s Willy Wonka hair?

Do what you want to do with your long hair. If getting a Bobcut hairstyle with red hair alas Willy Wonka’s hair is what truly gets you, then, by all mans, go for it. Just make sure that you go to a professional hairstylist in a reputable hair salon; the coloring treatment required for Willy Wonka’s hair is not easy to do and can go south in seconds if the treatment is badly applied.

And before you ask, we do really get that question on that Willy-Wonka hairstyle at our barbershop from time to time. It’s usually only fans of Johnny Depp asking for that Willy-Wonka-inspired hair color and hairstyle, though.

Does a beard look good with long hair? Will sporting a beard with long hair make me look too scruffy?

Long hair and beards have been a hair-styling staple for men for centuries; you don’t have to go too far back in time to reference the beard hairstyles of long-haired Viking males.

As far as its biological use goes, both long beards and long hair make the head look thicker and bigger as well as visually thickening the neck. This, in effect, makes a male look bigger and thus more intimidating; it’s a big reason why men have worn beards and long manes throughout the history of mankind.

Both beards and long manes also provide heat retention, insulation and overall protection around the head, which is an advantage in colder climates and would be a good hypothesis to explain why Vikings favored long hair and long-bearded styles.

To put it bluntly, the combination of a beard with long hair can look great on a male and can be attractive to females. The one thing to bear in mind in that you want to take good care of your beard (and long hair!) as, otherwise, it won’t take you too long to look very scruffy and unkempt.

Think of your beard as a double-edged sword: it can make you look more handsome or it can make you look more like a hobo. You choose.

Since I explained hair-styling tools like hair clippers earlier, I will add here a relevant note on beard trimmers for your facial-hair grooming as a long-haired dude.

Any beard trimmer from the dozens of great beard trimmers in the male-grooming market will suffice to keep your beard in top condition since beard trimmers are specific beard-trimming tools that do a perfect job of shaping your beard as desired. A hair clipper will not work very well to keep your facial hair trimmed optimally in your chosen beard style, so invest your money in a high-quality beard trimmer even though you may already own a hair clipper; your beard (and long hair) will thank you for that.

I’m also aware that some men are taking the whole hipster lifestyle to extremes by wearing huge unkempt beards, which are also styled in unusual shapes alas this long-haired dude:

There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with sporting scruffy-looking facial hair; grow, wear and style your beard as you wish.

But, if you care about what women may think of your looks (and many guys who follow fashion trends do), then you’re barking up the wrong female-attracting tree with your oddly-shaped massive beard and you’d be better off by trimming your beard and keeping it as a short boxed facial-hair style along with your long tresses.

Will I look like a woman if I have long hair as a male?

Yes, gentlemen, this is another one of those silly questions that I get asked a lot. It seems as though being mistaken for a woman is the number-one worry of many long-haired guys.

The quick answer to this question would be a rhetorical question: “So what?”. I know that many of you won’t be happy with my rhetorical question for your female-look-alike fears, so I’m going to go into some more detail about the facts and chances of being mistaken for a woman if you have long hair.

But, first, you’re telling me that this long-haired dude below resembles a woman in any remote shape or form?

I rest my case. Let’s move on.

The vast majority of long-haired males will not be mistaken for a woman; not even when they (males) are seen from behind.

The body shape of a male differs vastly from that of a woman, and even out-of-shape males will still look noticeably different to women. You (as a male) have testosterone (pun intended) to blame for this as testosterone promotes the main body characteristics of a proto-typical male (i.e. broad shoulders, narrow hips and a more-muscular frame).

Men have levels of testosterone that are about ten times higher than the testosterone levels of females; even a male with the lowest level of testosterone within the healthy range for serum testosterone levels will still have about two times more testosterone than a high-testosterone female. That’s how biology works and that’s what makes men and women stand out differently from a physical point of view.

Or we could just end this silliness regarding long hair in males and any fears of looking like a woman by posting a picture of French rugby player Sébastien Chabal. I’m sure that this dude spends all his morning time prepping his hair for it to look fantastically combined as a complement to his fabulous beard. What do you think, Sébastien?

Really, folks?…

Anyhow, folks, back on the topic of testosterone in men and looking like females, there are only two physique-related scenarios in which a long-haired male will potentially be mistaken for a female:

• The male has always had extremely low testosterone levels (way lower than the lowest level within the healthy medically-stipulated range). The reason for low life-long testosterone levels is congenital and/or genetic, and it is usually associated with rare hormone-deficient syndromes like Klinefelter syndrome, which causes a male to have narrow shoulders, wide hips, breast development, testicular atrophy (very-small testicles) and a very-small “tool” that can be mistaken for an enlarged clitoris. In other words, if you suffered from this syndrome, you’d already now it by now. For reference, here’s an illustration depicting a typical male with Klinefelter’s syndrome:

• The male has an androgynous face or body shape. If you’re androgynous-looking, then you’re going to be mistaken for a female whether you have long hair or short hair (and you’d also know it by now too). Androgynous males have bodily features that blend both masculine and feminine features. Sounds crazy enough? Actually, there are quite a good number of androgynous celebrities, like Jared Leto and Marilyn Manson, and being an androgynous male isn’t that uncommon. Mind you, using makeup as a male will only help to amplify one’s androgyny, as the late David Bowie knew very well, so skip the makeup if you’re an androgynous male and you want to exude a virile long-haired-male image.

In any case: with being a long-haired male, you may be bullied for your long hair and be called emasculating names and/or gender-related insults; there are some thick people out there in this world and that’s the way it is, although these modern-day Neanderthals are a very-small minority (fortunately for our societies).

My advice when faced with bullying or insults? Report it to the authorities and do not think for a second that whatever you have been called is real. Bullies tend to compensate for their own inadequacies through their insulting, and the privilege of being able to grow and sport a lustrous long mane as you do or as you’ll soon do will be the envy of many bullies.

Can old men have long hair?

Yup, there’s not a single problem with having long hair as an elderly male. So long as an older male isn’t balding and is beyond a Norwood III stage (with no vertex thinning!), then he will be able to sport pretty much any of the long hairstyles available for males (of any age).

Talking about baldness and male pattern baldness, having long hair when one is beyond a Norwood IV stage can be a train-wrecking experience. First of all, balding males have weak hair follicles, which is due to the miniaturizing process caused by male pattern baldness via the follicle’s sensitivity to endogenous levels of DHT (a derivative of testosterone and produced by all males).

By having long hair, you’re exposing yourself to your hair strands getting caught in lots of things (jacket zippers are the worst!) and you will very possibly want to tie your long hair at one time or another; both these scenarios will cause you to pull your hair with enough tensile stress to rip out the hair strands from their follicles. In other words, there’s a huge risk of you accelerating your hair loss.

If you care about long hair aesthetics, one of the oddest looks that one can have is a balding head with long hair. Women hate this look and people will make jokes about you. Walking around with a see-through scalp from which thin, weak hair strands protrude is a good way to make yourself uglier and not better looking.

As I’ve said already in this guide, I’m the first one to encourage you to do whatever it is that you want to do with your long mane and to also disregard what others may think of your hair. However, I’m not here to sugarcoat the tidbits of being a long-haired dude; I must keep things as real as possible and give you both the positive stuff and the negative stuff of living your life as a long-maned male.

Can young boys and children have long hair?

Having long hair isn’t about being of a particular age, race or socio-economical status; it’s about being yourself and taking charge of your life. Naturally, the little ones (i.e. young boys) can too wear long hair and enjoy the benefits of being long-haired kids.

A word of caution: there’s a big and very-real chance that your kid is bullied in school because of his long hair, so watch out for any signs of your kid being bullied. Such signs include apathy, depression that doesn’t seem to go away, lack of socializing and an unfounded fear towards going to school there are more signs and a children’s psychiatrist will give you all the signs to look out for, but the aforementioned signs tend to be expressed markedly in bullied children.

Up to the age of ten years of age, both boys and girls physically look very similar, and it’s very easy for a boy with long hair to resemble a girl. The reason for this is that prepubescent boys up to the age of twelve years of age have similar testosterone levels as prepubescent girls; it’s once that young boys reach puberty that they quickly begin to develop the masculine traits of adult males.

In hindsight, feel free to let your son grow his hair long but be on the lookout for any form of bullying and tackle the problem on the spot so that your kid can resume his mentally-healthy life.

What are the best websites for long men’s hair?

By far and without taking into account this website (if I may say so), the best website for long men’s hair is the Men’s Hair Forum which houses the best advice, knowledge, information, tips and so much more on long hair for men. Said forum supports the biggest long-haired men community and they have some of the best barbers around the world giving out advice and helping regular folks looking to grow an epic long mane.

You can spend days browsing the Men’s Hair Forum, and you will need to register in the forum (it’s free) to be able to use the search function and dig deep into the thousands of knowledgeable posts that are so abundant in this website.

If you’re looking to follow internet gurus on long men’s hair, then you’ve got Rogelio Samson (ManlyCurls.com and MensHairBlog.com) and Bill Choisser (Choisser.com). As you already know, Rogelio Samson is the most knowledgeable guru on men’s hair across the entire internet, and Bill Choisser was a long-haired male in his sixties who created the first long-hair website (for men) with some extremely-sound advice.

Bill’s website site predates the times of search engines, so his website is a bit too old-fashioned. Nonetheless, Bill has published some great stuff on long hair for men, so check it out online. Unfortunately, Bill passed away on May 2016 and he will be dearly missed by those of us who learned from his wise words and knowledge.

Both Rogelio Samson and Bill Choisser are the go-to gurus for long men’s hair, so take advantage of the fact that they have generously published so much long-hair information for free on the internet. Rogelio Samson’s books, “The Men’s Hair Book” and “The Curly Hair Book”) are exceptionally-useful books for long-haired males too.

You can also find some interests websites on long hair (unisex/women/men) in this list of websites which includes some small blogs from fellow long-haired guys as well as a smaller board for long-haired folks.

Got more questions on long hair for men?

The long-hair questions that I’ve answered are some of the most-repeated questions that I get at my barbershop, and I believe that the answers to these questions will help you tremendously in your long-hair journey.

As you’ve learned in this FAQ guide, the key to successfully growing a long mane is to remain patient throughout your hair-growing journey and to keep an open mind so as to be continuously learning about your long hair. This way, you will become your own hair’s expert and you will always know what’s best for your long dangling locks, no matter the situation.

Considering that LongHairGuys.net is the biggest online resource for long men’s hair along with the other websites mentioned in this guide, I’m absolutely open to answering more questions that you, as a welcomed reader, may have. I will also be updating this guide with more questions as my time allows, since this guide is already more than 11,000 words altogether!

Let me know about your questions or opinions by commenting below. And, most of all, enjoy your life as a long-haired guy!

Guide last updated: 26th July 2020