Long Hair For Men - How To Get Through The Awkward Hair Length Stages (Man Bun)

Hey guys, what's going on it's 4:00 here, usually I do fitness videos. However, today I wanted to do something different. I wanted to give you guys a video about my hair and other times weird, but I do get a lot of questions about my hair. How fast it grows? How to how do I get through the awkward stages? You know what do I use below blah, so I'm kind of just going to give you guys just a quick rundown on what's actually going on and how I prefer to wear my hair in this kind of almost long awkward stage, because there's so many different awkward Stages, so I know that long hair is becoming more popular, more training, a lot of guys like the man bun. They want to go for the man, bun um, and for me I personally do not like the man bun um, the most part. I think it looks pretty ridiculous depending on how the person is wearing it. Now I do wear it when I'm training, you know, if I need to make my hair look, really really neat for something like a formal event but yeah. I do because it's just the best way to clean your hair up, so I do wear it, but I don't like the look. I don't think that guy should get long hair just to wear a madman, because, honestly, it's just it's annoying um the trade-off of how much maintenance you need to do with long hair. Just to wear a man bun, you don't even get the Showgirl long hair not worth it so now that we've got that out of the way. Let me just give you guys a quick rundown. Now I started growing. My hair out about a year ago was when I decided that I was not going to get any more haircuts from that time prior to that about 4 months 3 or 4 months. Prior to that, I decided that I did want to grow my hair out. However, I was doing it from the top down, so that means that, like a lot of the guys that you see now, I was you know, I was kind of just growing my hair out up top and then buzzing the sides and keeping the sides really really Neat now I wasn't doing like the whole hair tie back thing. I was just kind of parting, it you know, sticking it back, Yatta, Yatta and then about a year ago I decided that's it no more haircuts, um and since then I have only had one haircut. I cut my hair roughly six months ago. Ah sorry, six weeks ago I had my first trim because I just found out that you are supposed to be trimming your hair. All the way you do want to get rid of those split ends of dead ends. Yada yada yada, so that's tip number one get regular haircuts, um, not regular. You know every couple months you want to go to the barber and maybe get you know, half an inch off. What it does is. It gets rid of those dead ends of split ends and it promotes hair growth. It'S actually good for your hair, and I do not know that so I'm actually a Duchenne um. Secondly, I personally take biotin. I take ten milligrams a day. I take five milligram capsules twice a day, um honestly. I take it just because why not it's cheap? I feel that it does help, but it's definitely not a game breaker. It'S not! You know it doesn't make a break. It'S not going to make your hair grow. 50 percent faster, so it's a nice little investment if you have some spare cash. Third, my hair grows very fast and my hair is very thick now long, hair isn't for everyone, not everyone can pull a long hair and I don't even know if I can pull of long hair yet like I'm, not even I'm not even there. Yet. This is currently how long my hair is yeah, so I've got some length and, as you can see, it is longer in the front than it is in the back, because of the way that I grew it and, as you can see, it is a very awkward Color because of the experiment gone wrong six weeks ago, um, when I tried to turn my hair silver, I tried to do silver highlights. I let my younger sister do it because she's in cosmetology, I figured hey I'll yield I'll give her the experience. If I pay her than a salon person - and I got this - so I just been too lazy to change it since honestly, I want to give my time my hair time before I go and bleach it and dye it again. I don't want to damage it too quickly too fast, and that was also the first time I've ever dyed. My hair done anything so yeah anyway. Next next up that I really really wanted to cover is um. The main point of this video is the awkward hair. The awkward stage, the reason why I think that a lot of people don't make it so long hair is not because it's it's a habit. You know it is a hassle. This is a hassle using so much shampoo, conditioner feeling like a girl when it's entire hair back. You know stuff like that, like you actually need to use hair products and things um and you kind of miss that that fresh, like shave, fresh cut. Look, I don't think this reason. Why guys don't why a lot of guys don't make it usually it's, because they can't make it to that awkward middle phase and there's like five of those awkward phases, two awkward phase where you can't do anything with your hair? Really, you know maybe now it's too long too slicked back and but it's not, but it's not long enough to put into a ponytail. You know what I mean stuff like that. So there are a couple of different awkward phases and I think the thing that really shows you know if there's anything that can be said about guys with long hair. It'S that at one point in their life I went through. You know they really really said man. I really don't give a what people think right now, like I don't care what I look like. I don't care what people think about me, because you know otherwise they would cut it. They would cut it for the the immediate satisfaction out the long term. So, that's that that's the major thing - and I want to just give you guys a couple of tips to overcome that one. Don'T listen to your friends until you cut it. I know it sounds ridiculous for me to have to say that, but it's very very true. Um, in my personal experience, all my friends bashed me told me to cut it out a yatta yatta when it was awkward to look super, goofy, etc. Um, who have a single like? Oh no girls, you know, like you yada yada and I was like. I don't care, I don't care, because I need to grow my hair out. I need to know what it's going to look like. I just need to do this. I'Ve never gotten to that point before um and as time went on, they've actually come around they like my won't date. You know I kind of just have long hair. Now, that's what they see me as um. They kind of just accepted it, and you know a couple of them. Uh said hey, you know like I like the long hair on you like it fits you, you know not. Everyone can pull home hair, but you can do it so for that um. I'M pretty happy that I stuck with it, and I encourage you not to listen to your friends if they're telling you to cut your hair, keep it neat but don't give up, because it's a process I'm more than a year into growing, and this is where I'm At and I am NOT happy with the length yet, I would like to be down here to my shoulders, but again it's a process. Number two utilize hats, baseball caps, everything you can bandanas. I have drawers of bandanas. I have a closet full of hats, which I've never worn before starting this you know, maybe I would wear a beanie in the winter. That'S about it. Um hats are going to be a lifesaver, even bandanas if you want to get into into them headbands. Those give me a lifesaver when you go out if you're, not in a formal place, if you're not at work. If you'll have to wear hats, if your work lets, you wear a hat, wear a hat! It'S a it's! A it's a huge lifesaver! It seriously is the easiest hack when it comes to getting through that middle that awkward phase. You know I can't even I never were happy for this now have a closet Pole. I, like 10 snap acts that I you know. I don't even wear that much anymore, but I never wore hats before before that. So that's another important tip, um wear hats. You know, use use, hair accessories, use the bandanas use the headbands um. I know a lot of you guys watching my videos are, you know Fitness II, you watch my videos because I do fitness videos. There is a company called Fitness Fox headbands. Now it's it's kind of geared towards females. They do make like Fitness headbands there they're very elastic, they're, durable, they're, sweat, proof, they're, nice, I like them. I actually picked up a couple of the Arnold Classic Ohio because they have really really cool designs and they hand cranking themselves and I, like the quality um. I was just giving them a look. I will actually link that in the description below a lot of their designs are girly, but if you do find one that you like, like they have a couple cool ones like they have a bacon one that was sushi one. So there are a couple cool ones out there and they're like 5 bucks apiece if you buy like 3 or 4 of them. So it's not too bad. So I look into that and definitely start making some investments. So you can kind of just not hide your hair, but you know help you get through that awkward phase, and the last thing I want to go over is you know tying up your hair, everyone hates that you know middle phase where the hair is not long Enough so now you, you see all these guys running around with like shave sides like buzz sides and then like a tiny little amount on top, and they just got like like this going up top like just this and it's it just looks horrible and that's why A lot of people give the a lot of people, don't like the man I'm like, because they consider that man bunny gives the man bong a really really bad name in a really really bad luck, because that looks terrible in my opinion, um, you know you want A nice full length, you know bun if you're going for man bun. So that's what gives the man but a bad look, and it's really really hard for guys to make it to the length to where they can first tie up their hair. When you can um. It'S very it's a totally different feeling because you can finally feel like clean again. You know I mean your hair is not just all over the place. You can finally just be neat and you know boom. You can do more professional. Look more of a my. You know whatever it is um and there are different ways to wear it. Of course, there's a high medium low and that changes depending on person as well. It really depends on how you want to grip it so like this, I'm at a medium to high right. Now, when I wear a hat, I put it down here all I do style my hair on the very bottom, so the bun is really small or I just leave it out like this, and then I just I wear my hat um this way. The bottom doesn't push the Hat up and I can actually fit it underneath the hat and my hair is still control, does not you know weave it all around, as I'm working out I'll have a hat on last thing um. This is a this little hat that I I mean I'm not gon na saying you know I didn't bended it but um. I came across it like myself, um, you know, I didn't know you. Could you know really pull this off and do it um? Why do I here we go um, so if you did what I did and you or you are doing what I did and you're going from the top down, so that means you know you're keeping the sides really really nice until it gets to a long enough Line to where you just stop getting haircuts all together, you just starts licking it back parting. It whatever it is. What'S going to happen, is your Wong. You know your hair up tub. It'S going to be really really long, your hair on the bottom and on the side your head are not going to be so it's going to happen is you are going to be able to pony the hair on the top of your head, while the hair on The sides your head, as you can see, doesn't always reach all the way around. It'S not the same length. It looks bad if you do it. So what I started doing is you, take the top go straight around and then all you're going to do is I'll. Show you I timeline about half way and it's very very loose. He just let it sit see so every loose this week, you can still at your hair. Hang it doesn't look too bad. This is a look you're trying too hard, because you can't gather all the hair on your head and it starts looking weird. You need to use like a whole bunch of like glue to hold your hair back on the sides. It just gets really really annoying. This way you could still have your hair down on the sides. It doesn't look as bad. It doesn't. You know, like you're, trying to slick it back as much um, but you could still keep it out of your face because you are tying top into a ponytail and just kind of. Let me sit halfway down. You know it might be. It doesn't look half bad um and that's about it. That'S about all the tips that I have for you guys, um. Of course you know, take care of your hair, don't wash it every single day. Conditioning is okay, don't wash it every single day. Destroys natural oils in the hair. Um, common-sense stuff, don't push the hell out of your hair. Don'T don't make your not too tight. If you are tempted you know when you can finally get a man bun, it's probably going to be, like you know the perfect length like a very, very small, tight man. Bun, you can be so excited um. Don'T don't do that, you know give it give your you're, not your bond, whatever it is a little bit of breathing room, it's not good for your hair pulling on it. You know that V for the entire day. It'S not good! So give yourself a little bit of breathing room, don't make it too tight um! None of that that is about it. Hopefully, the next time that I do a hair type, video, my hair will be a little bit longer and it will be a different color, because this is not a permanent. This is definitely a temporary thing. So that's about it. For this video guys in there was a different video for my normal fitness videos, but I want to start putting this other kind of content out there for you, because um Tech groan, you, here's a and a badge will try to help people along the way that I'M doing it so that's it until next time, guys don't forget to Like comment and subscribe share the video and I'll talk to you guys in the next one.