One year's growth! (Pics)

[Nesoi]

It's officially one year since the last time I got my hair cut!

Brief history: had hair all lengths and colours under the sun while growing up. As an adult had waist-length, virgin hair for a few years, which I sort of took care of, but I hadn't yet found LHC. Cut it all off into a pixie in Summer 2011, and then started buzzing it when the upkeep of short hair turned out to be a huge faff!

Started half-heartedly growing it out again in 2012, and found LHC in 2013. Had my grow-out mullet chopped in March 2013, and this was the result:

http://i939.photobucket.com/albums/ad235/ohnointernetto/March2013_zps6157ba4a.jpg (http://s939.photobucket.com/user/ohnointernetto/media/March2013_zps6157ba4a.jpg.html)

I don't have one from the back, but you can see how incredibly short some of those layers are!!

I'm ashamed to say I didn't take very good care of it at this point (lots of blowdrying, straightening and salt spraying!!) and by Autumn 2013 the condition really wasn't great and it hadn't grown very much:

http://i939.photobucket.com/albums/ad235/ohnointernetto/hairOctober_zpsb05cb938.jpg (http://s939.photobucket.com/user/ohnointernetto/media/hairOctober_zpsb05cb938.jpg.html)

But that's when I started really trying to follow the LHC way of things. I've been co-washing, coconut oiling, tangle teezing, BBBing, doing scalp-massage and taking vitamins, wearing it up as much as possible and trying to avoid hair elastics. I've done just one half-inch trim using proper hairdressing shears in that time, and here's my hair today:

http://i939.photobucket.com/albums/ad235/ohnointernetto/photo5_zps9263f48b.jpg (http://s939.photobucket.com/user/ohnointernetto/media/photo5_zps9263f48b.jpg.html)

Yay! Starting to actually get past my shoulders, and I'm on my way to APL. I've embraced my natural ashy colour, my unpredictable wurls, and stopped trying to make my hair be something it just isn't.

Thank you LHC! The advice and support to be found here is so awesome. Can't wait to see how much growth I have by this time next year!!

[Aingeal]

I love your wurls! Looking healthy and shiny.

[georgia_peach]

Job well done! Lovely natural waves and color.

[two_wheels]

Whoa, hair twin in type, length & colour! Looks lovely.

[restless]

It looks really nice, the waves/ wurls are very pretty :)

[lapushka]

Nice growth, lovely waves and... I know all about the ashy color! Glad to hear you've accepted it.

[Nebulae]

Lovely wurls and great progress! :D

[arielágua]

So lovely and congrats! I love the ash colour, I think it's beautiful and all those shiny waves. :D

[Quasiquixotic]

I love your color! And wurls! Pretty pretty ang getting long :)

[jacqueline101]

I'm glad you found us. Your hair is making great progress. The length whirls and color are pretty.

[Colourful]

Awesome! You have pretty hair + pretty colour. Congratulations!

[nakima]

yout hair looks really nice. you have done a great job taking care of it keep up the good work! Lovely!

[Frida]

Your hair looks fantastic and I love your wurls! Congrats!

[Ishje]

It looks great!!

[Tini'sNewHair]

Your hair looks in great condition, very pretty!! Congrats on a wonderful year of growing with LHC! :)

[Sarahlabyrinth]

Your hair is lovely, such cute waves and wonderful shine, it's looking so healthy, yay for LHC! Congrats on your first year here!

[Addy]

Lookin good!

[Lostsoule77]

Looks like all that work you are doing is more than paying off. Your hair is lovely and you've gotten some nice growth! :)

[Nesoi]

Gosh, thank you all so much for such sweet words! This is always such a nice community :blossom:

[LauraLongLocks]

Nice work. Great progress!