Of the Fae
April 8th, 2018, 10:11 AM
Hi all!
It's been a whopping seven years since I joined this community, and in that time my hair has grown and grown!
I don't have all the pictures from then but I can share my journey since my largest cut in september 2013, when I basically shaved from BSL after having given up being able to grow, and being sick of lots of bleach damage:
https://www.flickr.com/gp/113617513@N04/7P6899https://www.flickr.com/gp/113617513@N04/7P6899
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/787/41320260371_6a3e5b321c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/25Xk8Qg)
Of course I regretted it almost a month after. I started growing again, and did not trim at all except for evening out a rat tail I had going around january of 2014.
After a while of growing, I was here:
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/816/40424577065_c17ec887c3.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/24AbwoD)
March 2016. After a well needed trim for the first time in a long time!
[IMG]https://farm1.staticflickr.com/865/27447928748_f0afcbfc58.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/HPtNWQ)
And june 2016
[IMG]https://farm1.staticflickr.com/818/26448603207_026ffd836d.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Gib1h8)
Jan 2017!
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/797/27447928708_7e5ab23496.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/HPtNW9)
Feb, 2017
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/902/40606542574_56052057bb.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/24Sg9p1)
March 2017 :)
[IMG]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4314/35317775204_6b23175fde.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/VNUQ7G)
July 2017
as you can see my hemline was quite uneven here. I stuck it out for a while but I was experiencing breakage, and only the longest whisps were approaching TBL around the new year of 2018.
So here we are now, april 2018. For the first time in four years I went to the hairdresser's, and had a solid trim of somewhere between 5 and 10 cms + my hemline fixed up. Excuse the flyaways, I had some braids in earlier.
Also, they gave me bangs- continued in first comment due to pic limit:
I think I'm about 5 cm's shy of tbl at the back with the longest part of my U-shape.
I still have quite some splits up my length due to having ridiculously fine but dense hair, that tangles easily. But people have been complimenting my hair a lot, and I think I'm the only one who really notices anyway. What do you guys think?
Also I wanted to thank everyone here, because without you I could never have done it. I never had long hair before, BSL in 2013 was the longest I ever got, also thanks to LHC, and now I've taken your advice to heart even more, using nothing but henna, getting more regular trims, and using a BBB. Seeing pics of people with classic and knee length hair gave me hopes that I could at least try to keep growing as well! Because you don't see such lengths on the streets that often. My goal is classic, or even terminal. I'm actually curious where my terminal length is, because my hair is still growing very fast.
It's been a whopping seven years since I joined this community, and in that time my hair has grown and grown!
I don't have all the pictures from then but I can share my journey since my largest cut in september 2013, when I basically shaved from BSL after having given up being able to grow, and being sick of lots of bleach damage:
https://www.flickr.com/gp/113617513@N04/7P6899https://www.flickr.com/gp/113617513@N04/7P6899
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/787/41320260371_6a3e5b321c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/25Xk8Qg)
Of course I regretted it almost a month after. I started growing again, and did not trim at all except for evening out a rat tail I had going around january of 2014.
After a while of growing, I was here:
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/816/40424577065_c17ec887c3.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/24AbwoD)
March 2016. After a well needed trim for the first time in a long time!
[IMG]https://farm1.staticflickr.com/865/27447928748_f0afcbfc58.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/HPtNWQ)
And june 2016
[IMG]https://farm1.staticflickr.com/818/26448603207_026ffd836d.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Gib1h8)
Jan 2017!
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/797/27447928708_7e5ab23496.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/HPtNW9)
Feb, 2017
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/902/40606542574_56052057bb.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/24Sg9p1)
March 2017 :)
[IMG]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4314/35317775204_6b23175fde.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/VNUQ7G)
July 2017
as you can see my hemline was quite uneven here. I stuck it out for a while but I was experiencing breakage, and only the longest whisps were approaching TBL around the new year of 2018.
So here we are now, april 2018. For the first time in four years I went to the hairdresser's, and had a solid trim of somewhere between 5 and 10 cms + my hemline fixed up. Excuse the flyaways, I had some braids in earlier.
Also, they gave me bangs- continued in first comment due to pic limit:
I think I'm about 5 cm's shy of tbl at the back with the longest part of my U-shape.
I still have quite some splits up my length due to having ridiculously fine but dense hair, that tangles easily. But people have been complimenting my hair a lot, and I think I'm the only one who really notices anyway. What do you guys think?
Also I wanted to thank everyone here, because without you I could never have done it. I never had long hair before, BSL in 2013 was the longest I ever got, also thanks to LHC, and now I've taken your advice to heart even more, using nothing but henna, getting more regular trims, and using a BBB. Seeing pics of people with classic and knee length hair gave me hopes that I could at least try to keep growing as well! Because you don't see such lengths on the streets that often. My goal is classic, or even terminal. I'm actually curious where my terminal length is, because my hair is still growing very fast.