AspenSong
August 15th, 2016, 11:41 AM
So, 6 years on LHC! My have things have grown and changed.
Don't think I probably thought 6 years ago when I signed up on the board because I was tired of lurking, that the things that have happened here and because of this place, would have happened. I just wanted to grow my hair a little longer and more healthy and get some tips on that. And at the time, I just wanted to get to waist length...oh how That changed!
Let's journey...shall we!
I always post this, but I love to see where I came from. On the left is my hair before I joined, after I'd had hubby cut about 6-8" of worse bleach damage off. At this point, I was lurking, but not signed up here. On the Right, is after I'd signed up and been here about 6 months and I had just done my first cassia treatment. These are about a year apart in time! I was so excited by the strides I'd made in changing things in my hair care and a few more small trims. My hair looked like it belonged to a different person.
http://i63.tinypic.com/2hx944h.jpg
I started growing it out from here....I'd been dyeing my hair back and forth between light to dark for several years and had been blonde and hovering around shoulder to chin length for a while, just because all the back and forth dye jobs, obviously left it not in the greatest shape on my ends at times.
http://i63.tinypic.com/29n6tea.jpg
So, better care started and along the way, I picked up my first ever LHC hair toy - a flexi. Here's my first back of my head selfie bun shot! AWWWW! lol.
http://i67.tinypic.com/2r20rb9.jpg
My hair kept growing. I remember taking this photo because I was excited my hair was getting long again.
http://i67.tinypic.com/2mfgbgy.jpg
Along the road I've tried out tons of things on my hair - Like Cocoon curls, seen here. Some worked and obviously there were some disasters. haha
http://i63.tinypic.com/2d2d275.jpg
And I've been down all the no shampoo, CO washing, Silicone, No Silicones, Every different kind of oil, Henna, Cassia, Coffee rinse, Monistat....roads. haha. And after all the trial and error arrived at the fact that my hair just likes some sulfate free shampooing a couple times a week, cone-free conditioner and a bit of light oil and the occasional coconut oil soak. Pretty simple.
I also nurtured up myself a nice collection of hair sticks and pretties along the way and discovered a deep love of all the acrylics and the deep seeded desire for MOAR acrylic sticks!! I've bought and traded and sold more hair items than "normal" people can wrap their minds around, learned to make hair items, discovered hair sticks and things I fell in love with and searched the internet and swap boards for, and participated in some wonderful swaps on the swap boards. And I've experienced great kindness from others and a wonderfully giving attitude in general and been gifted some special things along the way and offered some special things that I desperately wanted.
Newest amazing thing - The LI Opal that Hele gifted me in the Summer Swap. Because how awesome is that and where do you find people so nice floating around the internet?!
http://i66.tinypic.com/2v1q06r.jpg
And no post by me here would probably be complete without Seeshami involved or mentioned in some way. I have met and talked with and know many lovely people here at LHC - many people I consider friends, despite them just being over the computer, many people I hope to get to know better!
But LHC led me to a wonderful friendship that goes beyond long hair.
A little over 3 years ago, I randomly messaged someone here that I noticed also lived in Colorado and not too far from me. I love photography and wanted to see if she wanted to meet up and do photos sometime and model for me, so to speak. I'd get photo experience with taking portraits and she could have the photos to use also. We messaged back and forth here and eventually met. While I thought it would be nice to have a friend with a long hair interest, I don't know that I even figured it would go that way. I think we partly just met to do an "LHC" mini meet and because it seemed like a good idea to meet before we did photos. So we met and immediately hit it off. And from there, our ridiculousness was born. lol. I found a wonderful, fun friend in Seeshami and have spent many "real life" hours with her since, road tripping, doing pottery, painting, buying all the crazy gummies at the Asian market and just generally being a couple of weirdos. I will be always thankful for this gift I got because of this place!
http://i67.tinypic.com/s60g0x.jpg
Sometimes she tries to kill me with our braided together hair though....And sometimes I make ugly faces in pics and NIC CAGE happens. Oh yeah. And here you probably thought this would be mostly weird Nic Cage face free. lol But seriously....my face in that pic....holy Derp.
http://i67.tinypic.com/2dimyyw.jpg
That brings us to the end and a new length shot! I started this whole hair growth journey, hoping to get to waist length. Then waist turned to hip, that turned to tailbone...that turned to Classic and now it's just....As long as it wants to get!
I do have what I feel like is a minority hair type here - Fine and thin! I didn't know what my hair would do getting that long or if it would, but I've just kept growing and tried to keep it in good shape. As of now, I'm at the Top of my Calf! Never thought it would get that long or that I'd surpass knee! But here I am and I'm keeping going - only 11.5" to Floor!!! Hopefully next year there will be more hair and less of my fat body...*sigh*
http://i68.tinypic.com/14k8g02.jpg
Aaaaaand....I totally made DH try to take action shots because I've never taken any in all this time because I always feel like my hair is too wimpy in thickness for cool action shots....
http://i68.tinypic.com/5a5i02.jpg
With that, I just say Thank you for the last 6 years and here's to the next 6 more, longer hair and more fun!!
Don't think I probably thought 6 years ago when I signed up on the board because I was tired of lurking, that the things that have happened here and because of this place, would have happened. I just wanted to grow my hair a little longer and more healthy and get some tips on that. And at the time, I just wanted to get to waist length...oh how That changed!
Let's journey...shall we!
I always post this, but I love to see where I came from. On the left is my hair before I joined, after I'd had hubby cut about 6-8" of worse bleach damage off. At this point, I was lurking, but not signed up here. On the Right, is after I'd signed up and been here about 6 months and I had just done my first cassia treatment. These are about a year apart in time! I was so excited by the strides I'd made in changing things in my hair care and a few more small trims. My hair looked like it belonged to a different person.
http://i63.tinypic.com/2hx944h.jpg
I started growing it out from here....I'd been dyeing my hair back and forth between light to dark for several years and had been blonde and hovering around shoulder to chin length for a while, just because all the back and forth dye jobs, obviously left it not in the greatest shape on my ends at times.
http://i63.tinypic.com/29n6tea.jpg
So, better care started and along the way, I picked up my first ever LHC hair toy - a flexi. Here's my first back of my head selfie bun shot! AWWWW! lol.
http://i67.tinypic.com/2r20rb9.jpg
My hair kept growing. I remember taking this photo because I was excited my hair was getting long again.
http://i67.tinypic.com/2mfgbgy.jpg
Along the road I've tried out tons of things on my hair - Like Cocoon curls, seen here. Some worked and obviously there were some disasters. haha
http://i63.tinypic.com/2d2d275.jpg
And I've been down all the no shampoo, CO washing, Silicone, No Silicones, Every different kind of oil, Henna, Cassia, Coffee rinse, Monistat....roads. haha. And after all the trial and error arrived at the fact that my hair just likes some sulfate free shampooing a couple times a week, cone-free conditioner and a bit of light oil and the occasional coconut oil soak. Pretty simple.
I also nurtured up myself a nice collection of hair sticks and pretties along the way and discovered a deep love of all the acrylics and the deep seeded desire for MOAR acrylic sticks!! I've bought and traded and sold more hair items than "normal" people can wrap their minds around, learned to make hair items, discovered hair sticks and things I fell in love with and searched the internet and swap boards for, and participated in some wonderful swaps on the swap boards. And I've experienced great kindness from others and a wonderfully giving attitude in general and been gifted some special things along the way and offered some special things that I desperately wanted.
Newest amazing thing - The LI Opal that Hele gifted me in the Summer Swap. Because how awesome is that and where do you find people so nice floating around the internet?!
http://i66.tinypic.com/2v1q06r.jpg
And no post by me here would probably be complete without Seeshami involved or mentioned in some way. I have met and talked with and know many lovely people here at LHC - many people I consider friends, despite them just being over the computer, many people I hope to get to know better!
But LHC led me to a wonderful friendship that goes beyond long hair.
A little over 3 years ago, I randomly messaged someone here that I noticed also lived in Colorado and not too far from me. I love photography and wanted to see if she wanted to meet up and do photos sometime and model for me, so to speak. I'd get photo experience with taking portraits and she could have the photos to use also. We messaged back and forth here and eventually met. While I thought it would be nice to have a friend with a long hair interest, I don't know that I even figured it would go that way. I think we partly just met to do an "LHC" mini meet and because it seemed like a good idea to meet before we did photos. So we met and immediately hit it off. And from there, our ridiculousness was born. lol. I found a wonderful, fun friend in Seeshami and have spent many "real life" hours with her since, road tripping, doing pottery, painting, buying all the crazy gummies at the Asian market and just generally being a couple of weirdos. I will be always thankful for this gift I got because of this place!
http://i67.tinypic.com/s60g0x.jpg
Sometimes she tries to kill me with our braided together hair though....And sometimes I make ugly faces in pics and NIC CAGE happens. Oh yeah. And here you probably thought this would be mostly weird Nic Cage face free. lol But seriously....my face in that pic....holy Derp.
http://i67.tinypic.com/2dimyyw.jpg
That brings us to the end and a new length shot! I started this whole hair growth journey, hoping to get to waist length. Then waist turned to hip, that turned to tailbone...that turned to Classic and now it's just....As long as it wants to get!
I do have what I feel like is a minority hair type here - Fine and thin! I didn't know what my hair would do getting that long or if it would, but I've just kept growing and tried to keep it in good shape. As of now, I'm at the Top of my Calf! Never thought it would get that long or that I'd surpass knee! But here I am and I'm keeping going - only 11.5" to Floor!!! Hopefully next year there will be more hair and less of my fat body...*sigh*
http://i68.tinypic.com/14k8g02.jpg
Aaaaaand....I totally made DH try to take action shots because I've never taken any in all this time because I always feel like my hair is too wimpy in thickness for cool action shots....
http://i68.tinypic.com/5a5i02.jpg
With that, I just say Thank you for the last 6 years and here's to the next 6 more, longer hair and more fun!!