Your hair is looking very beautiful Medievalmaniac! Very shiny! I love the waves too. :)
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Your hair is looking very beautiful Medievalmaniac! Very shiny! I love the waves too. :)
I've booked a hair appointment! I'm so scared. I'm getting a trim and my pinky red tips turned black...but it's with trainees, as it's all I can afford. I've had it done by trainees before and they're well supervised but I am SO SCARED!
Neecola -- thank you so much for the compliment, I miss my hair so much and am trying to be grateful for what I have and to enjoy the journey back, all while being VERY impatient for its return!! lol
For all of you who are having concerns about breakage because of elastic use, I have two suggestions -- first, vary where you place the elastic. You can put it anywhere from the very tip of the braid to almost half-way up it, when you are doing updos; the placement won't matter. Use bobbypins to anchor below the elastic if you want to. Second, do the elastic one twist less than you think you need it to be. We often do that last twist to hold it in place, but if you can re-train yourself not to think it has to be tight to stay, you'll find leaving it a bit loose spares a bit of breakage. :)
See -- there's a benefit already for me, I can share all my hard-earned long hair tips with you while I'm growing my shorter hair out alongside you! :)
Hairfaerie -- thank you! I am trying to adjust to the curls/wurls being permanent. I'vbe never had naturally curly hair before, so this has been a bit of an adjustment! :O
Joflakes -- it will be grand, and you'll come right back here and post your wonderful pictures of the results, right? :)
I don't post much, since I don't really have anything to report -it's growing, just like hair always does when you leave it alone-, but I think I might be just about at APL. If I remember I'll check before I put in my sleep braid.
Many thanks. Having never had hair this "long", you're sparing me the harsh learning curve. Thanks so much! :flowers:Quote:
Originally Posted by Medievalmaniac
I hope so!! Eep! I have 2 weeks to get used to the idea. I told my DBF and he was like "NOOO!! YOU SPENT SO LONG GROWING IT!!" and I had to explain what a little trim meant, haha! So sweet!Quote:
Originally Posted by Medievalmaniac
Hah, joflakes, I hope it will go well. :) My SO is also that way. He was abroads for four weeks last autumn and during that time I cut maybe 1-2 inches off mostly from the back and mentioned it in Facebook. I said I had cut my hair and my poor SO spent the whole evening and night worrying about me. He said he barely slept. He didn't have access to the internet and some friends told him I had cut ALL my hair off. He was really upset and so worried about me. He knows how important my hair is and how messed up I would have to be to brutalise it. :)
I trimmed my hair a couple days ago and feels so good. I thought I would try to not to trim it in this year but I gave in. I have bleached it and dyed it with regular box dye because I wanted to get rid of henna so badly. The green colour (my hair is green) is actually an accident. I wanted to tone down the henna red. It's a long story... My hair ended up green. So I put more green to it so the colour would at least be even. Now I am somehow fond of looking like a swamp monster and I think I will go for green ombre. But yes, I have now some chemical damage from bleach and I will have to trim it more. Gaining length will maybe be slower but I am still happy of not having a pixie cut so it won't be so bad.
^ thank you for reminding me why I quit the dye, bleach, henna cycle. I have been contemplating putting henna over my more then year old black dye which is now at it's most annoying jaw length on top and totally gone closest to my neck, if that makes any bit of sense. Maybe I should just keep to my dye free life. I quit cold turkey last year. It is so hard to stay strong now that I am in school with a bunch of cute little 18 year olds. Silver is everywhere and some days I just feel sooooo old.
I've been in and out of this thread for a few years now; I get impatient about growing it out so I cut it all off again...it's a vicious cycle. I'm determined this time, even if I can only grow as long as APL or BSL, I will make it this time!
I'm not really sure I even belong to this thread but I couldn't find the one more suited to my hair length. I got my hair cut 5 weeks ago into one of those a line bobs where the back of my hair just hit's when my head meets my neck and the front reaches mid neck, which I actually love on other people and usually on me, but the hairdresser massacred my hair...nothing is even. It's pretty embarrassing. But moving on, what I thought was a great idea, wasn't, and now I'm growing it out.
And, to make things more awakward, I'm also growing out my bleach blonde hair back to its natural colour...yay for awkward lines (at least when it gets a bit longer it will just look like ombre hair and then it won't be so embarrassing).
I'm looking forward to growing again and getting through all the irritating stages to come out happy in the end, but I definitely need to be around all you LHCers to keep my motivation up.
Anyway, long rant over. Let's get growing! :)
I am growing black dye out to my natural brown and silver the color line is at my jaw now. I totally get the line of change, I find that updo's hide the dye quite well atthis point so there is that at least! Welcome to our little crazy group of shorthaired gals in he longhaired world of LHC :D
Sounds like you're starting out from a similar point to me two years ago. There is a chin to shoulder length thread somewhere but welcome anyway!Quote:
Originally Posted by Princess89
I really need to start taking some progress pics of my hair! It's sort of hard to get exact measurements at this length by myself but I think I have about an inch to a solid APL (when I chopped it off last october it was a bit longer than SL, like a tiny bit past my collarbones from the front). Just so impatient for it to be long again haha /sigh
I know the feeling! I don't actually have much silver (although I did pluck 3 white hairs out of my bangs this weekend!!!), but some days I just feel old due to other factors. Maybe it's because my daughter is turning 19 next month, and maybe it's because my husband is 6 years younger than I am. I just hope my attempts to grow out my hair aren't seen as pathetic or grabbing for youth. I really think that perception of short hair being required for women over 40 is changing, isn't it? But it still crosses my mind from time to time.Quote:
Originally Posted by SerinaDaith
I got my hair cut like that June of 2011, so I'm coming up on two years of growth too. Happy growing to both you and Princess89!Quote:
Originally Posted by palaeoqueen
^ I stopped caring what other people think about on most things back in high school. I have 6.5 years till I hit fourty and I hope to have classic length hair, terminal length willing by that birthday, most of my classmates think I am still in my twenties so my feeling old is more a matter of being and really feeling my age around the kids. Most days I love the shine and the natural highlights. That and if I were to pull my silvers I would have to devote time and energy neither of which I have right now lol.
Welcome, Princess89!
Joflakes, your trim will be fine. You'll be so glad to have nice ends again! :flower:
I don't want to hear any more of that "old" talk! :lala: Goodness, if I plucked out my grays, I'd have a mohawk, and it would be a thin one! I commend all of you growing out your natural color, though. My natural color is not flattering. I've grown it out to jaw length once or twice, but felt horrible in my natural color. Isn't that strange? It's almost like a tinge of hair dysmorphia or something! I resigned myself to having "ugly hair", and kept it pixied. (Because we all know only the most self-absorbed people in the world color their hair. --sarcasm) If I hadn't discovered henna, it would still be short. :silly:
My natural color is a very blah light brown. Mousy? Bleh. Blah. Boring! One of these years I'll get around to posting a picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by browneyedsusan
I love love henna hair (the shine and color in yours is lovely), but I don't do it because I'm MUCH too lazy to use henna. It always sounded so time consuming and potentially messy. Mostly I don't want to deal with the upkeep. If I get to the point where my white hairs (the three that resurface are white, not silver or gray) show up then I might think about it. I think it's lovely when women embrace their gray or silver or white and grow it out. I can't see it working on me with my skin tone.
Well I'm going to be hanging around here a bit longer than I originally hoped. I trimmed my face framing layers at the weekend but a bit too heavily (I cut them straight forgetting that they bounce up by a good 2" when wavy) and it looks a bit rubbish now so I'm going to need to trim the main length to blend it in a bit better. I'm annoyed with myself but at the same time I do have a lot of bleach/damage to cut out so my hair WILL look better for it. Plus it's better to experiment and make that mistake now while I am actively trimming away damage. I now know to leave it at least an inch longer than I think I want it... I'm going to wait until the 1st April so I can take my monthly growth measurement then trim. I'm not sure how much yet, I might start with 0.25" and see how it looks then take a bit more off if it needs it. I'm annoyed because I'm very close to having my hair the longest it's ever been and I've now nicely sabotaged that. :(
Aw, sorry to hear about the cutting boo-boo, palaeoqueen. But as you say, you learned something for next time. And you will now have even less damage!
So I am hitting APL in front due to my A line bob almost a year ago so yay for that! I am however still close to four inches off from APL in back so y'all are stuck with me for the next six to eight months cause I will not call APL till I have gotten APL in back.
palaeoqueen, I have done that so many times!
I really must learn to not cut my own hair. Trimming is one thing, but changing the style is way beyond my skills.
We love having you here!Quote:
Originally Posted by SerinaDaith
Thanks! And yes, definitely a lesson learnt but with a positive side to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neecola
Absolutely! I have to say to all the hairdressers on here, cutting my own hair has really made me appreciate just how skilled a good stylist is at their job. And to all those who have good stylists, make sure you keep them!Quote:
Originally Posted by imaroo
On a positive note I was playing around to see how I can put it back/up to ignore it and discovered that I can now actually put it in a cinnabun with only one stick! I couldn't do it without two sticks the last time I tried (probably at 19", am now at 21" or so). It's pretty messy because of the layers but nice and secure and hides the too-short front very nicely. I'll have to be very careful and not take off too much when I trim, now I can do this I don't want to lose the ability :lol:
Eeep I had a dream last night I asked for a trim and the hairdresser cut my hair to jaw length o_O I woke up touching my hair thinking thank god it's still nearly APL! Phew.
Aw shucks. This week has been rough so that means a lot to me!Quote:
Originally Posted by browneyedsusan
Guys... I'm going crazy. Anyone else who has been at SL for years?
MaryMarx, I've not been...do you mean that you have been stuck at SL without trims? Is your hair at collarbone length? To be SL is just when the hair is on the shoulders, and collarbone length when it hits the collarbone and then longer is CBL+!
Oh I should have mentioned, it's with a lot of trims, to get rid of damaged hair. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by joflakes
Yay, then I'm no longer SL, more like CBL+, thanks! That's encouraging. :o
Welcome to the CBL+ club :DQuote:
Originally Posted by MaryMarx
My ends have been a bit dry lately, even though I don't have split ends. And I'm in the no trimming challenge.. I think it's time for a S&D!
Thanks! Feels great. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by oktobergoud
Hi MaryMarx, I'm also somewhere between 2c/3a and I think curly hair tends to get curlier and shorter-looking at this length. I sometimes feel like I'm moving backwards, LOL!
It probably doesn't help that I micro-trim somewhat regularly. I want to keep my hemline fairly blunt and my hair seems happiest with regular, teeny trims. I trimmed yesterday due to it being the Spring Equinox.
You're not alone, I'm moving backwards too. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Neecola
Need more weight!
Just chiming in to empathize with the Curlies. My sister and I both started growing last spring--she lives 500 miles away, and had worn her hair short for years, too! Weird coincidence!-- Sister is a curly. Super curly, bordering on kinky. My hair looks a lot longer than hers, just because her curls fold back on themselves so much. She's had to get several trims to avoid the "triangle head", when I could just let mine grow. I think she looks great, and does a great job managing her hair. I can't imagine trying to grow out a wad of curls like that!
The curls are so much easier to deal with now that it's long enough to put up! When I was first growing it out from a pixie, I was determined not to use heat and my hair was absolutely ridiculous. It was good for my vanity :D
Now it's just a matter of being patient...
Curly wavy lenght eating frustration. Oh well I figure it really doesn't much matter since my hair is up pretty much 24 7, extra length is really just for doing cooler stuff with at this point. That and growing out the bangs I cut in. Stupid me curly hair does not behave when cut short. A few months and they will go into most updos and currently work into braids fairly well. Live and learn.
Wow, Browneyedsusan, your March length picture! Amazing!
OMG, Neecola! That was a dirty ponytail day! DD (16) was willing to take my picture, so I pulled it down and sat in the window. I enjoy everyone else's progress pictures, so there you go! Crimpy, jacked-up ponytail hair! :laugh:
I meant: "Thank you!"
I'm just flabbergasted you complimented, and forgot my manners. oopsie:oops:
Aw, you're welcome, BES! Seriously, looks very healthy and the growth you have put on is awesome!!
And hurrah for finally being long enough to have jacked up pony tail hair :hifive: