diddiedaisy
December 19th, 2015, 12:18 AM
Hi all, wow two years of growing. I would like to start off by thanking everyone for their great advice and support.
I started with shoulder length hair which was straight. I had lost about 30% to shedding so I wasn't beginning my journey in a great place, and to be honest if I'd known how hard the cycle of growing and cutting was going to be to get rid of shed ends I probably wouldn't have bothered growing it in the first place!!!
As an enthusiastic newbie, I tried any and every experiment known to man to speed up my growth, not one of them worked :D
I stopped blow frying, ripping through my hair with a brush, and generally just abusing it.
Progress wise, my length I have gained isn't astounding, but the thickness is improving. I have cut off all of this year's growth.
Starting point
http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/ag361/sblackburn4/Mobile%20Uploads/th_FFBBA68E-15CA-45D6-A73F-281C05EFE7F8_zpskdtbnmws.jpg (http://s1373.photobucket.com/user/sblackburn4/media/Mobile%20Uploads/FFBBA68E-15CA-45D6-A73F-281C05EFE7F8_zpskdtbnmws.jpg.html)
Turns out my hair had other ideas and by April it was doing this!
http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/ag361/sblackburn4/Mobile%20Uploads/0EA5D0E4-FF0A-4C9B-9C1C-1A7229616C46_zpstplulkrp.jpg (http://s1373.photobucket.com/user/sblackburn4/media/Mobile%20Uploads/0EA5D0E4-FF0A-4C9B-9C1C-1A7229616C46_zpstplulkrp.jpg.html)
This is my hair today
http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/ag361/sblackburn4/Mobile%20Uploads/77EC50BB-247A-4F31-BCA6-62E9F5E3B1D5_zpsm7sqtdp9.jpg (http://s1373.photobucket.com/user/sblackburn4/media/Mobile%20Uploads/77EC50BB-247A-4F31-BCA6-62E9F5E3B1D5_zpsm7sqtdp9.jpg.html)http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/ag361/sblackburn4/Mobile%20Uploads/056BBA52-81D5-4B95-AC96-AFA29F0CFEB4_zpsp8nivnm5.jpg (http://s1373.photobucket.com/user/sblackburn4/media/Mobile%20Uploads/056BBA52-81D5-4B95-AC96-AFA29F0CFEB4_zpsp8nivnm5.jpg.html)
My plan for next year is to micro trim my way to waist, with the hope of a thicker hemline.
I started with shoulder length hair which was straight. I had lost about 30% to shedding so I wasn't beginning my journey in a great place, and to be honest if I'd known how hard the cycle of growing and cutting was going to be to get rid of shed ends I probably wouldn't have bothered growing it in the first place!!!
As an enthusiastic newbie, I tried any and every experiment known to man to speed up my growth, not one of them worked :D
I stopped blow frying, ripping through my hair with a brush, and generally just abusing it.
Progress wise, my length I have gained isn't astounding, but the thickness is improving. I have cut off all of this year's growth.
Starting point
http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/ag361/sblackburn4/Mobile%20Uploads/th_FFBBA68E-15CA-45D6-A73F-281C05EFE7F8_zpskdtbnmws.jpg (http://s1373.photobucket.com/user/sblackburn4/media/Mobile%20Uploads/FFBBA68E-15CA-45D6-A73F-281C05EFE7F8_zpskdtbnmws.jpg.html)
Turns out my hair had other ideas and by April it was doing this!
http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/ag361/sblackburn4/Mobile%20Uploads/0EA5D0E4-FF0A-4C9B-9C1C-1A7229616C46_zpstplulkrp.jpg (http://s1373.photobucket.com/user/sblackburn4/media/Mobile%20Uploads/0EA5D0E4-FF0A-4C9B-9C1C-1A7229616C46_zpstplulkrp.jpg.html)
This is my hair today
http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/ag361/sblackburn4/Mobile%20Uploads/77EC50BB-247A-4F31-BCA6-62E9F5E3B1D5_zpsm7sqtdp9.jpg (http://s1373.photobucket.com/user/sblackburn4/media/Mobile%20Uploads/77EC50BB-247A-4F31-BCA6-62E9F5E3B1D5_zpsm7sqtdp9.jpg.html)http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/ag361/sblackburn4/Mobile%20Uploads/056BBA52-81D5-4B95-AC96-AFA29F0CFEB4_zpsp8nivnm5.jpg (http://s1373.photobucket.com/user/sblackburn4/media/Mobile%20Uploads/056BBA52-81D5-4B95-AC96-AFA29F0CFEB4_zpsp8nivnm5.jpg.html)
My plan for next year is to micro trim my way to waist, with the hope of a thicker hemline.