aliceinmadness
January 31st, 2013, 01:54 PM
I apologize first off for having a severe case of forum ADD and not commenting here in quite a long time (though I do check in and lurk every now and then).
Anyway, I've been maintaining in the range of waist to tailbone...in other words it gets to my tailbone, gets to be too fussy and then I whack it to my waist and let it grow again, which, retrospectively, happens pretty fast. I also had a fallout problem around this time last year which I've since then managed to correct.
Right now, I'm so frustrated with it that I just want to cut it straight to APL or BSL. The regrowth from the fallout makes the hair near my roots super thick...the ends I have heavily layered and slightly thinned to cut down on weight, so my length is all over the place. The other thing is that I did...unspeakable...things to my hair (especially recently) and I have a ton of breakage and splits, some of which going quite far up the shaft. Search and destroy is just an uphill battle at this point. I'm sure my ends are really uneven, not to mention that the layers are wrecked. The silly part is that it doesn't even feel dry. I still have plenty of slip and elasticity, but it tangles mostly at the ends where my hair is frayed. It's fine up until I hit the break point.
Logically I know I just need a series of good trims and to back off the heat a bit more (I do heat style it about twice a week)...but ever since I came to grips with the fact that I just don't have the hair type to support the hair I was obsessing over...which was obviously made of extensions anyway...I've just been annoyed and depressed by my hair, even when it looks great. And frankly, right now, I'm ashamed to see my hairdresser.
I think I just need a good cry :'( I'm completely goal-less right now and just don't know what to do.
Anyway, I've been maintaining in the range of waist to tailbone...in other words it gets to my tailbone, gets to be too fussy and then I whack it to my waist and let it grow again, which, retrospectively, happens pretty fast. I also had a fallout problem around this time last year which I've since then managed to correct.
Right now, I'm so frustrated with it that I just want to cut it straight to APL or BSL. The regrowth from the fallout makes the hair near my roots super thick...the ends I have heavily layered and slightly thinned to cut down on weight, so my length is all over the place. The other thing is that I did...unspeakable...things to my hair (especially recently) and I have a ton of breakage and splits, some of which going quite far up the shaft. Search and destroy is just an uphill battle at this point. I'm sure my ends are really uneven, not to mention that the layers are wrecked. The silly part is that it doesn't even feel dry. I still have plenty of slip and elasticity, but it tangles mostly at the ends where my hair is frayed. It's fine up until I hit the break point.
Logically I know I just need a series of good trims and to back off the heat a bit more (I do heat style it about twice a week)...but ever since I came to grips with the fact that I just don't have the hair type to support the hair I was obsessing over...which was obviously made of extensions anyway...I've just been annoyed and depressed by my hair, even when it looks great. And frankly, right now, I'm ashamed to see my hairdresser.
I think I just need a good cry :'( I'm completely goal-less right now and just don't know what to do.