Reply With QuoteIt depends on how you feel If you can part with 7 inches, if it's split end damage I'd cut it (I recently cut 6 inches myself) but putting it up and babying if you don't have the heart to cut is good too. I previously baby it.
WANTED: YOUR TWO CENTS! Should I Have Most of My Hair Cut Off?
The more that I look at my hair, the more I can't stand the sight of graduated damage caused by my expensive BBB. Now I have a hair-friendly routine, so there are about seven inches of healthy hair on my head. I could baby the damaged length until it grows out or have my hair cut to chin length and grow it out to term again. It would take approximately two years to reach term. What would you do?
Re: WANTED: YOUR TWO CENTS! Should I Have Most of My Hair Cut Off?
It depends on how you feel If you can part with 7 inches, if it's split end damage I'd cut it (I recently cut 6 inches myself) but putting it up and babying if you don't have the heart to cut is good too. I previously baby it.
Lady Ligeia of the Wandering Oleander in the order of the Long Hair Knights
Re: WANTED: YOUR TWO CENTS! Should I Have Most of My Hair Cut Off?
It has about seven healthy inches starting from the scalp, then graduated breakage with some splitting near the hem. I like the idea of just losing the damage, but it has been at term for almost a year and it's hard to just give it all up without some forethought.
Re: WANTED: YOUR TWO CENTS! Should I Have Most of My Hair Cut Off?
Do you do hot oil treatments? I'd do hot oil treatments every week, soaking it with heat (like a heat pad on low on my head or a heated hood) for at least an hour.
Lady Ligeia of the Wandering Oleander in the order of the Long Hair Knights
Re: WANTED: YOUR TWO CENTS! Should I Have Most of My Hair Cut Off?
I think it depends on how much you stare yourself silly at the damage. If it's always there somewhere on the back of your mind and you can't stop pestering about it, you'll have a calmer mind when it is cut off. However, if you think you might regret going for a large chop, I wouldn't do it. I'd go for a "larger" chop, and then see if that sits okay with you or if you miss the lengths too much.
Re: WANTED: YOUR TWO CENTS! Should I Have Most of My Hair Cut Off?
Do a small chop. When I cut off 2 or 3 inches, my hair looks and feels amazing. That may be all it takes to make you happier with your hair.
Change is the only constant.
Re: WANTED: YOUR TWO CENTS! Should I Have Most of My Hair Cut Off?
I'd cut. Get rid of the damage. If it's bugging you, get rid of it. Life is too short to be unhappy about your hair.
See the evolution of my hair over the last two years.
Re: WANTED: YOUR TWO CENTS! Should I Have Most of My Hair Cut Off?
Hair friendly routine or not, if you cut it all off then by the time it grows back out it'll be damaged again. The damage will grow out faster if you don't chop because you won't have healthy ends getting damaged and needing to be cut off. I'd take off an inch or two if you really can't stand it, and then just forget about it and let it grow.
Re: WANTED: YOUR TWO CENTS! Should I Have Most of My Hair Cut Off?
I'd trim it out gradually. Often it only takes to cut off 2 inches for your hair to suddenly feel amazing.
Re: WANTED: YOUR TWO CENTS! Should I Have Most of My Hair Cut Off?
You already did a pretty big chop once at the beginning of this month didn't you? I'm sorry to hear you are still not happy. Have you got any pictures? Perhaps it feels worse than it looks? I think everyone probably has some splits, no matter how much they trim.
If it was me I would baby it and see how I feel in a few weeks. But this is coming from someone who has spent the last 3 months trying to work up to a 1 inch trim and failed so far!
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