Before and after - one year of hair growth. Show us your photos!

**bushkin** · January 12th, 2024, 09:55 AM

If you've finally made it to waist length it makes sense you are celebrating your victory!!

**bushkin** · January 12th, 2024, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by Chasemi

I take pictures of my hair a LOT. If my hair looks good? I'll take a picture. If it looks bad? I'll probably take a picture. If I put my hair up in a new way? I'll take a picture, especially so I can see what the back looks like. I make sure to take one on the 1st of each month, but I take so many during the month

It's probably a problem

If you've made it to waist length it makes sense you are celebrating your victory!!

**Für immer** · January 12th, 2024, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by bushkin

I love this thread! Keep growing everybody!

Curious how often you guys take hair photos. I've been taking one each month for the last six months now.

I snap a few every week, so by the end of the year, we are talking about hundreds of them in total (not counting the ones I delete

).

**spirals** · January 12th, 2024, 07:11 PM

Originally Posted by SandyBottom

You're going to need longer arms soon so you can fit the full length in

Nice job!

LOL!

PeonyBlue's wave pattern is gorgeous and congrats, Brandt! Love the pictures.

**sarana** · April 16th, 2024, 07:23 PM

So I don't know if this is the right thread for this, but I decided to stick it here.

Around Easter 2023 I decided to bleach a strand of hair behind my ear (to the scalp) to see how fast my roots grow, to determine my hair growth rate. I call it my "calibration strand". It has grown about 11cm in one year, so my growth rate is in the normal range apparently. It hasn't fully translated to the ends due to breakage and stuff, but this is valuable information to me, because I have never really dyed my hair much and didn't know my root growth rate.

(Well now I'm also growing out accidental henna but the line isn't as clear)

**Bat** · April 17th, 2024, 02:55 AM

That is a nice experiment

**ETJ CURLS** · April 17th, 2024, 07:03 AM

Originally Posted by sarana

So I don't know if this is the right thread for this, but I decided to stick it here.

Around Easter 2023 I decided to bleach a strand of hair behind my ear (to the scalp) to see how fast my roots grow, to determine my hair growth rate. I call it my "calibration strand". It has grown about 11cm in one year, so my growth rate is in the normal range apparently. It hasn't fully translated to the ends due to breakage and stuff, but this is valuable information to me, because I have never really dyed my hair much and didn't know my root growth rate.

(Well now I'm also growing out accidental henna but the line isn't as clear)

Cool! I definitely think this is a more accurate way to determine growth. I always felt my hair grew slower than average, and once I started properly getting my hair highlighted, I confirmed it for sure. It's a nice way to know if the haircare practices you're doing are actually helping to retain length or not.

Your natural colour is so pretty!

**foreveryours** · April 17th, 2024, 07:29 AM

Originally Posted by sarana

So I don't know if this is the right thread for this, but I decided to stick it here.

Around Easter 2023 I decided to bleach a strand of hair behind my ear (to the scalp) to see how fast my roots grow, to determine my hair growth rate. I call it my "calibration strand". It has grown about 11cm in one year, so my growth rate is in the normal range apparently. It hasn't fully translated to the ends due to breakage and stuff, but this is valuable information to me, because I have never really dyed my hair much and didn't know my root growth rate.

(Well now I'm also growing out accidental henna but the line isn't as clear)

Oh fun. You'll have to bleach multiple patches to see if growth rate varies over the scalp area.

I suspect it does, perhaps fastest near the crown and slower near the periphery? LOL

**Chasemi** · May 11th, 2024, 08:58 PM

Exactly 1 year apart! May 2023 - May 2024
I wish I still had that shirt for a perfect comparison.
It's crazy because I honestly feel like it hasn't grown at all. It feels so short in front of my shoulders, and though the measurement has changed, it still feels like SL or APL at most

**Lady Winchester** · May 11th, 2024, 11:03 PM

Originally Posted by bushkin

I love this thread! Keep growing everybody!

Curious how often you guys take hair photos. I've been taking one each month for the last six months now.

Hardly ever, since I don't like pictures of myself (which includes my hair), so I mostly have to describe it. I've got more important things to do than take constant pictures of myself (frankly, I'd rather play video games or update a fan fiction story that I'm working on, but I tend to procrastinate a lot, since sometimes, I just don't feel like it, so if it takes me six months to add a chapter, then so be it).