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Oh boo :( I know what you mean about the feeling you get after a trim! I love that feeling...except the trim part. HA. I imagine when my layers finally grow completely out I will have to deal with that too. Yuck. I don't wannaa.Quote:
Originally Posted by cat11
I'm a little curious about your day-to-day hair regimen... Also, is your halr straight, wavy or curly? How often do you blowdry/colour/straighten your hair, if ever? %)Quote:
Originally Posted by Leise22
Update for Jan 2014! So excited about my current length and cant wait for more!
This would be early November 2013
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This is now Jan 26th 2014
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^BeccaAngel your hair is so pretty!! Shiny and gorgeous color.
Some of it is in line with my hemline but some of it is still anywhere up to three inches above it. I wore my hair in two braids today and I was so tempted to trim off the worst part of the tails (I always am tempted to do this because it's so obvious where your damage is like that, but especially now..) and give myself a proper damage-reducing trim but I'm trying to just leave it alone and be patient, with hope that doing so will end up with my hair growing faster... otherwise I would do the monthly small trims like you suggested but I think I can tough it out. In the mean time I can put shea butter and oil on them to help...Quote:
Originally Posted by Wosie
Southern, Becca, lovely hair! ♥
So I took my bi-weekly progress pictures today, and I may have reached the top of APL! My right armpit is slightly higher up than my left, and my longest hairs seem to have just reached it! I'm staying in this thread until 23'' though, since that's what my mom had measured APL to be, and I don't wanna leave too early. Not to mention, I'd decided on 26'' to be BSL, and leaving earlier would just make getting to BSL take longer :p
I'll post pics later :)
My hair is about 1c/2a i think. I don't really straigthen or blowdry (i usually let them dry in the air, blowdry makes it static), but i've been colouring my hair a lot in the last few years. I recently started to do henna as my hair got really damaged for the chemical dyes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wosie
I wash my hair about every 2-3 days, shampoo only. Other than that, i' still a newbie, so i don't really do much for my hair. I saw a lot of people talking about protein or moisture or conditioning, but i don't know how to find out what my hair really wants or needs. But i saw some really beautiful hair photos around the forum, and i want to learn, so i'm open to suggestions :D
It's nice to see that everyone on here is moving right along since I last posted.
BeccaAngel- Your hair looks so dreamy. The color is beautiful and I bet it feels as soft as it looks.
emilylightning- I gave the inversion thing a shot this month and really think that I saw a difference. I took a variety of measurements before and after and saw what I believe to be a difference of .5" for the time period. Not too shabby I guess. Mainly I just felt a difference...may just be all in my head tho
It's not February 1 yet...but I got anxious to see the changes that occurred during the month. The picture on the left is from January 1, the picture on the right is from this evening. I think that I am somewhere around 21" as of tonight, that means I (supposedly) gained a whole inch this month. I'm not sure whether or not the photos reflect that. Either way, my hair is becoming much more tolerable, layers and all. I am able to twist it easily into a bun that stays secure with only a scrunchy and can reach my arm behind my back and feel my ends. It's nice seeing some sort of improvement.
So, I declared myself APL a couple days ago but I am still having doubts because I'm horrible at taking pics and judging myself and I don't want to say I'm at the goal if I'm really not quite there yet. It just really looks like it measured from the back, especially on hair that's been worn a couple days and therefore is more laid down. Here's some pics, what do you think? This is on first day and therefore slightly , about a half inch to an inch, higher up hair. (I tried to get better pics, Im seriously bad at taking selfies. lol @ sportsbra with tanktop. It was for the stripes, though they got warped and didnt help)
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Blace, it looks like you gained an inch! I didn't get a "bonus" this month, but being at "pretty much APL just not calling it yet" is awarding enough on it's own :)
And cat, you look like you're either at APL, or have a very short distance to go until you are. Congrats!
Here's the picture I said I'd post, but in a link because I'm in a bra and don't want anyone to feel uncomfortable. [Not that you can see anything, it's a "back view" shot, but still] https://31.media.tumblr.com/b661bc80...PiV1r2p7rz.jpg
After waking up and looking at those pictures again I think I'll wait another inch before calling it true APL because right now its only my bottom-most hairs. Maybe in a month if i'm lucky and the daily scalp massages pay off.