2019 Monthly Length Photo Project

**paulownia** · March 15th, 2019, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by milosmomma

Paulownia I've said it before but I love your spirals!

Jeez, thanks

Originally Posted by elfynity

I had no intention of offending anyone or having an opinion about this. i haven't really giventhought about measuring stretched or not. Not a good word to use here in LHC 'cheating' even jokingly.

Paulownia, your natural end curls are gorgeous!

Was it not me that should be offended? Because it was my cheating

I didn't take it that seriously. I knew you were joking. Thanks for compliment.

**Luna Starsetta** · March 15th, 2019, 03:56 PM

Just to be safe i'm going to start this out with i'm not offended. i thought i would share how i do my photos and my measurements. for the circumstances of this thread being the monthly length photos i did decide to pick one day out of the month regardless of where i am in my wash cycle and how bouncy or not bouncy my curls are to take a picture on my natural hair. i chose the 20th since its in the middle of the month. i also take stretched length shots as well but i normally wait till a friday. i find that i use the 11th and the 22nd depending on where it falls closer to my wash. the reason why i do that is because i oiled it and used a BBB to distribute and braided it. i take it right out of two side 3 strand braids and bbb a bit and snap! i find it easiest to see my color demarcation line that way as well so i post that manipulated look both loose and stretched. i check the length and see how far the color has gone in about a month.

now as for measuring i do it on the 1st of the month on dry hair stretched by my DH. calling milestones i do in 3 steps. i'll claim it when i reach it wet,(verified by the DH which i call step one to be official) i'll call it stretched which is when i feel it is acceptable to start popping into the next thread down and appear less in the one that i was in. i consider my hair classic stretched officially (verified by LCHers with a picture and the DH's measurements). third i'll call it unstretched in which case i respectfully leave the graduated thread! feeling that i officially in my own eyes reached the milestone.

phew that was a lot thank you for reading this far! your the mvp!!!

**illicitlizard** · March 16th, 2019, 08:15 AM

paulownia those curly ends are gorgeous!
and tekla I see some growth for sure, also your hair looks so nice and sleek in those pics.

Here's my March pic

Ok it's barely the 17th but I got impatient! I feel like I may technically be at SL now which is pretty exciting.

**elfynity** · March 16th, 2019, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by paulownia

Jeez, thanks

Was it not me that should be offended? Because it was my cheating

I didn't take it that seriously. I knew you were joking. Thanks for compliment.

You are so right Paulownia, thanks so much!!

**Stardreamer** · March 19th, 2019, 03:12 PM

Hey, so yesterday it was time for my monthly photo. I don't see much progress from February except maybe the U-cut of my hair has become straighter (side hair has become longer). I don't really know so you can make your own conclusions.

Just for fun: the pic from right after the last trim I had: on 17th October 2018:

19th February (so you can compare with this month's pic):

19th March (with bun waves)

I don't see much growth since 19th Feb... but my hair looks more the same length. It could be the slight curls at my ends, maybe making it look shorter this month. My hair is a weird thing. I wish it would grow!! But you can see it has decided to grow a bit since Oct - seems pretty slow. Also, I swear, the trim made it so much shorter. When I hit the 6 month mark of no trimming, I'm just gonna let it grow. Please grow, hair!

Note: My hair looks so much straighter than it actually is

this is what happens when a curly brushes their hair. (Sorry for long post!)

**Waveurly** · March 21st, 2019, 04:31 AM

Here's my monthly hair growth update from feb to march, both cut off at about APL more or less:

February:

March:

Of course it is hard to see growth as my hair wants to be more wavy this time, oh well..

And Stardreamer, I definitely see growth in your photo's! I think it might be harder to see because of your texture but if I look at your stripes I can definitely see your hair has been growing!

**milosmomma** · March 21st, 2019, 10:45 AM

I swear I posted an update to this thread a few days ago, what happened? Lol I'm sure user error.
Stardreamer I responded to you when I THOUGHT I posted before but here goes again. I can definitely see more length in the second pic and more wave in the third pic. Even with the trim it looks like you're gaining.
Waveurly I can see tons of growth too. Your ends look softer too.
I'll have to edit this later and add this months photo when at a real computer.

jan 18

feb 18

mar19

I think on Apr 1 I will assess the hemline and maybe switch my stats to waist. It's hard to tell but I think I'm there. I dont have long between waist and hip so if I wait too long I might skip straight to hip!

I just realised I'm always wearing my red pants, I don't mean to but I guess they're always clean on the 18th and 19th Haha

**Luna Starsetta** · March 21st, 2019, 01:13 PM

alright small picture spam incoming!
jan,feb,march in that order!

anybody see any growth between feb and march?

**milosmomma** · March 21st, 2019, 01:21 PM

Yes, I think i see about a half inch. It looks like your hair has reached the bottom of the black stripe this month, it was halfway down the stripe in Feb.