i grow my hair for one year (shoulder length, could tie my hair ponytail). some of my tips are :
- dont listen to other people. a lot of people will say stuff like "cut ur hair, u look ugly, etc). rather than just ignore them, learn to ignore them. ur feeling will hurt a lot by them but u will get through trust me.
- at 3-4 months growing ur hair, u will get awkward phase. this last probably 6 months. ur hair will look ugly af. u will demotivate a lot. watch a lot of youtube video timelapse hairgrowth as ur motivation. rather than deny it looks ugly af, just accept it and remember ur goals.
- it is absolutely worth it. 10 months and ur hair will get out of awkward phase and long enough. trust me
- dont look urself with mirror in close range, look it at long range like 3-5 m. i always want to cut my hair in close range cause i though its ugly af. in my 8 months growing, i accompany my friend to cut his hair and look my hair in the mirror. it looks fine tbh. even with short hair, i though it looks weird but when i look at it at longer range it looks fine.
- u will break stereotype. if girls playing fps game are weird, or they deserve kitchen, for men its growing ur hair and wearing pink clothes. just follow number 1 advice
goodluck to u bro, dont track ur days growing hair too. u will get impatient. just forget about it, then we u know it boom 6 months. then another wait, boom 10 months.