Shoulder | Armpit

Here's my hair - sorry for the cr*ppy pic (and for the frizzy brushed-out cinnabunwaves).

It looks like APL, but a towel test shows that I still need a bit of length, so I will wait another month and see. This is taking sooo long... I started with chin length almost two years ago :yawn:

http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/...psf52f9135.jpg

After another month and a microtrim I'm back at 21". I'm a lot happier with my hair at this length, it starts to head down my back rather than hanging around my shoulders and therefore starts to feel "long". I have a lot of bleach/damage still to trim away but I don't think I'll be going shorter than 21". My initial plan is to microtrim every month and then reassess how I feel a few months from now. Sorry no recent pictures, I've been pretty lazy, I promise I'll take a one year progress pic at the beginning of May though.

So I saw one of Torrin's tutorials and I fell in love with the bent double ended knitting pins, I picked up a pack of sock knitting needles and bent them using a sharpie and my bare hands! My just past shoulder hair has been up all day! Just had to share that here, one of these days I'll take a couple of shots and share them!

I started SL around May 2012, and finally got to APL around December. My ends were/still are quite damaged so I've been doing a lot of trimming. Now I'm in APL no-man's-land. Can't seem to get past it, ugh. But at least the general population now considers my hair long, hooray for that!

Wow! You all have such beautiful hair! It's so shiny! Very good job, ladies! well done.

My hair is still in the black hole between SL and APL. I've never had my hair longer than that, so I can't wait to say I'm past APL.

I saw somebody mention a "towel test" to see if their hair was APL. What is the towel test?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by imaroo

My hair is still in the black hole between SL and APL. I've never had my hair longer than that, so I can't wait to say I'm past APL.

I saw somebody mention a "towel test" to see if their hair was APL. What is the towel test?

---

You wrap a towel around you, like when you get out of the shower, taht height is APL :)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by palaeoqueen

After another month and a microtrim I'm back at 21". I'm a lot happier with my hair at this length, it starts to head down my back rather than hanging around my shoulders and therefore starts to feel "long". I have a lot of bleach/damage still to trim away but I don't think I'll be going shorter than 21". My initial plan is to microtrim every month and then reassess how I feel a few months from now. Sorry no recent pictures, I've been pretty lazy, I promise I'll take a one year progress pic at the beginning of May though.

---

How do you microtrim?
My hair is collarbone-length and I want to trim a little, but it's too short to really see what I'm doing...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by NoRush

You wrap a towel around you, like when you get out of the shower, taht height is APL :)

---

oooooh thanks! That makes sense.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by NoRush

You wrap a towel around you, like when you get out of the shower, taht height is APL :)

---

good to know! My hair is as long as it's been in many years. Entering uncharted territory....