How To Grow Hair Back After Buzz Cut

in: Pilus, Style

• August 13, 2020 • Last updated: June 9, 2021

How to Grow Out Your Pandemic Buzz Cutting

Back when the pandemic started heating up in the United states of america several months ago and local shelter-in-place orders were instituted which closed downwards barbershops, I decided I'd allow my pilus grow out for the indefinite future. Instead of seeing the shutdown as an inconvenience, I reframed it as an opportunity to attain some sweet, sweet, 1980s Sam Elliott pilus. I had tried to achieve this worthy goal before, gotten shut, simply abandoned the idea when it didn't seem to be coming together. I wanted to give the idea some other become circular; possibly it would somehow work out better this time.

I was optimistic near the project, but by the eye of July, I'd reached my head-mop breaking point. Only as I had ended on my first attempt, my hair is just too thick, wavy, and vertically-oriented in its growth to pull off the 80s flow. Instead of looking similar Sam Elliott in Mask , I looked like Edna Turnblad in Hairspray . What'south more than, all that hair on top of my caput was making me overheat during the hot and humid Oklahoma summer.

So I had my mother-in-law buzz it off (she buzzes my begetter-in-police force's head each week, so she's a seasoned pro). I officially joined the pandemic buzz cutting guild.

The clippings lumped together on the floor looked like the pelt of a dead varmint. My caput felt a few pounds lighter and a lot cooler. I'thousand enjoying my buzz cut. Information technology's a breeze to maintain. Washing my hair takes significantly less fourth dimension and there's no need to fashion or even rummage it.

But I plan on returning to my typical side-role hairstyle for the autumn, which presents a minor event: a buzz cut tin can look a little bad-mannered — fuzzy and circular — while it grows out. The last time I grew out a summertime buzz cutting a few years ago, I remember I looked vaguely like a Chia-Head.

To avoid looking like a potted indoor novelty institute, I reached out to Thad Forrester, barber and co-owner of Hudson / Hawk Barber & Store for his advice on growing out a fizz cut.

If you tin visit a hairdresser . . . keep the back and sides brusk, and let the pilus abound out on top.

"I like the strategy of keeping the sides and back short until the meridian starts to get longer," Thad told me. It helps push more visual force into the top of your head and "prevents the Chia Pet look from happening."

Ask your barber for a taper at the temple and neck. If you don't mind showing some peel every bit the hair gets closer to the hairline on the sides and neck, yous can also enquire for a medium fade along the sides and back. This volition give your hair some dimension, making it await more like an bodily haircut and less like a uniformly round lawn tennis ball. Continue to permit the hair on summit grow out, until information technology as well is in need of a trim.

If you're wanting to eventually grow the sides and back of your hair out rather than keeping them trimmed shut to the head with a taper or fade, start this process in one case the hair on top of your caput is long enough to comb.

Yous'll demand to visit your barber a little more oft — possibly every two weeks — to keep your way looking abrupt during this grow-out period.

If yous tin can't/don't want to visit a hairdresser . . . let your fizz grow while keeping your hairline trimmed.

If you don't think yous'll be visiting a barbershop someday soon, you tin can of class proceed buzzing your caput. If you don't have a mother in law handy, here's a guide on how to do it yourself .

What if you can't visit a barbershop at present, only think yous will in a couple months or so, and want to start growing out your hair now? Giving yourself a taper isn't impossible, but it's pretty tricky. Even having someone else do it for yous is iffy.

You'll thus probably need to content yourself with letting your buzzed fuzz become puffy, merely you tin can still keep it from looking too unruly by doing a DIY clean-upwardly forth your hairline. This means trimming your sideburns along with the ii trails of hair that run down your neck. We've got a guide on how to take care of this chore here .

How long will it have my buzz cutting to grow out?

Genetics will influence how speedily your hair grows, merely on average, humans grow about ½ inch of hair a calendar month. Depending on how long your pilus was pre-buzz cut, expect information technology to accept iii to 4 months to grow out to its original length.

There you get. How to grow out your buzz cut, and banish Mr. Chi-Chi-Chi-Chia Caput to 1990s commercial breaks.