Giving up the dye/bleach and growing out natural? Share your progress.

**DKSABS** · September 16th, 2014, 04:00 PM

Jocosobe, I love your collage. What an awesome idea! Your virgin hair looks so healthy and beautiful now.

**CurlMonster** · September 16th, 2014, 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by butterflybutton

CurlMonster, your hair is so beautiful!

Aww, thank you!

**abauer789** · September 16th, 2014, 06:31 PM

Sofialu, your color is so pretty! I think that now that your hair has past the eyebrow stage you will notice faster progress. I know I did.
You are lucky your natural color is so lovely!!

**Chocowalnut** · September 16th, 2014, 06:39 PM

I am wanting to grow my natural color out finally after never having my natural color since a kid.. can anybody tell me what my natural hair color is(album in my profile)? And suggestions b/c I want to go get something done to the color of my hair so bad, it is driving me crazy these roots.

**Ingrid** · September 16th, 2014, 06:53 PM

Congratulations, jocosobe!! It must feel fantastic to have all your natural hair back

I've been growing mine for 19 months too, but I've taken the micro-trimming approach because I still want to be able to put up my hair. Thanks for sharing the collage of all the progress photos! Good luck with growing your beautiful natural hair

abauer789, thanks for sharing your motivational experiences with your virgin hair, they're always so encouraging to read!

And Sofialu, your natural hair colour is lovely, and the demarcation line is not really noticeable.

Here's my hair:

The natural colour on my under-canopy layers is below my shoulders

**ReneeG** · September 16th, 2014, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by Chocowalnut

I am wanting to grow my natural color out finally after never having my natural color since a kid.. can anybody tell me what my natural hair color is(album in my profile)? And suggestions b/c I want to go get something done to the color of my hair so bad, it is driving me crazy these roots.

It looks like a light brown/dark blonde color to me, and lovely! The first few inches are hard, but once you get a few more it will be easier. Also, you will be able to really tell what color it is once you have more length to judge off of! Did you color it with a permanent dark brown last? I'm sure it will fade over time, or maybe you can try Color B4 or something similar to remove some of the color on your length if you want to try to lighten it closer to your natural color? A lot of people who have a hard time dealing with roots will remove as much dyed color as possible and then use a Demi permanent color over that length to make the rest as close as possible to their virgin growth (without touching any of the virgin roots of course), but you can always just stick it out as it is, it's the healthier route. Whatever you choose good luck!

**ReneeG** · September 16th, 2014, 09:05 PM

Good job Sofiali! Your natural color fades so nicely with your old colored length, very pretty

Good job also Ingrid! I LOVE your natural color, the sun makes it look like liquid steel or something, sooo pretty, and you've really grow a ton of natural length.

**Chocowalnut** · September 16th, 2014, 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by ReneeG

It looks like a light brown/dark blonde color to me, and lovely! The first few inches are hard, but once you get a few more it will be easier. Also, you will be able to really tell what color it is once you have more length to judge off of! Did you color it with a permanent dark brown last? I'm sure it will fade over time, or maybe you can try Color B4 or something similar to remove some of the color on your length if you want to try to lighten it closer to your natural color? A lot of people who have a hard time dealing with roots will remove as much dyed color as possible and then use a Demi permanent color over that length to make the rest as close as possible to their virgin growth (without touching any of the virgin roots of course), but you can always just stick it out as it is, it's the healthier route. Whatever you choose good luck!

It's actually henna on the length, which I love the conditioning of it but it doesn't like to stay red really it looks more brown like you said which I don't like and I also want to have my natural color. I have been thinking of doing something like that with the length but I don't want to cause damage so idk esp. w/ henna how that would work..

**jocosobe** · September 17th, 2014, 01:24 AM

abauer789 Thanks so much!! It feels so nice to finally have all natural hair!

Sofialu, thanks for sharing your photos aswell! I think we've got equal hair growth speed, at 9 months my hair was by my eyebrow level too! The first year feels a little bit slower though, since the hair needs to grow past the more rounded arena of your head, if you know what I mean.
When it starts growing below your ears, it's just growing down, which I at least feel kind of speeds up the process. You're natural color is amazing, and the dyed hair blends in so good with the newgrowth!
DKABS Thank you!!! Yeah, It was so much fun taking photos and finally putting everything together! Taking monthly pictures of the progress is a great way of keeping yourself motivated, and helps with the patience part too I think!
Ingrid, Thank you! It truly feels fantastic! Congratulations on your progress too! You're hair has so much shine, and the color is beautiful!

**missblueeyes** · September 17th, 2014, 06:16 AM

Probably not the best picture to show off my regrowth but I'm really proud of myself that I made it this far! I've been growing the bleach out since July. I'm so excited for my natural haircolour, especially since it gets lighter and lighter the longer it grows.

I do have to say that I love the bleach blonde sock bun, though.