Congratulations on graduating to the next thread,
LauraLongLocks!
I dipped my toe in the waist to tailbone thread, but really this is where it's at for me for a while yet. Originally I was going for waist length hair, then I thought hip would be my final goal, but now I think I wouldn't mind hair that was just a bit longer. Finns have a proverb along the lines of "you get hungrier as you eat", and I'm certainly proving that to be true when it comes to growing hair.
It's been about a month since I did my very first self-trim and I haven't measured my growth, but I'm planning on maintaining somewhere between waist and hip, possibly letting my hair creep towards hip length and beyond but not stressing about it. I've found a few splits already and snipped them off with my fancy scissors, and I'll be trimming off a bit more in a month.
I think most of my taper now is down to just rough handling, so hopefully putting some benign back in my neglect will help remedy it. I comb and brush my hair a lot less now than I did when I first came to LHC, which is probably good for my hair.
I'm still sort of in the funk I complained about earlier, I have a feeling I should be doing something a bit more interesting with my hair but I tend to default back to a Dutch braid. I lust after Ketylos and hair forks but can't really justify the prices to myself. I did try a crown braid for May 1st, but my husband kindly informed me I look like Yulia Tymoshenko so I'm not sure whether to classify that as a success (her braid is massive) or a failure (apparently I look like someone imitating a Ukrainian milkmaid).
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