Greenfire
September 21st, 2012, 07:45 PM
My hairdresser in the past has accused me of cutting my own hair because it would be so uneven when I'd see him, one side would be a lot longer than the other, and all of it would be really uneven. I would go every 2 months.
It wasn't until he started seeing my mother that he realised it was a family trait! Her hair grows really slowly, maybe an inch in 4 months, 6 months, something like that. But on one side of her head at the back, it grows normal speed. She'll go in for a trim every 6 months or longer and her hair at the back on one side will be inches longer than the other.
I'm not as noticeable, and my hair grows a lot faster, but I have to wonder if the parts that aren't growing as fast as the others can be made to catch up? I started measuring my growth this last month, and it appears that I grew 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch depending on where you put the measuring tape on my head. (I'm growing out roots, so I'm measuring to the line, not the length of the entire hair, so it's not breakage that makes it uneven, it's growth)
Here's a pic from a couple of days ago: http://i34.servimg.com/u/f34/13/64/99/00/dscn1110.jpg (http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=76&u=13649900)
You will see that I have a reddish line along my regrowth line. That is because I tried to use a toner to match the lightened part of my hair to the roots previously when I started growing them in, I knew the colour wouldn't last, but didn't know that it would lighten the roots to that reddish colour after it washed out. So this time around I'm staying away from the hairdresser and just letting it grow.
But do you see where the demarcation line is, and how some of the reddish lighten hairs are closer to the scalp and some are further away? It's almost a half inch difference to measure one hair to the next!
Any ideas on how to speed up the other ones? Or am I just to suck it up and let it be?
(I also want to hear if any of you guys have this too?)
It wasn't until he started seeing my mother that he realised it was a family trait! Her hair grows really slowly, maybe an inch in 4 months, 6 months, something like that. But on one side of her head at the back, it grows normal speed. She'll go in for a trim every 6 months or longer and her hair at the back on one side will be inches longer than the other.
I'm not as noticeable, and my hair grows a lot faster, but I have to wonder if the parts that aren't growing as fast as the others can be made to catch up? I started measuring my growth this last month, and it appears that I grew 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch depending on where you put the measuring tape on my head. (I'm growing out roots, so I'm measuring to the line, not the length of the entire hair, so it's not breakage that makes it uneven, it's growth)
Here's a pic from a couple of days ago: http://i34.servimg.com/u/f34/13/64/99/00/dscn1110.jpg (http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=76&u=13649900)
You will see that I have a reddish line along my regrowth line. That is because I tried to use a toner to match the lightened part of my hair to the roots previously when I started growing them in, I knew the colour wouldn't last, but didn't know that it would lighten the roots to that reddish colour after it washed out. So this time around I'm staying away from the hairdresser and just letting it grow.
But do you see where the demarcation line is, and how some of the reddish lighten hairs are closer to the scalp and some are further away? It's almost a half inch difference to measure one hair to the next!
Any ideas on how to speed up the other ones? Or am I just to suck it up and let it be?
(I also want to hear if any of you guys have this too?)