Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
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Bat
did you post in the wrong topic?? it's looking great though!
hah hah Bat I thought the same thing!
Sleepytangles, your hair is looking amazing! It will be nice to call it when you are so solidly APL past APL because then the BSL journey will be much shorter.
LilacOrchid sorry to hear about your postpartum hair loss. I have been there and always ended up cutting short but ALWAYS in the long run wished I had waited it out. I have seen lots of members on here just microtrim after pp hair loss and their hair slowly thickens up over time and they never had a big chop. So, it can definitely be done and still be grown out long.
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
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LilacOrchid
I’m going to vent a little, hope you don’t mind. :( I was just washing my hair and decided to comb through it to get the mask even, and that was a mistake. I have witnessed massive chunks of hair that just wouldn’t stop falling out no matter how many times I comb through. They were everywhere, literally everywhere. On my body, going down the drain, on the comb. It got me feeling anxious and I started sweating. The scene from a horror movie is a result of bleach session in February that has destroyed my hair and postpartum hair loss, that’s just speeding up the process. I’m prone to baby blues and this definitely isn’t helping. After 6 years of chemical torture I have put my hair through, it has decided it couldn’t take no more. I’m sorry once again, I’m just feeling kind of sad, and it’s not that type of sadness my husband could understand, since it’s ‘just hair’ to men. 😂
So sorry you're going through this! The hair I lost postpartum in 2019 is barely reaching collarbone-ish length even though the rest of my hair is nearing BSL, watching it all fall out was the WORST! And now I'm pregnant and dreading this process again next year. Venting and being upset about this is totally understandable and welcome! I hope it grows back so strong and healthy, and SOON!
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Thank you for kind words, I appreciate that. :o By the way, as I started taking care of my hair and paying attention to it, I’m starting to think my natural hair is actually wavy, rather than straight. Am I completely crazy or this thing is possible? It used to be a bit wavy in my childhood, but as I hit puberty, it has become stick straight and lost the definition. I brushed it off thinking that hair changes, didn’t give a single thought. I have since then for years thought of it being straight, but this time, I actually combed the mask evenly and throughout to make it touch every strand, not sloppily like before, and now that it’s dry, I can’t see any frizz, just actual waves. I let it air dry. Could the persistent frizz and wires actually be waves, due to me being careless about my hair? I’m kinda shocked at how soft and overall different looking it is now. Maybe I’m needing a different care routine. Does this even happen to people? :confused:
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
Totally possible :D
I didn't discover that I have waves until I was 28 years old.
Do you have a picture?
The texture can also change after pregnancy ;)
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
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LilacOrchid
Thank you for kind words, I appreciate that. :o By the way, as I started taking care of my hair and paying attention to it, I’m starting to think my natural hair is actually wavy, rather than straight. Am I completely crazy or this thing is possible? It used to be a bit wavy in my childhood, but as I hit puberty, it has become stick straight and lost the definition. I brushed it off thinking that hair changes, didn’t give a single thought. I have since then for years thought of it being straight, but this time, I actually combed the mask evenly and throughout to make it touch every strand, not sloppily like before, and now that it’s dry, I can’t see any frizz, just actual waves. I let it air dry. Could the persistent frizz and wires actually be waves, due to me being careless about my hair? I’m kinda shocked at how soft and overall different looking it is now. Maybe I’m needing a different care routine. Does this even happen to people? :confused:
Hair definitely responds to hormonal changes, and can change several times throughout one's lifetime. It is also possible to encourage natural waves/curls just from haircare alone! The human body is strange!
My own hair has changed from 2c (age 3) --> 1a/1b --> 2a/2b --> 3c/4a --> 2c --> 2a/2b (current, middle-age).
Edited to add: even non-natural changes can change the texture: I know one person who had chemotherapy for cancer--lost all her hair (straight) and it grew back curly!
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
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LilacOrchid
Thank you for kind words, I appreciate that. :o By the way, as I started taking care of my hair and paying attention to it, I’m starting to think my natural hair is actually wavy, rather than straight. Am I completely crazy or this thing is possible? It used to be a bit wavy in my childhood, but as I hit puberty, it has become stick straight and lost the definition. I brushed it off thinking that hair changes, didn’t give a single thought. I have since then for years thought of it being straight, but this time, I actually combed the mask evenly and throughout to make it touch every strand, not sloppily like before, and now that it’s dry, I can’t see any frizz, just actual waves. I let it air dry. Could the persistent frizz and wires actually be waves, due to me being careless about my hair? I’m kinda shocked at how soft and overall different looking it is now. Maybe I’m needing a different care routine. Does this even happen to people? :confused:
I agree with the posters above me and also I think its pretty common with a certain hair type seems like usually 2a/bish to discover that frizz is actually waves. My hair can go from relatively straight with a few waves to some full on spiral curls just depending on if I wash with sulfates and silicones AND how much moisture I have in it. My waves aren't strong though and without product fall out after a day. And, yes hair can change with hormones, like after pregnancy or sometimes just as we get older.
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I have these. The first one is taken a month ago and as you can see, it looks kind of dull and undefined. The one on the right is from yesterday, when I actually used the mask properly for the first time lol. Both are after washing and air drying.
https://i.ibb.co/Trk5YDG/AE6-A786-A-...66-FE0-A89.jpg
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
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LilacOrchid
Thank you for kind words, I appreciate that. :o By the way, as I started taking care of my hair and paying attention to it, I’m starting to think my natural hair is actually wavy, rather than straight. Am I completely crazy or this thing is possible? It used to be a bit wavy in my childhood, but as I hit puberty, it has become stick straight and lost the definition. I brushed it off thinking that hair changes, didn’t give a single thought. I have since then for years thought of it being straight, but this time, I actually combed the mask evenly and throughout to make it touch every strand, not sloppily like before, and now that it’s dry, I can’t see any frizz, just actual waves. I let it air dry. Could the persistent frizz and wires actually be waves, due to me being careless about my hair? I’m kinda shocked at how soft and overall different looking it is now. Maybe I’m needing a different care routine. Does this even happen to people? :confused:
Oh yes, this can happen. For years I thought my hair was annoyingly big. I discovered waves and curls when my hair reached past BSL. All because one day I decided to do a hair-typing and bam! Different hair.
Have you done a hair typing? There is a sticky post that gives more info at the top of the main forum.
Re: Calling all who are growing shoulder to APL!
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LilacOrchid
I have these. The first one is taken a month ago and as you can see, it looks kind of dull and undefined. The one on the right is from yesterday, when I actually used the mask properly for the first time lol. Both are after washing and air drying.
https://i.ibb.co/Trk5YDG/AE6-A786-A-...66-FE0-A89.jpg
It still looks in the 1 range that I can see 1c might be a stretch but do a typing photo from the back its easier to tell that way , wash your hair and pat the moisture out and let it dry :D
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Here’s a better one comparison wise, since the angle and my shirt are the same. https://i.ibb.co/WtrsrvW/8022661-A-8...8-F85138-D.jpg
Hmm, I’ve done the test and I think I’m 1c just like you said, Bat. It’s definitely not completely straight as I have previously thought. What do others think?
