I've been feeling really down about my hair lately, because despite all of the S&Ding, conditioning and oiling, my ends were starting to feel really brittle and splitting worse and worse. I was thinking that I might need to just chop off a couple of inches. : I put the two week rule into effect and I still thought that I needed a serious trim. I didn't want to lose any length because my hair has been growing at an extremely slow rate and I have been shedding like crazy. I think losing any length would have just made me more depressed lol. So I sucked it up and trimmed a quarter of an inch off of my ends. It seriously made a world of difference! I suggest to any of you out there that are suffering through a history of chemical/bleach damage or just rough handling damage and feel like there is no hope but to chop off all the damaged parts...wait it out and if anything at all just do a microtrim. It worked for me and hopefully it will save your length and sanity as well