Waist | Hip | BCL | Tailbone

**Kelp** · October 6th, 2024, 06:16 PM

Back to BCL! I just got 1.5 inches (3.8cm) taken off.

It was so necessary. I thought my hair was growing extremely slowly (I'm talking three inches this year) until I got bangs. Having to trim the bangs out of my eyes constantly made me realize that the peroxide damage to my ends was worse than I thought and that it was breaking faster than it was growing. I was masking my split ends with oils and conditioners but clarifying really brought them all out.

This has been my biggest trim since my growth journey started but I'm proud of myself for not obsessing over it or my goals. 1.5 inches seemed like a lot with how slowly my hair was growing, but I think this is going to open up the opportunity for more progress now that I'm not fighting that breakage. Yay!

**Abacus** · October 7th, 2024, 07:32 AM

Originally Posted by Kelp

Back to BCL! I just got 1.5 inches (3.8cm) taken off.

It was so necessary. I thought my hair was growing extremely slowly (I'm talking three inches this year) until I got bangs. Having to trim the bangs out of my eyes constantly made me realize that the peroxide damage to my ends was worse than I thought and that it was breaking faster than it was growing. I was masking my split ends with oils and conditioners but clarifying really brought them all out.

This has been my biggest trim since my growth journey started but I'm proud of myself for not obsessing over it or my goals. 1.5 inches seemed like a lot with how slowly my hair was growing, but I think this is going to open up the opportunity for more progress now that I'm not fighting that breakage. Yay!

Congrats! It's so hard to cut off ends and not obsess over it or see it as a setback. Sounds like a really positive experience for you and your hair!

**Für immer** · October 7th, 2024, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by Abacus

Congrats! It's so hard to cut off ends and not obsess over it or see it as a setback. Sounds like a really positive experience for you and your hair!

I concur.

**baanoo** · October 10th, 2024, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by Kelp

Back to BCL! I just got 1.5 inches (3.8cm) taken off.

It was so necessary. I thought my hair was growing extremely slowly (I'm talking three inches this year) until I got bangs. Having to trim the bangs out of my eyes constantly made me realize that the peroxide damage to my ends was worse than I thought and that it was breaking faster than it was growing. I was masking my split ends with oils and conditioners but clarifying really brought them all out.

This has been my biggest trim since my growth journey started but I'm proud of myself for not obsessing over it or my goals. 1.5 inches seemed like a lot with how slowly my hair was growing, but I think this is going to open up the opportunity for more progress now that I'm not fighting that breakage. Yay!

You must feel so liberated to have trimmed off so much peroxide damage! Do you have much left?

**jenniferrae** · October 16th, 2024, 10:44 AM

Baanoo, thanks for your encouragement and advice. You may well be right about difficulty with accurate measuring being an issue here, because either I previously mismeasured, or I had a mega inch spurt in the last month. Though I did start eating "normal food" for the first time in years after a highly restrictive diet after solving food sensitivity issues, AND I had the first bone under the skull pushed back into place that had been apparently out of whack for years. The human body is a mystery, so who knows.

Here is my 1yr progress picture. I lined it up the best I could and wore the same dress. Although I had a lot of breakage while trying to do the medieval combing method (on hair damaged by too much sun) when I couldn't shower due to the mold issue, so the ends have thinned, as most of that breakage is back-center on the top layer, mostly around neck level or so. Some may also be from twisting into buns and pinning? I'm going to just do braids for a while to avoid any more higher up breakage over the next year since it's clearly fragile.

Despite these setbacks, I've gone from 28 inches to 32.5 doing just S&D thoroughly in the spring and again last week for fall.

The photos still have some wave, but when pulled taut, it's maybe an inch or two from BCL. But the ends of my hair are less than a pinky width thick, so it's not like a ton of my hair is that long yet.

Overall, I really can't complain.

**Für immer** · October 16th, 2024, 12:19 PM

jenniferrae, nice growth! Love how your ends look, the waviness/curling.

**Bat** · October 16th, 2024, 01:45 PM

Originally Posted by jenniferrae

Baanoo, thanks for your encouragement and advice. You may well be right about difficulty with accurate measuring being an issue here, because either I previously mismeasured, or I had a mega inch spurt in the last month. Though I did start eating "normal food" for the first time in years after a highly restrictive diet after solving food sensitivity issues, AND I had the first bone under the skull pushed back into place that had been apparently out of whack for years. The human body is a mystery, so who knows.

Here is my 1yr progress picture. I lined it up the best I could and wore the same dress. Although I had a lot of breakage while trying to do the medieval combing method (on hair damaged by too much sun) when I couldn't shower due to the mold issue, so the ends have thinned, as most of that breakage is back-center on the top layer, mostly around neck level or so. Some may also be from twisting into buns and pinning? I'm going to just do braids for a while to avoid any more higher up breakage over the next year since it's clearly fragile.

Despite these setbacks, I've gone from 28 inches to 32.5 doing just S&D thoroughly in the spring and again last week for fall.

The photos still have some wave, but when pulled taut, it's maybe an inch or two from BCL. But the ends of my hair are less than a pinky width thick, so it's not like a ton of my hair is that long yet.

Overall, I really can't complain.

It looks great to me, what a beautiful head of hair!

**mallorykay13** · October 20th, 2024, 11:57 AM

https://imgur.com/a/4nJW0En

Can I claim hip yet?

**Bat** · October 21st, 2024, 03:51 AM

Originally Posted by mallorykay13

https://imgur.com/a/4nJW0En

Can I claim hip yet?

Maybe it's cause you are sitting but it looks like waist to me

**jenniferrae** · October 21st, 2024, 09:29 AM

Für immer & Bat, thank you both very much! It looks that nice for about five minutes after I've smoothed it down, and then its wurliness starts to reawaken, and the haphazard sections of broken pieces start to reach out into the air, in every direction they can, with their fuzzy little fingers of frizzy-floof.

I'll eventually find a conditioner that works with my wurliness again! Until then, it goes back in the braid, hahahaha.

mallorykay13, I agree with Bat. It looks lovely though! Personally, I think it looks more like hip length in your avatar than in the seated photo.