AspenSong
August 14th, 2013, 09:26 PM
I've missed the other "anniversaries", so I'm posting for this one.
I joined August 15th 2010 - I'm a day early, but hubby is dragging me out at 4am tomorrow...so I won't be posting. haha.
I have reached Classic length, which was one of my first goals. Now, I just plan on letting it grow to wherever it wants and trimming and continuing to care for it.
Though I will say, after seeing my ends in a few recent pics, I can see my ends ARE thinning - it's inevitable - and it's not just light or angle like I thought it might be some of. I'm now thinking more of my dip dye fun ends just because I do need to make myself start tackling trimming those suckers off and why not Manic Panic them a bit if they're going to get trimmed anyway?!!
Glad I found the forum and many natural and new ideas for my hair! I was a cone addict when I came here, and while cones aren't bad....(cones are okay...Mmmmmmmmmkay!) MY hair doesn't love them too much and I learned to check for them here! My hair likes them like, once a year....then turns crunchy and wants no cones again. I went through that for a long time though before and kept putting more and more and more of them on my hair to "fix" the dry/crunchiness, never helped, until I got here and found out about No cones and CO washing and all that loveliness. So I know my hair would be much worse off without the info I have gotten here.
A Photo trip though my hair....
Back during my colorful days....
http://i39.tinypic.com/2qmkod1.jpg
I wore my hair pretty short for a long time after I cut from TBL at about 18...
http://i40.tinypic.com/20pwplj.jpg
And while I was always a dye addict, I always went back to blonde it seemed like -
http://i39.tinypic.com/2v2wi68.jpg
I kept this up for another year or so and after my Dad passed away, I started growing my hair for him in a way since he loved my hair long and I missed it and had mostly kept it short at other people's urging for all this time.
This is Jan of 2010 to Jan 2011....The Jan of 2011 I had just done my first cassia treatment and trimmed off a lot of all that dye damage.
http://i41.tinypic.com/2diniva.jpg
Later 2011 - hubby and I.
http://i43.tinypic.com/32zrlhe.jpg
May of 2012 - I was less fat than I am now...haha. Curse my stress eating. =(
http://i42.tinypic.com/2rmbm7s.jpg
July of 2012 after a cassia treatment where I added Henna. Def got a gloss here!
http://i43.tinypic.com/vnjxc5.jpg
Today with the beautiful Baerries fork that the lovely Seeshami be-gifted to me since my hair is significantly smaller than the Naughty Mess. *wink*
http://i40.tinypic.com/2lkd56c.jpg
Another thingy I came up with while playing with my hair...
http://i41.tinypic.com/2rh8t1g.jpg
And here is my hair tonight, after a washing, good conditioning and air dry with no oil - so it's all fluffy!! haha. The little bit of henna I've added to my cassia treatments is def building up on my hair I think. I like it and it makes me want to keep getting a bit more red, but I'm scared of suddenly having to grow it all out because I've lost my natural color completely. =/
http://i39.tinypic.com/1zn1o9v.jpg
I joined August 15th 2010 - I'm a day early, but hubby is dragging me out at 4am tomorrow...so I won't be posting. haha.
I have reached Classic length, which was one of my first goals. Now, I just plan on letting it grow to wherever it wants and trimming and continuing to care for it.
Though I will say, after seeing my ends in a few recent pics, I can see my ends ARE thinning - it's inevitable - and it's not just light or angle like I thought it might be some of. I'm now thinking more of my dip dye fun ends just because I do need to make myself start tackling trimming those suckers off and why not Manic Panic them a bit if they're going to get trimmed anyway?!!
Glad I found the forum and many natural and new ideas for my hair! I was a cone addict when I came here, and while cones aren't bad....(cones are okay...Mmmmmmmmmkay!) MY hair doesn't love them too much and I learned to check for them here! My hair likes them like, once a year....then turns crunchy and wants no cones again. I went through that for a long time though before and kept putting more and more and more of them on my hair to "fix" the dry/crunchiness, never helped, until I got here and found out about No cones and CO washing and all that loveliness. So I know my hair would be much worse off without the info I have gotten here.
A Photo trip though my hair....
Back during my colorful days....
http://i39.tinypic.com/2qmkod1.jpg
I wore my hair pretty short for a long time after I cut from TBL at about 18...
http://i40.tinypic.com/20pwplj.jpg
And while I was always a dye addict, I always went back to blonde it seemed like -
http://i39.tinypic.com/2v2wi68.jpg
I kept this up for another year or so and after my Dad passed away, I started growing my hair for him in a way since he loved my hair long and I missed it and had mostly kept it short at other people's urging for all this time.
This is Jan of 2010 to Jan 2011....The Jan of 2011 I had just done my first cassia treatment and trimmed off a lot of all that dye damage.
http://i41.tinypic.com/2diniva.jpg
Later 2011 - hubby and I.
http://i43.tinypic.com/32zrlhe.jpg
May of 2012 - I was less fat than I am now...haha. Curse my stress eating. =(
http://i42.tinypic.com/2rmbm7s.jpg
July of 2012 after a cassia treatment where I added Henna. Def got a gloss here!
http://i43.tinypic.com/vnjxc5.jpg
Today with the beautiful Baerries fork that the lovely Seeshami be-gifted to me since my hair is significantly smaller than the Naughty Mess. *wink*
http://i40.tinypic.com/2lkd56c.jpg
Another thingy I came up with while playing with my hair...
http://i41.tinypic.com/2rh8t1g.jpg
And here is my hair tonight, after a washing, good conditioning and air dry with no oil - so it's all fluffy!! haha. The little bit of henna I've added to my cassia treatments is def building up on my hair I think. I like it and it makes me want to keep getting a bit more red, but I'm scared of suddenly having to grow it all out because I've lost my natural color completely. =/
http://i39.tinypic.com/1zn1o9v.jpg