Then and Now (picture thread)

[Stray_mind]

Hey, i'm not sure if we have a thread for this, but i would Really love to see everyone's pictures when they just started growing out their hair with the help of LHC and how it is Now.

I'll start :)

I joined LHC almost five years ago, in 2013. I just had cut and hennaed my hair:
This is my very first length shot LHC style.

https://i.imgur.com/WwCHDUG.jpg

I grew for more than 2 years until i reached past waist. I hennaed my hair for about a year and a half, until i decided to grow out natural.

https://i.imgur.com/YQQ0jxm.jpg

And then i cut my hair into a short layered bob, getting rid of the henna.

https://i.imgur.com/rx2NKpI.jpg

I maintained this style for about a year or two, while also dyeing my hair dark brown... I kept cutting my hair shorter and shorter. My last big cut was August 13, 2017, leaving me with This much hair:

https://i.imgur.com/GKbLd0r.jpg

And here i am now, 10 months and one trim later:

https://i.imgur.com/syNxjxW.jpg

So tell me Your LHC story! :)

[Kyaatje]

oh yes I want to play :p

I started lurking in 2009 and actually joined in October 2010 when my hair was like this: (this is about may)

https://s26.postimg.cc/j7m2c8l95/undercut.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/xe1t7gw45/)
about shoulder-length and with an undercut.


In 2011 my hair is like this:

https://s26.postimg.cc/8l9y31te1/halflang.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/xeji3pced/)

This is while using henna and still washing traditionally

Then there was a period where I tried everything from pea powder to soap to wash my hair, I've put avocado, yoghurt, egg and whatnot in my hair.
Some with great result but after all the experiments my hair was quiet fried. (and I would show you butI can't seem to upload to postimage at the moment)

So I need to go to 2014: when I cut my hair
https://s26.postimg.cc/v8z7hhyix/IMG_2094_zpscqfycqbp.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/4nwolxw5h/)

And this is about may this year:
https://s26.postimg.cc/r0uf0fzsp/IMG_2911.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/wc9bl5lv9/)

using my own homemade shampoo and conditioner: not totally natural but without sulfates

[Stray_mind]

oh yes I want to play :p

I started lurking in 2009 and actually joined in October 2010 when my hair was like this: (this is about may)

https://s26.postimg.cc/j7m2c8l95/undercut.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/xe1t7gw45/)
about shoulder-length and with an undercut.


In 2011 my hair is like this:

https://s26.postimg.cc/8l9y31te1/halflang.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/xeji3pced/)

This is while using henna and still washing traditionally

Then there was a period where I tried everything from pea powder to soap to wash my hair, I've put avocado, yoghurt, egg and whatnot in my hair.
Some with great result but after all the experiments my hair was quiet fried. (and I would show you butI can't seem to upload to postimage at the moment)

So I need to go to 2014: when I cut my hair
https://s26.postimg.cc/v8z7hhyix/IMG_2094_zpscqfycqbp.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/4nwolxw5h/)

And this is about may this year:
https://s26.postimg.cc/r0uf0fzsp/IMG_2911.jpg (https://postimg.cc/image/wc9bl5lv9/)

using my own homemade shampoo and conditioner: not totally natural but without sulfates

Wow, what a change! Your hair looks amazing :)

[Katsura]

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1807/42388882184_fba27be133.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/27zL6Sh)

The picture on the left was taken sometime in the beginning of year 2017, it's really poor quality, our bathroom is very poorly lighted and I was just trying to check my very first self cut hemline. That gives also some idea of my natural haircolour, sort of light brownish. And then I hennaed a couple of times, and the pic on the right was taken couple of weeks ago. I don't quite like what henna did to my hair, I wish I hadn't done it. I think my hair was in better shape and maybe even a bit thicker before.

I found LHC sometime between the hennaings.

[Stray_mind]

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1807/42388882184_fba27be133.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/27zL6Sh)

The picture on the left was taken sometime in the beginning of year 2017, it's really poor quality, our bathroom is very poorly lighted and I was just trying to check my very first self cut hemline. That gives also some idea of my natural haircolour, sort of light brownish. And then I hennaed a couple of times, and the pic on the right was taken couple of weeks ago. I don't quite like what henna did to my hair, I wish I hadn't done it. I think my hair was in better shape and maybe even a bit thicker before.

I found LHC sometime between the hennaings.

I think your hemline is a bit more even on the first pic, while in the second pic you have a V hemline, that's why your hair looks "thinner". :)
Sad that you are disappointed with henna, but i think your hair still looks pretty.

Your natural hair color is beautiful though. :crush:

[Katsura]

I think your hemline is a bit more even on the first pic, that's why your hair looks thicker. :)
Sad that you are disappointed with henna, but i think your hair still looks pretty.

Thank you. I'm having a bit mixed emotions about henna, still. I didn't quite feel comfortable in my natural hair colour either.

[leayellena]

July 16. 2017
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=28064&d=1500198544
May 28. 2018
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31881&d=1527488119

[Da wei]

:waving::waving: helo,i trimed in April about 4cm on the bottom.APL somewhere in the end of summer? https://i.imgur.com/euRVuy5.jpg?2

[Kyaatje]

Wow, what a change! Your hair looks amazing :)
Thank you! :flower:

[Mrstran]

:confused: WOW what a pain to get this pic up!

This is 20 months growth with a two inch trim last October. In the first pic I had cut own hair, can you tell? ;) I had to go get it fixed and lost another inch if I remember correctly. I didn’t take a pic of the fixed cut, but it was horrible!


https://s33.postimg.cc/kg9xuhetr/1_D4_EB499-_CBD4-49_DF-_AB09-8_A378_CE50_EEF.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

[lapushka]

I have no (behind) picture of my chin length bob (it was layered very prettily though), sadly, but imagine a chin length, straight brushed bob to what is in my signature now (or thereabouts in length); it's gotten a bit longer since, and I'm sitting on the ends. LOL!

[pili]

This is Jan 2012 at my last pixie trim to May 2018. Lots of mistakes in between with meant I lost years of growth thanks to bleach and unnecessary haircuts. I'm only just now starting to feel it is long.
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=17648&d=1433870001
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31757&d=1526912772

[Stray_mind]

This is Jan 2012 at my last pixie trim to May 2018. Lots of mistakes in between with meant I lost years of growth thanks to bleach and unnecessary haircuts. I'm only just now starting to feel it is long.
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=17648&d=1433870001
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31757&d=1526912772

Wow. Actually both styles look Gorgeous, but your hair now is WOW :crush:

I just have a thing for waves and wurls....

Lapushka - how long did it take you to grow it out?

[MoonRabbit]

January 2017 Mbl
https://s25.postimg.cc/kua4sjqlr/20170124_010541.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

June 2018 Tbl
https://i.imgur.com/hrGtuiJ.jpg?1

[pili]

Thanks stray_mind. :blush:

[lapushka]

Lapushka - how long did it take you to grow it out?

Oh gosh, don't ask... LOL! When I first got here I had a chin length bob, then I experimented with dyes and lots of henna, got a hair dye disaster and had it cut back to chin. Then after that I had a perm, and went from hip to BSL again, so it took me 10 years! But I had lots of "issues" in between. If I'd have left it alone I might have done it in half that time.

[kamileona]

wow everyones hair is growing so fast! cant wait till my hair gets a little length to it as well!

[Rebeccalaurenxx]

https://s22.postimg.cc/b1exz4y9t/march_2015.jpg
This is my hair when I came back to the forum in 2015.
Though I have been here since 2011, but i dont have a lot of pictures...
Ill see if I can dig something up,....
https://s22.postimg.cc/9mdda9s01/tumblr_n9cmfl7p4_U1qbp72yo1_500.jpg
Thats from 2014, but we dont talk about that year... lol


Anyway... flash forward to june of 2017:
https://s22.postimg.cc/exs9uu169/june_2_2017.jpg

Then my hair now:
https://s22.postimg.cc/iu5lr0wi9/IMG_9763.png

I havent really taken a good photo in awhile. My hair has grown, my ends coud use a trim or two.
I will be micro trimming until my ends arent so see through. lol

[Aunt Rapunzel]

This was taken three-and-a-half years ago exactly!:

https://i.imgur.com/wAhzdMY.jpg?1

Several trims in-between, before I learned better....And this was tonight:


https://i.imgur.com/bfyK1fy.jpg

[Robi-Bird]

Then, at my sister's weddings 8 yrs ago, a bob. I started actively growing it out, about 2 yrs after this, kept it at the bob length during those 2 years.

https://i.imgur.com/mANjrhB.jpg?1

Now, at tailbone length.

https://i.imgur.com/ceOsmMY.jpg?1

[Stray_mind]

Everyone has made a wonderful progress. It's really nice to see everyone's photos :flower:

[Katsura]

Everyone has made a wonderful progress. It's really nice to see everyone's photos :flower:

I agree! Helps me with my on/off patience. :)

[rika_jane]

Loving this thread, it's super inspiring to see that so many have started with really short hair like me! Makes me feel like one day I might really get there hehe

So basically, in simplest form my timeline is something like this:
https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/8f/fe/nvd4yKY3_t.jpg (http://imgbox.com/nvd4yKY3) https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/09/2d/qvfdQXKR_t.jpg (http://imgbox.com/qvfdQXKR) https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/57/2c/rpgoFPrf_t.jpg (http://imgbox.com/rpgoFPrf) https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/71/14/QmHIMV6z_t.jpg (http://imgbox.com/QmHIMV6z)

We start in early 2015 (image number 1), when I decided to get a pixie and immediately started growing it out (not the first time I'd done this - my hair would always get to about shoulder/collarbone and then I'd get bored and chop it all off).

By January 2017 it was around collarbone length or thereabouts (picture 2), but suuuuper fried :( I'd made the mistake of trying to remove black box dye (that had been in my hair about a year) and my hair paid the price for it. It sort of looked ok, but it was such a pain to manage. I ended up chopping it off to about chin length, but even there it was still damaged enough that after about a month it was just as bad at the ends as it was before I'd cut it.

At this point, I decided to go ahead and do the World's Greatest Shave since I figured my best option would be to just get rid of everything and start over anyway, so why not raise some money while I'm at it? In the end I raised about $800, and shaved my head to about 4mm all over in June 2017 (picture 3).

Which brings us to now, a year post-shave! (picture 4). I'm sitting around one inch away from finally reaching chin length now, and feeling committed to not touching my regrowth or boredom-trimming my hair anymore. I'm hoping that being part of this community will help me to finally achieve my life-long desire for long hair, which has always been hindered in the past by my impulsive nature. Please don't let me cut my hair or bleach it anymore! Thank you~

[lapushka]

Which brings us to now, a year post-shave! (picture 4). I'm sitting around one inch away from finally reaching chin length now, and feeling committed to not touching my regrowth or boredom-trimming my hair anymore. I'm hoping that being part of this community will help me to finally achieve my life-long desire for long hair, which has always been hindered in the past by my impulsive nature. Please don't let me cut my hair or bleach it anymore! Thank you~

Totally up to you, if it's in you to be impulsive it's going to be hard to fight! BTDT, waisted about 5 years in my growth process on dyes and bleach and all of that, until I had a disaster happen (chemical cut & burn) and as of that moment I went cold turkey all virgin hair. No more! It really shook me to my core when that dye disaster happened. My hair was totally ruined. At some point you gotta break the cycle.

Hope you get there. Hang in there! :D :flower:

[rika_jane]

Totally up to you, if it's in you to be impulsive it's going to be hard to fight! BTDT, waisted about 5 years in my growth process on dyes and bleach and all of that, until I had a disaster happen (chemical cut & burn) and as of that moment I went cold turkey all virgin hair. No more! It really shook me to my core when that dye disaster happened. My hair was totally ruined. At some point you gotta break the cycle.

Hope you get there. Hang in there! :D :flower:

Thank you! And wow, that sounds like some hair disaster D: I feel that mine is going to end up there again if I don't quit now, but at least I can keep doing fashion colours in the already-bleached portion so hopefully that'll be enough to keep me satisfied haha.
Every time I've cut my hair shorter, it's been because I'm just bored and want to change something about my look and not because I stop wanting long hair. I regret it every single time! So more than being "not allowed" to cut it, it's more that I need something/someone to remind me what I want long-term ^^

[Lanalavallama]

rika_jane this is not meant to encourage you to chop, but the shaved look really suits you well.

That being said, we have a two week rule around here (wait two weeks before doing something drastic to your hair AND discuss it here on LHC first!), and you can invoke that when you are toying with doing something drastic to your hair.

[MoonRabbit]

https://s22.postimg.cc/b1exz4y9t/march_2015.jpg
This is my hair when I came back to the forum in 2015.
Though I have been here since 2011, but i dont have a lot of pictures...
Ill see if I can dig something up,....
https://s22.postimg.cc/9mdda9s01/tumblr_n9cmfl7p4_U1qbp72yo1_500.jpg
Thats from 2014, but we dont talk about that year... lol


Anyway... flash forward to june of 2017:
https://s22.postimg.cc/exs9uu169/june_2_2017.jpg

Then my hair now:
https://s22.postimg.cc/iu5lr0wi9/IMG_9763.png

I havent really taken a good photo in awhile. My hair has grown, my ends coud use a trim or two.
I will be micro trimming until my ends arent so see through. lol

I love your blue hair! It looks so good on you.

[Ligeia Noire]

This is Jan 2012 at my last pixie trim to May 2018. Lots of mistakes in between with meant I lost years of growth thanks to bleach and unnecessary haircuts. I'm only just now starting to feel it is long.
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=17648&d=1433870001
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31757&d=1526912772


January 2017 Mbl
https://s25.postimg.cc/kua4sjqlr/20170124_010541.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

June 2018 Tbl
https://i.imgur.com/hrGtuiJ.jpg?1

You both just :thudpile:

[AutobotsAttack]

This was right before I started my hair journey (somewhere around 2015) and before I ever joined here:
https://i.imgflip.com/2d8zwm.jpg (https://imgflip.com/i/2d8zwm)via Imgflip Meme Generator (https://imgflip.com/memegenerator)

This was last month
https://i.imgflip.com/2d8zyh.jpg (https://imgflip.com/i/2d8zyh)via Imgflip Meme Generator (https://imgflip.com/memegenerator)

[MlleMC]

First picture is January 2011, just a few days after my last cut. Second picture is June 2018.

https://i.imgur.com/sxry1l1.jpg https://i.imgur.com/NES337q.jpg

[rika_jane]

rika_jane this is not meant to encourage you to chop, but the shaved look really suits you well.

That being said, we have a two week rule around here (wait two weeks before doing something drastic to your hair AND discuss it here on LHC first!), and you can invoke that when you are toying with doing something drastic to your hair.

Honestly I loved my shaved head! Super fun and low maintenance, but suuuuch a pain to grow out :( I'll never go back again but I'm glad I did it ^^

[pili]

Every time Ligeia Noire says she likes my hair I'm like SHE LIKES MY HAIR!!!!!!!! :thud:

[LadyAdelina]

This was right before I started my hair journey (somewhere around 2015) and before I ever joined here:
https://i.imgflip.com/2d8zwm.jpg (https://imgflip.com/i/2d8zwm)via Imgflip Meme Generator (https://imgflip.com/memegenerator)

This was last month
https://i.imgflip.com/2d8zyh.jpg (https://imgflip.com/i/2d8zyh)via Imgflip Meme Generator (https://imgflip.com/memegenerator)

Oh my gosh, your pink hair in the first picture is so cute! I used to have pink hair and I always loved it. You’ve had some great growth, though, your hair seems to grow fast! :)

[Ligeia Noire]

Every time Ligeia Noire says she likes my hair I'm like SHE LIKES MY HAIR!!!!!!!! :thud:

Everyone should. I mean look at that hair! I wish I had those curls... It is absolutely gorgeous!

[Arciela]

Bleached the life outta my hair from 2009 ~ 2012

https://i.imgur.com/bIM7aT4.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/uSb9SGC.jpg

Tried to color it my natural color:

https://i.imgur.com/EkwpRv9.jpg

Then I think it was a year later..cut out all the last of the bleach, nearly..ended up with this:

https://i.imgur.com/1NC884a.jpg

Then a year AFTER that..finally had my natural hair, fully regrown thickness and all yay :D was thrilled to have auburn hair!

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/10689550_10154787792900604_3353359989935305429_n.j pg?_nc_cat=0&oh=1b2220f7a94b459ba4b5f260a2227de3&oe=5BE0E18A

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20915343_10159330846695604_2388004336415084765_n.j pg?_nc_cat=0&oh=f69be1ecad22a484fb30ee5c2e9f68db&oe=5BA8ED07

Then a year after that..waist hehe I think it was a year anyway, maybe shorter..idk!

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20031774_10159134950650604_4225480369385080781_n.j pg?_nc_cat=0&oh=62f716b21bb878ee5e89093071d50bcc&oe=5BAA2519

and now..in doors my hair looks brown lol but its reddish

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/30652385_10160426964820604_1598886951295909888_n.j pg?_nc_cat=0&oh=b670e19c8a91825c2d1326d430edc473&oe=5BA42CFB

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/22450012_10159594766550604_71041200774127605_n.jpg ?_nc_cat=0&oh=ca3de62b3fd082674ceaa877b3873937&oe=5BE4FDB9

[Stray_mind]

Cecil, your hair is so gorgeous! :thud:

[Corvana]

When I found LHC I was at CBL for the top of my head and SL for the underneath on the sides, due to growing out a mohawk.

https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=27393&d=1495445474

You can see through the upper layer if you look on the right.

And this was taken today, a month and a half over a year later!

https://i.imgur.com/lsubrTl.png

[Arciela]

Cecil, your hair is so gorgeous! :thud:

Thank you, Stray_mind!!! :flower:

[rika_jane]

Bleached the life outta my hair from 2009 ~ 2012

https://i.imgur.com/bIM7aT4.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/uSb9SGC.jpg

Tried to color it my natural color:

https://i.imgur.com/EkwpRv9.jpg

Then I think it was a year later..cut out all the last of the bleach, nearly..ended up with this:

https://i.imgur.com/1NC884a.jpg

Then a year AFTER that..finally had my natural hair, fully regrown thickness and all yay :D was thrilled to have auburn hair!

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/10689550_10154787792900604_3353359989935305429_n.j pg?_nc_cat=0&oh=1b2220f7a94b459ba4b5f260a2227de3&oe=5BE0E18A

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20915343_10159330846695604_2388004336415084765_n.j pg?_nc_cat=0&oh=f69be1ecad22a484fb30ee5c2e9f68db&oe=5BA8ED07

Then a year after that..waist hehe I think it was a year anyway, maybe shorter..idk!

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20031774_10159134950650604_4225480369385080781_n.j pg?_nc_cat=0&oh=62f716b21bb878ee5e89093071d50bcc&oe=5BAA2519

and now..in doors my hair looks brown lol but its reddish

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/30652385_10160426964820604_1598886951295909888_n.j pg?_nc_cat=0&oh=b670e19c8a91825c2d1326d430edc473&oe=5BA42CFB

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/22450012_10159594766550604_71041200774127605_n.jpg ?_nc_cat=0&oh=ca3de62b3fd082674ceaa877b3873937&oe=5BE4FDB9

I love your hair! Your waves are so pretty *o*

[Ligeia Noire]

Cesil what a treasure you had hidden there. I am pleased to see it in full bloom.

[Dendra]

When I found LHC I was at CBL for the top of my head and SL for the underneath on the sides, due to growing out a mohawk.

https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=27393&d=1495445474

You can see through the upper layer if you look on the right.

And this was taken today, a month and a half over a year later!

https://i.imgur.com/lsubrTl.png

Corvana your waves look so pretty and romantic! And your hair is looking long - you've come such a way :)

Cecil I second that your hair looks stunning long and natural.

[chiapommama]

Y'all have beautiful hair.

[Ellethwyn]

3 years ago at about hip

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/843/43181988201_2f4a9230cf_b.jpg

Now between tbl and classic

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1788/29075065528_388e85d1a1_b.jpg

[Arciela]

Cesil what a treasure you had hidden there. I am pleased to see it in full bloom.

Oh thank you so much Ligeia Noire! :blossom:

[littlestarface]

Cesil your hair is so beautiful, you should take more pictures in the sun cuz it just brings out the most gorgeous color!

[TreesOfEternity]

I started growing my hair and lurking the forum at this point (by the end of 2015):

https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=32567&d=1530666756

When I reached shoulder I did cut a fringe I started paying more attention to my hair, and last winter I figured out a routine that works for me and went all-in into my hair growth journey, joining the community in January. I mantained bangs until last month when I decided I’m growing them out. And here we are now:

https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=32520&d=1530539486

[pili]

Cesil your hair is gorgeous! Love the color.

[Arciela]

Cesil your hair is gorgeous! Love the color.


Cesil your hair is so beautiful, you should take more pictures in the sun cuz it just brings out the most gorgeous color!

Thank you all so much, you guys are so sweet! :flower: and I'll def try to get more pictures in the sun!

[rika_jane]

I started growing my hair and lurking the forum at this point (by the end of 2015):

https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=32567&d=1530666756

When I reached shoulder I did cut a fringe I started paying more attention to my hair, and last winter I figured out a routine that works for me and went all-in into my hair growth journey, joining the community in January. I mantained bangs until last month when I decided I’m growing them out. And here we are now:

https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=32520&d=1530539486

Awesome growth!! I hope mine can grow this nicely ~

[Amenahh]

Wow, I'm loving this thread! I'll join too.

I started in 2015 with a short layered bob:
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=19622&d=1446411548

Then I grew to collarbone and maintained for a while, until spring 2017, when I decided to grow again.

Now I'm at BSL:
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=32592&d=1530695735

Edit: sorry that the first picture is so big! I have no clue how to make it smaller.

[Stray_mind]

Wow, I'm loving this thread! I'll join too.

I started in 2015 with a short layered bob:
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=19622&d=1446411548

Then I grew to collarbone and maintained for a while, until spring 2017, when I decided to grow again.

Now I'm at BSL:
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=32592&d=1530695735

Edit: sorry that the first picture is so big! I have no clue how to make it smaller.

You have Gorgeous hair! It looks so soft and silky. Great progress.

[TreesOfEternity]

Awesome growth!! I hope mine can grow this nicely ~

I’m sure it will :) Good thing about 1A is that there’s zero shrinkage so you get the most of your growth, it’s very visible.

[ShilvaA]

I have always hated my hair, I remember in school being so jealous of the girls who seemed to just have effortlessly silky hair whilst mine kind of laid in clumps. I just used to wear it in a scraggly low ponytail all lf the time. I was also a proper greaseball... nothing I did would stop the grease in those teenage years!

When I was 18, I decided to bleach my hair. I went to a college salon who foiled it, and now looking back... they did a really great job at getting me to the shade they did in one application but I didn’t know that at the time. I was expecting blond hair not, somewhat orangey, highlighted hair... So I took it uopn myself and bleached it at home. Not just once either, almost every day for two weeks. I used Jerome Russell bleach and sometimes that Live Platinum blonde box dye. I got to platinum, my hair was trashed.

https://s19.postimg.cc/8win6w3mb/13_F2_F051-01_CB-49_FE-_A316-05_F980_DB9_E44.jpg

It was so burned that I was using a body hair razor to try and razor out the matted clumps of frizz. I kept this look for years, getting better at home bleaching (still not great though!). I was able to eventually section my hair and get mostly just my roots. The ends kept snapping. My BSL hair had eventually hit SL with no cuts or trims, a proper backwatprds move for someone who always wanted long hair. So I decided to get it cut as short as I could bear and try to grow it out better. I got some pink in the fringe too, which I loved!

https://s19.postimg.cc/99a1d2e6b/EDD3_EEE4-597_B-40_B6-8_B15-_C612_AF618_B84.jpg

Didn’t last long before I started heavy bleaching again. Only this time, I started using really long 24” clip-in extensions as well.

I started experimenting with different colours, mostly pink. Fun times!

https://s19.postimg.cc/74poc0mub/800_FAFEA-7_D7_C-4_D76-_B09_C-_DA756487961_A.jpg
https://s19.postimg.cc/9m1fj8oqb/5337_DF2_B-_B873-49_D2-8_E45-1_D010_A7_A84_D9.jpg
https://s19.postimg.cc/djop8aw0j/A881_E1_EF-8_EFA-4_A90-9_A12-559_B68522358.jpg

My hair never grew last SL even though I never trimmed or had it cut, it just snapped off and stayed the same length. I started working in a place that wouldn’t allow ‘unnatural’ hair colours and was forced to stop the funky dye jobs. I let the pink fade and havent touched that sort of dye again.

https://s19.postimg.cc/sr4ot15z7/3_AF1_F2_F8-110_C-4_F49-903_A-36_C2_C14789_D7.jpg

This was 5 years ago now. Excuse the face! Friends kids birthday party! Once the pink was gone, I dyed it brown and left it alone!

I used to be so embarrassed when I had a boyfriend and they would try to play with my hair but their fingers would just get tangled and rip through it. I hated people touching my hair and vowed to stop bleaching so I could enjoy some head scratches!

My hair still didn’t gain any length for another 2 years.

Over the last 3 years I have been having one yearly trim and my hair is really starting to get better! I think almost all of the old bleach damage is gone now. :)

Here is a photo from my first day of deciding to join LHC and stop lurking and now. I do occasionally chuck a brown box dye over my hair... for grey coverage now. Haha

https://s19.postimg.cc/uixnnnueb/C0_D430_A9-426_C-467_F-86_FE-_E6660_E7_B6_A5_A.jpg

[Lanalavallama]

Stray_mind what a fantastic thread idea!

Such beautiful heads of hair here; can't wait until I can contribute.

[Stray_mind]

What Glorious hair ShilvaA!

Those silky soft waves... Ahhh...

Lanalavallama-i'm excited to see your progress. :)

[Arciela]

I love your hair! Your waves are so pretty *o*

rika_jane, thank you!

Everyone has such beautiful hair! :blossom: Stray_mind, this really is such an inspiring thread! :flower:

[lithostoic]

Great progress!

[ShilvaA]

What Glorious hair ShilvaA!

Those silky soft waves... Ahhh...

Lanalavallama-i'm excited to see your progress. :)


Thank you so much! It is amazing what a little time and neglect can do!

Fantastic idea for a thread btw, it really is so motivating. I love seeing everyones hair photos. :D

[Crystawni]

I'm almost where I want to be, so thought I'd have a look at what was the norm for me a few years before LHC, where I started growing longer than ever, and the current state of a'hairs.

Pre-LHC (but not counting the decades before that), my razor-thinned-out hair looked ratty most of the time, I was fighting an unruly texture that I thought was straightish (but it never got pin-straight with a hot iron :roll:), and my length wouldn't quite get to BSL before I restyled the lot with a chop of some sort. Since 2014 I've actively grown from APL+ to almost FTL, with some big and small snips to adjust the hemline and layers in between.

https://i.imgur.com/C4KiGOx.jpg

[Stray_mind]

I'm almost where I want to be, so thought I'd have a look at what was the norm for me a few years before LHC, where I started growing longer than ever, and the current state of a'hairs.

Pre-LHC (but not counting the decades before that), my razor-thinned-out hair looked ratty most of the time, I was fighting an unruly texture that I thought was straightish (but it never got pin-straight with a hot iron :roll:), and my length wouldn't quite get to BSL before I restyled the lot with a chop of some sort. Since 2014 I've actively grown from APL+ to almost FTL, with some big and small snips to adjust the hemline and layers in between.

https://i.imgur.com/C4KiGOx.jpg

Your gair is goals. <3

[GrowingGlory]

It looks so beautiful.

[Hexana]

WOW everybody congratulations on your growth!
Here is mine. The first picture was the shortest I've ever been. It's somewhere around April/May 2016
https://i.ibb.co/SrxBkGC/April-2016.jpg (https://ibb.co/nC0jXtJ)

This is I think the last time I got a trim in April 2018
https://i.ibb.co/5sNhKkb/April-2018.jpg (https://ibb.co/2cD3ZSG)

And this is my current hair (last month) and my first lenght check ever! :eek:
https://i.ibb.co/MhmzMd7/Junij-2019-1.jpg (https://ibb.co/z5z3GdZ)

[Tinyponies]

WOW everybody congratulations on your growth!
Here is mine. The first picture was the shortest I've ever been. It's somewhere around April/May 2016
https://i.ibb.co/SrxBkGC/April-2016.jpg (https://ibb.co/nC0jXtJ)

This is I think the last time I got a trim in April 2018
https://i.ibb.co/5sNhKkb/April-2018.jpg (https://ibb.co/2cD3ZSG)

And this is my current hair (last month) and my first lenght check ever! :eek:
https://i.ibb.co/MhmzMd7/Junij-2019-1.jpg (https://ibb.co/z5z3GdZ)

Fabulous to see your journey so far Hexana :love: I think we are hair twins in many ways too!

[Hexana]

Fabulous to see your journey so far Hexana :love: I think we are hair twins in many ways too!

Oh thank you, but I can only dream for now of hair as long as yours ☺️

[Begemot]

Looking lovely, Hexana! :heart:

[Hexana]

Thanks. I just hope it will grow further than it did the first time (it stopped growing before BSL, but true I didn't take such good care of it), so I don't get "frustrated" again and cut it ��

[Tinyponies]

Oh thank you, but I can only dream for now of hair as long as yours ☺️

Seriously 2 years or less with good basic lhc practice and you could be waist :thumbsup:

[Hexana]

Seriously 2 years or less with good basic lhc practice and you could be waist :thumbsup:

Thank you. I hope :o

[Corvana]

When I found LHC I was at CBL for the top of my head and SL for the underneath on the sides, due to growing out a mohawk.

https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=27393&d=1495445474

You can see through the upper layer if you look on the right.

And this was taken today, a month and a half over a year later!

https://i.imgur.com/lsubrTl.png

I figured I'd toss in what I started with!

February of 2015:

https://i.imgur.com/WkSwzJf.jpg

This is how my hair was for a good year! Then I thought "I'll grow it out, but just the top and back! I want one of those cool mohawks!"

Feb 2016:

https://i.imgur.com/hNKRQmA.jpg

The top was jaw length then. I changed my mind a whole like... three months later and decided I did in fact want all of my hair long.

And look at me now!

https://i.imgur.com/DwakW06.png

Gettin there :laugh:

[Waveurly]

Wow such great progress pics! You all came such a long way! ThoughI'd share my journey..

https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=37558&d=1562329346

I oficially cut out all bleach in nov. '16 but i 'lost' (deleted) those pics of the first chop.
First one is from jan '17 a few months later, had a whole lot of short pieces on top..

https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=37556&d=1562328084

A year growing out all those short pieces and quite a few trims to even things up led me to this in feb '18

https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=37557&d=1562328283

and now, today in july '19 i'm here:

https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=37555&d=1562327404

I did trim quite a few times along the way but i'm glad the worst is over and start to enjoy my hair more every time.. never want to go this short again!

Happy growing everyone! You an do it!

[MoonRabbit]

Thought I would share this here. The first photo is the only pic I have from the beginning of my journey. I was lurking here in 2015 and learned about neglect so I didn't take any photos for about a year once I was already MBL+. I joined two months later after that pic. Thus begins my journey of hitting each milestone along the way.

https://i.postimg.cc/Ssxg1Gb6/20190705-231904.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

My growth was trimmed barely a handful of times, until I reached tailbone, then I maintained for 6 months.

[KlutzyChy1]

Wow! Everyone has made such incredible progress. You all have such lovely hair.
I guess I'll join too & share my hair journey.

So this first photo is back when I was in high school going through my 'scene' phase. Straightening & blow drying my hair every single day wondering why it wouldn't grow. I absolutely hated it. We don't talk about those days.
https://i.imgur.com/H1EE10Il.jpg

This next photo was the first picture I took after starting my hair journey, after six months of hair loss & losing nearly half of my hair.
https://i.imgur.com/i2QELQ1l.jpg

& Then this is my hair now. I just took this picture today.
https://i.imgur.com/iwVy2Lul.jpg

[Tinyponies]

Wonderful job, MoonRabbit. :inlove: It’s really great and interesting to see your pictures so neatly lined up and labelled, I’m amazed you got from tbl to cl in a year that included 6 months of maintaining :thumbsup:

Klutzy, your hair is beautiful (and so are you) your good care *really* shows :heart:

[Stray_mind]

Wow! Everyone has made such incredible progress. You all have such lovely hair.
I guess I'll join too & share my hair journey.

So this first photo is back when I was in high school going through my 'scene' phase. Straightening & blow drying my hair every single day wondering why it wouldn't grow. I absolutely hated it. We don't talk about those days.
https://i.imgur.com/H1EE10Il.jpg

This next photo was the first picture I took after starting my hair journey, after six months of hair loss & losing nearly half of my hair.
https://i.imgur.com/i2QELQ1l.jpg

& Then this is my hair now. I just took this picture today.
https://i.imgur.com/iwVy2Lul.jpg

Wonderful hair! Did you give up growing out the dye though?

[S&S]

& Then this is my hair now. I just took this picture today.
https://i.imgur.com/iwVy2Lul.jpg

Gorgeous! :flower: Did you ever find out what was causing the hair loss...and the cure?

[KlutzyChy1]

Gorgeous! :flower: Did you ever find out what was causing the hair loss...and the cure?

Thank you! ❤️ I've been struggling with digestive issues for the past 6 years or so& when I first got sick, I lost about 20lbs & weighed in at 76lbs at my lowest. I could barely eat anything. So for me, it was a combination of malnutrition/weight loss/being underweight.

[KlutzyChy1]

Wonderful hair! Did you give up growing out the dye though?

Thank you so much! ❤️ I gave up dye for a good year or so, but eventually ended up caving when about half the dye was grown out & redying it. I don't dye it often, maybe 3 or 4 times a year, but I just can't give up the black hair lol.

[KlutzyChy1]

Klutzy, your hair is beautiful (and so are you) your good care *really* shows :heart:

Oh my goodness, this comment made my day ❤️. Thank you so much!

[elise.autumn]

Thought I would share this here. The first photo is the only pic I have from the beginning of my journey. I was lurking here in 2015 and learned about neglect so I didn't take any photos for about a year once I was already MBL+. I joined two months later after that pic. Thus begins my journey of hitting each milestone along the way.

https://i.postimg.cc/Ssxg1Gb6/20190705-231904.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

My growth was trimmed barely a handful of times, until I reached tailbone, then I maintained for 6 months.

Your hair is so pretty! And I like the progress collage.

[Stray_mind]

Amazing growth, everyone. :)