Hi, AgentOrange, and welcome to LongLocks.  If you have a minute, please introduce yourself over on the New Members section.

I did something very similar a long time ago.  I kept a bob for awhile and then went super short, like maybe 1" all over.  I started growing my hair out almost 5 years ago and am almost at BSL.  My first goal was to have enough length to make a bun w/o a million hairpins, my second goal is BSL and my third goal is waist length.

If you look in the Show Off Your Locks section you can see some of my progress over the years.  I don't think I have any pics of when it was really short, but it was really short!

My last cut was similar to yours but shorter.  I still feel like I'm miles from my next part time goal which is just BSL.  I can't think further than that but thinking in part time goals helps me.  I had a short shag in 04' and right before I went for a short bob in December 07 I was at BSL.  My own stupidity just seems endless! <<<with myself!  My hair is longer now than in the profile pic but just below shoulders. 

Wow, it looks like lots of people here started with short hair...haha it's good to know I'm not the only one who made a mistake. I like the idea of setting smaller goals first, so I guess my first would have to be BSL. It should only take about..a year 

So, in high school, I decided to cut my curly (and at the time frizzy and thicker) hair into a cute chin-length page-boy bob... Yeah, it looked cute up until I washed it. Wihtout the extra weight on it, it curled up tight and poofed out... I had triangle hair that year, a la Alice of Dilbert.  (No I  will not upload a pic!! )

That was my epiphany "I shall never cut my hair this short again" moment!  

No goal here atm, tho, I'm at roughly waist length and it appears to be pretty much terminal for me.

Hiya Curlgirl64! Thanks!

Whoops, I'm off, according to [url="http://www.longlocks.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1229434855"]the chart[/url] what I've been calling "waist-length" should really be "hip-length." (Can I blame the low-rise pants trend?? )

I am still thinking that the length it was before I cut it back in Dec '07 was terminal for me, about 36" or so because it stayed there so long and it's just about that length again. Plus if average hair growth is 6"/year and average telogen phase is 6years then 36" would be dead-on average terminal length, right? So it would make sense for it to be terminal. (Admittedly, after looking at that chart again I'm also starting to wonder if I measured right, since by the chart 36" should have been over "classic-length" as I'm 5'6" - 5'7" but I know I couldn't quite sit on it then... too bad I can't go back and check again now, doh! )

I could certainly be wrong, and I definitely won't mind if it surprises me and grows past that!  But I am not going to make a goal to grow it past that point and set myself up for disappointment when I think it'd be better to focus on just enjoying how long it is and keeping it healthy.

Lol...in high school, I had hair that was 1 1/2 inches long all over my head.  When I took time to style it, I spiked up the back and gelled the front.  But most of the time I just wore it how it came out of the shower.  Not really sure what I was thinking.  I sort of looked like a boy, and was mistaken as such by a few older ladies.   My recommendation to anyone who wants her hair this short (not like anyone here does...)--wear makeup!!  And jewelry!