Elizabeth E
March 25th, 2019, 07:16 AM
Hi All
I'm sooo excited to be celebrating a year on the long hair community! I honestly can't believe it's been only a year - it feels like much longer. (When you're trying to grow hair, time seems to pass very slowly).
I want to thank you all for your kind, encouraging words and awesome hair advice - this is the place I always come when I'm in need of hair inspiration. I officially started growing my hair in middle October 2017, but wasn't really treating my hair so well (I would still straighten it every 2 weeks and wore it down all the time). So I decided to join here, which has turned out to be the best decision I could have made for my hair.
Things I learned from LHC:
- wear your hair up (I usually tell people that this is the single greatest secret to hair growth and length retention)
- avoid heat/chemicals (I've never had chemicals like dye on my hair, but have since quit the straightening and blowdrying)
- embrace your natural texture (my routine is so much easier now that I no longer have to fight my texture)
- trim only when needed (I haven't done anything but S & D in the past four months, but my hair feels great)
- don't wash too often (once a week is enough for me)
- and of course, oil your hair
I made a post when I reached one year of growing my hair, but only seven months on LHC. Here's the link in case you're interested: https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=147894&page=4&p=3605903#post3605903
But now I've been on here for a year, and seventeen months into growing my hair. Here's a picture of the self-trim I did in August 2017, shortly before I started growing:
https://imgur.com/8QQ9w1g
In October 2017, when I started growing my hair:
https://imgur.com/ShcPvC7
Shortly after joining here a year ago:
https://imgur.com/kwbTpmd
And today (compare this to the first picture)
https://imgur.com/cRAyTAj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZhAacYSJjk
I'm sooo excited to be celebrating a year on the long hair community! I honestly can't believe it's been only a year - it feels like much longer. (When you're trying to grow hair, time seems to pass very slowly).
I want to thank you all for your kind, encouraging words and awesome hair advice - this is the place I always come when I'm in need of hair inspiration. I officially started growing my hair in middle October 2017, but wasn't really treating my hair so well (I would still straighten it every 2 weeks and wore it down all the time). So I decided to join here, which has turned out to be the best decision I could have made for my hair.
Things I learned from LHC:
- wear your hair up (I usually tell people that this is the single greatest secret to hair growth and length retention)
- avoid heat/chemicals (I've never had chemicals like dye on my hair, but have since quit the straightening and blowdrying)
- embrace your natural texture (my routine is so much easier now that I no longer have to fight my texture)
- trim only when needed (I haven't done anything but S & D in the past four months, but my hair feels great)
- don't wash too often (once a week is enough for me)
- and of course, oil your hair
I made a post when I reached one year of growing my hair, but only seven months on LHC. Here's the link in case you're interested: https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=147894&page=4&p=3605903#post3605903
But now I've been on here for a year, and seventeen months into growing my hair. Here's a picture of the self-trim I did in August 2017, shortly before I started growing:
https://imgur.com/8QQ9w1g
In October 2017, when I started growing my hair:
https://imgur.com/ShcPvC7
Shortly after joining here a year ago:
https://imgur.com/kwbTpmd
And today (compare this to the first picture)
https://imgur.com/cRAyTAj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZhAacYSJjk