I’ve never worn mine shoulder-length. Always kept it short on the back and sides. In the '80s and early '90s I wore it longish on top, but my hair is so thick (plus a double crown and cowlicks in front) that in my case that turns it into a big puffy helmet. I brushed it back, too – my apparent height went up by two inches. Nowadays I wear it almost crewcut short – #4 guard on top, #1-1/2 on the back and sides. Not a flattop crewcut, however. Don’t even need to comb it, and it makes my dandruff problem just a bit easier to manage.
- Do you or have you ever worn your hair long? Yes
- What age are or were you at the time? 17-18 & 23-26 a few other winters.
- What made you decide to grow your hair out? I just let it as a senior in High School, no real decision. Then I joined the Navy and had to have it short for 4 years, so when I got out, I let it grow longer than average, but never ponytail length.
- If you used to have long hair and now don’t, what was your motivation for getting it cut? I got older, had kids and found shorter hair easier to maintain and woman kept telling me it looked better. I now keep it Navy short again, a full circle in a way.
Jim
1.) No. This is due to the fact that my hair, when it grows, tends to curl back onto itself, instead of growing straight. Due to that fact, it can get thick, but not very long.
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- From 17 - 25. Again starting this year, age 36. Down to my shoulders currently. Before it was down to the middle of my back. Now as long as I can get it all back into a pony tail, its good.
- Heritage - part Native American. Part rebellion, part counterculture (I was ‘grunge’ before it was grunge.) Now I’m back in school full-time (no mas corporate bosses) and all of the above still applies.
- I cut it when I was 25 and moved to Chicago. It was a time of many drastic changes, and I thought that “long hair and Windy City” probably didnt get along too well. I think I was right. I like the way it looks, but it can get annoying on windy days when forget to tie it back or wear a hat.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Don’t let him!
I’ve had long hair pretty much since '71-ish. I was 9. It was just cool, and rebellious. 
I was always “that guy”.
I had long straight flat boring hair til about age 16.
Then I had the coolest 'fro for a couple years.
Then pretty long but trimmed while i was married to… her.
Then unkempt with ocasional trims for a long while.
Then I cleaned up and lost weight and trimmed my hair and bought clothes to impress this girl.
That was like 7 years ago… that piece of worthless fluff is gone. Only trimmed it once to rid the split ends. It’s approaching the middle of my back, and my sweetie, the one I’ve waited all my life for, loves it. 
I have an earring now, too. I won’t ever cut it short again. It’s what I say to the world. If you get my drift.
1) Do you or have you ever worn your hair long? (If yes, please also answer the following too.)
Yup!
2) What age are or were you at the time?
Starting at about 12 years old. (In 1969/70)
3) What made you decide to grow your hair out?
Before my parents divorced and my father got custody, my mother used to make me keep my hair very short. I grew to hate short hair. When my father got to make the rules, I quit cutting my hair.
4) If you you used to have long hair and now don’t, what was your motivation for getting it cut?
I still have hair longer than average, although not anywhere as long as it used to be.
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Do you or have you ever worn your hair long? (If yes, please also answer the following too.)
-I did, but no longer do. It was a bit past the shoulders. -
What age are or were you at the time?
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What made you decide to grow your hair out?
-Equal parts laziness, being a poor college student (I paid for only one haircut through all of college, and that was to help the long hair grow more properly), and curiosity. -
If you you used to have long hair and now don’t, what was your motivation for getting it cut?
-I graduated college and got a real, adult job. I was already young enough, and did not want something like long hair making me appear younger or less serious.
Incidentally, I am growing my hair back out again. Certainly not to the level it was, and I’ll never be able to pull it back into a ponytail in a pinch, but it’ll hopefully end up as a mid-neck styled look.
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Do you or have you ever worn your hair long? (If yes, please also answer the following too.)
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What age are or were you at the time?
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What made you decide to grow your hair out?
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If you you used to have long hair and now don’t, what was your motivation for getting it cut?
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Yes.
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Always wanted hair, didn’t get it successfully long until I was 14. Before that my mom had always bribed the barber to do more than a trim, and I finally wised up to it.
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Because that’s my hair style is.
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I have no intention of changing it until I die (nor after.)
Yep.
I started when I got out of college, around 22. I thought about it and kind of tried in college, but it I didn’t like the middle length.
I wanted to see what I would look like with long hair.
I just cut it a couple of months ago, after 10 years. Partly because it was getting kind of ratty, always had knots, and one section was really dry. I also wanted a change. Now it’s still a bit long, longer then most men keep it. I might think about growing it out again in the future if I feel like it.
**1) Do you or have you ever worn your hair long? (If yes, please also answer the following too.)**I did for a while in the 90s.
**2) What age are or were you at the time?**In my 30s
**3) What made you decide to grow your hair out?**There was no reasoning. I just went for a different look. As a programmer you can often get away with the long-haired ponytaled goateed look.
**4) If you you used to have long hair and now don’t, what was your motivation for getting it cut?
**I decided to become a consultant and felt that looking clean-cut might open more doors for me.
Yep, I have worn my hair long. About shoulder length. I did it twice: once when I was in my late twenties, and once last year. The first time I wanted to see what it would look like, the second I was just feeling lazy about it. For some reason I have always hated getting a haircut. I don’t know why. Both times I cut it off because I was tired of it. I couldn’t wear it in a ponytail, so I always had it loose. (If I did put it in a ponytail, I’d look like Sensitive Ponytail Guy. Ack. I don’t want to be Sensitive Ponytail Guy.) I also believe now that I look better with short hair. I’m not going to grow it long again.
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I’m replying to the thread, so no surprise that this would be a yes.
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Since 18, as a freshman in college.
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Always liked long hair, but couldn’t get away with not getting it cut until leaving for college. Of potential interest to the OP: I’m someone who yo-yos in weight, and I like my long hair no matter what my weight is at the time. But, I especially like having long hair when I’m up in weight, because as a characteristic it allows me to be Long-Haired Guy instead of Fat Guy.
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Per the above, I’ve had long hair since 1986. I must have had it trimmed a few times after that, though, because I know that the last time I got it cut at all was in 1989, because that’s when “Born on the 4th of July” was out. People sometimes ask how long I’ve had long hair, and I tell them since I saw “Born on the 4th of July”. They’ll ask, “So, you were inspired by the movie?” And I’ll tell them that, no, I just remember going to the movie with friends, and they spent the evening ridiculing the ridiculous short-in-the-front, long-in-the-back trim I had gotten after some ill-conceived compromise I made with my mom. This was dubbed my Metallica haircut.
1) Do you or have you ever worn your hair long? (If yes, please also answer the following too.)
Sort of, that is I am in the process of growing it out for the first time. Currently at that stage where there is really nothing I can do with it.
2) What age are or were you at the time?
I am 22 at the moment and haven’t had a haircut (outside of a couple of trims) for about six months.
3) What made you decide to grow your hair out?
For the same reason you would expect a guy to do anything, its for a girl. Specifically my gf really likes long hair on guys, that combined with the fact that I’ve often considered growing it out for funnsies anyway convinced me.
4) If you you used to have long hair and now don’t, what was your motivation for getting it cut?
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I stopped getting haircuts when i got out the Navy. Within a couple of years I had hair down to my ass. I played in a lot of rock bands for a decade or so. I finally cut it off after I graduated from college and needed to hang up the rock star dream and get a real job. Plus my wife made me.