I'm never sure how to answer this question, and it is probably the question I get asked the most.

"How long have you been growing your hair?"

As far as I'm concerned, I've been actively trying to grow for two and a half years, since I joined LHC, but I was at waist length at that point, already "super-long" by most of society's standards. I feel like it's misleading to tell people that I've only been growing for two years, but I also feel like "I've always had long hair" isn't quite true either, because I have been actively growing it these past couple of years.

I think the last major cut I had was in 2004 to a few inches below my shoulders for a play I was in, and that felt insanely short. I just let it do its own thing until 2009 when I discovered LHC and realized that I could grow it long if I took better care of it.

I feel like the only way you can honesty answer "how long" is if you started from bald or a pixie or something.