I always enjoy the color of your hair
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Thanks for explaining. I didn't know DIY trims were possible via pony-tailing. I'm skittish though, because the first time I tried my now-normal "center-part to the nape, comb forward and cut" method, I gave myself this severe V that I still have.
Lots of people seem to like my color. It's a mix of natural gray, very light blonde dye, and adjusting photo levels in an app so I can clearly see blouse prints and belt loops as background progress markers. I didn't use my normal floral blouse last time because my hair is now past the print pattern. YAY that! I keep thinking of re-adding some golden to my color, but a lotta the beach models I use as Hair Insp have that gray thing which is kinda in style the last few years. So I can be gray without seeming as old in comparison to those horrible evil beach models who obviously make deals with Satan just so they can look like that.
LHC will def make one obsess. But haven't you been through the super long hair growth a couple times? It seems to be newbies like me who obsess the worst, counting every new body marker or blouse print that our hair reaches. I wonder if the Been There Done That crowd just rolls their eyes.... "<harrumph> Kids!"
Thanks. I owe it all to my coconut/avocado/olive oil masking. My hair starts badly breaking if I neglect that for only about 2 weeks, so I'll be masking for life. I always wanted loooong hair but didn't know how much care some of us need to give it. I don't plan on cutting it unless one side of it loses an argument to a candle, or something.
Regular measurements will tell you for sure. I suspect most stalls are in our heads rather than our scalps.
Agreed.
From CBL to WL is a long stretch of lonely frustrating highway (esp when you're 6'2"), but I've found that at waist, things happen faster. First it's reaching the inside of my elbows in the mirror, then it's touching my forearms when I sit, now it's wrapping around my forearms, and soon it will touch my navel and then my lap. Fortunately my goal is ~BCL-TBL, so I'll spare myself those long lonely frustrating stretches that come after CL.
I totally know that feeling! I do the (roughly) seasonal back shots and post them here, but also for a month longer than I've been doing that, I've been taking damp shots from the front every month or two. Strictly for my own progress charting, as they're topless for accurate body markers like moles and such. So that's two occasions I let myself get all neurotic about it. There are other times as well, but they're not scheduled. :-)
Vara La Fey, you are welcome and I hope I made myself clear, because I am not good at explaining or understanding directions in English. I did not use THE Ponytail method, which involves positioning the ponytail at the back/top/front of the head and results in creating long layers. I placed the ponytail on the lowest possible point on the nape (on my neck), merely to contain the hair in one place. This method results in even, straight hemline. Like Organically Anna does in this video (the cutting starts around 2:20), except I used one more elastic to contain my hair and thus avoided a bit of "freestyling" that I feel she did there.
Anyway, I wish you good luck with self-trimming - once you get the hang of it, it´s not scary but fun!
Thank you so much! :blossom: I'm sorry it took me so long to reply back!
I used to use olive oil (both straight and a creme); my hair loves olive oil. I stopped doing it because it is so difficult to not let any of the oil touch my scalp or scalp hair, especially for a long time (it takes at least 12 hours for my low-porosity hair to absorb it). I can't let any type of oil touch my skin or I will immediately get a terrible fungal (malassezia) infection--even if I wash the oil off!
The last time I reached waist-length was in 2007, but getting there again in 2024 has been like 50 times more difficult because I am apparently super-sensitive to malassezia now. I am able to only use about 5 "safe" products to moisturize my hair and/or skin! :headache:
I did it! I took my first hair pic for this year. Last one was from almost half a year ago.
Well... This is what my hair looks like, I guess. Nothing much special about it, but at least there's now an updated photo. :shrug:
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com...5&d=1715853033
Very nice, Ylva. And I like your hair color.
Thanks so much, Für immer! :heart:
I can't decide what I want to do about the length. I really enjoy it here between hip and BCL and don't really have any real desire to grow longer at the moment.
Well, you could always maintain the length for awhile, and then see if you want to grow it longer or not. :)