tigereye
March 7th, 2016, 02:38 PM
So, its been almost 5 years here on the LHC :cheer:Wow. Where has the time gone? Since I joined, I've completed high school, gone through and completed all the trials and tribulations of university, and now I've been 6 months in a solid stable job I love. I've not posted an anniversary thread before, so its been interesting going through all the old pictures. :popcorn:
When I first joined, I had been growing my hair longer for a while, and was past waist, and heading for hip. But, I didn't take any pictures until the summer of 2011, when I was at hip (with obligatory braid-waves, since I'd been doing braided cinnabuns pretty much every day). I purchased my first custom hairstick that summer - a glow in the dark stick with a pink glass topper vaguely reminiscent of jupiter. Until then, I'd been mostly using (and breaking) pencils and chopsticks.
http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/qq81/lost-kitty/Hair/1b0f596e-8a00-4074-9f21-926a53b24c8a_zpskzcddwsh.png (http://s436.photobucket.com/user/lost-kitty/media/Hair/1b0f596e-8a00-4074-9f21-926a53b24c8a_zpskzcddwsh.png.html)
When I went to uni that September, a friend convinced me to cut my hair, as a sort of new start. Now dont get me wrong, I loved my hair like this, when it behaved. Unfortunately, the layers would fall out of buns and get in my face, and it took at least three days of post-wash bunning to get my ends to sit nicely like that instead of bunching up and tangling. The layers higher up would split before the ends did.
That said, if I ever did cut my hair short again, I'd probably have it like this.
http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/qq81/lost-kitty/Hair/P1010108_zps6eobsikv.jpg (http://s436.photobucket.com/user/lost-kitty/media/Hair/P1010108_zps6eobsikv.jpg.html)
I tried henna to try and bring out the red in my hair a bit more and to help pamper my layers as I started to grow down again. By the summer of 2012, my longest ones were at hip. And I so, so loved the colour.
http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/qq81/lost-kitty/Hair/P1010112_zps5hxikxxq.jpg (http://s436.photobucket.com/user/lost-kitty/media/Hair/P1010112_zps5hxikxxq.jpg.html)
I spent much of the next year growing out my layers and doing occasional henna glosses. Unfortunately, in 2012, my doctor changed my pill to the mini-pill after my brother had a stroke, and in 2013, I went on a couple of medications for health issues that started the worst episode of shedding I had ever experienced. I took this picture fairly close to the start of the shed, mostly to show the curls happening on my very ends after I'd tried Panacea's salve for the first time on wet hair.
http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/qq81/lost-kitty/Hair/4852fef9-5716-4d9d-99c8-ad6ef5928dc4_zpsmsfkomxm.jpg (http://s436.photobucket.com/user/lost-kitty/media/Hair/4852fef9-5716-4d9d-99c8-ad6ef5928dc4_zpsmsfkomxm.jpg.html)
Within 2 months, my 4" ponytail was down to barely 2". Thankfully, at that point, the shedding leveled out, and my hair began to grow again, albeit excruciatingly slowly. At the start of 2014 I still wasnt at BCL. I'd stopped doing henna glosses entirely, and the colour was fading fast (oddly, Jamilla henna doesnt seem to stick very well in my hair). My general health improved though and the doctor finally weaned me off the drugs (all except an antihistamine and the mini-pill, though I have since come off those too) in time for my birthday that January. My hair started growing again, faster than ever but I didn't really take many pictures of my hair. I tended to prefer to throw it up and forget about it. I forgot my deep treatments, I ran out of oil, I forgot to S&D and I started spending most of my time here hanging out in the Friendship board rather than the hair forums. After getting a trim in the spring, this is how it looked after all my hairdressers attempts to make it look nice for a family occasion the next day. My see-through ends here were pretty indicative of how most of my hair felt at the time.
http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/qq81/lost-kitty/Hair/8fa5ef30-9bd0-41e4-b7dc-e66dfc469926_zpsf3efzavj.jpg (http://s436.photobucket.com/user/lost-kitty/media/Hair/8fa5ef30-9bd0-41e4-b7dc-e66dfc469926_zpsf3efzavj.jpg.html)
It grew enough to hit classic, despite two trims. And helped by a hefty amount of SLS shampoo (which I immediately regretted putting near my scalp), brushed out waves and crappy lighting, my hair looked fairly thick for the christmas photos. Unfortunately, it was also dull, and the ends damaged and velcro-y. My ponytail had grown a little but still had a long way to go.
When I first joined, I had been growing my hair longer for a while, and was past waist, and heading for hip. But, I didn't take any pictures until the summer of 2011, when I was at hip (with obligatory braid-waves, since I'd been doing braided cinnabuns pretty much every day). I purchased my first custom hairstick that summer - a glow in the dark stick with a pink glass topper vaguely reminiscent of jupiter. Until then, I'd been mostly using (and breaking) pencils and chopsticks.
http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/qq81/lost-kitty/Hair/1b0f596e-8a00-4074-9f21-926a53b24c8a_zpskzcddwsh.png (http://s436.photobucket.com/user/lost-kitty/media/Hair/1b0f596e-8a00-4074-9f21-926a53b24c8a_zpskzcddwsh.png.html)
When I went to uni that September, a friend convinced me to cut my hair, as a sort of new start. Now dont get me wrong, I loved my hair like this, when it behaved. Unfortunately, the layers would fall out of buns and get in my face, and it took at least three days of post-wash bunning to get my ends to sit nicely like that instead of bunching up and tangling. The layers higher up would split before the ends did.
That said, if I ever did cut my hair short again, I'd probably have it like this.
http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/qq81/lost-kitty/Hair/P1010108_zps6eobsikv.jpg (http://s436.photobucket.com/user/lost-kitty/media/Hair/P1010108_zps6eobsikv.jpg.html)
I tried henna to try and bring out the red in my hair a bit more and to help pamper my layers as I started to grow down again. By the summer of 2012, my longest ones were at hip. And I so, so loved the colour.
http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/qq81/lost-kitty/Hair/P1010112_zps5hxikxxq.jpg (http://s436.photobucket.com/user/lost-kitty/media/Hair/P1010112_zps5hxikxxq.jpg.html)
I spent much of the next year growing out my layers and doing occasional henna glosses. Unfortunately, in 2012, my doctor changed my pill to the mini-pill after my brother had a stroke, and in 2013, I went on a couple of medications for health issues that started the worst episode of shedding I had ever experienced. I took this picture fairly close to the start of the shed, mostly to show the curls happening on my very ends after I'd tried Panacea's salve for the first time on wet hair.
http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/qq81/lost-kitty/Hair/4852fef9-5716-4d9d-99c8-ad6ef5928dc4_zpsmsfkomxm.jpg (http://s436.photobucket.com/user/lost-kitty/media/Hair/4852fef9-5716-4d9d-99c8-ad6ef5928dc4_zpsmsfkomxm.jpg.html)
Within 2 months, my 4" ponytail was down to barely 2". Thankfully, at that point, the shedding leveled out, and my hair began to grow again, albeit excruciatingly slowly. At the start of 2014 I still wasnt at BCL. I'd stopped doing henna glosses entirely, and the colour was fading fast (oddly, Jamilla henna doesnt seem to stick very well in my hair). My general health improved though and the doctor finally weaned me off the drugs (all except an antihistamine and the mini-pill, though I have since come off those too) in time for my birthday that January. My hair started growing again, faster than ever but I didn't really take many pictures of my hair. I tended to prefer to throw it up and forget about it. I forgot my deep treatments, I ran out of oil, I forgot to S&D and I started spending most of my time here hanging out in the Friendship board rather than the hair forums. After getting a trim in the spring, this is how it looked after all my hairdressers attempts to make it look nice for a family occasion the next day. My see-through ends here were pretty indicative of how most of my hair felt at the time.
http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/qq81/lost-kitty/Hair/8fa5ef30-9bd0-41e4-b7dc-e66dfc469926_zpsf3efzavj.jpg (http://s436.photobucket.com/user/lost-kitty/media/Hair/8fa5ef30-9bd0-41e4-b7dc-e66dfc469926_zpsf3efzavj.jpg.html)
It grew enough to hit classic, despite two trims. And helped by a hefty amount of SLS shampoo (which I immediately regretted putting near my scalp), brushed out waves and crappy lighting, my hair looked fairly thick for the christmas photos. Unfortunately, it was also dull, and the ends damaged and velcro-y. My ponytail had grown a little but still had a long way to go.