talula_fairie
May 18th, 2008, 10:05 PM
Hi! I'm new here.
I've probably dyed my hair every color under the sun. In the most recent years it was long and dark (either dark brown or later, black). It looked great, but black hair dye is such a pain, and I knew I couldn't go much further than bra-strap length before it started to get too damaged.
Finally I got sick of dying it, cut it ALL off...and I mean, I cut it ALL off (I donated it). I had it dyed back to my natural color (well, as close as she could get, anyway). And then I continued to cut it until all the dyed stuff was cut off. I started this in November and finally in April all the dyed parts are cut off. I'll probably keep trimming the back as the sides grow so that I don't end up with A Mullet Of Doom.
I want to grow it out to be about mid-back length, to my waist or so. I have really coarse (according to hair dressers, it's very thick) slightly wavy (2a) hair. Oh, and I have a TON of it (iii). The biggest problem I have with it when it's long is that it hurts my scalp to braid it or put it up because it's SO HEAVY. It also takes about 8 + hours to dry on it's own, or at least 15-30 minutes under the blow dryer (which I probably had better not use if I want it to be really long). I'm a chronic washer-too, though I use SLS free shampoo (Dr. Hauschka).
Well, that's all the info I have for now. I'm happy to join and learn some new tricks for when it does finally get long (uh, in about four years LOL).
I've probably dyed my hair every color under the sun. In the most recent years it was long and dark (either dark brown or later, black). It looked great, but black hair dye is such a pain, and I knew I couldn't go much further than bra-strap length before it started to get too damaged.
Finally I got sick of dying it, cut it ALL off...and I mean, I cut it ALL off (I donated it). I had it dyed back to my natural color (well, as close as she could get, anyway). And then I continued to cut it until all the dyed stuff was cut off. I started this in November and finally in April all the dyed parts are cut off. I'll probably keep trimming the back as the sides grow so that I don't end up with A Mullet Of Doom.
I want to grow it out to be about mid-back length, to my waist or so. I have really coarse (according to hair dressers, it's very thick) slightly wavy (2a) hair. Oh, and I have a TON of it (iii). The biggest problem I have with it when it's long is that it hurts my scalp to braid it or put it up because it's SO HEAVY. It also takes about 8 + hours to dry on it's own, or at least 15-30 minutes under the blow dryer (which I probably had better not use if I want it to be really long). I'm a chronic washer-too, though I use SLS free shampoo (Dr. Hauschka).
Well, that's all the info I have for now. I'm happy to join and learn some new tricks for when it does finally get long (uh, in about four years LOL).