Pick one and then stick with that.  Consistency is what counts and what will give you a clearer visualization of your growth or stabilization.   When you measure on a monthly or 3 month basis,wet or dry,just measure the same way each time.

Thank you both for your responses.  

I think for simplicity's sake, I will stick with longest, since that's easier than trying to keep track of the illusive "middle of my layers" point.

Drear:
That works for most of my friends, but I actually work at a company where most of the guys either have their hair long, had their hair long, or is married to someone with long hair.
Even if they do not fall into these categories, they most likely had one or two close friends in college who had long hair.
Long hair seems to be a rite-of-passage thing for a lot of computer people.

In fact, I have a coworker who's probably over 6 feet tall, I think, and he has ... well, is it still bra strap length when you're talking about guys?  
At any rate, it's a few inches below that. His hair, even if it's not "waist length" still looks much longer than mine, simply due to how much taller he is.

brunette85 wrote on Nov 1^st, 2009 at 2:28pm:


Thanks! I've decided that the only way to get (somewhat) consistent results is to grab all of my hair and the measuring tape near my waist between my thumb and index finger behind my back. Holding tightly, I draw my fingers down along my hair and the tape until I feel my hair pop out (or just about to pop out) of my grip. I then pull the tape around to see which marking my finger and thumb landed on.

Kinda crude, but it seems to be consistent at the very least. I'd train DH to do this, but he never bothers to report fractions of inches.