Can long hair actually damage your vision?
 

Well, first off, I have long hair. Not extremely long, but it does have a lot of volume.. It looks kinda like Anakin's hair in Revenge of the Sith, except with a lot more hair in the front, which gets into my eyes a lot, though it does not really bother me that much:cool:..
But it bothers my parents, and they keep saying that I'm going to damage my vision, and it's gonna irritate my eyes, and what not, and they want me to get a haircut.. I agreed to get one as soon as school's out, though I don't fancy it.. I mean, everyone knows chicks dig long hair :D
So just as a wandering, will having long hair in your eyes actually damage them? If so, how and to what degree;)?

Having long hair will not damage your vision in the slightest. Though, it is possible that the fringe of your hair could scratch the cornea of your eye, though this would temporary and would be such a minute possibility that it could happen in a way to affect you that you're more likely to win the lottery every week for the rest of your life.

Chances are your parents don't believe it either, they just want you to get a "sensible" haircut.

Now, too much hair in your face could affect your vision by blocking your view and will not benefit you in hand to hand combat.

That's what I though as well ;), but my parents aren't gonna believe me if I told them my sources were an online forum.. They're old fashioned book folks :p
Hopefully the haircut won't be as bad, and it will grow back by the time school starts again in september..

And I do notice at times when I play soccer, I find it kind of hard to spot my teammates because the hair is in my face, so I have to flick my hair all the time. Which isn't really bad, because chicks dig that too :D

Long hair doesn't damage your vision, but one thing I learned (or at least tell myself to make myself feel better now) is that it pulls on the roots so when you get older you start to go bald.

Okay, I only say that because when I was younger I had hair to the waist and now I don't have much up top. I guess my dad was right when he said I could grow it all I wanted when I was young because I wouldn't have it when I got older.

It just makes you look like a hippy.

Ummm...we had hippies in my youth, surely the term is outdated. But I refuse to ask my kids or grandchildren for the current equivalent!

I also have long hair, fairly curly, so it's only (almost) waist length when wet. Actually, my last haircut was before you were born, Felix.

And scars. That was largely my experience, but it has tapered off somewhat as I have aged.

It has obscured my vision once or twice (or more ;)) but at last check I had 20/15 eyesight.

Problems I have had:

Fire
I was a glassblower. Singed hair stinks. Safety first - ponytail, do-rag, hat, whatever. And don't stand too close to birthday cakes.

Power tools
I wrecked a drill and a leaf blower (that one hurt a lot) rescuing my hair. I once briefly considered a hair cut during the painstaking process of removing a Dremel tip from an accidental dreadlock. (Oh, right, safety first. Silly me.)

Children
They have sticky fingers and vice-like grips.

Meal time
I once choked on my hair. It was almost twenty years ago. Somehow a hank of hair got trapped in my sandwich. :o I felt it as I began swallowing and tried to spit everything out but it was too late. The hair was pulled tightly against my face as I felt it go down my throat. I couldn't breathe. I pulled on my hair, hard, because my esophagus wasn't giving up. I ended up with a sore throat and a humiliating story.

I've been told I look like a hippy, a biker, a serial killer, Robert Plant, "that guy from Metallica", and Jesus (after I grew a beard), among other things. Those comments tend to say more about the people making them than they do about me.

Once, Steven Tyler did a double-take when he saw me; I wonder who he thought he saw.

Whenever somebody asks me when I'm going to cut my hair (even strangers occasionally do this), I'm tempted to ask them when they are going on a diet.

I had long hair once in my early 20s, I got called jesus a lot b/c I also had a beard.

My hair is thick and wavy when it gets long, while a lot of girls love my hair when it is long (I got lots of compliments) I for one thought it to a maintenance nightmare. So I rock the short hair now, and will continue to do so until I have a mid life crisis or maybe out of sheer bordem grow my hair back long again.

Huh, I find long hair easier.

I started growing my hair when I was about 20 after a friend triple-dog-dared me to go a year without a haircut.

Before that (early eighties) my hair was short to medium length - and neat at all times. My life revolved around mirrors and blow driers. :rolleyes:

Once my hair grew out I discovered that I had little to do but shake my still-wet hair a bit and wait for the compliments. There was an awkward Sideshow Bob period while it was growing. I ran into a friend whom I hadn't seen in months and she laughed hysterically, telling me I looked ridiculous. But I had my revenge - I married her several years later.

A while back I temporarily let my beard grow pretty long and despite the fact that I am in good shape and have no grey, let alone white, hair, a little boy thought I was Santa. That will be fun when I'm old.

when I wake up in the morning with long hair I have a freaking afro. if I don't wash it, comb it and dry it, it puffs out all day. With short hair I get out of the shower, dry it off, slap a bit of gel in and I am done, it takes like 1.5 minutes.

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Well, I hate to break it to you but...

If the long hair in question is growing in the palm of your hands,
then rumour has it that the next stage is blindness. :D

I get the afro problem too. My hair doesn't grow down so much as out. It seems the longer it gets the more body it gets. I think I also have a habit of unconsciously finger combing it when I'm sitting at the computer thinking which doesn't help. Long hair can have it's advantages though. A portable hide, a built in beanie, pencil holder, executive stress toy.

No damage to the eyes I think, but it might seriously affect your allowance at some point.

Seriously, anything that obscures your vision or otherwise distracts you (like wiping it out of you eyes) should be taken care, particularly before driving. Okay, the girls can distract you just a little, too, but then some risks are worth taking.

your hair isnt that long.... lol

Felix - you spend how many hours a day in front of a computer screen, and your worried about your hair damaging your vision?

get some perspective, man! :D

Assuming, of course, that by mid life you can grow your hair at will. I'm down to about 18 hairs on top of my head these days and keep the sides clipped short. You can tell something about male pattern baldness in advance. It's inherited from your mother's father. If he was bald your pattern will be the same.

Hm.. I never thought of that.. Now, where did I put those scissors :rolleyes:..


Interesting point:p.. I was just thinking of getting my learner's permit this summer.. Hm.. might get some hair clips:D..
And yeah, true about the girls ;)


I'm assuming you're referring to my Myspace pic, which was taken in October, several months ago, when my hair barely went over my eyes.
Now, with dry hair, if I pull it down, it goes past the tip of my nose without much effort:cool:..


HA! HA! Never thought of that before.. and how true it is.. I just realize I spend more time on the computer then sleeping, eating and showering combined..
Well, maybe not the showering, I take long showers :D


Luckily for me, my mother's genetic father, in his late 60's, early 70's, he still has his hair, though pretty white :p
Her adoptive father is even better. He is 68, and has not a single white hair yet! Even my dad, at 40, has a few of those :rolleyes:..

Nope I am good on almost all fronts, baldness does not run on either side of my family and my grandfather has a full head of hair at 70. My hair is very thick and every time i get it cut every female hair dresser says they wish they had my hair. I almost want to be like, can we switch, lol

My son is in your position -- his mum's dad had a full head of thick hair at 80 -- and so does he at 41.

Oh no hippies still exist unfortunately, and they reek of patchouli.

Hey now, what wrong with hippies? :D