Someone asked me how long my hair is now. I just pulled the hair in back down and pulled straight, it reaches my waist.
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Someone asked me how long my hair is now. I just pulled the hair in back down and pulled straight, it reaches my waist.
I have no hair goal length. I just decided to let it grow to see at what length I can still wear it loose without it being a pain and have it still looking, what I consider, to be good.
Around Christmas time, my sister-in-law, who rarely comments about anyone's hair, said that longer hair looks good on me. Nice. I had been trying to grow it longer for a while but my now former stylist, would always wind up maintaining my length at what he considered my best length, when I went for a trim.
I put up with that while I dealt with stabilizing my breakage level over the last 2 years but that became more than just a nuisance, over the last 1.5 years, when I did, because it became a challenge that I did not need. He and I had discussions about what we both considered an inch trim. He always managed to take off more. When I used to have ratty ends between trims, I did not mind. That changed.
He is a friend though, with a heart of gold and the trade off was, among other things, that he was/is a very kind person, who would always be generous in ways that count, more than his opinion on my ideal hair length.
I do not keep a hair blog and I am fairly private, when it comes to details about my personal life. This thread is a close as it gets to a blog, for me.
UPDATE.....
My hair is absolutely fine after coloring, no difference in before and after, because of catnip and coconut/argan oils as a pretreatment. HOORAY!!!
I will say though, that I believe I was right about the catnip and it's contribution to protecting my hair from the color. I think that using the catnip on a regular basis for the month or so prior to coloring this time helped my breakage and strengthened my hair so that the oils could do their job better.
Also, I noticed that while I had more shedding the day of color (which I expected) I had MUCH LESS the day after when I used my DW and catnip again.
Just to be clear, did you use catnip on your hair and then the oils?Quote:
Originally Posted by rymorg2
No.Quote:
Originally Posted by ktani
The wash prior to coloring I did not use catnip to keep the catnip from affecting the dye uptake. Then the night before I used the coconut and argan oils. I didn't use catnip again until the day after coloring.
A tip from the hair obsessed (in my case, getting the sides even and straight, never mind breakage ) when doing any form of self trim.
Do the trim only at a time when you are calm. Think it through as to how and what you want.
Last trim was an impulse and I was not calm enough to avoid re trimming a piece of hair that I deliberately made shorter for effect.
No harm done and I did not over trim too much, just enough for it to difficult to put my hair up and have that piece stay up, until it grew in to the length I originally had in mind.
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Originally Posted by rymorg2
Makes sense. Thank you.
I believe you are right on about the effect catnip has on hair strength and condition, based on my hair and experience with it.
Nice to know that effect contributes to helping with results from something like conventional demi hair colour.
You're quite welcome ktani. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ktani
Notes on definative hair terminology as I understand it.
Years ago, I had hair hair samples sent into Redken for analysis, before Redken was bought out by L'oreal, when I had a damage problem (lots of breakage and hair fraying) that turned out to be caused by overuse of their Hair Cleansing Cream shampoo formula, at that time.
6 hairs from different parts of my head were sent in, with the bulb attached, more than one time.
What surprised me was not the results (or the cause of my problem) but how they defined my hair.
Medium not fine. That is based on the diameter of the hair shaft, not the coarseness of any given hair, or its condition.
I have always been told that I have fine hair and I have no doubt that some of my hair is fine, by that definition. Their definition, was based on the hair samples they received.
Coarse hair can be the result of a number of things; genetics, mechanical damage, coatings, chemical abuse, weathering etc., and is the hair's texture.
That is not the same as hair shaft diameter.
Thin or thick hair or something in between, is based on the actual number of hair folicles.
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Originally Posted by ktani
Here's a little lesson.....:D
The most common assumption or mistake that people make is thinking that "fine" and "thin" mean the same thing....they do not.
Fine, Med. and Coarse describes the diameter of the hair shaft. Thin, medium and thick describes the amount of hairs on the head.
For instance, my hair is fine. Each individual hair is hard to see, and hard to feel in between your fingers. But it's thick in that I have a TON of it. I have probably 3 times the normal amount of hairs on my head.
Medium can also be called normal in regards to the density of the hair (How much is on the head)....the diameter of each hair is also called texture. Texture and density are what a stylist looks at to recommend things.