did anyone opt to go REALLY long on your wedding day? i mean, a good amount past your boobs? i love my hair really long. unfortunately almost 2 years ago a stylist mistakened my request for a STYLING to be a CUT...so next thing i knew most of my gorgeous hair was gone and cut into what she claimed were "long layers". i disagreed and even though she had been cutting my hair for over 10 years, my colorist now cuts it. i have been trying desperately since may 2009 to grow it back but it is still only half way down my back. i've just started a bunch of vitamins and hope it will be closer to where i want it on the big day.
anyway, story aside, i am trying to find pictures of brides who decided to wear their really long hair down, natural or clip in extensions and i'm having a hard time finding some. i guess it's just not as popular as the cute soft updos i see so often now. i plan to get some clip in extensions but my hair is already semi long and i'm afraid i will have a hard time finding the good ones (real hair that can be colored/styled) in such long lengths. can anyone shed some light? TIA :)
ps. for reference, here's the kinda length i'm talking:
Here is my wedding hair trial. I think it is kind of the look you are going for. If you want more pics of the front I can send them to you. 
very pretty! is that all your natural hair?
My hair was super super long at my wedding, here is a pic where its in front of my shoulder so it looks a little less long. Also it was curly so when it was straight it was out of control long. I got it cut the day after my wedding :)
yess! see i love these looks...and that's my issue too, lovespearls. my hair obviously looks longer when it's not curled, but it will be curled on the day of, so it is going to look shorter :( i think the only option i have is clip in extensions. i was planning to use them for added fullness anyway, but i would like some of my natural hair to be really long.
thanks ladies, keep em coming!
@GardenBride: Your curls are so pretty and healthy looking!
@Lovespearls: I love your hair color, it's gorgeous.
My hair is short :( I hate it. It's about two inches past my shoulders, and I want it super long! I had super long hair most of my life, then a couple years ago cut it short and experimented with lots of colors, so I always had to keep it short.
here is my hair when it was super long:
and here it is now. ugh, so sad :(
lol trust me, it is much shorter. i want a good 8 inches or so by the day, and considering i have been trying to grow it for almost 2 years and it still looks the same to me, i don't have much hope :( they say hair grows about 1/2 inch a month, and if i have already been growing mine for almost 24 months and it looks the same...that's not good news for me!
It looks so healthy now! And pretty too.
But it would be pretty easy to add some length with clip in extensions. Then after your wedding you can continue to grow your natural hair.
I wore my hair down and super long/curly... i LOVED it. It was extensions, my real hair was maybe 4-5" shorter than the extensions were. I don't have any great pics of the back of my hair without a veil on though... sorry. Hopefully you can kind of see from these pics.
My hair is almost as long as yours was... and I've been DYING to cut it because it's so freaking heavy. Every day I've been wearing it just pulled up in a clip and not drying it because I just can't deal.
I'll be wearing it up for the wedding so I don't futz with it and really want to chop it back to shorter than chin length, but my mom is just starting to get some hair back from chemo treatments and she told me I'm not allowed to cut mine until she has enough to cut :)
Your hair now is what most people would consider very long - enjoy it and wear it down without missing what isn't there!
thanks for the compliments though :) maybe my styling habits now make it feel shorter or prevent it from growing a whole lot. i think i am going to get a less harsh curling iron.
I can see the difference. I've been growing out my hair for a long time now (it's almost hip length, but I'm short lol!) In the first two pictures it looks like your hair is around waist length and in the last picture it's not even bra-strap length... growing hair does take a lot of patience!
I plan on wearing my hair long and down for my wedding too, but I don't have any photos to share of the style I plan on going for yet! I also plan on wearing extensions because while my hair is long, it's not very thick and I'd like to add some volume. My sister who has shoulder length hair wears extensions almost everyday. She buys these strands of real hair and she glues them to little combes herself. They look completely natural and she styles them as if they were her own hair and everything!
Here is a photo of my hair, but this was taken almost 2 years ago so my hair has grown since.
@SnowPeony: Thank you!!
@kittybean: I still think your hair looks gorgeous that length! I think the extensions will help for sure, I have seen people with them and had no idea it wasnt their real hair. Here is a pic of me from my rehersal dinner with my hair straight so you can get an idea of how long it was w/o the curls:
@deathbydesign: it looks thick to me! ugh i CURSE this stylist for cutting it so short. at first it didn't feel like she did and then when i washed it for the first time after she cut/styled it, i wanted to cry. and now 3.5 years after she cut it (by the time my wedding day rolls around) it STILL won't be where i want it. frustrating.
maybe that one pic wasn't a good one to show the length now and how it falls in the front. maybe this one is better. it's much shorter :(
I can see a difference in the length in the photos you posted. If it makes you happy, get the extensions! I would think it might be funny if you had short hair, then suddenly had super-long, but it would just enhance in your case.
Can anyone tell me what the clip-in extensions are like? I've only seen the iron-in ones. Are the clip-ins just for a few days? And do they add both volume & length?
@kittybean: I'd be livid if some stylist chopped all my hair off. Everytime I get my hair trimmed is nerve wracking because every stylist I have ever worked with always inists I should cut my hair off and complains about how long it is, ect. I'm paranoid that one day some stylist is just going to cut like 6 inches off it lol. I'd die if that happened before I got married! :(
@Lovespearls: wow, definitely very long. you ladies are making me jealous. lol.
@blu77: My sister uses clip ones and they definitely add both volume and length. She puts them in her hair in the morning (which is very simple to do) and then takes them out at night. She also takes care of them by combing them and even occasionally washing them. Taken care of they can last her months easy.
@blu77: I wore clip-ins. The ones I bought came in 8 wefts with pressure clips. You just part your hair horizontally, rat it a little at the roots, and the put the clips in. My stylist also bobby-pinned them in to be extra secure. I took them out at the end of the night before I went to bed. You can style them just like normal hair. For me they added both volume and at least 4-5" of length. No one could tell they were fake.
@DeathByDesign: well, as i said, the one stylist was cutting my hair for over 10 years and she knew i always stressed "HARDLY ANY OFF" and i guess she didn't understand that i just wanted the STYLE in the picture, and maybe it wouldn't have been perfect without a long-layered cut, but holy crap, who cares! i wasn't going anywhere special that day, just wanted something different than my normal trim and blow out. i dunno if she knows that's why she doesn't cut my hair anymore or not because i still go to the same salon. i just have my colorist cut it now and she KNOWS to barely touch it. she actually chopped it once back when i was 16 and a sophohmore in high school, and for a while i wouldn't let HER touch it. i think next time i go to get it done i am going to say, "show me what you're cutting" because i don't examine the hair on the floor after i'm done, and even then it's after the fact. lol.
This is my current hair but I'm also considering adding clip in extensions for more volume. The bigger the better is what I'm thinking lol.
Ooh Lovespearls, I loooove your wedding hair! You are so pretty.
It's great to see so many gorgeous long styles. I've been growing my hair forever and now it's probably 2 inches below the bra strap. I'm trying to figure out a wedding style. You're all lovely bees.
i stumbled upon this picture of jessica simpson (from like circa 1999 lol) and i remember this picture and always LOVED her hair in it. i think i am going for something like this.
@Lovespearls: THIS IS BEAUTIFUL! every posts prom hair on here but yours is very classy and beautiful!
i may go for something like this... i am doing clip in extensions :)
@stephanie63087: carrie is inspiration for me for almost everything. love her. i always brought pictures to my stylist to get coloring/styles like hers.
@LittleAudrey: & @Mrs. Beans: Aww thank you girls so much!!!!
@kittybean: Same I love Carrie, her wedding was beautiful too, and I LOVE that pic of Jessica Simpsons' hair it looks awesome!!
You should try the Jessica Simpson clip in extensions, they are amazing. 
Here is a pic of them in. In this pic, my real hair is at my sholders.
This is how I will be wearing my hair (2 months from today EEEEEE!!!!!)
@tracieszcz: my friend had them for her wedding but they didn't quite match her hair. i have a lot of blonde highlights so it might be harder. do they make them in real human hair? my friend's couldn't be curled...i definitely need style-able ones.
Thanks to those who responded about the clip-ins, I'm going to check them out, they look easy enough! Sorry to hijack the thread :)
@kittybean: They were already curled. I think they are synthetic so you couldn't style them. Mine were acutally too long, so once I had them in I took a pair of scissors to them ;) Oh I also dyed my hair to match them
I have waist length hair. Always have. It is very thick though, and a lot of work!
@tracieszcz: oh, yeah, thanks for the suggestion, and i remember hers being curled as well...synthetic. i think the darker ones are probably more realistic looking, but honestly (and no offense to anyone who has used them, this is just my opinion) but i think the blonde ones seem shiner and look a little fake. i think i am going to stick with human hair.
@cbee: gorgeous!
ughh i really hope my hair speeds it up some from these vitamins!
HAHA!! I saw the title and figured this was going to be about hair longer then waist length. :P Back about 10 years ago, my hair was down to my knees. Unfortunately I don't have any good pictures of it that I can find.
For my wedding, my hair was down to my waist though you can't tell from the pictures because it was curled. I went with a 1/2 up and 1/2 down look.
An idea of my hair without the curls in it. 
@meliss: your pictures were some inspiration for me. i think i stumbled upon one in a google search. i'm using extensions regardless (because i know it won't be long enough by then) but i really wish i had an idea of how much longer it is going to get!
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