If you believe in it it'll happen.
If not, it won't.
Now, personally I don't believe in the whole trimming by the moon thing, BUT if you want to trim on that day because you believe it helps growth then you've added another variable. IF we say that trimming on June 1st may or may not increase growth, then if you do see increased growth we don't know whether it's simply the act of trimming or the day on which you trimmed that caused it.
I think the idea of measuring to a demarcation line or similar is a good one; however I also think it's important to measure the entire length of the hair. This allows for both monitoring breakage and assessing whether or not participants have an increase in length gained after a trim. Say there are 20 participants, each growing from the root at 1/2" a month. All this information gives us is evidence that these individuals do not experience a growth spurt after trimming. That's not to say, however, that no one does.
If, on the other hand, we find that 10 of these participants do experience a greater increase in length after trimming due to less breakage, then while we cannot wholly rule out the idea that trimming can cause growth spurts (that's something that can only be proven true, not false), we can assume that apparent growth spurts from trimming are in fact due to less damage, because we have evidence that individuals who appear to have growth spurts do in fact have less damage.
ETA: One more thing to bear in mind is that summer growth spurts aren't uncommon; participants who haven't regularly measured their hair over the summer in the past could therefore experience a growth spurt that could influence results.
Last edited by florenonite; April 28th, 2012 at 08:38 AM.
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If you believe in it it'll happen.
If not, it won't.
True, I will pick today 28th of April to begin then and trim my hair on May 28th
This is why you must wear a braid, bead, something so that it will move and show you the growth from your roots, we are measuring from both total length and root growth length to confirm
Again, this is not a PERFECT experiment but it will give us a higher idea and higher truth as to whether or not trimming does increase growth. It won't prove it 100% but it will at least 95% explain whether it does or doesn't. After this experiment is done it will give us a much stronger belief/truth but not the absolute truth. I figure scientists aren't going to do this anytime soon, so only we can do it for ourselves for the time being.
Last edited by gogirlanime; June 5th, 2012 at 12:46 PM.
Thank you so much for participating!! To answer your question your timeline would go as follows
May 19th measure (May to June is one month of measure)
June 19 measure before trim and after trim (June to July is two months of measures)
July 19th measure (July to August is three months of measures)
August 19th measure
Here's my starting point, the first loops of my braid to my root is 3/4" inch away lets see how it measures May 28th!
Last edited by gogirlanime; June 5th, 2012 at 12:47 PM.
Only 3 people does no one else want to try this with us?
Last edited by gogirlanime; June 5th, 2012 at 12:47 PM.
I'd love to try this, but there are a few problems. The main one is that I have no hair routine at the moment (yes, bad, I know). I also can't guarantee that my diet will stay the same. And I'm not trimming until the end of the year. I trim with the moon when I do, anyway, so that would be a factor C like someone said above.
I do hope more people join though! I'm sorry I can't, but just know I would if I were in a position to. I will be following everyone's results interestedly.
Last edited by gogirlanime; June 5th, 2012 at 12:47 PM.
The experiment would be more accurate if you did a full year instead of 3 months.
Seasonal growth spurts and seasonal shedding would affect the results if it's just a few months.
I joined your challenge & measured on May 1st.
So you have more than 3 - you have at least 4,LOL
There may be even more silent ones that joined your challenge but just have not posted it.
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