Shoulder | Armpit

Hey Oktobergoud, I have the EXACT same feelings about my almostAPL. To me it's sort of anti climatic; my hair just seems...too short. I agree it feels like collarbone length, the only difference being that my hair kinda stays back when I throw it back if you know what I mean.

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Originally Posted by stachelbeere

Awesome! We could be hair twins then :D do you have fine hair too?

Wow, your photo combo shows a great array of different colours I've had too at some point in my life :) I never had bottle blonde hair though, although I 'bleached' my hair with a highlight spray for blonde hair at some point and it turned out orange. a good orange! I might call it 'strawberry blonde' because it sounds better :P my ex boyfriend fell in love with me and always reminded me how much he liked that colour on me
Apart from that I had dark, dark brown hair like yours (my current boyfriend fell in love with me when I had that colour - and he secretly wants me to go back to that. I don't think my red has ever been that intense as yours - although it might be the flash (?) My hair is quiet red in a photo taken with flash.
There are two reasons I gave up henna - first of all, I couldn't be bothered anymore, it was such a hassle and mess and I never reaaaally liked the colour enough to embrace it totally.
The second reason is this picture:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lf...crklo1_400.jpg

I want to be able to pull this look off. I would like to have my natural colour back, my hair being at least BSLish, and some hidden colourful streaks that are only visible if I braid my hair. I hope I'll get there next year or in two years (fingers crossed!).
I think I'm going to dig out some of my old photos and make a hair story of my own :) I just have to figure out if I want to show my little face on this forum, I might make a semi private album.

By the way, I LOVE your hendigo coloured hair in the last picture!!! I wish I had done some hendigo-ing of my own last year, it looks so shiny and intense :)

Oh!! And you should definitely try a waterfall braid I think you'll enjoy it. The good news is that you can do it on your current hair length. It takes some practice but is so worth it.
What I did in that last, huge picture was a waterfall twist, it's easier than the waterfall braid. There are some tutorials on youtube, if you're interested I could find the links.

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That picture does look awesome. It'll be few years before I can have such a long braid (few years...god thats depressing) :P

I like adding indigo because it gave me such a rich colour. But it is such a pain to apply! Henna is smooth, indigo is very gritty. Pain to wash out!!!! And its so hard to get the darkness right.

Oh and yes I do have fine hair!!! However judging from your pictures, yours is thicker. But hopefully Once i stop shedding I'll get back some of my thickness. (btw you can always blur out or colour in your face in photos, many people on here also do not like showing their face. The choice is totally yours)

Also, yes please on youtube tutorial if you can find one :)

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Originally Posted by littleghost

Hi!

New here! Also growing my hair from SL to APL. Currently at collar bone with layers and bangs.

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6676/64xf.jpg

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Hello and welcome

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Originally Posted by oktobergoud

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ps3042d7df.jpg



I think I have reached APL?? I have lots of layers now though, so it's only the longest parts that reach APL. But I just got a cut! I'll wait a month or so before I'll officially call it APL I think :) But still, so long already? It doesn't feel like APL, it feels really short. I still feel like I have collarbone length hair...

And I found this picture in the Photobooth folder, called 'almost shoulder'. It was taken on August 10th last year! So I went from shoulder to APL in just a year? Yay!
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...psacf7aed7.jpg

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oktobergoud you are definitely APL! Well done on brilliant growth in a year!

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Originally Posted by AnnaB

That picture does look awesome. It'll be few years before I can have such a long braid (few years...god thats depressing) :P

I like adding indigo because it gave me such a rich colour. But it is such a pain to apply! Henna is smooth, indigo is very gritty. Pain to wash out!!!! And its so hard to get the darkness right.

Oh and yes I do have fine hair!!! However judging from your pictures, yours is thicker. But hopefully Once i stop shedding I'll get back some of my thickness. (btw you can always blur out or colour in your face in photos, many people on here also do not like showing their face. The choice is totally yours)

Also, yes please on youtube tutorial if you can find one :)

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Yeah, I know it's depressing that it will take a long time to get there... It's rather unlikely given my education, but what if my occupation requires 'professional hair' (= no crazy colours) once I reach that length???
I'm not too sure my hair feels as thick as it looks - it's about 7,5 cm (~3 inches) now, solid ii. I'm glad that I have the potential to have thicker hair though :) What was your initial thickness before your shed?
The thing with blurring out my face is that I don't really like what the photo looks like in the end, from a purely visual point of view ;) So I'm thinking of other options... I'll get there at some point.

And here are the tutorials!
Waterfall braid - there are so many tutorials on youtube. Even though no one is explaining in this video you can see what the person is doing. It's basically a variation of a French braid where you drop the bottom main strand and pick up another from your 'scalp' to continue the braid. It takes a loooot of practice but the results are great. This youtuber shows two pretty ways of finishing it (although the snake braid makes me CRINGE, ugh.) but I usually braid on one side and then hide the rest underneath the top layer of my hair by pinning it.

And the waterfall twist is what I did on my hair the other day. It's a lot easier! The downside is that because you never incorporate hair to the braid you can only get as far as the length of your front hair allows you to - not sure that's clear ;)

Wow, oktobergoud! That is a ton of growth for one year! Looks great!

Welcome littleghost!

When my hair is wet it is APL (my curiosity got the best of me and I had to check!) but I'm waiting for dry APL. I'm planning on another microtrim here pretty soon too.

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Originally Posted by ebullience

I should hope so! Welcome to the topic and good luck with your growth :)

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Thank-you, ebullience! :flower:

I called APL too soon. I want solid APL wet and dry.

So little update on this thread about my hair shed.

My blood tests came back and I have abnormal iron levels. I have way to much in my system. Its weird because I only take 'Hair, skin and nails' vitamins and thats it.
I looked up the symptoms and hair loss is listed as one of them. However my doctor still thinks its caused by stress.

I just hope it stops soon.


stachelbeere thanks for the links :) I'll check them out tonight.

Fingers crossed it will stop soon...

I think I'm heading to APL. I'm not sure. I have a habit of growing my hair to APL or BSL and then cutting it back to shoulder (which I recently did). I'll be ready to be able to pull all my hair back at once when cooler weather gets here. Well, except for the bangs that I'm growing out anyway.

Welcome new ones!

AnnaB: I hope your shed stops soon and your hair comes in thicker than ever!