Patience when growing

[xxjlgxx]

How did or do you guys be patient during the growing process? My hair is too short to even wear up and I’m just stuck feeling frustrated that I cut it short in the first place. I just really dislike the short hair and want it long now 😂😩

[giraff]

I feel you! I'm sure we're not alone in feeling that way.

The key for me is to try to enjoy where I'm at. Embrace my hair's texture as much as I can, try out different styles, test products etc. It's like if one is trying to loose weight, it's often more effective to sign up for a race or something to shift focus a bit. Obsessing and thinking about it all the time doesn't make it grow faster I don't know if there is anything one can do to make hair grow faster, but it usually doesn't hurt to try. Self care, a healthy diet, eliminating as much stress as possible usually have other benefits as well!

I don't know how long your hair is, but I bet you can find some cute hairstyle tutorials for your length on YouTube! Even if you can't gather all your hair in a braid or bun, you can probably clip it back or style it in a new way. That might make you feel better about your current length!

Before you know it, your hair is longer! Good luck

[dancedance]

I recommend looking on pinterest for styles and cuts you love at your length! If you find something you really like then you could take the picture to the salon to get a styling trim to match. Also I'm not sure how long your hair is, but I know there are lots of short haired youtube creators with videos on updos for short hair, as short as chin length I think, it could be fun to try some out.

I'm at a pixie length now and it is hard to balance styling trims with retaining growth, because it needs to be trimmed pretty often to keep it in shape, but it's not so bad because I love how it looks. Pretty soon it will be long enough to pin curl in pursuit of a Marilyn Monroe bubble cut, which I am really looking forward to! Enjoying my hair at every length has been the best way to find patience in the growth process for sure.

[dancedance]

I feel you! I'm sure we're not alone in feeling that way.

The key for me is to try to enjoy where I'm at. Embrace my hair's texture as much as I can, try out different styles, test products etc. It's like if one is trying to loose weight, it's often more effective to sign up for a race or something to shift focus a bit. Obsessing and thinking about it all the time doesn't make it grow faster I don't know if there is anything one can do to make hair grow faster, but it usually doesn't hurt to try. Self care, a healthy diet, eliminating as much stress as possible usually have other benefits as well!

I don't know how long your hair is, but I bet you can find some cute hairstyle tutorials for your length on YouTube! Even if you can't gather all your hair in a braid or bun, you can probably clip it back or style it in a new way. That might make you feel better about your current length!

Before you know it, your hair is longer! Good luck

Oh oops, you beat me to it giraff!

[giraff]

Oh oops, you beat me to it giraff!

Great minds think alike Pinterest was a good idea also!

[dancedance]

Out of curiosity giraff, how long did it take you to go from pixie to hip? I went from pixie to waist once before, but it took me ages because I struggled with trims in the beginning and got way too much cut off several times in a row, then bleached it at CBL and cut it off in big chunks as it grew so I could get to waist with virgin hair. It took me 7 years in total so I don't have a good idea of how fast it would grow without the many slip ups.

[giraff]

I didn't do it in one go either.. I cut the pixie in 2012 (I think) Jean Seberg style, preeettty short. And bleached at home, so also yellow... I maintained for a few cuts, and I guess I started growing it out when I started this account in 2014. I only went for small trims, and was probably between APL and BSL in 2017 when I did some hair modeling. My hair was dyed and cut in different lengths. So this is where I (re)started in September 2018:



Not a pixie, but I've grown out and cut off all the bleach, so it speaks to how much it has grown anyways!



Here is my hair now, almost five years later. With no trims, I could probably subtract a year from that. But I would have had some real strange layers from that mullet

[rosenester]

How did or do you guys be patient during the growing process? My hair is too short to even wear up and I’m just stuck feeling frustrated that I cut it short in the first place. I just really dislike the short hair and want it long now ����

I try to enjoy my hair at any length. At shorter lengths, I dyed it a lot and shaped it frequently, I wasn’t growing it out intentionally back then, but it still happened since I wasn’t getting big trims.

Once to APL and it can be put up, it’s easier to forget. I focused on finding treatments and shampoos I liked, and researching things like hairtoys and buns to try once I gained a few more inches.

I set goals only to the next length milestone, and do strange things like calculate my growth rate, microtrim length removed, and destination length and try to figure out when I may have the desired length realistically. I do measure my hair, but only once a month, and look forward to seeing how much I grew because my rate varies month-month. I take monthly photos as well, then I can compare my progress to last month, last season, or last year.



How short is your cut, BTW?

[dancedance]

I didn't do it in one go either.. I cut the pixie in 2012 (I think) Jean Seberg style, preeettty short. And bleached at home, so also yellow... I maintained for a few cuts, and I guess I started growing it out when I started this account in 2014. I only went for small trims, and was probably between APL and BSL in 2017 when I did some hair modeling. My hair was dyed and cut in different lengths. So this is where I (re)started in September 2018:



Not a pixie, but I've grown out and cut off all the bleach, so it speaks to how much it has grown anyways!



Here is my hair now, almost five years later. With no trims, I could probably subtract a year from that. But I would have had some real strange layers from that mullet

Oh wow it looks so beautiful! I love your natural color So about shoulder to hip in 5 years, that makes sense. Assuming I grow 1/2" per month I think I figured I'd be around waist in 4 years, so hip in 5 from pixie length sounds about right. Thank you!

Edit: Changed 1/2" per year to 1/2" per month

[paulownia]

I guess it all comes down to not thinking about your hair that much and not obsessing about growth. It will not grow faster just because you think about it
Give it attention and care that it needs and then just live your life and focus on other things- work, studies, family, hobbies and such.
I had a pixie in 2016, bob in 2017 and I got to shoulder in 2019. I was cutting too often but after a while I stopped.
I'm at BSL right now and aiming for waist