3 Year LHC Anniversary for Me!! Pics and babbles inside!!

**AspenSong** · August 14th, 2013, 09:26 PM

I've missed the other "anniversaries", so I'm posting for this one.
I joined August 15th 2010 - I'm a day early, but hubby is dragging me out at 4am tomorrow...so I won't be posting. haha.

I have reached Classic length, which was one of my first goals. Now, I just plan on letting it grow to wherever it wants and trimming and continuing to care for it.
Though I will say, after seeing my ends in a few recent pics, I can see my ends ARE thinning - it's inevitable - and it's not just light or angle like I thought it might be some of. I'm now thinking more of my dip dye fun ends just because I do need to make myself start tackling trimming those suckers off and why not Manic Panic them a bit if they're going to get trimmed anyway?!!

Glad I found the forum and many natural and new ideas for my hair! I was a cone addict when I came here, and while cones aren't bad....(cones are okay...Mmmmmmmmmkay!) MY hair doesn't love them too much and I learned to check for them here! My hair likes them like, once a year....then turns crunchy and wants no cones again. I went through that for a long time though before and kept putting more and more and more of them on my hair to "fix" the dry/crunchiness, never helped, until I got here and found out about No cones and CO washing and all that loveliness. So I know my hair would be much worse off without the info I have gotten here.

A Photo trip though my hair....

Back during my colorful days....

I wore my hair pretty short for a long time after I cut from TBL at about 18...

And while I was always a dye addict, I always went back to blonde it seemed like -

I kept this up for another year or so and after my Dad passed away, I started growing my hair for him in a way since he loved my hair long and I missed it and had mostly kept it short at other people's urging for all this time.
This is Jan of 2010 to Jan 2011....The Jan of 2011 I had just done my first cassia treatment and trimmed off a lot of all that dye damage.

Later 2011 - hubby and I.

May of 2012 - I was less fat than I am now...haha. Curse my stress eating. =(

July of 2012 after a cassia treatment where I added Henna. Def got a gloss here!

Today with the beautiful Baerries fork that the lovely Seeshami be-gifted to me since my hair is significantly smaller than the Naughty Mess. *wink*

Another thingy I came up with while playing with my hair...

And here is my hair tonight, after a washing, good conditioning and air dry with no oil - so it's all fluffy!! haha. The little bit of henna I've added to my cassia treatments is def building up on my hair I think. I like it and it makes me want to keep getting a bit more red, but I'm scared of suddenly having to grow it all out because I've lost my natural color completely. =/

**jacqueline101** · August 14th, 2013, 09:39 PM

I love your hair congrats.

**Seeshami** · August 14th, 2013, 09:44 PM

I love it!!!!

I still think we'll be safe doing a blue and purple or green omber as long as it is only temporary and we only do the inches your absolutely willing to cut off. Unless we need to wait a few more month for inches your willing to loose. But veggie dye is suppose to be nice stuff.

**Simone_Fatale** · August 14th, 2013, 09:50 PM

Oh how cute and lovely you are! And great hair progress so congratulations! Your hair is gorgeous, looks very healthy and shiny. Happy growing in another year to come

**AspenSong** · August 14th, 2013, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by Seeshami

I love it!!!!

I still think we'll be safe doing a blue and purple or green omber as long as it is only temporary and we only do the inches your absolutely willing to cut off. Unless we need to wait a few more month for inches your willing to loose. But veggie dye is suppose to be nice stuff.

I think purple in my mind would go well...it's got red in it, so I'm kind of hoping it won't turn As weird as it fades. I just think no matter what I do, my ends are going to super suck up the color. And if it's there for good, I guess it'll be fine since I usually have my hair up anyway! It's too dang floaty and flyaway for me to wear loose.
I'm going to be stubborn and not want to cut my ends for a while more I know because it seemed to take a long time to get from TB to Classic for me and I want to enjoy having my little goal length for a while.

**Seeshami** · August 14th, 2013, 09:55 PM

As soon as you're ready! It will be so much fun and so beautiful

**AspenSong** · August 14th, 2013, 10:45 PM

Originally Posted by Seeshami

As soon as you're ready! It will be so much fun and so beautiful

You're more ready to dip dye it than I am! lol.
I'm warning you....I might get a wild hair, so to speak, and decide to do it at a random time and just do it. That's how I handle these things, spur of the moment. lol. So you'll just be going about your day and BAM....Purple hair post on FB or I'll be all "Heeeeey, let's meet up for photos and ice cream" and BAM....Purple hair!! haha.