TheLuckyLurker
February 22nd, 2012, 04:56 PM
I just need to wail in despair and wallow in self-pity for a bit. this'll be long, so feel free to skip if you like :o.
First: my hair won't grow. Okay, not really. Realistically I know it's always growing, but it's at one of those awesome phases where it doesn't look or feel like it's growing. It was okay, and then I did a small trim - like one inch- months ago. It doesn't look like it's grown at all since. That would be bad enough, but the kicker is my bangs. I was starting to tired of the upkeep that comes with having blunt bangs, so when the time came to either trim or let it go, I decided to grow them out. It looks like they grew just long enough to be a royal PITA to deal with, and then stopped :angry:.
Next: my hair seems dry. I oil it religiously with coconut oil. It's okay as long as I wear it up, but if I take it down even just inside my own house within a hour it feels as dry and nasty as when I was ripping a blowdrier attachment through it all the time (and I do mean rip; I broke half the teeth off a pick attachment in about a month once. Don't worry, that was a long time ago. I know better now.). I've been experimenting with mixing the coconut oil with jojoba oil, but it's really too soon to tell if it'll work.
Which rounds into my next point: I'd like to wear my hair down once in a while, since I've found it doesn't have to be pin-straight to look nice like I always thought. That's why my goal is bra-strap length. But if the only way to avoid that straw-like effect is to keep it up all the time, then what's the point? I should just keep at the length it's at now, since I can already put it up.
Another thing: (I told you this'd be long :D) I can't use some of the advice I'm sure to get, because I don't have the stuff in the house - and now don't have the money to get it. Olive oil? Honey? Apple cider vinegar? Nope, don't have any of it. We never use any of those things, so why keep them in the house. When I decided to see if ACV could help with my dandruff (and save me having to spend $7 a bottle on the only shampoo that's ever worked for it) I had to go to the grocery store specifically to but that. And I only did because if it doesn't work I'm only out a buck. I've been thinking of trying olive oil on my hair, but it's going to take a while to talk myself into spending that kind of money. And just to complicate things further, anything that requires melting things down to mix is out, because I don't have a microwave. If I can't rub it in my hands, it's a no go.
And back to the dry hair thing for a second, I thought about shea butter. A lot. Yesterday I was already out so I stopped at my natural food store to see if they had any. They did. So I tested a little out. I touched the tip or my finger to a tiny amount and EWWW! I tried rubbing it into the skin of my other arm and double EWWW! It was sticky and greasy a the same time! EWWW EWWW EWWW! I wouldn't put that in my hair if it was free, let alone the eight bucks they wanted for it. That was nasty.
Well, I guess that's it. For the "it's not growing" thing I guess all I can do is keep it up all the time so I won't think too much about it, and I'll keep oiling and conditioning for the rest. If the ACV works I'll try CO washing. At the very least, I'm ahead of the game by being used to only washing every 3-4 days, right?
Tl;dr: I'm feeling very sorry for myself over practically nothing :rolleyes:. If you actually read all that, bless you, and thanks :flower:.
First: my hair won't grow. Okay, not really. Realistically I know it's always growing, but it's at one of those awesome phases where it doesn't look or feel like it's growing. It was okay, and then I did a small trim - like one inch- months ago. It doesn't look like it's grown at all since. That would be bad enough, but the kicker is my bangs. I was starting to tired of the upkeep that comes with having blunt bangs, so when the time came to either trim or let it go, I decided to grow them out. It looks like they grew just long enough to be a royal PITA to deal with, and then stopped :angry:.
Next: my hair seems dry. I oil it religiously with coconut oil. It's okay as long as I wear it up, but if I take it down even just inside my own house within a hour it feels as dry and nasty as when I was ripping a blowdrier attachment through it all the time (and I do mean rip; I broke half the teeth off a pick attachment in about a month once. Don't worry, that was a long time ago. I know better now.). I've been experimenting with mixing the coconut oil with jojoba oil, but it's really too soon to tell if it'll work.
Which rounds into my next point: I'd like to wear my hair down once in a while, since I've found it doesn't have to be pin-straight to look nice like I always thought. That's why my goal is bra-strap length. But if the only way to avoid that straw-like effect is to keep it up all the time, then what's the point? I should just keep at the length it's at now, since I can already put it up.
Another thing: (I told you this'd be long :D) I can't use some of the advice I'm sure to get, because I don't have the stuff in the house - and now don't have the money to get it. Olive oil? Honey? Apple cider vinegar? Nope, don't have any of it. We never use any of those things, so why keep them in the house. When I decided to see if ACV could help with my dandruff (and save me having to spend $7 a bottle on the only shampoo that's ever worked for it) I had to go to the grocery store specifically to but that. And I only did because if it doesn't work I'm only out a buck. I've been thinking of trying olive oil on my hair, but it's going to take a while to talk myself into spending that kind of money. And just to complicate things further, anything that requires melting things down to mix is out, because I don't have a microwave. If I can't rub it in my hands, it's a no go.
And back to the dry hair thing for a second, I thought about shea butter. A lot. Yesterday I was already out so I stopped at my natural food store to see if they had any. They did. So I tested a little out. I touched the tip or my finger to a tiny amount and EWWW! I tried rubbing it into the skin of my other arm and double EWWW! It was sticky and greasy a the same time! EWWW EWWW EWWW! I wouldn't put that in my hair if it was free, let alone the eight bucks they wanted for it. That was nasty.
Well, I guess that's it. For the "it's not growing" thing I guess all I can do is keep it up all the time so I won't think too much about it, and I'll keep oiling and conditioning for the rest. If the ACV works I'll try CO washing. At the very least, I'm ahead of the game by being used to only washing every 3-4 days, right?
Tl;dr: I'm feeling very sorry for myself over practically nothing :rolleyes:. If you actually read all that, bless you, and thanks :flower:.