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.